Public Partnership Specialist, P4, Beirut, Lebanon (, 364 days)

Senior Programme & Policy Communications & PR

Overview

Support senior management in public partnership strategies.

You have:

• An advanced university degree in international relations, political science, communications, international development, or another relevant technical field.
• A minimum of eight years of professional experience in public affairs, programme management, resource mobilization, external relations, or other relevant area.
• Excellent communications skills, verbal and written.
• Diplomatic communication and negotiation skills to establish and maintain trusted partnerships.
• Authoritative knowledge of development issues and strategies in international development cooperation.
• Extensive knowledge of practices in public partnership development and donor relations.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language, particularly Arabic and/or French is considered an asset.

Contract

This is a P-4 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 7 years of experience, depending on education. More about P-4 contracts and their salaries.

This is a L-4 contract. More about L-4 contracts.

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, an advocate.

Under the supervision of the Representative, and close collaboration with the Deputy Representative, the Public Partnership Specialist is supporting senior management in policy direction and design as well as developing, implementing and monitoring the partnership workplan as part of the UNICEF partnership agenda.

How can you make a difference?

The Public Partnership Specialist position’s purpose is to deepen collaboration with key stakeholders and provide an interface for environmental scanning, knowledge exchange, resource mobilization, and policy influence within the scope of assignment. More specifically, the incumbent:

1. Keeps abreast of the main issues facing the Lebanon country office, identify internal and external issues, particularly related to external public partnerships, that require Senior Management’s attention, and assist in formulating options as to how those matters might be handled. Ensure appropriate follow-up as directed. Maintains records and track the status of the Representative's action items.
2. Acts as a focal point for identification and pursuit of opportunities for outreach, engagement, policy influence and collaboration, including on how to anticipate and respond to partners’ concerns and priorities, ensure that UNICEF’s interests, perspectives, and knowledge are taken into account in relevant policy and institutional processes, and ensure that they are fully aware of UNICEF’s perspectives, policies, priorities and capabilities. Contribute to the development and management of initiatives for high-level outreach, including for UNICEF’s Senior Management.
3. Manages and strengthens public partnerships between UNICEF and key external stakeholders, such as key donors governments, UN agencies and inter-governmental institutions and link them to appropriate UNICEF focal points (e.g Programme/Communication) if required. Provides consistently a high-level responsiveness and service to key external stakeholders to help senior management to maintain a close dialogue with and provide accurate information to them by organizing regular briefings, bilateral meetings and missions.
4. Develops and implements public partnership engagement plans to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of results, in accordance with UNICEF’s partnership strategy and in close collaboration with the LCO Private Partnership Team.
5. Develops and maintains deep knowledge and familiarity with current and prospective partners and relevant stakeholders, contributing to a mapping/ database of key contacts and to UNICEF’s base of knowledge on partnership and resource mobilization. Gathers research on target countries to assess their resource mobilization potential and track record. Pursue innovative avenues of cooperation for funding opportunities.
6. Seeks and promotes new partnerships, working with UNICEF colleagues to identify partnership and resource mobilization needs and broker resource mobilization agreements to meet those needs.
7. In Collaboration with the Representative, Deputy Representative, Chief Communication and PRIME, contributes towards the development and implementation of Lebanon resource mobilization strategies with donor governments, UN agencies and Inter-governmental institutions, private sector and innovating financing opportunities..
8. Contributes to the development of new partnership and resource mobilization practices and approaches by formulating recommendations for action based on on-going monitoring, analyzing current trends within designated partners and formulating recommendations for strategy approaches and message development.
9. Receives and screens inquiries from potential collaborators and facilitates communication with appropriate UNICEF staff. Scans and scouts external environment within designated partnership area for opportunities and risks and shares information in a timely fashion with relevant UNICEF staff. In close consultation with the Chief, Communication, coordinate the office response to a wide variety of queries for information from external stakeholders
10. Provides strategic, logistical and programmatic support to senior management and other UNICEF staff in corporate engagement and interaction with assigned partners. Ensures that Senior Management are prepared for meetings and missions by drafting talking points, by researching relevant information; establishing contacts on the subject matters to be discussed, coordinating position papers, situation reports, briefing notes and other documents relevant to the activities of the office for internal/external dissemination.
11. Expands UNICEF’s network of key interlocutors to build stronger relationships between UNICEF and governments, other key-decision makers, regional development institutions, foundations, civil society organizations, international financial institutions and/or other relevant constituencies.
12. Performs other related duties as assigned by the supervisor to ensure the success of the Public Partnership function, including guiding, training, and coaching short-term staff, including interns and consultants, as needed.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• An advanced university degree in one of the following fields: international relations, political science, communications, international development, or another relevant technical field.
• A minimum of eight years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas is required: public affairs, programme management, resource mobilization, external relations, or other relevant area.
• Excellent communications skills, verbal and written. Diplomatic communication and negotiation skills to establish and maintain trusted partnerships for achievement of objectives and to develop close and effective working relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Authoritative knowledge of development issues, strategies, as well as programming policies and procedures in international development cooperation. Experience in the regional context is an asset.
• Extensive knowledge of practices in (public) partnership development and donor relations.
• Demonstrated ability to formulate new approaches in respect of resources management and outreach- related activities.
• In-depth familiarity with political and governmental processes and donor relations.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language, particularly Arabic and/or French is considered an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

The functional competencies required for this post are...

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (2)
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (3)
• Works Collaboratively with others (3)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (3)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (3)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (3)
• Drives to achieve impactful results (3)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (3)

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles

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