Resource Mobilization and Partnership Engagement Officer

Volunteering

Overview

Assist in resource mobilization and partnership engagement efforts.

You have:

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in partnership development, stakeholder engagement, or resource mobilization including preparation of briefing materials, coordination of meetings, and analysis to support strategic decision-making is required.
• Support resource mobilization, partnership engagement, and internal coordination efforts.

Contract

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Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, UNEP has a network of country and regional offices facilitating the relevant country and regional processes and coordinating coherent delivery of UNEP's programme aimed at addressing the causes of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution through seven interlinked sub-programmes for action that include: Climate Action, Chemicals and Pollution Action, Nature Action, Science Policy, Environmental Governance, Finance and Economic Transformations and Digital Transformations.

This UNV assignment is based in the Resource Mobilisation & Donor Relations Unit supporting UNEP’s Corporate Services Division in mobilizing and maintaining core resources from UN Member States to the Environment Fund, UNEP’s core financial fund.

Under the direct supervision of the Programme Management Officer of the Resource Mobilization & Donor Relations Unit, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: • Prepare analytical profiles of funding partners, including priorities, trends, relevant policies and opportunities, to inform targeted resource mobilization efforts. • Maintain structured and up-to-date information on Member State engagement, including interactions and follow-up actions, to support internal coordination and planning for resource mobilization with Member States. • Facilitate information-sharing between headquarters and regional offices, including with regional focal points, to strengthen alignment on engagement with funding partners. • Support the coordination of structured funding dialogues at global and regional levels, including their preparation and follow-up, as platforms for partnership-building and resource mobilization. • Support the organization and follow-up of bilateral consultations and meetings with Member States and groups of Member States, including preparation of agendas, briefing materials, documentation of outcomes as well as follow-up actions. • Assist in managing relationships with funding partners through tailored communications and timely responses to queries. • Support the coordination and execution of engagement with funding partners with regard to their oversight reviews and queries. • Perform other related duties as required to support resource mobilization, partnership engagement, and internal coordination efforts.

Furthermore, UN Volunteers are required to: • Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day); • Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country; • Reflect on the type and quality of voluntary action that they are undertaking, including participation in ongoing reflection activities; • Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publica-tions/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.; • Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers; • Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering, or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.

Results/Expected Outputs • Enhanced quality of funding partner intelligence and engagement, supporting more tar-geted and strategic partnerships with priority Member State funding partners. • More aligned messaging and approaches across headquarters and regional offices. • Funding dialogues and bilateral engagements are effectively supported and followed up. • The development of capacity through coaching, mentoring and formal on-the-job training, when working with (including supervising) national staff or (non-) governmental counterparts, including Implementing Partners (IPs). • Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities throughout the assignment. • A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for peace and development during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilized, activities participated in and capacities developed.

• Accountability • Building Trust • Client Orientation • Commitment and Motivation • Communication • Creativity • Ethics and Values • Integrity • Judgement and Decision-making • Knowledge Sharing • Professionalism • Self-Management • Technological Awareness • Working in Teams

A minimum of 3 years of experience in partnership development, stakeholder engagement, or resource mobilization including preparation of briefing materials, coordination of meetings, and analysis to support strategic decision-making is required.

The contract lasts for the period indicated above with possibility of extensions subject to availability of funding, operational necessity and satisfactory performance. However, there is no expectation of renewal of the assignment. A UN Volunteer receives a Volunteer Living Allowance (VLA) per month and is paid at the end of each month to cover housing, utilities, transportation, communications and other basic needs. The VLA can be computed by applying the Post-Adjustment Multiplier (PAM) to the VLA base rate of US$1,602.

The VLA base rate is a global rate, while the PAM is country-specific and fluctuates on a monthly basis according to the cost of living. This method ensures that international UN Volunteers have comparable purchasing power at all duty stations irrespective of varying costs of living. The PAM is established by the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) and is published at the beginning of every month on the ICSC website http://icsc.un.org. For example, kindly enter the link Calculator.

In non-family duty stations that belong to hardship categories D or E, as classified by the ICSC, international UN Volunteers receive a Well-Being Differential (WBD) on a monthly basis. Furthermore, UN Volunteers are provided a settling-in-grant (SIG) at the start of the assignment (if the volunteer did not reside in the duty station for at least 6 months prior to taking up the assignment) and also in the event of a permanent reassignment to another duty station.

UNV provides life, health, permanent disability insurances as well as assignment travel, annual leave, full integration in the UN security framework (including residential security reim-bursements). UN Volunteers are paid Daily Subsistence Allowance at the UN rate for official travels, flight tickets for the final repatriation travel (if applicable). A resettlement allowance is paid for satisfactory service at the end of the assignment.

UNV will provide, together with the offer of assignment, a copy of the Conditions of Service, including Code of conduct, to the successful candidate.

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