Senior Adviser, Humanitarian Partnerships and Financing, P-5, Fixed Term, Public Partnerships Division (PPD) NYHQ Post #8784 Req

Contract

This is a P-5 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 10 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 208,877 USD and 261,770 USD.

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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, hope

The Public Partnerships Division leads and works with UNICEF country offices, regional offices, and other headquarters divisions to drive public sector fundraising, leveraging, and advocacy to increase income and influence from partnerships and engagement with public sector to deliver results for children. PPD serves as the UNICEF global knowledge leader on resource mobilization and partnership with public sector partners, including governments, international financial institutions, public-private partnerships (such as Global Programme Partnerships), inter-governmental and UN inter-organizational arrangements.

How can you make a difference?

Under the direct supervision of the Division’s Deputy Director, the Senior Advisor leads the Humanitarian Partnerships and Financing Team composed of three other staff members at the Professional level.

The Senior Advisor for Humanitarian Partnerships and Financing is accountable for leadership and overall managerial support to the organization in a broad range of policy issues related to humanitarian partnerships and financing, including building, and managing partnerships, development of humanitarian financing policies and strengthening of internal systems for greater accountability and reporting. The Senior Advisor leads the coordination of resource mobilization efforts for humanitarian response globally, including solutions to maximize quality funding to support preparedness and response to humanitarian and protection needs, particularly of the most vulnerable children. In this role, the incumbent ensures effective flow of information and coordination internally within UNICEF (within PPD, EMOPS as well as with relevant divisions, regional and country offices) and externally within inter-agency/inter-governmental humanitarian financing fora, the IASC, Good Humanitarian Donorship Group, Pooled Fund Working Group (PFWG) and others.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

Advises senior management and geographical tams on strategic, policy and operational decisions by the UN that may have human rights and political implications for children and advise on measures necessary to protect and promote children’s rights in the countries.

Provides political analysis and advice by:

1. Identifying, analyzing, and monitoring political developments, trends and emerging issues in countries and regions as relevant/needed.
2. Assessing implications and making recommendations to senior management on possible policies, strategies, and other measures to address issues of concern and to advance human/children’s rights
3. Preparing advocacy messages to support senior management engagement in intergovernmental and interagency fora.

In coordination with relevant divisions and regional and country offices, ensures an effective flow of information on human rights situation and that strategies and actions necessary to promote and protect human rights are informed by children’s rights and needs.

Coordinates/links with PPD Multilateral & Intergovernmental Partners and EMOPS teams on relevant interagency discussions around the structures and processes of the Secretary-General’s agenda on integrated UN prevention platform.

Provides policy recommendations vis-à-vis UNICEF’s humanitarian engagement.

Participates in relevant internal and external meetings representing PPD, such as UN coherence, and ensures that all funding clusters are consulted and receive feedback on all such interactions.

Prepares comprehensive and substantive briefs, reports, statistics, and other documentation for Executive Director’s meetings with senior officials or partner organizations and governments as required.

Oversees policy developments in the realm of humanitarian financing in close collaboration with all funding clusters and EMOPS.

Maintains an active network of interlocutors with other UN agencies as needed to ensure the best possible UNICEF approach to humanitarian financing and all funding modalities as part of overall UN coherence, as well as adequate knowledge of other agencies policies and partnerships.

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

• Advanced university degree (Masters' or higher) in social and economic sciences or related field is required.
• A minimum of 10 years' experience at national and international levels in the area of social and economic development and cooperation, preferably fundraising in an international organization.
• Specialized training in international relations and policy desirable.
• Emergency/humanitarian experience, and /or knowledge of and experience in humanitarian policies, funding, and financing, an asset.
• Management experience at senior level is required.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others (8) Nurtures, leads and manages people

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements. 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 is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.