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The Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSP) team in UNICEF’s Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP), leads on UNICEF’s engagement with private sector and public-private initiatives and platforms that are actively shaping business agendas, priorities, and investments. The team is responsible for managing partnerships and leading engagement strategies for partnership development with global, regional, and national platforms that can serve as catalysts and accelerators for country and regional offices and relevant HQ divisions in reaching, influencing, mobilizing, and partnering with the private sector to achieve better results for children.

The Partnerships Officer has a key role in supporting the team to maximize opportunities for UNICEF’s engagement with strategic multi-stakeholder platforms involving the private sector and to ensure effective coordination within PFP, across divisions, RO/COs, National Committees, and external organizations on such engagements, including knowledge sharing and capacity building. 

For every child, a Champion

Under the guidance of the supervisor, the incumbent is responsible for supporting UNICEF’s engagement in select multi-stakeholder platforms and initiatives and related events involving the private sector, including planning and coordination, within PFP as well as headquarters, regional offices, National Committees, and relevant country offices. The incumbent will significantly focus on supporting UNICEF’s engagement in externally organized events, including the planning and coordination across PFP and divisions to leverage these key moments for partnerships and advocacy, and supporting the necessary preparations for UNICEF’s and PFP’s engagement in select global events and key moments, along with supporting key projects as per agreed.

How can you make a difference?

Planning and coordination: Support coordination within PFP and with regional, country, and headquarters offices in relation to UNICEF’s engagement in key global platforms and events involving the private sector, including the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting and the UN General Assembly, among other designated priority key moments. Manage the SharePoint collaboration site for divisions and National Committees, supporting follow-up from PFP coordination meetings, capturing meeting notes and action points, updating the events matrix, managing invitation processes for partner invitations to major events, coordinating inputs for briefing packages, and other relevant activities.

Knowledge management: Facilitates knowledge capture and sharing on engagement with key global platforms and initiatives, including maintaining the private sector events intelligence site, identifying key moments across the year for engagement, and supporting the regular PFP planning meetings on events intelligence. Maintain the related event-specific pages and collaboration sites for coordination on key events.

Technical support: Captures information on UNICEF’s and private sector partners’ engagement using the UNISON customer relationship management (CRM) database. Provides support to colleagues in PFP, National Committees, ROs/COs for platforms-related event invitations and bilateral meetings.

Communications: Provides inputs and develops content/articles for external and internal communications, including through the Sharepoint site and internal newsletter.

DELIVERABLES:

• Coordination – Quarterly PFP events meetings are organized/followed up, and related event coordination meetings are organized across PFP and followed up actions (UNGA, Davos, etc.).
• Events Intelligence – Up to date external private sector events calendar and events pages outlining the opportunities for future events and outcomes.
• Briefing Notes – Final briefing notes for all related meetings/events.
• Sharepoint – Regularly updated SharePoint collaboration site for PFP and separate National Committee site for key moments such as the UN General Assembly and WEF Annual Meeting.
• Events Matrix – Regularly updated events matrix for priority moments, including invitations/event descriptions and recommendations for participation.
• Partner Mapping – Partner mapping consulted and completed to identify key partners to engage across the key moments for the year.
• Unison – Event-related accounts up to date, including developed process and tracking of nominees for events and bilateral meetings.
• Communications – Internal communication pieces developed on each priority event.

Estimated Duration of the contract

• 364 days

Reporting To:

• Partnerships Specialist, PFP Geneva, Switzerland

Working Place:

• Geneva, Switzerland

To qualify as a Champion for every child you will have…

Education:

• A first-level University degree in a relevant field is required: international relations, political science, business and management sciences, or another relevant technical field.

Experience:

• A minimum of two years of progressively responsible professional experience at the national or international level in project management, including developing project plans, planning and monitoring key milestones and deliverables, and coordination across multiple teams required.
• Experience in events planning and management, including the development of concept notes, session planning, partner engagement, vendor coordination, and management of invitation process is required.
• Experience in any of the following areas is an asset: children’s rights, private sector in international development, and humanitarian action.
• Experience working within UNICEF/UN is an asset.
• Strong organizational and coordination skills.
• Knowledge of relevant computer systems and applications; excellent understanding of and knowledge of software such as, but not limited to, Microsoft Office; and Salesforce CRM programmes.

Language requirements:

• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, or Spanish) or a local language 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

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drives to achieve impactful results (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1) are required.

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: our competency framework. 

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Remarks: 

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF’s active commitment to diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children.

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