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UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

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For every child, the right to Deliver

UNICEF Supply Division (SD) works to ensure equitable and inclusive access to essential supplies and services for children and their families across development, humanitarian and fragile contexts. SD brings together global supply chain expertise, market engagement, and partnerships with governments, civil society, the private sector, industry, and other stakeholders to support the needs of children worldwide.

This provides a strong operational and partnership foundation for the Humanitarian and Transport Logistics Alliance (HTLA) and its focus on strengthening humanitarian transport and logistics through collaboration across sectors.

The Humanitarian Transport and Logistics Alliance (HTLA) is a strategic UNICEF-led initiative designed to strengthen the resilience, efficiency, preparedness, and performance of humanitarian supply chains through structured collaboration between humanitarian organizations, commercial transport and logistics providers, governments, donors, academia, and other strategic stakeholders.

Building on UNICEF's role as holder of the United Nations Long-Term Arrangement (LTA) for global freight forwarding and transportation services, its established relationships with global carriers, freight forwarders, and logistics service providers, HTLA provides a coordination and operational mechanism to facilitate faster, more predictable and cost-effective movement of humanitarian goods. Through partnership MoUs with carriers, humanitarian shipments can benefit from priority handling and expedited bookings, alongside preferential conditions that help reduce delays and avoid additional logistics costs. These arrangements provide a strong operational and partnership foundation on which HTLA can build.

Building on this established foundation and the value already being delivered, HTLA aims to progressively strengthen and broaden the model into a multi-stakeholder alliance. The intention is to protect and expand the operational benefits already achieved while creating a structured mechanism through which humanitarian and commercial actors, and other strategic partners, can strengthen preparedness, address shared supply chain bottlenecks and develop collective solutions that improve humanitarian logistics resilience and system-wide performance.

The Partnerships Coordinator will play a central role in taking this work forward, driving implementation of the HTLA roadmap, coordinating stakeholders and supporting the Alliance's continued development.

How can you make a difference?

The Partnerships Coordinator will lead the day-to-day implementation and coordination of HTLA, translating its agreed strategic direction and roadmap into a functioning alliance. The role will drive delivery across the HTLA workplan, coordinate internal and external stakeholders, establish fit-for-purpose governance and ways of working, monitor progress and results, and ensure that decisions, dependencies and risks are actively managed. Under the supervision of the Chief, GTLC, the position will work closely with logistics and partnership functions colleagues, and relevant other technical and partnership functions. The post holder will serve as the central coordination and focal point for HTLA and ensure coherence across partnership development, industry engagement, governance, communications, resource mobilization and results monitoring.

Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks:

1. Strategic Leadership and HTLA development
2. HTLA design, implementation and monitoring
3. Multi-Stakeholder Coordination and Alliance Management
4. Governance and Partnership Development
5. Budget management, Resource Mobilization and Sustainability
6. Strategic Communications, Advocacy and External Positioning
7. Knowledge Management and Innovation

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here:  ToR - Partnerships Coordinator Specialist_P4.pdf

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

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in one or more of the following fields: International Relations, Public Administration, Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Development Studies, Humanitarian Affairs, Political Science, Economics, Social Sciences or any other relevant disciplines.
• Work Experience: Minimum eight (8) years of progressively responsible professional experience in the following areas: partnership management, stakeholder engagement, project management, international freight and humanitarian logistics, supply chain management, external relations or related fields.
• Experience engaging with senior government officials, donors, UN agencies, NGOs, and private sector partners.
• Demonstrated experience in governance, partnership development, alliance building, or collective impact initiatives.
• Skills: Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex multi-stakeholder initiatives involving public, private and humanitarian sector actors, establishing accountability, managing dependencies and risks, and maintaining momentum in multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong organizational, facilitation and follow through skills, with demonstrated ability to structure delivery and manage competing priorities in complex and evolving environments.
• Demonstrated ability to build alignment, manage differing institutional perspectives and drive delivery through influence without formal line authority.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.

Desirables:

• Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
• Demonstrated experience in supply chain, international transport and freight and logistics is a strong asset.
• Experience in humanitarian and/or development contexts is highly desirable.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

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

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). 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, discrimination, fraud, corruption and other forms of serious misconduct.

UNICEF is committed to promoting the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference, safeguarding and background verification checks. These checks may include verification of academic credentials and employment history, screening against relevant United Nations misconduct databases, and requests for misconduct disclosures from current and former employers, professional associations, other relevant organizations and participating organizations under inter-agency safeguarding initiatives, including the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS), where applicable.

Appointment, selection and continued engagement are subject to the satisfactory completion of all required checks. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information and consent to enable UNICEF to undertake these checks. 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, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments are conditional on the selected candidates' willingness to comply with current or future vaccination requirements, should UNICEF mandate it for personnel. Failure to comply with such requirements, where applicable and without a duly approved medical exemption from the relevant UN authority, will result in the cancellation of the selection or may lead to other administrative measures, including separation from service.

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 is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce. For this position, eligible and suitable male candidates are encouraged to apply.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions 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.

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants' bank account information.

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

Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF's Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

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