Job Number: 496656 | Vacancy Link
Location: Programme Division, UNICEF NYHQ
Work Type : Fixed Term Staff
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you.
For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children’s survival, protection and development. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
Purpose of the Position
The Global Partnership and Fund to End Violence Against Children is an exciting new initiative bringing together a range of partners – public sector and private sector – to make a difference in the lives of children. A means of implementation for the new Sustainable Development Goals and targets focused on violence, exploitation, abuse, neglect, torture trafficking and the like, this new Partnership is a test case of the universality of the new agenda. UNICEF is housing the Secretariat for this Partnership, which has an associated multi-donor trust fund. That fund will help achieves the goals of the Partnership of which there are three: building political will; accelerating action; and strengthening collaboration. The fund will focus particularly on the acceleration of national and sub-national action in three context: in the on-line lives of children; in their everyday lives at home, school and in their communities; and in contexts where children are escaping conflict and crisis.
Job organizational context
The Resource Mobilization Officer will work under the direct supervision of the Chief of Unit – Fund and in close coordination with the members of the Fund Unit and the partnership team under the overall guidance of the Director.
Purpose for the job
The purpose is to develop and implement resource mobilization strategies and approaches that target bilateral and multilateral organizations, the private sector and foundations. Funding will be sought to achieve results for children as envisaged in the Partnership results framework. The incumbent will promote the Fund and help to ensure robust, predictable multi-year financing. This post also supports the Chief in providing secretariat services to the Fund Steering Committee and contributes to the management of cost effective, efficient and secure operations for the management, administration and implementation of the fund.
Key Accountabilities and Duties & Tasks
External Relations and Resource Mobilization
- Work with the Chief and the wider partnership to develop new alliances or engagements and manage, coordinate, maximize and monitor existing relationships as they relate to the fund. Coordinate closely with relevant UNICEF divisions and those of partners agencies to maximize potential.
- Contribute to a relevant and current resource mobilization strategy that draws on a wide funding base consisting of bilateral and multilateral donors, private sector, foundations, and is integrated into the overall work plan of the Partnership Secretariat. The focus of this strategy will be on innovation and new funders.
- Ensure timely and accurate monitoring of donor interest in the fund and potential funding opportunities. Maintain up-to-date information on partner and income trends, analyse development assistance policies and keep resource partner profiles updated.
- Initiate and manage day-to-day contact with partners and ensure that partner queries are responded to in a timely manner.
- Ensure optimal preparation for and follow up on the interaction of the Fund Unit with Fund Steering Committee, the Partnership Board and Executive Committee, external stakeholders including host and donor governments. Assist the Director in ensuring coordinated interaction with stakeholders, Partners, UN and other government and private sector actors as it relates to the fund.
- Identify communication and advocacy needs of the fund and work closely with the communications focal point in the partnership team to ensure the partnership communication and advocacy strategy incorporates key messages about the Fund to promote an expansion of its partnership base.
- Represent the Partnership and fund in international, regional or national meetings and provides substantive expertise/information on issues around the Fund. Meet with scheduled and ad hoc visitors from resource partner headquarters and capitals, Missions and field offices.
- Ensure the availability of comprehensive, analytical and substantive briefs, reports, statistics and other documentation to support engagement with partners at various levels. Regularly share information with fund partners about the fund and the partnership.
- Negotiate, review and clear resource partner agreements and amendments for senior management’s signature, ensuring compliance with UNICEF rules and regulations. Support the development of framework agreements and template agreements
Administrative, financial, and operational activities for the Fund
- Contribute to the strategic planning, development of policy recommendations and corporate reporting in relation to the fund, taking initiative in improving and implementing operations management systems.
- Anticipate and draw to the attention of the Chief major policy and operational issues and identify opportunities that require may active and direct intervention of the Director and/or members of the Steering Committee.
- Contribute to the development of appropriate policy and procedures relating to the operations of the fund and ensure consistent interpretation.
- Provide support to the Chief in managing the operations of the fund. This includes: calls for proposals and evaluation of those received against criteria established by the Fund Steering Committee; marshalling proposals through an assessment of programmatic merits and financial controls to final submission to the Fund Steering Committee, as well as the maintenance of a roster of experts to independently review proposals.
- Provide support to the Chief in conveying Fund Steering Committee’s decisions on disbursements from the fund, preparing and distributing to entities that have successfully sought financial support from the fund for implementation of programmes. Support the administration and marshalling of grant confirmation letters and grantee reports.
- Contribute to the preparation of consolidated reports on progress against the overall programme and funding priorities established and provide these to the Fund Steering Committee.
- Manage an up-to-date a public-access internet site at which all documentation related to the fund will be publicly available including the documents relating to the Fund Steering Committee, grantees, disbursement of funds and implementation of programmes supported by the fund, and other matters as may be determined from time to time by the Fund Steering Committee.
Management and Support Functions
- Provide strategic advice to the Chief to facilitate the discussions and smooth decision-making of the Fund Steering Committee.
- Support the Chief in providing secretariat services to the Fund Steering Committee, including maintaining a regular meeting schedule. Ensure that meetings are well prepared with relevant background materials and agendas and participation as well as appropriate documentation and tracking of decisions and action points. Ensure minutes are recorded, agreed and published.
- Support the Chief in actively engaging with the members of the Steering Committee through regular outreach, sharing of relevant materials, including from the broader partnership secretariat and individual follow up as needed.
- Contribute to the development of the unit annual workplan and budget for review and approval by the Fund Steering Committee and to the monitoring of performance against agreed results. Promote and contribute to integration with the broader planning of the partnership.
- Provide direct support, both substantive and administrative, to the Chief on the full range of matters under his/her purview, and relevant to the smooth functioning and management of the fund. This includes contribution to production of interim and final reports and the production and dissemination of Fund to End Violence Against Children yearly report.
- Draft or prepare inputs to the Director’s correspondence (with high ranking state officials and senior staff of UN and other international bodies), policy memoranda, management guidance, and other sensitive communications as it relates to the Fund.
- Support the Chief in ensuring effective team management of the Fund Unit and engagement with the vision, mandate, operations and work plan of the wider Partnership Secretariat team. Act as Officer in Charge of the Fund Unit as required.
Qualifications of Successful Candidate
- An advanced university degree (Master’s) in one or more of the following disciplines: social sciences, law, business administration or management, public administration or other related fields. A first level university degree (Bachelor’s) in combination with two (2) additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
- A minimum of eight (8) years of progressively responsible experience that combines strategic and managerial leadership in administration, business management, planning and operations in a large international, corporate organization and/or NGO including in the United Nation system and its organizations. Experience working with diverse stakeholder groups or multi-stakeholder partnerships is highly desirable.
- Fluency in English (written & verbal) is required. Knowledge of an additional UN Language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish) is considered an asset.
Competencies of Successful Candidate
Core Values
- Commitment
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Integrity
Core competencies
- Working with people – Level III
- Drive for results – Level III
- Communication – Level III
Functional Competencies
- Leading and Supervising – Level III
- Formulating Strategies and Concepts – Level III
- Persuading and Influencing – Level III
- Relating and Networking – Level III
- Planning and Organizing – Level III
- Adapting and Responding to Change – Level III
- Entrepreneurial Thinking – Level III
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