The Public Partnerships Division (PPD) works to strengthen UNICEF's position as a partner of choice for children's rights among governments and inter-governmental actors around the world. The Division is doing this by positioning children's rights in the intergovernmental and multilateral fora and engaging with governments and public institutions as resource, policy and programme partners. A key premise for PPD is that the engagement with countries should be holistic based on multiple aspects of partnerships, including policy advocacy and resource mobilization. The Humanitarian Partnerships and Financing Officer would be part of the Humanitarian Partnerships, Financing and Human Rights Team in PPD. Under the supervision of the Public Partnerships Manager, the Humanitarian Partnerships and Financing Officer will contribute to the humanitarian financing policies, mobilization, management and development of resources and partnerships for UNICEF’s humanitarian action. UNICEF humanitarian action for children covers seven regions with over forty individual humanitarian appeals annually.
Purpose for the job Support the Public Partnerships Manager in identifying and designing new and innovative partnerships approaches with member states with focus on humanitarian response. The overall results will focus on:
Strengthened partnerships by exploring all possible sources of new and existing funding channels and horizontal cooperation opportunities in support of UNICEF’s humanitarian action.
Effective support to UNICEF country offices for humanitarian resource mobilization.
Through coordination and relationship management, effective engagement ensured with key humanitarian actors such as OCHA and support deliverables related to management of CERF and Humanitarian Country Based Pooled Funds.
Increase evidence-base for humanitarian quality funding and support humanitarian financing inter-agency policy work.
Create political space and influence partnerships for children's rights through a broad range of policy issues related to humanitarian financing and humanitarian engagement in the context of the Grand Bargain.
Summary of key functions/accountabilities:
Resource Mobilization and Partnerships Development:
Contribute to the development of resource mobilization strategies for UNICEF’s humanitarian action for children. This includes identifying partnership (advocacy and resource mobilization) entry points through the gathering of financial and political intelligence of donors and matching it with UNICEF priorities with focus on quality flexible funding.
Analyze humanitarian funding trends and monitoring of changes in humanitarian financing environment in close collaboration with all division funding clusters and Office of Emergency Programmes (EMOPS).
Develop, initiate and coordinate implementation of processes for enhanced horizontal and vertical communication on humanitarian funding and related resource mobilization opportunities.
Coordinate organization of briefings on humanitarian crises for meetings with key partners.
Work with communication colleagues to bring more visibility to UNICEFs humanitarian results and funding needs.
Facilitate bilateral meetings between senior management, including from the field and partner representatives in New York, Capitals in support of resource mobilization efforts for humanitarian response.
Efficient Contributions Management to build trust and credibility. This includes due diligence and oversight related to grant creation and allocation, timely and quality reporting, etc.
Field Office support:
In coordination with the Regional Office (RO), provide technical support to Country Offices in emergencies (focus on L2 and L3 corporate level crises) in the development of resource mobilization strategies and plans, and provide guidance on quality donor reporting, recognition, and visibility, etc as needed.
Collection and dissemination of partner intelligence and mapping on a continuous basis to guide resource mobilization and partnership priorities and discussions with relevant partners.
Coordinate the analysis, monitoring and reporting of all UNICEF humanitarian financial data including providing substantive inputs to for all UNICEF flagship reports i.e., SitReps, OCHA's Financial Tracking System (FTS) as well as other ad hoc reporting requests.
Participate in and summarize results from internal and external meetings on humanitarian funding, including Emergency Management Team Meetings.
Strategic analyses and humanitarian financing:
Monitor, analyze and report on perspectives on the global humanitarian financing which directly or indirectly affect children. Advise senior management of developments and trends as well as on recommendations regarding follow-up activities. Track and share emerging trends and directions through mapping exercises and documentation.
Attend and report to relevant HQ and field colleagues on the discussions at the inter-agency humanitarian financing discussions.
Contribute to internal inter-divisional discussions on finding financing solutions that provide more predictable and flexible funding for humanitarian activities.
Support UNICEF’s participation, engagement and positioning in high level inter-agency meetings related to humanitarian financing and partnerships, including development of statements, and briefing packages (i.e., Grand Bargain, IASC Results Group on Humanitarian Financing, high-level inter-agency pledging events)
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Advanced degree in social science, international relations, public administration, law, or related field.
Specialized experience with research (secondary-sources minimum), databases, analyzing and synthesizing information, producing accessible outputs to inform decision making.
Experience in inter-governmental processes would be an asset.
Knowledge of office computer systems (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and internet research tools.
Ability to work in an international and multicultural environment. Competencies required: commitment, embracing diversity, integrity, teamwork, and drive for results; communication, judgment, planning, setting standards and monitoring work, analytical and conceptual thinking.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, with a strong attention to detail.
Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
