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UNFPA is Recruiting for a Strategic Partnerships Adviser, P-5 based in New York

Ednah Carrick September 18, 2024

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Closing date: 7 October 2024

UNFPA is Recruiting for a Strategic Partnerships Adviser, P-5 based in New York

The Position

The Strategic Partnerships Adviser position is located in the UNFPA Private Sector and Civil Society Branch (PSCSB), within the Division for External Relations (DER). You will report directly to the Chief of PSCSB.

How you can make a difference

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture its strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030.

UNFPA strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals. In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, UNFPA need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

Job Purpose

The United Nations as an organization has long recognized the strategic role played by non-state actors, including the private sector, in shaping the political and development agendas of the world and in jointly implementing programmatic and strategic partnerships. The UNFPA Strategic Plan, 2022-2025, also identifies reinvigorating and expanding strategic partnerships, including those with the private sector, as an accelerator for making a lasting and positive impact in the life of women, girls, and young people.

Partnerships with the private sector are of critical importance for the organization’s ability to deliver on the three transformative results. UNFPA partners with private strategic partners who align with the mission of delivering a world with improved sexual and reproductive health and rights as this enables the co-creation of innovative and sustainable programmes, with a large-scale impact on sexual and reproductive health globally. The adviser will provide strategic, technical oversight, and guidance to support UNFPA resource mobilization efforts and strategic partnership building with a broad range of private sector actors.

Duties and responsibilities

a) Leadership, coordination, and oversight of partnership building and management

Leads the global business development of private partnerships as per the Strategic Partnerships Framework, including planning, budgeting and the implementation of activities related to private sector engagements/fundraising, with a particular focus on the corporate sector.
Maintains and strengthens current private sector partnerships and identifies new partnership opportunities.

Oversees full utilization of private sector contributions and agreements, reviews implementation bottlenecks, challenges, and opportunities, and suggests solutions to improve results-based implementation and reporting.
Contributes to UNFPA resource mobilization and partnerships policies, frameworks, guidance, and instruments and tools to ensure UNFPA positioning for achievement of the three transformative results.
Develops monitoring systems to measure private sector resource mobilization success; ensures work plans, technical guidelines, methodologies, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are developed, established, and implemented as part of the broader fundraising/resource mobilization plans.

Manages the team of the corporate sector portfolio in the broader Private Sector and Civil Society Branch.

b) Technical support and capacity development

In collaboration with other DER units, builds capacity on resource mobilization and strategic partnerships, ensuring a consistent standard of excellence across UNFPA.

Oversees the development of proposals and reports with concerned parties, ensuring quality assurance against requirements.
Assists UNFPA Regional and Country Offices in exploring and developing collaboration with private sector actors.
Coordinates the development of internal resources and guidance for UNFPA Regional and Country Offices as well as other business units to effectively engage corporate private sector actors and promote organization-wide coherence.

Leads on the expansion of the Coalition on Reproductive Justice in Business and of the metrics for sexual and reproductive rights in the workplace. In this capacity, ensures the impact of the metrics and their expansion in the corporate private sector.

c) Analysis and knowledge management

Analyzes current topics and trends in the private sector space and on this basis, formulates strategic recommendations.

Undertakes and updates mapping of current and potential private partners, for enhancing resource mobilization, ensuring effective management and protection of such data.
Contributes toward the development of knowledge management tools, systems, and products, including the facilitations of best practices, case studies, lessons learned, success stories, and technical guidance to improve the effectiveness of UNFPA private sector resource mobilization.

d) Strategic representation and positioning

Represents UNFPA in relevant fora and working groups on private partnerships.
Manages relations and networks and engages at platforms, associations, advocacy events and other major events and entities to promote and visualize the UNFPA mandate for strategic partnership and fundraising opportunities.

e) Carry out any other duties as may be required by UNFPA leadership.

Qualifications and Experience

Education:

Advanced University Degree (Master) in social sciences, international relations, public administration, fundraising, business, management or another related field. Training and experience in management is desirable.

Knowledge and Experience:

Minimum ten (10) years of relevant professional experience in resource mobilization and partnerships building, including direct responsibility for setting and meeting income targets through state-of-art methods and approaches.
Proven track record and solid experience in fundraising and broad-based partnerships with diverse actors, including with the private sector and public-private partnerships.
Relevant experience with UN, bilateral, international donors/agencies, and/or International non-governmental organizations is desirable.

Proven knowledge of current theories and practices in international fundraising/marketing, partnership is a requirement.
Familiarity with UNFPA areas of work, knowledge of international development policies and institutions, and international politics is an advantage.
Excellent communication, interpersonal relationships, and writing skills.

Action-oriented and ability to meet high standards of effectiveness and integrity.
Demonstrated analytical-thinking and problem-solving experience.

Languages:

Fluency in English is required; knowledge of other official UN Languages is an asset.

Functional Competencies

External and internal communication and advocacy for results mobilization
Leveraging the resources of national governments and partners/building strategic alliances and partnerships