Corporate Partnerships Specialist

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As the UNICEF Corporate Partnerships Specialist, you will work as part of the European hub, helping corporations based in the region to take leading roles in advancing children’s rights globally. Specifically, you will work with UNICEF National Committees and with UNICEF PFP Geneva, to build the relationships, value propositions, and partnership structures necessary for successful long-term partnerships with global impact.

The Corporate Partnerships Specialist will be passionate about connecting the resources and capabilities of leading corporations in the region to the needs of children, enjoy the challenge of creating value for corporate partners and their key stakeholders, and be eager to push traditional boundaries of partnerships to maximize their impact.

The Corporate Partnership Specialist will work under the general guidance of the Corporate Partnerships Manager, Partnership Development at UNICEF PFP. The post holder will focus on growing existing partnerships that deliver to UNICEF’s strategic objectives by leveraging financial and non-financial resources and optimizing the reach and influence of the corporate sector.

How can you make a difference?

• This post holder will be responsible for working with UNICEF National Committees in Europe region and UNICEF PFP to manage existing high-value partnerships strategically and effectively, expanding their scope and duration to include new geographies and impact areas, in line with UNICEF’s strategic priorities. This includes:
• Effectively driving existing high-value partnerships in the region, ensuring programmatic content is activated in line with the partnership strategic framework, reports are delivered to a high standard and on time, fundraising campaigns including customer facing activations adhere to global guidelines and market regulations, partnership communication and advocacy plans are executed, partnership activities are coordinated with all participating UNICEF offices, and all relevant partnership information is shared with stakeholders.
• Identifying and pursuing significant (USD 100K+) growth opportunities within existing partnerships, including working with UNICEF PFP, Programme Group, and Country Offices to develop new proposals, build a strong business case for the company, and harness UNICEF’s senior representative’s influence to unlock these opportunities.
• Working with UNICEF National Committees in the region to identify high-value partnerships that are up for renewal and support them to co-ordinate with internal stakeholders and processes to develop robust renewal strategies and proposals.
• Supporting UNICEF National Committees in the region to unlock funding through corporate partnerships for emergencies.
• Sharing relevant expertise and skills on challenges faced by UNICEF National Committees in the region on high-value international and national partnerships and filling in gaps in capacity and capability as needed to support the markets’ overall Corporate Partnerships results.

DELIVERABLES:

• Building strong relationships with partners in the region through day-to-day interactions such as answering ad-hoc requests and leading regular partnership calls as required.
• Efficiently coordinating with UNICEF National Committees in the region and UNICEF PFP to ensure successful management of existing partnerships, for example setting up regular internal planning meetings and managing partnership planning tools.
• Leading on wider internal coordination and liaising with UNICEF corporate research, legal, programme, and communications teams to ensure due diligence, proposal reviews. communication planning and contracting is undertaken effectively. Connecting the lead UNICEF National Committees in the region with other National Committees globally to successfully activate multi-country fundraising campaigns.

Specifically for existing partnerships in the region deliverables include:

• Coordinating reporting on key programmatic progress.
• Identifying opportunities to promote the partnership at high visibility UN moments, multi-stakeholder platforms such as WEF, leading industry / B2B events, etc.
• Coordinating inputs and approvals on global communication activations and materials
• Developing expansion and renewal strategies and cultivating key influencers to grow partnership funding.
• Facilitating co-creation workshops to identify new collaboration areas for existing partnerships.
• Coordinating approvals on partnership contracts, such as amendments and renewals.
• Coordinating timely updates and providing support to activating markets for multi-country fundraising campaigns.
• Ensuring all relevant partnership information is kept live on UNICEF’s partnership relationship management tool (Salesforce platform), prepare briefing notes when needed and communicate progress of the partnership with internal stakeholders regularly.

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

Education:

• An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: Business Management, International Relations, Social Sciences, Fundraising, or a related field is required.  
• Alternatively, a first-level university degree in combination with two years of additional work experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.  

 Experience:

• A minimum of five years of progressively responsible professional work experience in roles that involve management of global programme based corporate/foundation diverse partnerships and an understanding of the corporate sector functioning in the region required. A minimum of two years in an international context is required.
• Proven experience and skills in delivering on proposal development, programme reporting, partnership communications, stakeholder management, and successfully growing corporate partnerships at a US$500K per year and above the funding value required.
• Proven experience working with corporate partnerships in the region is an asset.
• Experience working within corporate fundraising in an international organization and specifically on global customer fundraising/cause related marketing campaigns is an asset.
• Experience working within corporate fundraising in an international organization is an asset.
• UN/UNICEF experience is an asset.

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.

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/575290

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