Fund Raising Specialist, (P-3), TA (364 days), Post # 127174, PFP, Geneva, Switzerland

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

The Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships (PSFP) section within the Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) works with UNICEF National Committees and country offices to maximize engagement and drive income growth. There are several teams within the PSFP section including the Global Campaigns team. The purpose of the Global Campaigns team (GCT) is to maximize private sector revenue and influence opportunities from high-value audiences at the highest level. We do this by creating an enabling environment for the PFP income streams, UNICEF National Committees and UNICEF country and regional offices to secure $10M+partnerships for priority programmatic areas including climate, data and research, and health systems. As part of the GCT remit, the team will identify and remove internal roadblocks, develop compelling audience propositions, and develop new and meaningful ways to engage with high-value audiences. This position is in the headquarters of PFP, within the PSFP section, in the Global Campaigns team. It reports to the position of Fundraising Manager (audience lead) in the Global Campaigns team.

For every child, a Champion

Under the guidance of the Fundraising Manager, Development Partnerships, and in collaboration with the full Global Campaigns team, the Fundraising Specialist (Convening) will develop initiatives and support markets to explore new ways of working with the private sector to accelerate the growth of high-value revenue streams at the eight-figure level to maximize resources and achieve results for children.

How can you make a difference?

Working in close collaboration with fundraising teams in National Committees and country offices, PFP teams, Regional Support Centers, Programme Groups, and other UNICEF divisions, the incumbent is accountable for the following:

1. Project manage the private sector climate co-creation offer

This offer is being developed out of a pilot in Denmark that brought together a group of private sector entities to agree upon what makes a climate-resilient community, and where they see their own and UNICEF’s role in supporting it. Through the ensuing journey, we aim to secure the highest-level partnership commitments starting in 2024.

• Work with the project working- and strategy groups to develop the project plan (including goal, timeline, donor pipeline, partner collaboration options, and other core project infrastructure) and ensure this is implemented within the agreed scope, time, and budget. • Manage the operations of the working- and strategy group, ensuring that they are progressing collaboratively and successfully against a clear project goal and timeline and are useful fora to drive success
• Build and maintain strong relationships with global fundraising colleagues and collaborate with them to ensure that the project helps them engage their climate prospects and partners at the highest level • Run workshops to engage global prospects and partners with UNICEF’s climate work – with a focus on 4 markets.
• Collaborate with the UNICEF COP28 team to ensure that the climate co-creation project is represented in UNICEF’s activities and partnership offers around this important milestone • Collaborate with the Programme Group to ensure that the scope of the climate co-creation project is actionable and fits with UNICEF’s mandate.
• Monitor global and regional trends in high-value fundraising to ensure that UNICEF creates a robust and competitive offer, in line with audience motivations.
• Manage the recruitment and work of any relevant external agencies or consultants and fulfill other project management duties as needed.

2. Identify, lead, and deliver on streamlined ways of working in the convening space to drive income growth from prospect and current 8-figure partnerships.

• In response to internally and externally identified needs, support markets with and, where relevant take part in, identifying new engagement opportunities to engage prospective high-value partners able to enter ($10million+) partnerships with appropriate and relevant approaches and offers.
• Where useful, act as a member of a ‘pitch team’ to deliver this engagement proposition to specific prospects.
• Ensure that any new engagement opportunity has the support of PFP and NatCom champions and senior leadership and has a direct impact pathway to raising significant gifts from a high-value audience.
• Where relevant, collaborate closely with Programme Group and Regional and Country Offices to ensure their support with any new initiatives.

3. Contribute to the Global Campaigns Team’s market knowledge and influence initiatives.

• Work with the wider team to Identify the bottlenecks and roadblocks that are holding UNICEF high-value fundraisers back from securing $10M plus gifts and develop actionable recommendations on how to address these.
• Identify trends in the high-value audience sector and recommend opportunities based on market and/ or audience knowledge to help build and sustain short and long-term fundraising strategies and growth.
• Help drive brand awareness and stakeholder understanding of the opportunities for high-value audiences to partner with the organization.

4. Additional support on initiatives or projects as needed.

DELIVERABLES:

• Ensure that planning and delivery of a climate-focused co-collaboration workshop with private sector partners by Q2 2024.
• Ongoing developments of a co-collaboration model for engagement with new and existing private sector partners are planned and delivered to schedule.
• Align, develop, and disseminate best practice guidelines on recognition offers across the high-value income streams.
• Ensure that the follow up after the delivery of a climate-focused co-collaboration workshop is driven forward both personally and through relationship managers to result in income deliver for UNICEF’s progamme work.

Estimated Duration of the contract

• 364 days

Reporting To:

• Fundraising Manager

Working Place:

• Geneva, Switzerland is the official duty station. (Flexible work arrangements may be applied if there is a need.

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

Education:

• Advanced university degree in Social Sciences, Humanities, Business Administration, or related field is required.
• Alternatively, a first-level university degree in a relevant field combined with (2) additional years of qualifying professional experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

• A minimum of five years of relevant professional work experience is required preferably in major gift, corporate or foundation fundraising.
• Knowledge of the principles and practice of high-value fundraising, as well as an understanding of international development is required.
• Direct experience in cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding 6-7 figure private sector partnerships is required.
• Direct experience working in project management is an asset.
• Experience working in international organizations and on cross-divisional or cross-functional teams are additional 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.

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

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drives to achieve impactful results (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1) are required.

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

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 and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background 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.

Remarks:

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government 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.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.