Partnerships Manager, P-4, FT, #114553, Beirut, Lebanon - MENA

Role Purpose

Your role purpose is to deepen collaboration with key stakeholders and provide an interface for environmental scanning, knowledge exchange, resource mobilization, and policy influence within the scope of assignment. You may also serve as focal point and resource for colleagues on specific thematic areas of strategic relevance for partnership development.

Key Result

To ensure greater visibility for UNICEF and influence in support of its mission.

Responsibilities

• Support senior advisers and senior management in establishing the annual work plan, setting priorities/targets and performance measurements.
• Maintain clear individual performance objectives, goals and timelines for team members; and provide timely guidance to enable the team to perform their duties responsibly and efficiently.
• Lead the work plan for assigned area, in order to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of results, in accordance with UNICEF’s partnership strategy.
• Develop and maintain deep knowledge and familiarity with current and prospective partners and relevant stakeholders, contributing to a database of key contacts and to UNICEF’s base of knowledge on partnership and resource mobilization.
• Expand UNICEF’s network of key interlocutors to build stronger relationships between UNICEF and governments, other key-decision makers, regional development institutions, foundations, civil society organizations, international financial institutions and/or other relevant constituencies.
• Develop and implement annual partnership engagement and resource mobilization plans.
• Act as a focal point for identification and pursuit of opportunities for outreach, engagement, policy influence and collaboration, including on how to anticipate and respond to partners’ concerns and priorities, ensure that UNICEF’s interests, perspectives, and knowledge are taken into account in relevant policy and institutional processes, and ensure that they are fully aware of UNICEF’s perspectives, policies, priorities and capabilities.
• Contribute to the development and management of initiatives for high-level outreach, including for UNICEF’s Senior Management.
• Contribute to the development of new partnership and resource mobilization practices and approaches by formulating recommendations for action based on ongoing monitoring, analyzing current trends within designated partners and formulating recommendations for strategy approaches and message development.
• Contribute to strategies for engagement and the development of communications and advocacy products to enhance UNICEF’s visibility and influence with existing and prospective partners and key stakeholders by providing analysis of the current environment and trends and formulating recommendations for strategy approaches and message development.
• Work closely with UNICEF’s colleagues to ensure that policy advocacy and outreach is strongly grounded in the experience and insights of the programmes that UNICEF’s supports.
• Contribute written inputs for communications instruments that best inform and influence decision makers.

Qualifications

• Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in International Studies, Political Science, International Development, Communications, international relations, political science, communications, international development and any other related fields.
• A minimum of 8 years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas is required: public affairs, programme management, resource mobilization, external relations, or other relevant areas.
• Experience managing complex partnerships with large-scale public donors, such as the United States, EU, Germany, the UK and/or the Netherlands is required.

Skills

• Partnership Development
• Resource Mobilization
• Programme Management
• Negotiation Skills
• Public Affairs
• Policy Analysis
• Planning
• Communications