Regional Chief of Partnerships, P-5, Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP), Panama LACRO, # 23200

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.

For every child, Hope

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• Provide leadership and oversight of private sector fundraising and engagement activities in the LAC region.
• Advise the Regional Director on all private sector related strategies and initiatives.
• Manage  the PFP Regional Support Centre and team and  strategic support and engagement with the country offices.
• Manage the PFP LAC budget .
• Ensure effective support to Country Offices strategies and initiatives.
• Represent LAC perspective in Global PFP discussions and  represent PFP perspective in Regional processes.
• Support  and  advise Representatives and  PFP Managers  private sector fundraising and engagement
• Ensure marketing and fundraising programme implementation  is in concurrence with the PFP work plan and/or UNICEF/PFP policy guidelines and financial rules and regulations.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Education:

• Advanced university degree or equivalent background in Business Administration, Management, Communication, or other related fields. Training in marketing, sales, product development,  fund raising, or brand based non-profit business experience.
• A first university degree with a relevant combination of academic qualifications and experience may be accepted in lieu of advanced university degree.

Experience:

• A minimum of ten years of proven track record of private sector fundraising for social sector programmes at the national and international level, corporate engagement, and management of partnerships.
• Experience working in the private sector  is an asset.
• Experience managing financial resources and leading teams.
• Ability to translate policy and guidance into effective strategies.
• Experience of developing new approaches and methodologies for designing, appraising, monitoring and evaluation of private sector  fundraising and engagement.
• Experience coaching and mentoring teams to enhance staff skills and competencies.

Personnel Skills:

• The ability to empower others to translate vision into results.
• Capacity to anticipate and resolve conflicts by pursuing mutually agreeable solutions
• Demonstrated ability and experience advising and influencing senior management, providing insights that lead to key decision making within the organization.
• Proven ability to develop effective long-term strategic plans, with appropriate allocation of time and resources, and foresee risks and allow for contingencies when planning.
• Proven ability to implement clear goals that are consistent with agreed strategies, identify priority activities, adjust priorities as needed to meet organizational goals.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and seize new private sector and  fundraising opportunities, formulating new  strategies and models.
• Demonstrated ability to adjust to unexpected challenges and proposing countermeasures accordingly.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and encourage innovative ideas, foster a culture of innovation within the team. Strong entrepreneurial skills.
• Diplomatic negotiation, influencing and networking skills to establish and maintain trusted partnerships and to develop close and effective working relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Excellent communications skills, verbal and written.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English and Spanish. Portuguese and other U.N. languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian) is an asset

For every Child, you demonstrate…

Core Values

• Care
• Respect
• Integrity
• Trust
• Accountability

Core Competencies

• Communication (III)
• Working with People (III)
• Drive for Results (III 

Functional Competencies

• Leading and Supervising (III)
• Formulating Strategies and Concepts (III)
• Analyzing (III)
• Relating and Networking (III)
• Persuading and Influencing (III)
• Entrepreneurial Thinking (III)

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

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.

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:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service and this position is classified as “Rotational” which means the incumbent is expected to rotate to another duty station upon completion of their tour of duty (i.e. 5 Years in the case of Panama CO).