Partnerships Specialist (Business for Results) NO-3, Lima-Peru, #115375

Job Title: Partnerships Specialist (Business for Results)

Job Level: NOC
Supervisor Title/Level: Deputy Representative/P4

Organizational Unit: Programme
Post Location: Lima, Peru

Type of Contract:  Temporary

Period of Contract: 364 days (possible one-year extension)

 

POSITION OPENED FOR NATIONALS OF PERU ONLY

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Purpose for the job: Under the guidance and general supervision of the Deputy Representative (Level 4), the specialist will identify, develop, manage, track and measure engagements and partnerships with the business sector which will contribute to achieving country office programmatic outcomes for children. The specialist will provide technical guidance to programme colleagues to effectively embed business as a key stakeholder in UNICEF country programme, at par with government, civil society, and academia. Engaging with the business sector implies engaging in different modalities (e.g. influencing business policies and practices such as market shaping, child rights and business; engaging businesses as advocates for children; businesses contributing with their expertise and core business assets to UNICEF) that may not necessarily lead to revenue for UNICEF, but that do lead to outcomes for children. Within the programme section, the specialist will work with programme teams (health, education, child protection, social policy) to ensure programme interventions build resilience of local communities (including local markets), strengthen local communities’ adaptive capacities in the face of climate change, protect communities from shocks and stresses (environmental, social and environmental or climate-related). The specialist will work on disaster risk reduction and emergency preparedness and response. The specialist will coordinate with Private Fundraising and Partnerships team on co-creating and implementing an office-wide business engagement strategy, including either working to counter/avert business impact and or working with business when partnering with business is useful to meet UNICEF´s goals for children. The specialist contributes to achievement of results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), as well as UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance, and accountability framework.

 

Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks

1. Business and Community Resilience

• Engage business – expertise, logistics and networks – to co-create and implement interventions to build the resilience of local communities (including local markets), strengthen local communities’ adaptive capacities in the face of climate change, protect communities from shocks and stresses (environmental, social and environmental or climate-related); enhance efficiency of emergency response; and strengthen the capacity of communities to build back better and more sustainably to reduce local communities’ vulnerability to upcoming as well as slow-onset disasters.
• Engage the private sector on risk reduction and preparedness, emergency response and recovery, and long-term resilience building (within the business operation, for local communities, including women and children).
• Build awareness among businesses of their responsibility to strengthen the resilience of their employees and their employees’ families; and to address the adverse impacts of their operations (if any) on local communities.
• Build understanding and capacities of the private sector to adopt an approach to community resilience focusing on children in collaboration with national authorities and other key stakeholders.
• Leverage the private sector’s comparative advantage and resources to increase community resilience, to protect women’s and children’s rights.
• Position childre’s rights at the core of community resilience-related activities.
• Involve “champions” from within the business community to catalyze further private sector-led action.
• Promote innovation and the use of technologies at the service of community resilience including through the active participation of local communities.
• Develop a Business and Community Resilience Landscape Analysis, in line with regional and global standards, in partnership with relevant UN agencies with the objective of identifying relevant stakeholders, existing initiatives supporting Business and Community Resilience, private sector engagement in humanitarian action and resilience, identify good practices, lessons learned, gaps, opportunities for engagement, and priority areas for action.
• Develop strategic activities and action plan in support of disaster risk reduction and business and community resilience, based on findings of the Business and Community Resilience Landscape Analysis.
• Lead the country office work within the framework of the Business and Community Resilience initiative (including Guatemala, Indonesia, Eastern Caribbean Area Office and Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office), participate in multi-country evaluation, interact with other offices, interagency working group and all other key stakeholders, and provide inputs to regional office and the global BCR coordinator on request.

2. Business practices

• Engage the private sector towards improving business practices to the benefit of private sector’s employees, employees’ families and local communities where businesses operate, through building awareness among businesses of their responsibility to strengthen the resilience of their employees and their employees’ families; and to address the adverse impacts of their operations (if any) on local communities, through concrete actions, specifically by: Building disaster risk awareness; strengthening the resilience of essential community infrastructure; adopting environmentally friendly business practices; and protecting employees, families and communities through specific strategies, especially for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises that may lack capacity to planning for and investing in business continuity.
• Support programme areas in market shaping, where relevant and applicable. Market shaping entails (a) activating and stimulating demand for a diverse range of products (e.g. sanitation, vaccinations) and services (e.g. education, health) that are appropriate for different contexts; (b) engaging with new suppliers and encouraging them to enter the market and meet demand; (c) procuring supplies at sustainable prices where they are needed most; and (d) incentivizing or technically supporting suppliers to innovate and improve solutions.
• Policies and guidance – contribute to implementation of global policies and procedures related to engagement with private sector, including inter-alia, industry-specific guidance (e.g. food and beverage, extractives, gaming).

3. Core Business & Assets

• Engage business in using its core expertise to support community resilience-building including emergency response across in collaboration with/support of national authorities through the provision of sectoral expertise (e.g. construction sector), provision of services (e.g. logistics, ICT, media, banking, insurance), and provision of supplies and technical solutions.
• Engage business to use their core business expertise to achieve programmatic goals, including humanitarian action, e.g. logistics, ICT, media, and banking. ICT expertise could include engaging with businesses working on digital solutions to reduce the digital divide and increase connectivity and children’s access to services (e.g. education) or on-line protection, participation and engagement.
• Engage business in the provision of supplies, including health, nutrition, education, WASH and others.
• Innovation in products and services – support programme areas in applying and introducing innovative approaches harnessing business innovations, design and technology where relevant.
• Co-creation and programme delivery – support programme areas in identifying business partners with shared value and interest in co-creation.

4. Advocating for business respect and support for children’s rights

• Counter negative business impact on children: in cases where lobbying by business interests undermine policies that are in the best interest of children (e.g., business lobbying against stronger regulations targeting sugary beverages or the marketing of breastmilk substitutes), work to ensure regulations to benefit children.
• Business advocacy: where children’s rights and business interests align, convene champion businesses, place child rights on the agenda of influential businesses and business networks, and mobilize their voice, reach and strategic assets to raise public awareness, change behaviours and support advocacy for child rights.
• Work with trusted business leaders to positively influence public policies, legislation, standards, budget allocations, development priorities and investment for children, leveraging their engagement in public debates, high-level policy-related meetings and forums, and/or electoral campaigns.

5. Financing for programme outcomes from private sector

• Oversee that programme areas provide quality timely inputs to fund raising proposals to the private sector for grants, on resilience, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, education, health, nutrition, child protection, social policy, gender and humanitarian action.
• Co-lead with Private Fundraising and Partnerships team office-wide corporate fundraising strategy encompassing inter-alia the following strategies: strategic grants, employee engagement, gift matching, customer fundraising, cause related marketing and contributions in-kind.

6. Programme planning and development with a business lens

• Support the preparation, design and updating of the situation analysis with a private sector lens.
• Participate in strategic programme discussion of private sector engagement when planning of child protection, education, health, social policy, WASH programmes as well as cross-sectoral areas of disaster risk reduction, climate change and gender.
• Support child protection, education, health, social policy, WASH and cross-sectoral areas in defining private sector- specific goals, objectives, strategies and implementation plans using results-based planning terminology and methodology (RBM).
• Work closely and collaboratively with internal colleagues, government and the private sector, to determine national priorities to ensure the achievement of concrete and sustainable results.
• Keep abreast of and share best practices and knowledge learned on private sector engagement in programme planning and development.

 

IMPACT OF RESULTS

The efficiency and efficacy of support provided by the Partnerships Specialist (Business for Results) to embed private sector engagement into programme preparation, planning and implementation, wherever relevant, contributes to a stronger and more strategic use of business engagement as a strategy for programme delivery, allowing UNICEF to fully harness the power, resource and influence of business to improve lives of children. Engaging business to strengthen local communitie’ adaptive capacities in the face of climate change, will result in resilient communities that will be equipped to build back better and more sustainably, which will reduce local communities’ vulnerability to upcoming as well as slow-onset disasters. Success in programme delivery engaging business in turn contributes to maintaining and enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to provide programme services for children that promotes greater social equality in the country. This means more children surviving, thriving, enjoying fully their rights at all times.

RECRUITMENT QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: Business Administration, Marketing, Communications, Management, International Relations, or another relevant technical field.

Academic background on discrimination on grounds of race, ethnicity, indigenous populations, caste, sexual orientation or disability is considered as an asset.

Experience:

A minimum of five years of professional experience in private sector in corporate affairs is required.

Experience working with UN system or civil society on promoting Sustainable Development Goals is considered an asset.

Experience working in Peru is an asset.

Experience working with minority groups, migrants, refugees, or with indigenous communities is an asset.

Experience working on issues related to anti-racism and discrimination on grounds of race, ethnicity, indigenous populations, sexual orientation or disability is an asset.

UNICEF embraces diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified candidates from all races, ethnic backgrounds, including indigenous people, as well as persons living with disabilities, and LGTBIQ to apply to become a part of our organisation.

Languages:

Fluency in English and Spanish are required. 

Knowledge of a local language of the duty station (as quechua, aimara, and amazonic) is considered as an asset.  

COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

Core Values

Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability

Core Competencies

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (1)
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drives to achieve impactful results (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

Functional Competencies

• Analyzing (3)
• Deciding and Initiating action (2)
• Applying technical expertise (3)

You can refer to more information about UNICEF competencies in the following link:

https://www.unicef.org/careers/get-prepared

You can refer to more information about UNICEF jobs and career development in the following link:

https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/listing

 

APPLICATIONS

This is a National Officer post in Peru, opened only to candidates with Peruvian nationality.

How to apply:

If you are a National of Peru and your competencies match the requirements of the post, apply to:

https://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=537147

Last date for receiving applications is 10 January 2021.

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UNICEF embraces diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified candidates irrespective of gender, religious, ethnic backgrounds, indigenous people, as well as persons living with disabilities and LGTBIQ to apply to become a part of our organisation.

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, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

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