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Job Vacancies United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Children’s Fund
Position: Senior Adviser, New York
Closing Date: Friday, 13 August 2010
Location: United States of America (the) – New York, NY

Purpose of the Position
Under the general guidance and direction of the Director, PARMO, you will be responsible for developing funding strategies and approaches to donors and providing expert advice and support to UNICSF senior management, as well as coordinating fundraising efforts for an assigned geographical region and specific programme activities as assigned.

Key Expected Results
1. You will develop fundraising strategies and workplans for assigned government donors, inter-governmental funds, international financial institutions.
2. You will implement and manage fundraising activities; identify all possible sources of new and continued funding; monitor and evaluate existing fundraising channels to ensure achievement of UNICEF fundraising goals to meet the objectives and financial targets of the Medium Term Plan.
3. Monitor global trends in development cooperation and aid; monitor donors’ development policies, budgets, systems and procedures and revise UNICEF fundraising strategies, activities and income projections for assigned donors as required; take appropriate action and/or advise UNICEF senior management on recommended action with donors to
maintain and increase UNICEF’s resource base.
4. You will establish and maintain high level contacts with senior officials of missions to the UN and departments of assigned donor governments, inter-governmental funds and international financial institutions responsible for support to and relations with UNICEF; to promote, advocate, mobilize and influence cooperation with UNICEF to ensure UNICEF’s resource base and the attainment of UNICEF’s goal s and objectives.
5. Negotiate terms of agreements of funding consistent with UNICEF Rules and Regulations in coordination with the UN Legal Division, KQ divisions and field offices.
6. You will develop policy papers and guidelines to enhance fundraising efforts and initiatives for assigned donors for review/consideration of PARMO’s Director and/or senior management.
7. You will guide and support field offices to prepare and package programme proposals for assigned donors, advise them of funding opportunities for other resources and on their relations with assigned donors in the field.
8. You will serve as focal point for UNICEF relations with assigned donors, negotiating agreements, funding support and feedback to donors, as well as arranging meetings for funding purposes with assigned donors and assigned thematic area.
9. Attend relevant meetings of UN system and assigned donors, to present and promote UNICEF goals and objectives and resource requirement.

Qualifications of Successful Candidate
Advanced university degree in social and economic sciences or international relations. Specialized training in international relations.
Ten years of progressively responsible professional work experience at national and international levels in the areas of social economic development and cooperation, preferably fundraising in an international organization.
Fluency in English and Spanish.

Competencies of Successful Candidate
Communicates effectively to varied audiences, including during formal public speaking
Creates and encourages a climate of team-working and collaboration in a multi-cultural environment
Consistently achieves high-level results, managing and delivering projects on-time and on-budget
Has good leadership and supervisory skills; co-ordinates group activities, ensuring that roles within the team are clear
Analyzes and integrates diverse and complex quantitative and qualitative data from a wide range of sources
Identifies urgent and potentially risky decisions and acts on them promptly; initiates and generates organization-wide activities
Sets, develops and revises organizational strategy and develops clear visions of the organization’s future potential
Quickly builds rapport with individuals and groups; maintains an effective network of individuals across organizational departments

Negotiates effectively by exploring a range of possibilities
UNICEF is committed to diversity and gender equality in its workplace. Women and nationals of developing countries are strongly encouraged to apply.

How to apply
If you want a challenging career while improving the lives of children around the world UNICEF, the leading children’s rights organization, would like to hear from you.
Visit us at www.unicef.org/about/employ to register in our new e-Recruitment system and apply to this and other vacancies, quoting E-VN-2010-001658. Applications must be received by 13 August 2010.
Please note that only candidates who are under serious consideration will be contacted.

In the selection of its staff, UNICEF is committed to gender balance and diversity without distinction as to race, sex or religion, and without discrimination of persons with disabilities: well qualified candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Reference Code: RW_87QPQ7-46
Source: Reliefweb

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