Programme Specialist

Programme Specialist (P-3), TA, 364 days, # Private Fund Raising and Partnerships, Rome, Italy

Job no:
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Duty Station: Rome
Level: P-3
Location: Italy
Categories: Programme Management

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

For every child, the right to Results

Strategic office context:

UNICEF’s Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) drives UNICEF’s engagement with the private sector through global support in Rome, regional support through Regional Support Centres (RSCs) and units supporting seven Regional Offices, and through a network of 33 UNICEF National Committees. The Public Partnerships and Resource Mobilization Division (PPR) drives UNICEF’s engagement with the public sector – governments, bilaterals, multilaterals, and international finance institutions. The PFP BRIDGE Team enables both private and public sector colleagues to raise funds from donors and to develop game changing partnerships. The BRIDGE Team achieves this in three ways. First, by developing a range of fundraising publications targeted at numerous audiences including business, philanthropists, government, bilaterals, and foundations. These publications are written and presented in a professional and high-quality manner, using expert knowledge of both programmes and fundraising, and designed to be visually appealing and easily understandable by prospective donors and partners. Second, the BRIDGE Team leads capacity building on UNICEF’s programmes and operations for private and public sector colleagues and teams. This involves developing and delivering training content that is built on the foundations of the fundraising content. And third, looking at the system and the enabling environment for quality partnerships through quality reporting, programme visits, and application of Rights and Results Programming.

How can you make a difference?

This position sits within UNICEF PFP’s BRIDGE Team and plays a key role in strengthening fundraising and partnership outcomes by leading the development of strategic content, capacity-building initiatives, and knowledge management solutions. It brings together programme and partnership expertise to help UNICEF secure high-value support and build impactful private and public sector partnerships.

• “Products”: Lead the operations for the development of fundraising and partnerships content
• “People”: Lead capacity building on programmes and the intersection with fundraising
• “Systems”: Support partnership system optimization and team enablement

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

• Education : An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: communications, social sciences, marketing, public relations, business administration and management, or any other relevant subject. Alternatively, a first-level university degree in a relevant field in combination with an additional 2 years of qualifying and relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Work Experience : A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible professional experience in private and public sector engagement/fundraising is required, including at least two (2) years of experience in development programming.
  - Demonstrated experience managing and coordinating complex, multi-stakeholder processes and projects is required. Experience in developing highly engaging capacity building initiatives and learning products for diverse audiences, is required.
  - Experience and solid understanding of audience interests across public and private sectors, is required.
  - Proven experience conceptualizing and developing fundraising content, learning initiatives, or knowledge products that address stakeholder needs and organizational priorities, is required.
• Skills : Strategic thinking, storytelling for fundraising, audience analysis and segmentation, stakeholder engagement,