Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the overall supervision of the Country Representative and the Deputy Country Representative, the Strategic Partnerships and Resource Mobilization Specialist will undertake the following tasks:

Support to the implementation of UN Women’s Strategic Partnerships and Resource Mobilisation Strategy 2021-2025:
• Develop and maintain deep knowledge and familiarity with partners and relevant stakeholders including on global trends in development cooperation and aid, resource partner development policies, budgets, systems, and procedures.
• Coordinate engagements with key partners across bilateral and multi-lateral donors, international financial institutions, private sector, regional bodies, foundations, philanthropies, and government institutions.
• Support to the programme team in drafting and packaging proposals and reports to donors.
• Provide technical support towards nurturing new and innovative partnerships.
• Develop and monitor annual priorities, goals, and key performance indicators (KPIs) for partnerships and resource mobilization.
• Design and implementation of effective advocacy strategies and methods for proactive and strategic targeting of partners and donors.
• Support partnership and resource mobilization training to program staff, including the development of tools and products, as needed.

Participate in knowledge building and sharing, and coordination of high-level advocacy efforts:
• Lead in the coordination and planning of a high-level Summit on Women in Business, including the bringing on private sector and other partners for the Summit, support the team to develop high-level content and other coordination efforts.
• Contribute to the development of knowledge products and mechanisms to effectively position UN Women in Uganda.
• Share knowledge and enhance organizational learning in UN Women through the development and use of on-line tools, templates, tips, mechanisms, and guidelines.
• Support donor intelligence and monitor emerging issues that could impact on partnerships and resource contributions at the national or regional levels (risk management).

Provide advisory and specialized strategic guidance to the UN Women Senior Management Team:
• Act as a key resource of real-time partner intelligence for UN Women’s senior management team.
• Advise, guide, and provide substantive inputs to resource mobilization strategies.
• Prepare high-level documents, talking points, briefs, and other strategic papers/materials as and when requested.
• Review regularly the annual work plan, deliverables and relevant budget/s and make recommendation/s to ensure its successful delivery.

Key Performance Indicators:
• Timely and quality design, development and implementation of the assigned portfolio and its relevant activities, timelines, and budgets, in line with the AWP and achieved annual targets.
• Increase in resources mobilized.
• Excellent relations with partners and stakeholders.
• Regular and timely monitoring of activities.
• Quality and timely reporting.
• Enhanced best practices and lessons learned, documented and circulated.
• Increased awareness of UN Women's mandate among potential and new partners

Competencies
Core Values:
• Respect for Diversity
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Core Competencies:
• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
• Accountability
• Creative Problem Solving
• Effective Communication
• Inclusive Collaboration
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Leading by Example

Functional Competencies
• Strong partnership development skills
• Knowledge of the UN context and the role of the UN and its agencies, funds and programmes, including in the area of gender equality and human rights, highly desirable.
• Strong networking, team-building, organizational, communication, public speaking and inter-personal skills.
• Excellent writing and editorial skills in English.
• Capacity to work with diverse partners including governments, civil society, women's groups, UN entities and donors.
• Ability to manage for results, by translating strategy into achievable plans, with established priorities and ability to monitor and introduce adjustments. Self-starter and self-resourcefulness major assets.
• Ability to effectively represent UN Women in external fora, including policy-making and United Nations inter-agency initiatives.
• Strong understanding of gender equality and women’s empowerment.
• Ability to contribute to teamwork.

Required Skills and Experience
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
• Master’s degree or equivalent in social sciences, human rights, gender/women's studies, international development, or a related field is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:
• At least 7 years of progressively responsible partnership development experience that combines policy and resource mobilization leadership in gender equality, at the international level, preferably within the UN system, Agencies, Funds and Programs.
• Experience building, maintaining, and managing relationships with strategic partners, governmental institutions and non-profit organizations.
• Experience operating within cross-functional teams and effectively assessing and balancing cross-functional issues or risks.
• Experience in resource mobilization for gender equality programmes is a requirement.
• Experience in leading a team is an asset.

Languages:
• Fluency in English is required.
• Working knowledge of another official UN language is an asset.



Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 84

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

Job application procedure

All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/2022-07/UN-Women-P11-Personal-History-Form-en.doc  Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.




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