UN WOMEN Jobs - 60215- UN Women: Partnerships and Business Development An

UN Women: Partnerships and Business Development Analyst

Advertised on behalf of

UN WOMEN

Location :

New York, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Type of Contract :

TA International

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

25-Sep-15 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

P-2

Duration of Initial Contract :

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

364 days

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

Expected Summary of key functions

Programme Division leads UN Women’s work in the field, in all areas of work, linking programmes with UN women’s normative and advocacy roles, including coordination on gender equality and women’s empowerment, in close collaboration with Policy Division and the Inter-Governmental and Strategic Partnership Bureau. The Division provides strategic guidance and direction for UN Women’s programme development and implementation, and through the “one-stop shop” function, the Division support field offices in all aspects of the programme cycle in the five impact areas of UN Women’s Strategic Plan, both programmatically, operationally and with resource mobilization.

The strategic focus of the Partnership and Business Development analyst will be to corporately support resource mobilization and partnership development to advance Programme Division’s support to field offices to leverage, scale-up and ensure sustainability of UN Women programmes. The work requires knowledge of strategic results-oriented programming, monitoring and evaluation, as well as experience in business process development to support resource mobilization and partnership building, both internally and with donors and strategic partners. Further the work requires experience in administrative tasks including procurement, budgeting and office management.

The Partnerships and Business Development Analyst will report to the Director, Programme Division.

Duties and Responsibilities

Summary of Key Functions:

Support to resource mobilization, partnership building and donor relations;
Support to knowledge management and sharing;
Support to donor reporting.

Description of functions:

Resource mobilization, partnerships building and donor relations:

Support to design and establish a corporate system in support of field offices’ effort to mobilize non-core resource for portfolio growth and scaling-up of programmes;
Support the roll-out and coordination of the non-core resource mobilization system, including follow-ups and training to HQ units and field offices, as needed.

Knowledge management and sharing:

Support to design and establish key account management system to facilitate cross-leaning between offices on donor’s priorities and strategies to enhance UN Women’s coordination with donors;
Develop donor intelligence of key donors relevant to field offices, to enhance positioning of UN Women with donors at regional and country level;
Produce content and maintain Programme Division’s online resources, and ensure frequent communication with field offices on resource mobilization opportunities, in liaison with Strategic Partnership Division.

Donor-reporting:

Support the development of integrated donor-reporting system to enhance quality assurance and timely reporting to UN Women’s partners;
Support training and capacity development related to timely and high quality donor-reporting.

Impact of Results

Effective support provided to the Director of Programme in his/her function to set and implement corporate resource mobilization strategy and systems, in collaboration with the Inter-governmental and Strategic Partnership Bureau to accelerate UN Women’s programming footprint and field level.

Competencies

Core values / Guiding principles:

Integrity:

Demonstrating consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.

Cultural Sensitivity/Valuing diversity:

Demonstrating an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff;
Demonstrating an international outlook, appreciating differences in values and learning from cultural diversity.

Core Competencies:

Ethics and Values:

Demonstrating / Safeguarding Ethics and Integrity.

Organizational Awareness:

Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment.

Developing and Empowering People / Coaching and Mentoring:

Self-development, initiative-taking.

Working in Teams:

Acting as a team player and facilitating team work.

Communicating Information and Ideas:

Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively.

Self-management and Emotional intelligence:

Creating synergies through self-control.

Conflict Management / Negotiating and Resolving Disagreements:

Managing conflict.

Knowledge Sharing / Continuous Learning:

Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of other.

Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making:

Informed and transparent decision making.

Functional Competencies:

Successful track record in developing corporate systems to support partnerships building with donors, and mobilizing resources for development assistance programmes;
Demonstrates ability to identify problems and proposes solutions;
Demonstrates knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments;
Reports to internal and external clients in a timely and appropriate fashion;
Organizes and prioritizes work schedule to meet client needs and deadlines;
Demonstrates ability to use knowledge management strategies to promote effective decision-making, and a coherent approach to policy making, and intra/inter-organizational collaboration, applies knowledge, information, and best practices from within and outside of UN Women.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Master’s degree (or equivalent) in one of the following disciplines: business administration or management, public administration, economics or other related fields.

Experience:

Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in business development, partnerships building and resource mobilization;
Experience in handling of web-based management systems;
Knowledge of ATLAS.

Languages:

Written and oral proficiency in English is required;
Knowledge of another UN working language is desirable.

Application:

All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment;
Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment, please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document . Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.

Note:

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.