Deputy Director and Chief Public Partnerships

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.

The Strategic Partnerships Division (SPD) works to strengthen UN Women’s position as a partner of choice for gender equality and the empowerment of women (GEWE) among governments and private sector actors around the world. The Division does this by positioning GEWE in intergovernmental and multilateral fora, and engaging with governments and private sector corporations, foundations and individuals as policy, programme and resource partners. UN Women’s engagement with partners and the work of SPD is premised on the principle of holistic partnership including policy advocacy and resource mobilization.

Under the guidance and direct supervision of the Director, SPD, the Deputy Director and Chief, Public Partnerships is responsible to support the overall management of the Division, specifically leading a team accountable for the relations with donor governments and public institutions and represent UN Women’s private sector portfolio as required in coordination with the Chief of Private Partnerships. This includes inter alia deputizing for the Director as required, the development and implementation of the fundraising and resource mobilization strategy and implementation plans to ensure the continued growth and predictability of both regular (core) resources and providing support to mobilization of other (non­ core) resources, advocating for and encouraging preference for high quality other resources within the spectrum of other resources contributions, managing the work of the Public Partnerships Section and representational functions including both public and private sector partners as required.

This includes: 1) supporting overall management of the Strategic Partnership Division including programmatic and budget planning, reporting and other functions; 2) planning, formulating, and implementing resource mobilization strategies and activities in close coordination with the Private Sector Partnerships Section; 3) leading and nurturing a corporate network for public-sector resource mobilization; 4) leading donor intelligence generation and supporting systems for effective reporting and increasing donor visibility and meeting donors’ visibility requirements; 5) representation duties including for the overall work of the Division as it relates to New York-based public and private sector partners in coordination with the Director and Chief Private Partnerships; 6) collaborating with internal partners across the UN system and leading corporate efforts, including under the Funding Compact, to increase UN Women’s involvement in joint programmes and United Nations pooled funds; 7) overseeing the building and maintenance of relationships with IFls, multilateral development finance providers and intergovernmental bodies including the G7 and G20; 8) leading and managing the public partnerships team, including UN Women Liaison Offices in Brussels, Copenhagen, and Japan; 9) working with other parts of the house including Legal to ensure that mechanisms and procedures for securing of donor funding are as streamlined and efficient as possible. 

Key Functions and Accountabilities:

• To support the overall management of the Strategic Partnership Division including programmatic and budget planning, reporting and other functions
• Provide inputs into and support coordination for overall management of the Strategic Partnership Division.
• Represent the interests and functions of the Strategic Partnership Division in New York and the United States as required.
• Serve as OIC for the Strategic Partnership Division as required.

To plan, formulate, and implement SPD’s resource mobilization strategies and activities in close coordination with the Private Sector Partnerships Section:

• Lead the development of the corporate public partnership strategy;
• Manage the implementation of resource mobilization activities to ensure accelerated growth, diversification and predictability of UN Women resources (regular and other resources).

To lead and promote coordinated and effective public and private partnership and resource mobilization:

• Ensure that there are adequate corporate systems to support RM and donor relations and partnerships through a “one UN Women”/ matrixed approach that delivers joined up and coherent partner relationship management across the entity;
• Ensure production of knowledge-sharing materials to promote matrixed working;
• Designate relationship managers for major groups of donors;
• Work closely with other partners in house to ensure a coherent “One UN Women” approach.
• Ensure that persons in the network receive capacity building and career opportunities through a talent management approach.
• Advise and coordinate with UN Women Senior Management Team and other internal partners and stakeholders to facilitate their engagement with key public donors’ resource mobilization purposes; ensure coherent messaging and advocacy to facilitate adequate access to funds and resources in support of UN Women;
• Coordinate UN Women global, regional and country level implementation of resource mobilization strategy;
• Establish mechanisms and processes to facilitate and support UN Women stakeholders to submit and prepare funding proposals and applications for special/interagency/multi donor trust funds that prioritize the UN requests;
• Coordinate the timely dissemination of relevant donor and partner intelligence (including interests, priorities, political and aid environment) to UN Women divisions to enable stakeholders to take advantage of business development opportunities;
• Work closely with the communications and advocacy unit Section and other Divisions to collaborate on the development and use of effective communications, advocacy, outreach, branding and other resource mobilization mechanisms and tools.

To ensure appropriate corporate capacity for public and private partnership and resource mobilization:

• Lead the development of related training modules, templates, toolkits, mechanisms and guidelines to build internal fundraising and donor relationship management capacity and knowledge. Evaluate impact of guidelines and tools in enhancing resource mobilization initiatives and activities.
• Working with the Policy, Programme and Intergovernmental Division set (global) guidelines and tools for donor reporting and quality assurance and monitor compliance, as well as sharing good practice and facilitating knowledge exchange;
• Working with the Programme and Policy Division collaborate to ensure the development and maintenance of high-quality donor portals to promote transparency and show results.

To manage representation and external relations support with public partners:

• Represent UN Women in UN system-wide inter-agency task forces to contribute to strategic and policy discussion on resource mobilization including with regard to the Funding Compact;
• Represent UN Women in inter-agency and inter-governmental fora and other key meetings and events, as designated/appropriate to speak on UN Women issues, participate in policy dialogue, discuss initiatives, report on progress achieved and/or present papers/ideas to influence the agenda to assure donor interest and commitment on UN Women mission and objectives;
• Maintain active relationships/partnerships with Member States, UN system and agency partners, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, major financial and donor institutions and private sector partners in coordination with the Chief Private Partnerships to enhance collaboration and resource mobilization.
• Collaborate with internal partners across the UN system and lead corporate efforts, under the Funding Compact, to increase UN Women’s involvement in joint programmes and United Nations pooled funds:
• Lead UN Women’s engagement in interagency dialogues and collaboration around resource mobilization including with regard to the Funding Compact;
• In collaboration with the Policy and Programme Division lead corporate efforts to increase UN Women’s access to resources available through joint programmes and pooled funding mechanisms.

To oversee the building and maintaining of relationship with IFls and other intergovernmental bodies including the G7 and G20:

• Serve as corporate focal point for relations with the IFls, working in close collaboration with other parts of the house;
• Working with the Executive Director’s Office, coordinate UN Women’s engagement with the G7, G20 and other bodies as assigned.
• Ensure sharing of information across UN Women on collaboration with such bodies to promote relationships across the entity.
• Ensure that the Public Partnerships team has capacity and knowledge and is provided with information on work with IFls.
• Work with Legal and other parts of UN Women as appropriate to address bottlenecks in receipt of funds from IFIs.

To lead and manage the public partnerships team:

• Establish the work plan/s in line with the UN Women annual work plans and set objectives, performance measurements, standards and expected results in collaboration and discussion with the Team;
• Supervise and assess and provide feedback on work in progress to ensure delivery of results according to performance standards, overall objectives and accountability framework;
• Provide technical guidance, supervise team and oversee progress of implementation of activities.
• Provide functional supervision to resource mobilization personnel at regional level;
• Recommend and set the standards, policies, procedures, guidelines and tools for resource mobilization;
• Oversee compliance across the PP team including liaison offices;
• Ensure that the systems (financial and administrative) are available to support the PP teams;
• Ensure that adequate policies, procedures and guidance is in place to support operations and RM.
• The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organisation

Recruitment Qualifications:

Education and Certification:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in international relations, economics, business, 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 15 years of experience in fundraising, business development, strategic partnerships, or resource mobilization; including 5 years of senior level management responsibilities of similar complexity in a large international and/or corporate organization.
• Proven experience in fundraising from public partners and hands-on knowledge of global aid architecture is required.
• Experience on meeting challenging revenue targets is required.
• Experience working on gender equality issues is desirable.
• UN System experience is desirable.
• Experience leading and coaching staff in international settings is required.
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required.
• Experience in the use of a modern web-based ERP System, preferably Oracle Cloud, is desirable.

Languages:

• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language is desirable (French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish).

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