Innovative Partnership Home-Based Specialist Consultant at UNICEF: Advancing Office of Innovation in Sweden

Innovative Partnership Home-Based Specialist Consultant at UNICEF: Advancing Office of Innovation in Sweden

• Job no: 580755
• Contract type: Consultant
• Duty Station: Stockholm
• Level: Consultancy
• Location: Sweden
• Categories: Communication, Partnerships
• Deadline: 11 Apr 2025 Central Europe Daylight Time

As a Partnership Specialist Consultant for UNICEF’s Office of Innovation in Sweden, I leveraged remote collaboration for eight months, driving innovative solutions and building strong partnerships to enhance child welfare initiatives globally. The Office of Innovation is a creative, interactive, and agile team in UNICEF. We sit at a unique intersection, where an organization that works on huge global issues meets the start-up thinking, the technology, and the partners that turn this energy into scalable solutions. UNICEF’s Office of Innovation creates opportunities for the world’s children by focusing on where new markets can meet their vital needs. 

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Responsibilities

To meet our ambition, it is now more critical than ever to diversify our partner pipelines and employ creative and innovative approaches to resource mobilization- including human and financial capital and influence. This requires:

1. Mapping emerging funding landscapes and identifying untapped partnership opportunities
2. Developing tailored engagement strategies that align partner interests with UNICEF innovation priorities
3. Creating compelling narratives and business cases that demonstrate concrete value for potential partners
4. Building scalable and sustainable partnership frameworks that can drive long-term resource flows
5. Establishing agile processes to rapidly test, learn from, and refine partnership approaches

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Requirements

• An advanced university degree* (Master’s) in humanities, social sciences, international development, innovation, business or other relevant field.
• A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience i.e. work experience, in resource mobilization in an international context, with a broad breadth of public and private channels, including corporates and philanthropy. 
• Must be highly skilled in navigating complex organizational ecosystems and diverse industries and have demonstrated experience. 
• Demonstrated strength in interpersonal skills, and experience in working in diverse, multi-cultural environments. 
• Ability to prioritize competing priorities, be self-managing and highly organized. 
• Familiarity of innovation applied in development or humanitarian contexts is an asset. 
• Demonstrated communication skills. Fluency in English required, a strong writer and oral communicator. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset. 
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset. 
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset. 

Travel:

• The consultant may be expected to travel for meetings with potential partners as needed, and or OOI requests; however, at this stage of proposal, no travel is anticipated. Any required travel will be determined based on partnership development needs and agreed upon in advance.
• The consultant is responsible for arranging his/her own travel, including visa and travel insurance.

Application Process

• Interested applicant is required to submit a financial proposal with all-inclusive fee.
• Financial proposal must include travel costs (economy class) and daily subsistence allowance, if travel is required as per TOR and any other estimated costs: visa, travel/health insurance. 
• Applications without a financial proposal will not be considered.    Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx