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Partnerships and Engagement Specialist

Position(s): Partnerships and Engagement Specialist
Organization: UNDP
Grade: P3
Vacancy Type: Temporary
Practice Area: Management
Bureau: Executive Office
Location: New York, United States
Deadline: Dec 21, 2024

Background

UNDP Partnerships and Engagement Specialist Vacancy in United States for 2025. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP: we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and inspiring stories. We are building the largest and fastest learning network on sustainable development challenges. 91 social innovation labs embedded within UNDP’s global architecture and country platforms. This network builds on the latest thinking from the fields of complexity science, lead user innovation and collective intelligence to accelerate development impact.

Two years ago, the UNDP Accelerator Lab Network undertook its mid-term evaluation and is looking toward future iterations to embed this work in the organization and create new value offers. Given the current maturity of the Accelerator Labs and their integration into UNDP, the evaluator recommended exploring how to establish the Labs as a permanent R&D function within UNDP Country Offices around the world, to ensure continuous exploration and experimentation related to evolving sustainable development challenges.

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This position is dedicated to building out R&D as a partnership engagement mechanism for the global network. A large focus will be on resource mobilization, drafting proposals, packaging offers and broadening partnerships to leverage founding investments. This post requires an integrator: someone who spans traditional categories of programme, communication, outreach, and resource mobilization.

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Position Purpose

Partnerships are at the core of the Accelerator Labs’ Network. The Partnerships and Engagement Specialist is instrumental in forging and sustaining robust and impactful partnerships for the Accelerator Labs at a global level.

This role encompasses exploring and managing relationships with a diverse array of knowledge partners and donors from both the public and private sectors. The Partnerships and Engagement Specialist is responsible for conducting thorough intelligence gathering on partnership opportunities within the network and producing comprehensive knowledge products on partnerships.

The Partnerships and Engagement Specialist will work in close collaboration with the full global Accelerator Lab team as well as Partnerships Specialists in BERA and regional Partnership Focal Points. The role requires a keen ability to navigate complex stakeholder landscapes and deliver on the Labs’ objectives through effective partnership strategies.

UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to achieve its strategic goals. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across units, functions, teams, and projects in multidisciplinary teams in order to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration.

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Responsibilities

Lead in implementation of Private Sector Resource Mobilization Strategy for the Accelerator Labs, drafting pitches and advocacy material based on R&D value propositions

Identify and engage different types of partners required by the Network with a focus on partnerships that lead to investment.
Advise on the Accelerator Labs’ partnership strategy, in particular with regard to the private sector, foundations and philanthropic organizations.
Monitor and coordinate team efforts towards the diversification of funding and investment sources through proactively mapping potential partner.
Lead the preparation of monitoring reports as needed.
Mobilize and engage new strategic actors from the private sector and philanthropic areas, integrating them into pipelines for innovation initiatives at UNDP.

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Ensure effective coordination actions as per the UNDP Accelerator Labs’ Resource Mobilization Pipeline, together with integrated corporate efforts

Map potential partners across the public and private sectors with versatile expertise to strengthen the Labs’ resource mobilization opportunities.
Foster the development of new partnership opportunities and manage existing partnerships for the Accelerator Lab Network.
Lead and advise on the due diligence process for new private sector and philanthropic partners and implement the risk mitigation strategies.
Position the Accelerator Labs in corporate cross-organizational partnerships teams, including the Private Sector Task Team

Contribute to the strategic communication to articulate value propositions based on an integrated R&D offer

Package, document and communicate value propositions of the UNDP Accelerator Labs,
Coordinate and support team-wide efforts to develop proposals based on leads as per strategy
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Draft content for brochures.

Contribute with project’s knowledge management.

Create a repository of partnership proposals and manage Acc. Lab’s contribution to Unity network.
Provide substantive contribution from the partnership perspective to knowledge products and communication materials.

Other Duties:

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

Requirements

Education:

Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Political Science, International Development, Design, Social Innovation or Gender Studies, Journalism, Knowledge Management, New Media, or related fields is required. Or,
A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas stated above, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree

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Experience:

Minimum of Five (5) years (with master’s degree) or Seven (7) years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant professional experience in drafting partnership offers including for the private sector, foundations and donors is required.
Experience on international development and social innovation required.
Demonstrated ability to map potential partners across sectors and lead due diligence processes for new private sector partners at UNDP is required.
Demonstrated Experience in CRM (i.e. Salesforce) for Partnership and Donor Management is required.
Proven track record of strong English writing skills, proposal framing and visual thinking to articulate new offers is required.
Experience in representing teams in cross-organizational partnership teams is desired.
Experience in organizing events to engage network partners and managing partnership pipelines is desired.
Experience of working with the intersection between partnerships, innovation, diversity/gender and sustainable development is required, Knowledge of the UN system is desired.
Experience working with strategic communications and partnerships to ensure high quality programme communication products is desired.