Remote Opportunity: UNICEF is Hiring a Home- Based Consultant with Competitive Benefits. Apply Now!
Remote Opportunity: UNICEF is Hiring a Home- Based Consultant with Competitive Benefits. Apply Now!
- Job no: 584925
- Consultancy: Resource Mobilization Consultant
- Contract type: Consultant
- Duty Station: New York
- Level: Consultancy
- Categories: Emergency
- Duty Station: EMOPS – RAPS Section
- Home/ Office Based: remote
- Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
UNICEF is seeking a Remote Resource Mobilization Consultant to support strategic program development and implementation. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to global initiatives improving children’s lives, while collaborating virtually with diverse teams and partners across UNICEF’s international operations. Under the overall supervision of the Chief, RAPS/EMOPS, and in close collaboration with the Deputy Director, EMOPS Geneva and the Senior Advisor, Government Partnerships (PPD), the Resource Mobilization Specialist will support the development of a focused funding strategy for EMOPS. The consultant will identify priority EMOPS workstreams for targeted resource mobilization, map aligned donor interests (public and private) and develop business and investment cases for donor engagement.
The consultant will work closely with all EMOPS sections (RAPS, HFSS, HPS, GCCS), as well as PPD, PFP, and other relevant HQ Divisions (e.g., PG, ICTD, Office of Innovation) to ensure alignment with corporate fundraising strategies. The consultant will also support the preparation of donor proposals linked to identified workstreams, in coordination with proposal timelines and corporate donor engagement processes.
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Responsibilities
- Identifying high-potential EMOPS workstreams for fundraising efforts.
- Mapping donor interests and creating a database of aligned funding opportunities.
- Report on Donor mapping, donor intelligence and donor opportunities (public, private, humanitarian bilat donors, device bilat donors’ private sector, Natcoms, high net worth individuals, IFIs, insurance sector).
- Facilitate the development of up to three formal donor proposals for existing opportunities already identified.
- Designing a standard business case template adaptable for multiple donors.
- Developing high-quality, donor-ready business cases (narrative and presentation formats) for each priority workstream.
- Ensuring strategic coherence with PPD and PFP donor engagement strategies.
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Requirements
- An advanced university degree in risk financing, international development, social sciences, disaster management, or related field. Alternatively, a first-level university degree in combination with two years of additional qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
- UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.
- Applicants lacking an advanced degree may be considered if they have at least two additional years of relevant professional experience, in accordance with the outlined criteria.
- At least seven years of experience in resource mobilization, donor relationships, including developing funding strategies and business cases with UNICEF.
- Experience in CO, RO or HQ donor proposal development and donor relations
- Proven experience in facilitating multi-stakeholder processes
- Fluency in English is required.
- Experience in working in/with PG, PPD and PFP is preferred.
- Candidates who do not meet all the preferred criteria may still be considered if they demonstrate strong alignment with the core requirements of the role, for example, having seven years of experience with UNICEF in donor relations
