UNICEF Public Partnerships Manager Vacancy in United Arab Emirates, Dubai for 2025. Apply Now!

Public Partnerships Manager Details
- Position(s): Public Partnerships Manager, P4, Fixed Term, United Arab Emirates, Dubai, #98242
- Organization: UNICEF
- Job no: 577560
- Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment
- Duty Station: Dubai
- Level: P-4
- Location: Utd.Arab.Emir.
- Categories: Partnerships
- Deadline: Dec 23, 2024
About the UNICEF Vacancy
UNICEF Public Partnerships Manager Vacancy in United Arab Emirates, Dubai for 2025. UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. UNICEF is committed, passionate, and proud of what they do. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for personal and professional development that will help them develop a fulfilling career while delivering on a rewarding mission. We pride ourselves on a culture that helps staff thrive, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package. The UNICEF Gulf Area Office (UNICEF GAO) is unique in its mandate. It is accountable for providing programmatic support to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar. In addition, it identifies, cultivates and sustains partnerships with Gulf-based partners to generate resources for the organization globally. UNICEF has a role to play in ensuring rapid development in the Gulf is child sensitive and child focused and that children remain at the heart of the national development dialogue.
How can you make a difference?
The Partnerships Manager is accountable for (a) convincing management of the utility of improved approaches (b)contributing to strategy planning (c) identifying and building effective partnerships with member states, UN agencies, NGOs, host government and other partners, in order to keep them informed on important, strategic operational UNICEF issues (d) providing advice to UNICEF based on analysis of current political and social events and information of programme activities gathered from partner agencies i.e. member states, UN agencies, NGOs, host government and other partners.
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Responsibilities
- Support senior advisers and senior management in establishing the annual work plan, setting priorities/targets and performance measurements.
- Monitor work progress for unit managed and ensure results are achieved according to schedule and performance standards.
- Establish clear individual performance objectives, goals and timelines for team members; and provide timely guidance to enable the team to perform their duties responsibly and efficiently.
- Lead the work plan for assigned area, in order to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of results, in accordance with UNICEF’s partnership strategy
- Seeks and promotes new partnerships and resource mobilization, working with UNICEF colleagues to identify partnership and resource mobilization needs and broker resource mobilization agreements to meet those needs.
- Receives and screens inquiries from potential collaborators and facilitates communication with appropriate UNICEF staff. Scans and scouts external environment within designated partnership area for opportunities and risks and shares information in a timely fashion with relevant UNICEF staff.
- Provides strategic, logistical and programmatic support to senior management and other UNICEF staff in corporate engagement and interaction with assigned partners.
- Develops and maintains deep knowledge and familiarity with current and prospective partners and relevant stakeholders, contributing to a database of key contacts and to UNICEF’s base of knowledge on partnership and resource mobilization.
- Expands UNICEF’s network of key interlocutors to build stronger relationships between UNICEF and governments, other key-decision makers, regional development institutions, foundations, civil society organizations, international financial institutions and/or other relevant constituencies.
- Develops and implements annual partnership engagement and resource mobilization plans.
- Acts as a focal point for identification and pursuit of opportunities for outreach, engagement, policy influence and collaboration, including on how to anticipate and respond to partners’ concerns and priorities, ensure that UNICEF’s interests, perspectives, and knowledge are taken into account in relevant policy and institutional processes, and ensure that they are fully aware of UNICEF’s perspectives, policies, priorities and capabilities. Contribute to the development and management of initiatives for high-level outreach, including for UNICEF’s Senior Management.
- Contributes to the development of new partnership and resource mobilization practices and approaches by formulating recommendations for action based on on-going monitoring, analyzing current trends within designated partners and formulating recommendations for strategy approaches and message development.
- Contributes to strategies for engagement and the development of communications and advocacy products to enhance UNICEF’s visibility and influence with existing and prospective partners and key stakeholders by providing analysis of the current environment and trends and formulating recommendations for strategy approaches and message development. Works closely with UNICEF’s colleagues to ensure that policy advocacy and outreach is strongly grounded in the experience and insights of the programmes that UNICEF’s supports. Contributes written inputs for communications instruments that best inform and influence decision makers.
- Performs other related duties as assigned by the supervisor to ensure the success of the team, including guiding, training, and coaching short-term staff, including interns and consultants, as needed.
- Provide management tasks , leadership and support of staff members in the UAE market team.
- Drive the formulation and implementation of the UNICEF UAE country engagement plan and provide advice to UNICEF senior management on recommended action with UAE governments and the private sector UAE to influence policies, positions and practices and maintain and increase UNICEF’s resource base.
- Lead on the management and oversight of the UAE partnership/donor portfolio for both private and public partners and strengthen existing partnerships and establishing new ones.
- Increase time-sensitive funding opportunities and high-level encounters with stakeholders from UAE public and private sector , unlocking crucial funding for UNICEF and advocating for core resources funding acceleration
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Requirements
Education:
- An advanced university degree is required in one of the following fields: international relations, political science, communications, international development, or another relevant technical field.
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Work Experience: A minimum of eight years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas is required: public affairs, programme management, resource mobilization, external relations, or other relevant area
Languages: Fluency in English is required. Arabic Language is highly desirable.
Desirables:
- Demonstrated understanding of the Arab Gulf AID and giving culture and space is desired.
- Previous experience in managing complex donor relations and donor acquisition is required.
- Previous experience in the MENA region and gulf area is a plus.
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