The consultant will assist in developing and operationalizing strategies and policies that will shape UNFPA’s approach to working with Civil Society and Parliamentarians and ensure that UNFPA relationships with these important constituencies contribute to UNFPA’s political and programming objectives.

The consultant will support the Intergovernmental, Inter-agency Policy and Dialogue Branch (IIPDB) in the delivery of its mandate, and in the coordination and quality assurance of engagements related to intergovernmental meetings and events. The consultant will be integrated within the IIPDB team, and will support the duties of the Branch. IIPDB is part of the Programme and Strategy Division (PSD) in New York.

Reporting to the Inter-agency Affairs Coordinator, the Consultant will support strategic positioning of UNFPA in the inter-agency fora. The Inter-agency Affairs team, located in the Inter-agency, Intergovernmental and Policy Dialogue Branch, Policy and Strategy Division, maintains regular contact with external partners and UNFPA staff assigned to the various inter-agency working groups thus ensuring that UNFPA is well positioned on UNDS Reform and broader inter-agency matters.

UNFPA's Strategic Partnerships Branch (SPB) within the Division of Communications and Strategic Partnerships (DCS) is leading corporate efforts to expand UNFPA's strategic partnerships with the private sector and to mobilize resources from non-traditional partners.

As part of its mandate to mobilize resources for UNFPA’s three transformative goals, the SPB mobilizes resources from both new and existing strategic partners. The Branch currently manages a number of high value, longstanding and multi-country partnerships with strategic partners which require high quality account management and stewardship of the relationship with the partner, resulting in an expansion of the partnership and leveraging of additional resources for UNFPA priorities.

We are looking for a Partnership Management Consultant to join our team to focus on existing large corporate partnerships within the maternal health portfolio. You will have a good knowledge of corporate fundraising and account management. expertise in digital fundraising and direct response marketing with experience in managing large-scale campaigns. You will work on strengthening UNFPA’s existing partnerships with existing partners with the view to steward the partnerships towards leveraging additional resources for UNFPA’s work and mandate. The post holder will report to the Strategic Partnerships Specialist.

The purpose of the consultancy is to support the Youth, Women, Civil Society and Private Sector Fora of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR).

UN in support of peace and security in the Great Lakes Region is an EU-funded Programme with the overall objective to promote ongoing peacebuilding and consolidation efforts in the African Great Lakes Region, in support of ICGLR. It is implemented jointly by the UN (through UNDP, UN Women, UNFPA and the Office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), in coordination with ICGLR. The three overall outcomes of the project are:

Outcome 1: The ICGLR Peace and Security Programme is strengthened.
Outcome 2: Control of the exploitation of selected mineral resources (tungsten, tin, tantalum and gold) is enhanced.
Outcome 3: The provisions of the Protocol on Prevention and Suppression of Sexual Violence Against Women and Children are effectively applied in the Great Lakes Region.

UNFPA is responsible for activities under Outcome 1, i.e. “A1.5 Support for the participation of the ICGLR Fora (multifunctional Youth Forum, Women Forum, Civil Society Forum and Private Sector Forum) in the ICGLR consultative process”. The activities are implemented during 2019-2020.