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Job no: 580755
Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: Stockholm
Level: Consultancy
Location: Sweden
Categories: Communication, Partnerships
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
For every child, innovate….
UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovating for children. We believe that new approaches, partnerships and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives.
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. We do this by:
● Provoking change for children through an entrepreneurial approach to source and harness rapidly moving innovations and apply them to serve the needs of all children.
● Creating new models of partnership that leverage shared purpose and core business values across the public and private sectors to deliver fast, and lasting results for children.
Our team
We're an interdisciplinary team around the world tasked with identifying, prototyping, and scaling new technologies and innovation practices. With our partners, we focus on convening and collaborating on new and different solutions, low- and high-tech, by:
● Looking at the 2–5-year horizon to evaluate emerging and trending technologies and practices and to see how UNICEF can work with partners on doing better business while improving essential services for children.
● Investing in early-stage solutions that show great potential to positively impact children in the 02-year future including the Venture Fund that invests in open-source technology solutions from start-ups based in UNICEF’s programme countries.
● Identifying proven solutions that can be implemented at national scale in multiple countries – taking the ideas that help thousands in one country, bringing them to dozens of countries across multiple sectors, and impacting the lives of millions of children.
How can you make a difference?
UNICEF has embarked on a major initiative to reimagine its innovation function and ambition to achieve the SDGs for children. UNICEF Global Innovation Strategy and Framework 2.0 sets the direction and outlines the deliberate choices that align innovation with UNICEF's strategic goals. The Office of Innovation (OOI) is accountable for implementing the strategy.
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:
● Mapping emerging funding landscapes and identifying untapped partnership opportunities
● Developing tailored engagement strategies that align partner interests with UNICEF innovation priorities
● Creating compelling narratives and business cases that demonstrate concrete value for potential partners
● Building scalable and sustainable partnership frameworks that can drive long-term resource flows
● Establishing agile processes to rapidly test, learn from, and refine partnership approaches
● Through this work, we aim to disrupt "business as usual" approaches to partnerships, effect transformational change, and drive meaningful impact for children worldwide.
Your main responsibilities will be:
Detailed responsibilities / deliverables.
The Partnerships Specialist will support the development of partner pipelines and engagement strategies toward unlocking resources for UNICEF's innovation priorities. The specialist will conduct partner research, create engagement strategies, and develop tools and resources to enable effective partnership development. This work will specifically support UNICEF's innovation efforts in key programmatic priorities.
Please access the full ToR with related information here: Download File Partnerships Specialist Consultant_TOR.pdf
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
● 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.
Payment details and further considerations
Payment of professional fees will be based on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.
How to apply:
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.
Advertised: 28 Mar 2025 Central Europe Standard Time
Deadline: 11 Apr 2025 Central Europe Daylight Time
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