Partnerships Senior Officer

Overview

The Partnerships Senior Officer (Partnerships and New Business) position offers a dynamic opportunity to build hands-on experience across the full partnership development cycle, from prospecting and proposal writing to donor engagement and high-level event management.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct prospect mapping to identify new financial and non-financial collaboration opportunities.
• Maintain and monitor a robust new business pipeline, ensuring accurate record keeping, including entries to CRM, forecasting and reporting.
• Support outreach to newly identified prospects and coordinate introductory meetings to support their cultivation.
• Draft concept notes, project proposals, donor reports, and pitch decks.
• Coordinate internal inputs from relevant teams to ensure well-aligned proposals.
• Promote ethical and equitable approaches in all partnership activities and engagements.
• Support in lead of internal event mapping, identify strategic visibility-building and donor engagement opportunities.
• Support in design and delivery of donor facing and global visibility events.
• Represent UN Global Pulse at selected external meetings and events, when delegated.
• Assist in shaping visibility building events and partner engagements.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the new business strategy and annual plans.
• Build strong relationships across internal UNGP and UN teams to gather insights and stories.
• Contribute to a collaborative, ambitious, knowledge-sharing and inclusive fundraising culture.
• Effective communication with internal and external partners.
• Ensure accurate information sharing across hubs in particular relating to new prospects and engagement opportunities.

Required Experience

Relevant experience is defined as experience in partnerships, donor relations, business development, or similar. Experience in events management, including planning and delivering high-profile or donor-facing events. Experience in developing or implementing partnerships and donor plans, including budget management. Knowledge of the donor funding landscape and emerging trends is desirable. Experience engaging with innovation ecosystems, philanthropy, is an asset. Experience with managing projects with a variety of stakeholders is desirable. Experience in establishing and implementing partnership strategies and plans in a UN context is desirable. Experience in building and cultivating strategic donor partnerships with senior stakeholders and demonstrable experience of engaging with private sector, foundations, government and multi-lateral donors is an asset. Experience in developing and managing partnership databases and tracking systems is an asset. Experience with private sector fundraising in a UN or humanitarian setting is an asset.

Qualifications

An advanced university degree (Master's or equivalent) preferably in International Relations, Business Administration, Public Policy, Communications, Innovation Management, or other related field with 2 years of relevant experience is required OR A first-level university degree (Bachelor's or equivalent) preferably in International Relations, Business Administration, Public Policy, Communications, Innovation Management, or other related field with 4 years of relevant experience

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