Re-Advertisement: Public Partnerships Specialist (Donor Intelligence, Insights and Visibility), P-3, Fixed Term Position, New York, USA #00134146 (Open for all UNICEF personnel)

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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.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. 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 professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

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The Public Partnerships Specialist plays a cross-cutting role across the whole of the Division, supporting the Global Director in ensuring effective coordination across the four donor-facing pillars and in advancing strategic divisional priorities. The position leads the production of strategic donor intelligence and insight products to inform engagement with public sector partners and supports the fulfillment of key organizational and donor commitments on visibility and recognition in close coordination with the four PPD donor-facing pillars, and relevant PFP teams serving both public and private partners engagement.

This role is part of the strategic stewardship of high-level public partnerships and internal coherence across the Division. The incumbent will facilitate strategic engagement across all four PPD donor-facing pillars on donor intelligence and insights products and supports the fulfillment of key organizational and donor commitments on donor visibility and recognition in close collaboration with the relevant PFP teams serving both public and private partners engagement.

Ensure PPD inputs to organizational and interagency discussions on flexible funding, pooled funds, and donor visibility are grounded in up-to-date political and donor intelligence.

Monitor external ODA trends, political developments relevant to resource mobilization, and partner dynamics that affect public income partnerships, translating these into actionable intelligence for senior leadership and field colleagues.
Calibrate and curate public donor intelligence in collaboration with PPD pillar directors, senior advisors and section chiefs across the four donor-facing pillars to ensure relevance, strategic value, and alignment with UNICEF's public sector resource mobilization goals.

Lead the development of public donor intelligence and insights products drawing on strategic developments and inputs from across all PPD teams and partner portfolios.

Lead the Division 's work on donor visibility and recognition, including strategic products and engagements in close coordination with four PPD donor-facing pillars and the relevant PFP teams serving both public and private partners engagement.

Calibrate and curate public donor feedback on visibility and recognition in collaboration with the four donor-facing pillars to ensure relevance and strategic value to public sector donors.

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here:  JD - Public Partnerships Specialist (Donor Intelligence, Insights and Visibility)_P3.pdf

Minimum requirements:

• Education: An Advanced University Degree is required in International Relations, Political Science, Public Administration, Communications, Media and/or another relevant technical field.
  A Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in a relevant area combined with 2 additional years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree. This is applicable to internal (FT, Continuing and Permanent) staff only.
• Work Experience: A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional work experience in external relations, public affairs or international development cooperation, preferably within the UN, or in a government institution, NGO.
• Skills:
• Strategic Donor Intelligence & Political Analysis: Demonstrated ability to monitor ODA trends, political developments, and partner dynamics, translating these into actionable intelligence to inform senior leadership decision making and support UNICEF's public sector resource mobilization goals.
• Public Partnerships Stewardship & Accountability: Proven experience leading donor visibility and recognition initiatives, ensuring fulfillment of organizational and donor commitments in alignment with stewardship standards.
• Cross-Divisional Coordination & Strategic Coherence: Strong capacity to convene and align multiple stakeholders (HQ and field) to calibrate and curate insights products, ensuring coherence across donor-facing pillars in high-pressure environments.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.

Desirables:

• Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
• Flexible & Pooled Funding Architecture Knowledge: Familiarity with interagency mechanisms, flexible funding instruments, and pooled fund modalities relevant to public sector partnerships.
• Public Sector & Multi-lateral System Experience: Prior experience within the UN system, government institutions, or NGOs supporting public income partnerships and donor engagement.
• Strategic Communication for Senior Leadership: Ability to develop high-level insights products and briefing materials tailored to executive audiences and public partners.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

UNICEF's Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
(3) Drive to achieve results for impact
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
(8) Nurtures, leads and manages people

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be canceled.

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce. For this position, eligible and suitable candidates are encouraged to apply.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants' bank account information.

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF's Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.

Advertised: 14 May 2026 Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: 21 May 2026 Eastern Daylight Time

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