Partnership Analyst
Nairobi, Kenya
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The UNV Regional Office for East and Southern Africa (ESARO) provides oversight and strategic guidance to the UNV Field Units (FUs) in the region and is accountable for the placement of UN Volunteers mobilized for UN Agencies, Funds, and Programmes (AFPs) focused on peace, development, and humanitarian needs. Furthermore, the Regional Office (RO) represents, and strategically positions UNV and bring UNV’s services and solutions closer to its partners from governments, UN entities, civil society, and the private sector. The Regional Office, with the support of the Volunteer Advisory Services Section, promotes volunteerism. The RO based in Nairobi, Kenya, oversees UNV’s engagement in 23 countries of the East and Southern Africa region.
Under the supervision of the Manager, Regional Office, the Partnership Analyst supports UNV- ESARO in partnership development and management activities in the region, working in close collaboration with UNV Regional Office team and Field Units. He/ She scans the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks (USDCFs) or Cooperation Frameworks, Country Programme Documents (CPDs) and other Development Frameworks of UN-AFPs in the region, identifies key strategic priorities for the United Nations and recommends opportunities and priority entry points for engagement with UN partners. He/ She supports ESARO in harvesting, analyzing, and documenting specific intelligence on each partner, identifies partners/client needs as a basis for developing partnership for volunteer mobilization and placements. She/he identifies and informs ERCS about potential external partnerships related to the full funding programme and the Special Voluntary Fund (including Member States, foundation private sector, academia and Civil society organizations,. He/She supports ESARO to prepare mission documentation including asks and offers, briefing, notes, speaking points, inputs UN partners information in the Customer Relationship Management Platform (CRMP) and its day-day management. She/he exchanges regularly with other units and regional offices, including the External Relations and Communications Section (ERCS) at UNV Headquarters in Bonn and the UNV New York Office.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Support Partnership development and management in ESARO
- Scan and map the UNSDCFs (Cooperation Frameworks), Country Programme Documents (CPDs) of other development frameworks of UN-AFPs in the region, identify key strategic priorities and recommend opportunities and entry points for engagement with UN partners in ESARO.
- Harvest, analyze and document an Agency specific intelligence on the UN’s development, humanitarian, and peace engagements in ESARO to support volunteer mobilization and placement with UN-AFPs.
- Support ESARO in identifying opportunities for partnerships with Member States, the private sector, and other partners for joint programmes and /or resource mobilization including the full funding programme and the Special Voluntary Fund.
- Lead and/or support preparation and delivery of UN partner presentations at RO level.
- Prepare quarterly and bi-annual UN partners snapshots.
- Support the design of innovative capacity development initiatives for Field Unit personnel to enable them to enhance their analytical, communication, monitoring and reporting skills, competencies, and expertise.
2. Support Research and Policy Analysis of the UN system landscape in ESARO to inform partnerships enhancement and diversification
- Undertake research and provide political, socioeconomic analysis on partner intelligence to inform volunteer mobilization projections and to position UNV with key partners.
- Review and translate the yearly UN Volunteer Mobilization business outlook produced by UNV-New York Office to ESARO regional context to support partnership building, diversification, and Volunteer mobilization.
- Support ESARO in developing partnerships offers to the United Nations Agencies, Funds and Programme (UN-AFPs) in various thematic areas (e.g., crisis response, inclusion, social protection, climate change, youth engagement, etc.,) and/or potential Special Programme
- Gather strategic information on regional and country level development and humanitarian partners, emergency response programmes, and translate this information into tangible actions for the ESARO team.
- Identify potential resource mobilization opportunities for UNV in the region based on research and awareness of traditional and non-traditional external partners.
- Under ERCS guidance, may support providing input for drafting of partnerships concept notes, briefs and presentations related to new partners deploying national fully funding UN Volunteers.
- Monitor the implementation of joint action plans linked to signed global MoUs with UN partners and monitor implementation of related regional action plans.
- Support the development of relevant briefs and concept notes to position UNV and volunteerism in a renewed fashion that is attractive to UN partners to fund and/or support.
3. Contribute to knowledge building and sharing across ESARO
- Collate UN partnership advice and intelligence to support Field units and Non-Field Units in their engagements with partners and facilitate knowledge-sharing and knowledge management within ESARO.
- Collect and analyze data on partnership and disseminate findings to ESARO team.
- Support ESARO to prepare mission documentation including asks and offers, briefing, notes, speaking points, etc.
- Prepare meeting notes and update regional UN partners’ CRM pages and lead day-to-day management of Regional Partners CRM pages.
- Contribute ESARO inputs to global knowledge products on partnerships.
- Support in the drafting and developing of ESARO knowledge products on partnerships and volunteerism promotion in the region.
4. Strengthening UNV’s positioning as a solution provider for UN Humanitarian Partners in ESARO
- Build and strengthen collaboration between UNV and humanitarian partners supporting regional and sub-regional initiatives through active engagement. Develop co-branded volunteer solutions, offers, and tailored special initiatives with partners.
- Position UNV as a partner of choice in regional strategies, with an emphasis on engaging people with disabilities, women empowerment, and youth, integrating UN Volunteers /volunteerism in UN humanitarian partners regional strategic/operational documents, such as in strategic plans, programme documents, in HR, talent and/or other strategies.
- Collect necessary UN partner information to design outreach materials and prepare concise and impactful presentations and offers to UN partners, focused on promoting volunteerism and increased mobilization of volunteers, and/or responding to UN partners identified needs.
- Provide support for assessing partnerships through feedback from regular dialogue with the relevant UN partners and UNV Field Units.
- Benchmark human capital solutions humanitarian UN partners rely on to ensure UNV offer remains fit for purpose and make recommendations to adapt if necessary UNV offer.
Competencies
Core Competencies
Achieve Results
- Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
Think Innovatively
- Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
Learn Continuously
- Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
Adapt with Agility
- Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
Act with Determination
- Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
Engage and Partner
- Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
Enable Diversity and Inclusion
- Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies
Systems Thinking
- Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system
Effective Decision Making
- Take decisions in a timely and efficient manner in line with one’s authority, area of expertise and resources and take into consideration potential wider implications
Knowledge Facilitation
- Ability to animate individuals and groups, internally and externally, and to design and facilitate activities, to share and exchange knowledge, information and ideas. Knowledge of tools and approaches to stimulate active participation, contribution, and exchange
Partnerships Management
- Build and maintain partnerships with wide networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and private sector partners, experts and others in line with UNDP strategy and policies.
Multi-stakeholder engagement and funding
- Knowledge and ability to forge multi-stakeholder partnerships, and remove any obstacles to resource mobilization and multi-stakeholder funding platforms
Private sector engagement
- Ability to identify, conduct outreach, and manage relationships with the private sector
Relationship management
- Ability to engage with a wide range of public and private partners, build and sustain and sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust and mutual understanding.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in international affairs/international development, economics, development studies, social sciences, or a related field.
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Experience:
- Minimum of 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience at national and/or international level in development, international relations, social sciences, economics, research and information management or related fields;
- Experience working with partners, including development/governments/UN Entities, and/or on partnerships approaches and/or strategies, and/or partner relations is required.
- Hands on experience in research and policy analysis, compilation and synthetization of information in coherent and succinct formats, for producing and analyzing think pieces, proposals and other knowledge products is required.
- Knowledge and experience in the United Nations and/or UNDP or another UN Entity is desired.
- Experience in the use of business intelligence tools developing communication materials with visuals is required.
- Experience working in an international context, and specifically in the East and Southern Africa region, is a distinct advantage.
- Experience related to volunteerism, volunteer management and working with volunteers is an asset.
- Fluency in English
- Proficiency in another official UN language is an asset.
Disclaimer
- Only short-listed applicants will be contacted;
- The successful candidate will hold a UNDP letter of appointment;
- This post is for local recruitment only. It is open to citizens of Kenya.
Under US immigration law, acceptance of a staff position with UNDP, an international organization, may have significant implications for US Permanent Residents. UNDP advises applicants for all professional level posts that they must relinquish their US Permanent Resident status and accept a G-4 visa, or have submitted a valid application for US citizenship prior to commencement of employment.
UNDP is not in a position to provide advice or assistance on applying for US citizenship and therefore applicants are advised to seek the advice of competent immigration lawyers regarding any applications.
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Non-discrimination
UNDP has a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.
UNDP is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer that does not discriminate based on race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.
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