How you can make a difference:

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s Strategic Plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the various natural and man-made disasters on women’s, girls’ and young people’s access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recovering lost gains, and realizing our goals. The consultants will be an integral part of the Resource Mobilization and Partnership team and will work with the Resource Mobilization and Partnership Specialist to help establish and maintain effective working relationships with partners and donors.

UNFPA Afghanistan is seeking consultant to support resource mobilization efforts, to ensure quality and timeliness of funding proposals and donor reporting. He/she will contribute to donors’ partnerships as well as to external communication materials for optimizing the office’s resource mobilization capacity and demonstrating “value for money” to donors.

Responsibilities: 

He/she will coordinate donors’ reporting, including the timely preparation and completion of quality donors’ reports, proposals, presentations, briefing papers, concept notes and other ad hoc requests as assigned. He/she will contribute to the CO’s annual reports, sitreps, and other communications materials. He/she will also support the capacity development of the country office in result-based reporting, analytical writing and other skills required for quality proposals and donor reporting that are fundamental to the CO’s partnership management and advocacy.

The following are key activities and outputs expected from the consultant:

Key activities: 

● Improve the existing Resource Mobilization filing system, including maintaining the database [all approved proposals and reports are kept and updated properly]. Track the approved funds as agreed in the proposals, ensuring that funds [including tranches] are being transferred and reflected in the relevant database;

● Aid in internal fund management of maintaining records in DARTS, Quantum and to ensure proper financial flow for programming teams fund utilization through timely disbursements of funds after coordination with RMB

● Support the tracking of funding pipelines and coordinate financial projections to ensure a systematic overview of financial resources and enhance strategic planning and resource allocation for effective program implementation. Aid in coordination support on projection of financing and conduct gaps analysis correlating to financial flow through engagement with programme teams

● Coordinate the proposals, situational reports, briefing notes, and projects’ report writing – according to the Country Office SoPs on donor and report’ writing. Get involved in partnerships initiatives including coordinating with the members of resource mobilization team to prepare, attend, take notes, document, share relevant information, and take actions following regular/ad hoc meetings with donors and relevant stakeholders

● Support the RM/P Specialist to develop yearly CO’s Resource Mobilization Strategy and Plan. Align them with the relevant documents, including HCT Humanitarian Response Plan, Country Office Appeal, and donors’ strategic documents.

● Get involved in resource mobilization, including scanning for funding opportunities;

● Coordinate with M&E and relevant units to ensure data analysis and preparation of a range of concept notes, proposals, advocacy materials, visualizations, situation, Situational Reports and donor reports;

● Support the RM/P Specialist to update the monthly donor report/proposal calendar.

● Support the RM/P Specialist during regular meetings with donors by taking notes and documenting the discussion, including action points. Expected outputs:

● Resource Mobilization filing system updated regularly;

● All approved funds and tranches reflected in the database as soon as received

● All proposals and projects reports follow CO SoPs;

● All meetings with donors documented promptly;

● All ad hoc donor requests addressed as per deadline given by supervisor;

● 2024 Resource Mobilization Strategy and Plan developed;

● Updated and corrected data and information reflected in advocacy and reporting materials.

● All deliverables will be written in English and submitted in electronic format.

Qualifications and Experience: 

Education:

Advanced (Master’s) university degree in international development studies, social sciences and/or business administration, law, public administration, or other related fields.

 Knowledge and Experience: 

● At least three years of increasingly responsible professional experience in resource mobilization and partnerships, or other relevant fields;

● Background in planning, reporting and resource mobilization, knowledge of the UN System and in particular UNFPA policies and procedures preferable;

● Track record of preparing high quality donor proposals and reports;

● Strong analytical ability and experience in representing an organization;

● Excellent writing and oral communication skills;

● Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills are necessary in this position;

● Good knowledge of humanitarian response, prior experience of working in challenging and complex humanitarian response is desirable.

Core Competencies: 

● Integrity, commitment, cultural sensitivity and valuing diversity

● Developing people, coaching and mentoring

● Building and managing relationships

● Personal leadership and effectiveness

Functional Competencies: 

● Business acumen

● Implementing management systems

● Innovation and marketing of new approaches

● Client orientation

● Organizational awareness

● Strategic alignment of human resource practices

● Promoting organizational change and development

● Impact and influence

● Job knowledge/technical expertise

Supervisory arrangements:

Under the overall supervision of the Country Representative, the consultant will be supervised directly by the Resource Mobilization and Partnerships Specialist, and work closely with members of the Resource Mobilization team, Senior Management Team, various Units including Operations, Communications, M&E, and Heads of area/field offices.

 Expected travel:

The consults will be based in Kabul. If needed, he/she will be traveling to area offices.

Inputs / services to be provided by UNFPA or implementing partner (e.g. support services, office space, equipment), if applicable: 

The consultant is expected to provide all necessary equipment to complete the assignment (computer, software, phone, etc).

UNFPA will provide all relevant background information and documentation regarding the regional and country contexts, relevant documents on Partnership and Resource Mobilization (SOPs, donor tracking form, etc.).

Disclaimer: 

UNFPA does not charge any application, processing, training, interviewing, testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process. Fraudulent notices, letters or offers may be submitted to the UNFPA fraud hotline http://www.unfpa.org/help/hotline.cfm

In accordance with the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations, persons applying to posts in the international Professional category, who hold permanent resident status in a country other than their country of nationality, may be required to renounce such status upon their appointment.