Closing date: Thursday, 13 April 2023
Job Identification : 9693
Locations : Kabul, Afghanistan
Posting Date : 04/12/2023, 03:58 AM
Apply Before : 04/14/2023, 03:58 AM
Job Schedule : Full time
Vacancy Type : Temporary
Contract Duration : 11 months
Education & Work Experience : Bachelor’s Degree
Required Languages : English
Vacancy Timeline
1 Week
Job Category : Resource Mobilization
Job Description
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 Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.
In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.
UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.
Job Purpose:
UNFPA Afghanistan is seeking a 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.
Scope of Work:
He/she will be part of the Country Office’s GIU and play a role in coordinating donors’ reporting, including the timely preparation and completion of quality donors’ reports, proposals, presentations, briefing papers. He/she will contribute to the CO’s annual reports, sitreps, and other communications materials. He/she will also lead 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.
You would be responsible for:
- Improve the existing Resource Mobilisation 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;
- Coordinate the proposals, situational reports, 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 GIU to prepare, attend, take notes, document, share relevant information, and take actions following regular/ad hoc meetings with donors and relevant stakeholders
- Develop CO’s Resource Mobilisation 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 mobilisation, 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, and donor reports; Expected outputs:
- Resource Mobilising 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;
- 2023 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:
University degree in international development studies, social sciences and/or business administration, 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 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
Expected travel:
- The consultancy will be based in Kabul. If needed, he/she will be traveling to area offices.
Required Competencies:
Values:
Exemplifying integrity,
Demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system,
Embracing cultural diversity,
Embracing change
Core Competencies:
Achieving results,
Being accountable,
Developing and applying professional expertise/business acumen,
Thinking analytically and strategically,
Working in teams/managing ourselves and our relationships,
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
