Resource Mobilisation Specialist

Job content

Functional Responsibilities:

• Resource Mobilisation Strategy
• Provide substantive inputs into the donor intelligence strategy and the consolidated GSS Resource Mobilisation System, including through systematic information gathering.
• Collate up-to-date information on the sources of nutrition financing, methodologies and issues related to financial tracking, and the broader policy dialogue regarding development financing and how it pertains to nutrition.
• Implement components of the GSS RM System, including monitoring, analysing and documenting progress toward targets.
• Facilitate nutrition investment towards countries national budgets and multisectoral nutrition action plans.
• Support the implementation of nutrition as the AU theme for 2022.
• Develop/strengthen partnerships and collaboration with financing sources that put nutrition at the centre.
• Help provide SUN countries with technical assistance and capacity strengthening to enhance their nutrition financing.
• Monitor donor policies, trends and funding mechanisms, advising the Head of Resource Mobilisation and Network Relations on the development, implementation and revision of the resource mobilization strategy.
• Work collaboratively across the Movement to monitor resource projections and scenarios and develop targeted adjustments to the RM strategy to facilitate secure resource streams.
• Lead the development of resource mobilization presentations, proposals, briefing notes.
• Work with the Country Action Team to develop and maintain an information repository on nutrition funding sources to enable countries to prepare themselves for funding opportunities.
• Support SUN members to build sustainable nutrition financing in national budgets through stronger domestic resource mobilisation.
• Pilot approaches to optimize country preparedness for funding opportunities in order to identify lessons on best practices, country technical support needs, and to inform global-level discussions on how to make financing sources work better for nutrition.
• Donor Engagement:
• Lead the assessment of opportunities for resource mobilization through mapping of current and potential donors.
• Utilize research and analytics to identify and recommend emerging sources of funding and assess their current usage and potential for the future.
• Develop donor profiles and implement solicitation strategies with the objective of mobilizing predictable and sustainable long-term funding.
• Participate in donor and membership meetings and lead the preparation of donor agreements.
• Plan and facilitate workshops and other interactive sessions on innovative financing issues; assist in developing action plans.
• Support the Head of Resource Mobilization and Network Relations to identify opportunities to leverage private-sector investments and innovative financing mechanisms.
• Provides substantive backstopping to relevant meetings, conferences, etc., including proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, preparation of documents and presentations on resource mobilization.
• Lead research on innovative approaches to donor interactions, including lessons learned from private sector investments.
• Provide substantive input into outreach/publicity material geared towards partners and donors.
• Knowledge management and innovation :
• Work across teams at the SMS to identify and disseminate best practices for improving countries’ access to funding from global sources.
• Work with the Country Action team, to generate country-specific lessons and identify opportunities for increasing domestic resource mobilization for nutrition.
• Identify and synthesize best practices and lessons learned directly linked to resource mobilization and partnership-building activities.
• Plan and contribute to the development of the organization-wide capacity, processes and knowledge on resource mobilization.
  

Impact of Results

The effective and successful achievement of results will support the SUN Movement and its Secretariat to achieve in-country nutrition impact and its vision of a world free from malnutrition in all its forms by 2030.

Education: B. Work Experience:

• Education:
• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in a relevant field for example business administration, economics international relations or social science or political science or related fields is required.
• A bachelor’s degree with a combination of two additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of the master’s degree.
• Minimum of five (5) years of relevant professional experience in resource mobilisation and/or international donor relations is required.
• A minimum of three (3) years of professional work experience in an international setting is required.
• Experience structuring and analyzing quantitative, financial models to inform decision-making is required.
• Demonstrated understanding of the principles of the nutrition movement is desirable.
• Language:
• Fluency in English Language ( Writing, Reading and Speaking) is required.
• Knowledge of another official UNOPS language, particularly French is an asset.
  

Contract type, level and duration

Contract type: Fixed-term Staff Contract Contract level: ICS 10/ P3 Contract dur...

Contract type: Fixed-term Staff Contract

Contract level: ICS 10/ P3

Contract duration: One year initially, renewable subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability

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Experience: B. Work Experience:

• Education:
• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in a relevant field for example business administration, economics international relations or social science or political science or related fields is required.
• A bachelor’s degree with a combination of two additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of the master’s degree.
• Minimum of five (5) years of relevant professional experience in resource mobilisation and/or international donor relations is required.
• A minimum of three (3) years of professional work experience in an international setting is required.
• Experience structuring and analyzing quantitative, financial models to inform decision-making is required.
• Demonstrated understanding of the principles of the nutrition movement is desirable.
• Language:
• Fluency in English Language ( Writing, Reading and Speaking) is required.
• Knowledge of another official UNOPS language, particularly French is an asset.