Overview
The Resources Mobilization and Partnership Specialist leads office resource mobilization efforts to ensure quality of funding proposals and donor reporting, and contributes to external communication materials for optimizing resource mobilization capacity.
Key Responsibilities
- Mobilize resources to achieve funding targets of the UNFPA Afghanistan Appeal and the Country Programme.
- Lead analysis of opportunities for resource mobilization for UNFPA’s humanitarian response in Afghanistan.
- Develop and implement a donor intelligence strategy.
- Develop specific donor fund-raising strategies and approaches.
- Lead the process of developing high quality proposals, concept notes, and other documents for pitching concepts to donors.
- Maintain a tracking system of donor funds to ensure timely use of and reporting on funds.
- Prepare high quality donor reports, ensuring that they are done in a timely manner and respond to the requirements of the donor.
- Coordinate donor updates and organize donor briefings.
- Liaise with donors and the UNFPA Regional Office and HQ to facilitate coordinated communications.
- Prepare comprehensive, analytical and substantive briefs and reports on progress towards results and identification of gaps.
- Contribute to communications materials to ensure visibility of donor-funded activities.
- Conduct resource mobilization and partnerships training to staff of the Country Office.
- Strengthen the capacity of Country Offices staff in resource mobilization.
- Provide guidance on implementation of donor funds to ensure that they are in compliance with requirements.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years of increasingly responsible professional experience in resource mobilization and partnerships, or other relevant fields are required.
- 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 is required.
- Strong analytical ability and experience in representing an organization is required.
- 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.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree in international development studies, social sciences and/or business administration, public administration or other related fields.
