Partnerships Consultant

This consultancy provides deliverable-based capacity to the Public Partnerships & Resource Mobilization Division Central Europe team to strengthen Germany-facing partnership engagement, visibility, and resource-mobilization opportunities in support of the flagship Sahel Resilience Programme. The role involves managing partnership, contribution-management, advocacy, communications, and stakeholder-engagement deliverables for German audiences and institutions.

Responsibilities

• Document stakeholder coordination and donor-engagement outputs including written updates on relevant policy developments, donor priorities, resource-mobilization and partnership opportunities; records of partner meetings and follow-up actions; defined contributions-management inputs prepared for UNICEF staff review and approval; and agreed outputs supporting the SRP Phase 3 proposal-development process.
• Prepare and support post-event outputs for meaningful participation and visibility of SRP youth delegates at the Hamburg Sustainability Conference 2027, including logistical, visa, accessibility and safeguarding arrangements; tailored engagement agendas; on-site coordination support; and a post-event report capturing results, delegate feedback, lessons learned and recommendations.
• Define event and mission-support products for agreed high-level events, workshops, webinars, donor engagements and missions promoting SRP results and priorities, including agendas, briefing and preparatory materials, coordination records and documented follow-up actions.
• Develop agreed communications and visibility outputs with relevant German partners, including digital and physical products, SRP website content and materials collected through agreed missions, to increase awareness of SRP achievements, impact and partnership opportunities among German partners and audiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Global Studies, Political Studies, International Relations or a relevant field.
• At least 2 years progressively responsible professional experience in national or international public service related to external relations, resource mobilization, planning, or project management related activities.
• Demonstrated familiarity with UNICEF partnership management processes and information flows is strongly desirable.
• Experience in supporting youth participation, youth engagement initiatives or youth-focused events, including international conferences, is required.
• Experience in engaging with German government institutions Ministries is required.
• Strong oral and written skills in English and German, with proven ability to draft clear briefing notes, meeting records, reports, partnership materials and communication products.
• Demonstrated accuracy and professionalism in document production, editing and quality assurance.
• Strong interpersonal and coordination skills, culturally and socially sensitive, with the ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners.
• Ability to work and adapt professionally and effectively in a complex and fast-paced environment, including within multicultural teams of international and national personnel.
• Self-motivated, with the ability to work with minimum supervision and meet tight deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare analytical notes, partnership documentation and communication product.
• Fluency in English and German (written and verbal) is required.
• Experience working with Salesforce for partnership management and donor tracking and AI tools is desirable.

Skills

• Partnership Management
• Resource Mobilization
• Project Management
• Youth Engagement
• Government Relations
• Briefing Note Preparation
• Report Writing
• Content Editing
• Quality Assurance
• Interpersonal Coordination
• Multi-cultural Team Collaboration
• Analytical Note Preparation
• Communication Product Production
• Salesforce
• AI Tools Usage
• Advocacy
• Stakeholder Engagement

Languages

English, German