[Hiring] National Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships Consultant @AGORA

Role Description

UNICEF seeks to engage a Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships and Resource Mobilization Consultant with experience in strategic partnerships, business development, and stakeholder engagement to strengthen YuWaah's partnerships ecosystem and resource mobilization efforts.

• Identify and cultivate strategic partnerships aligned with YuWaah's priorities.
• Develop compelling partnership propositions and engagement materials.
• Support the advancement of opportunities across corporates, foundations, philanthropies, and other ecosystem partners.
• Strengthen partner stewardship.
• Support high-level convenings and collaborative platforms that catalyse cross-sector action for youth.

Qualifications

• Bachelors’ degree in Mass Communication, Humanities, Social Sciences, or a related field.
• Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible experience in fundraising, business development, partnerships, resource mobilization, or donor engagement.
• Experience developing high-quality partnership propositions, concept notes, grant proposals, pitch decks, and funder briefs tailored to diverse audiences.
• Experience engaging senior decision makers from corporates, foundations, philanthropic organizations, government, and multi-lateral institutions.
• Experience designing and supporting high-level convenings, stakeholder dialogues, and multi-sector roundtables.
• Fluency in English & Hindi (written and verbal) is required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with proven ability to develop partnership materials for diverse audiences including corporates, foundations, government, and multilateral institutions.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality outputs within tight timelines.

Requirements

• Prior experience working with multilateral agencies, UN organisations, and development sector partners is highly desirable.

Benefits

• UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does.
• UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence.
• Reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities is offered throughout the recruitment process.

Company Description

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world.