Consultancy: Fundraising/Partnership Consultant - Req. #581730

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Vacancy Announcement: Consultant Consultancy Title: Fundraising/Partnership Consultant Section/Division/Duty Station: Education-ADAP Section, New York HQ  Duration: July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 (Six Months) Home/ Office Based: REMOTE   About UNICEF  If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.   BACKGROUND Purpose of Activity/Assignment:  There is an increasing gap in learning to skills acquisition, which is widening with each year of a child’s life. The situation is compounded by continued disruption of learning due to escalating humanitarian emergencies, climate change and systemic failures. This requires an urgent call to action to end the learning crisis; ensuring every child is learning and skilled.    Furthermore, in an increasingly resource constrained environment, in which resource partners are keen to play a more active role and access greater visibility of the impact and effectiveness of their investments, UNICEF is establishing a new resource mobilization and partnership platform to attract and manage resources, ensuring mutual ownership and accountability.     Situated in the Education Section of UNICEF Headquarters, and under the supervision and guidance of the Resource Mobilization Manager, the purpose of this short-term assignment is to support an intensive resource mobilization effort in the run up to UNICEF’s new strategic plan period 2026-2029. The role focuses on designing and establishing a new Resource Mobilization and Partnership platform, in support of the global Education Programme, at a time where “business as usual” is becoming redundant.    The objective of the new modality is to mobilize and catalyze new, sustainable education financing from both public and private sector partners. This will entail developing a platform that offers partners multiple, catalytic, flexible and sustainable ways of supporting UNICEF’s Education programme. The platform will: 1. Create new entry points for public and private sector partners to support UNICEF’s Education programme, including through technical and flexible financing instruments.  2. Offer a space for strategic engagements enabling partners to convene around shared education priorities, monitor progress and contribute expertise and influence. 3. Nurture joint accountability and ownership allowing partners to align around common goals, strengthen accountabilities in resource generation and allocation, as well as accountability in progress towards results.      To ensure a strategic and robust approach, UNICEF seeks to engage an experienced individual consultant to drive the work of designing and establishing the platform to better attract, structure and consolidate funding flows to UNICEF’s global Education Programme, and to create joint ownership and accountability for achieving global goals.  It is anticipated that this new approach will attract and leverage new partnerships by aligning with donor priorities and deploying creative financing models to maximize the impact of every dollar invested. The Consultant will also support partner sensitization, strategic communication to position and promote aligning with donor interests and launch of the platform.    The consultant will help define the architecture of the platform, and pathways to operationalize it. This will include the launch of a new partnership platform that enables coordinated and equity-focused allocation of resources together with partners. The platform promotes joint ownership and accountability.    Given the urgency and unique skill sets needed for this initiative—and its potential to transform the way UNICEF mobilizes and directs education resources globally—dedicated technical expertise is essential.    Scope of Work: • Platform design including value proposition, structure design/mechanisms, governance, launch plan.  • Partnership targets: Map and analyse partner interest and expectations, engagement opportunities, including iden