Planning Manager (P-4), Temporary Appointment, #00136540, NYHQ/Public Partnerships Division - USA, 6.5 months (Parental Leave Coverage)

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UNICEF promotes the rights and welfare of all children and adolescents in everything we do.

Together with our allies, we work in 190 countries and territories to transform this commitment into practical actions that benefit all children, especially focusing our efforts on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded, worldwide. The UNICEF Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office is based in in Panama, operating in 36 territories, including 24 country offices.

UNICEF works to put the rights and well-being of the most disadvantaged children at the heart of the social, political, and economic agenda, in line with our equity focus, working across our organization and with our partners in government, civil society and the private sector to support shifts in public policy, fuel social engagement, and increase investment for children.

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The Public Partnerships Division (PPD) leads UNICEF to secure quality public sector income for all children, promotes international development and humanitarian resources for child focused outcomes, and facilitates UNICEF’s intergovernmental and interagency engagement to champion child rights. The Division does this through its core functions of income, influence, insights and stewardship by: maintaining and expanding flexible resources for children from a diverse range of key international development and humanitarian partners; leading UNICEF’s engagement with public sector partners globally; providing strategic insights and analytics on public partnerships; undertaking evidence-based influence & engagement with public sector partners to raise income and to champion child rights; providing global strategic direction, guidance and oversight of the public partnerships function.

The position serves as the PPD’s sole strategic planning, monitoring, reporting and evaluation function, ensuring alignment of PPD’s activities with UNICEF’s corporate planning and reporting processes. The incumbent leads PPD’s engagement in the Structured Funding Dialogue with the Executive Board and Funding Compact commitments, coordinating senior leadership inputs and cross-divisional processes. The role provides strategic analysis and policy advice to inform executive decision-making and representation in various external and internal governance forums. It strengthens divisional performance monitoring, reporting, and evaluation coordination.

Key Functions, Accountabilities and Related Duties and Tasks:

• Orchestrate UNICEF’s Structured Funding Dialogue with the Executive Board: In close coordination with teams, lead end-to-end preparation and delivery of the Structured Funding Dialogue and Funding Compact annex for the Executive Board Second Regular Session; coordinate internal clearance with Division leadership and OED in line with the OSEB planning calendar; prepare senior leadership presentations and briefs; provide real-time support to leadership during the session and decision negotiations.
• Lead on PPD strategic planning and performance monitoring: Coordinate mid-year review, and corporate reporting to systematically track and strengthen PPD’s results across core functions of income, influence, insights and stewardship.
• Provide strategic advisory for PPD leadership: Provide strategic analysis and policy-relevant insights to inform executive decision-making and high-level engagement; support leadership in adequately representing PPD in cross-organizational workstreams and governance forums (GMT, RMTs).
• Support thematic funding procedure and partner engagement: Support development of the 2026–2029 Thematic Fund