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• Actively participate and assist in
  negotiations for contributions and partnership agreements, in line with
  internal policies and external regulations, in order to reach advantageous
  outcomes, such as more flexibility and predictability.
• Implement the work plan for assigned area
  by delivering activities that maintain and develop government partnerships
  in order to maximise resources raised for the programme.
• Significantly contribute to the management
  of a portfolio of partnerships, soliciting contributions, providing donor
  stewardship, and analysing results, in order to maximise resources raised.
• Offer support to technical units in the
  Country Office, Regional Bureau and/or Headquarters as required, in order
  to assist them to effectively mobilise donor resources and to ensure the
  donor conditions are met and adhered to at different programming levels.
• Prepare briefs on resourcing outlook for:
  Country Strategic Plan (CSP) and Country Budget Portfolio (CBP) ;
  Country/Regional/Division Directors; the Strategic Programme Review
  Process (s-PRP) and the Electronic Programme Review Process (e-PRP);
  supply chain meetings; and operate as a resourcing focal point in order to
  ensure that concerns are adequately considered.
• Guide more junior staff, acting as a point
  of referral and supporting them with more complex analysis and queries.
• Collate and analyse data for the
  preparation of accurate and timely reporting on donors and programmes, to
  enable informed decision-making and action planning by senior
  stakeholders.
• Proactively contribute to ideas and
  highlight fundraising opportunities to senior managers for new strategies
  to maintain and increase funding from new and traditional donors.
• Prepare and provide regular information to
  educate new and potential donors on the strategy, design, relevance and
  impact of WFP programmes, and to advocate the work of WFP.
• Represent WFP at international meetings at
  appropriate levels, in such a way that advances the government
  partnerships strategy and objectives, and builds support for WFP
  activities.
• Prepare and provide inputs for briefing
  documents for senior level management meetings with donors.
• Build and maintain effective relationships
  with representatives of government donors through appropriate channels,
  and coordinate donor meetings, attending where required.
• Coordinate work with other government
  partnership officers to ensure the flow of information and other WFP units
  to align activities and ensure donor visibility and that donor conditions
  are met.
• Follow standard emergency preparedness
  practices to ensure WFP is able to quickly respond and deploy food and
  needed resources to affected areas at the onset of a crisis.
• Perform any other duties as required.

• The ideal candidate for the United Nations
  UN World Food Programme (WFP) Government Partnerships Officer career opportunity
  should hold an advanced University degree in Economics, International
  Development, Development Economics, Marketing Communications, Business
  Administration, Journalism or any other related field or a First
  University degree with additional years of related experience.
• At least six years of relevant experience
  in business development (private sector), development and/or humanitarian
  affairs or related fields;
• Experience in implementing the resource
  mobilization work plan by delivering specific activities as defined;
• Experience in providing direction to one
  or more junior staff members within area of expertise;
• Prior experience in participating and
  supporting negotiations for contributions and partnerships agreements with
  donors and host governments, in line with Internal policies and external
  regulations;
• Language: Fluency (level C) in
  English language. Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second official UN
  language: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and/or WFP’s working
  language, Portuguese.

• Relationship Management:
  Demonstrates ability to build and sustain effective collaborative
  relationships with appropriate stakeholders and contacts in area of
  expertise to raise the profile of WFP, build relationships and further
  organisational aims.
• Communication Expertise:
  Facilitates and contributes to open verbal or written communication with
  stakeholders as required (i.e. through preparation of targeted written or
  visual communications materials, presentations, and official
  documentation) to convey tailored messages. Engages in mutually informative
  discussion with partners and influencers.
• Information Analytics, Reporting &
  Management: Gathers, analyses and reports information in a manner
  that draws out fact-based insights to inform approach to partner
  relationships and support substantive discussion with partners. Captures
  relevant information and progress, and ensures internal information
  sharing.
• Resource Mobilisation:
  Demonstrates the ability to design and manage the full resource
  mobilisation lifecycle, including negotiating with partners and key
  stakeholders, providing resourcing advice and briefs to senior managers,
  leading medium/large teams and strategically allocating material and other
  appropriate resources.
• Business Process Support &
  Technical Guidance: Provides technical support to other business
  areas, identifying procedural issues and solutions. Applies understanding
  to ensure system maintenance and to support the design and implementation
  of system changes, supporting users and ensuring relevant training and
  materials are provided as necessary.

• Understand and communicate the
  Strategic Objectives: Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives
  and the link to own work objectives.
• Be a force for positive change:
  Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in
  direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving
  needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners).
• Make the mission inspiring to our
  team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in
  which individual contributions relate to WFP’s mission.
• Make our mission visible in everyday
  actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall
  operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.
• People:
• Look for ways to strengthen people’s
  skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase
  self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental
  needs.
• Create an inclusive culture:
  Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others,
  regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment.
• Be a coach & provide
  constructive feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching
  to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.
• Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit:
  Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of
  challenging circumstances.

• Encourage innovation & creative
  solutions: Shows willingness to explore and experiment with
  new ideas and approaches in own work.
• Focus on getting results:
  Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on
  budget and without errors.
• Make commitments and make good on
  commitments: Commits to upholding individual accountabilities
  and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional
  priorities.
• Be Decisive: Makes
  rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain
  circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or
  manager direction.

• Connect and share across WFP units:
  Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teams’ priorities
  and preferred working styles.
• Build strong external partnerships:
  Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or
  escalate needs of external partners.
• Be politically agile &
  adaptable: Portrays an informed and professional demeanor
  toward internal and external partners and stakeholders.
• Be clear about the value WFP brings
  to partnerships: Provides operational support on analyses and
  assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFP’s unique value as a
  partner.

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