Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Salary grade: UN scale P5 (see below for more details)
Reporting to: Head of Service - Private Sector Fund Raising (PSFR)
Background
Established in December 1950, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees www.unhcr.org is mandated to lead and coordinate international action to protect and assist refugees and other persons of concern. In more than five decades, UNHCR has helped about 50 million people restart their lives.
Role
The incumbent is one of three P5 senior managers supporting the Head of Service. He/she, along with the other two senior officers in the Service, will provide leadership, strategic direction and implementation for UNHCR’s leadership giving programme in order to generate increased year on year funding for UNHCR’s programmes. S/He will also be responsible for managing relationships with companies, foundations and high net wealth individuals (collectively called “Leadership giving”).
He/she will also interact periodically with the High Commissioner, Deputy High Commissioner and senior management staff in UNHCR for consultations, appropriate relationship management of major donors and will directly and indirectly supervise a number of colleagues through weekly interaction with the entire Private Sector Fund Raising (PSFR) network (leadership giving and individual giving) to support with thematic projects and proposals.
Major duties and responsiblities will include:
Primary Private Donor Relations:
• Provide leadership, strategic direction and implementation for UNHCR’s leadership giving programme in order to generate increased yearly funding for UNHCR’s programmes;
• Develop and implement UNHCR’s global strategy for resource mobilisation from companies, foundations and high net wealth individuals (HNWIs);
• Provide line management of company foundation and HNWIs fundraising teams;
• Provide functional management of the leadership giving staff in the Regional teams;
• Directly, and via the PSFR outposted teams solicit leadership gifts from UNHCR’s supporters that are designated as international relationships managed from Geneva;
Thematic Project & Proposal Development Management:
• Set clear strategy, policy and systems for delivery of leadership giving globally;
• Manage and develop funding relationships with existing and potential international donors capable of giving sizable gifts (e.g. $1 million annually and above);
• Guide colleagues in developing and disseminating UNHCR’s leadership giving strategy and objectives by providing compelling argument for donor support to UNHCR;
• Work closely with the UNHCR Senior Management Team to facilitate relationships with leadership donors including strategic delivery of High Commissioner's engagement with key partners and HNWIs;
• Generate agreement on major partnerships and donor relationships e.g. the Corporate Partnerships, Governing Board and key UNHCR donor support structures such as the Council of Business Leaders and other donor support/advisory groups to be created;
• Manage the Thematic Project and Proposal Development team with the creation of thematic and programme content proposal writing, liaise with Bureaus, technical desks and field offices for fundraising outreach geared towards individual and leadership giving with project content;.
• Identify UNHCR’s key campaign funding opportunities and secure agreement on funding priorities for projects to be offered to leadership donors);
Finance, Policy and Programme Development:
• In consultation with the Head of Service develop an annual fundraising plan for leadership giving in accordance with UNHCR’s strategic planning.
• Manage the annual budget for the Leadership Giving team and Thematic Project & Proposal Development Team, fulfilling programming, monitoring and reporting requirements as set by Results-Based-Management parameters;
• Provide to the Chief, Operations the leadership budget inputs to the overall PSFR budget detailing expenditure and income (actual/forecast);
Human Resources:
• Line management responsibility for the International Corporate Team, International Foundations Team, International HNWIs team and Thematic Project & Proposal Development Team;
• Deliver training and capacity building on leadership giving and thematic project development as required to global PSFR network;
Administration and Information Technology:
• Support the Thematic Project Development Team to establish clear and responsive HQ support systems for global leadership giving fundraisers and UNHCR colleagues: operated to high quality assurance measures;
• Ensure that all approaches to prospects and donors and their outcomes are meticulously recorded on UNHCR’s database and that the leadership giving prospect tracking database is effectively managed;
• Ensure that all administrative and organization requirements of the Leadership Giving team are completed in accordance with UNHCR’s policies and procedures;
Candidate requirements
• Advanced University degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Economics or Management.
• A minimum of 15 years of previous job experience relevant to the function or fundraising experience with major fundraising organisations and/or with humanitarian agencies.
• Of which, a minimum of 10 years should be in an international capacity directly relevant to the current position that should include exposure to the work of companies, foundations and HNWIs.
Salary details
We offer an exciting and wide-ranging function at the forefront of humanitarian assistance impacting on UNHCR’s global operations, on the basis of a UN type employment contract and benefits.
This is a P5 post on the UN Salary scales. To find out more about what this means please visit the UN site on Salaries and Post Adjustment http://www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/salaries_allowances/salary.htm
To apply
To apply for the post, please send a letter of application stating the skills and approach that you would bring to the post along with your CV/resume (no photos) in English in strict confidence BY EMAIL ONLY to Isabel Leal at: rrhh@darylupsall.com .
Applications sent by other means will not be considered.
Please ensure that they are sent as Word documents with the titles “your name cover letter” and “your name CV”. Please put “UNHCR- Chief of Section (PSFR Leadership Giving)” in the email subject line and state how you came across about the job and quote job ref. 10016731
Deadline for applications: Monday 25 April 2011, 6pm Central European Time
UNHCR aims for workforce diversity and strongly encourages qualified women to apply. Acknowledgments will only be sent to short-listed candidates under serious consideration.
