Programme Officer (Partnership), NO-1, Temporary Position, Republic of Türkiye, 364 days, Ankara, Republic of Türkiye, #00137218

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For every child, the right to a Champion

If you are committed and passionate about making a lasting difference for children, UNICEF Türkiye would like to hear from you.

Under the supervisor’s guidance, provide technical support for monitoring and managing public‑sector donor partnerships, ensuring that financial monitoring, progress reporting and contractual amendments are fully align with donor requirements.

How can you make a difference?

1. Partnership Management & Coordination

• Support the management of public sector partnerships, by maintaining regular communication with partners to follow up on commitments, reporting schedules, visibility requirements, and engagement opportunities.
• Track partnership milestones and deliverables to ensure compliance with agreements.
• Assist in organizing partner field missions, donor meetings and joint monitoring visits.

2. Knowledge Management and Documentation

• Maintain partnership files, agreements, reporting trackers, and knowledge repositories.
• Contribute to internal briefings, dashboards, and partnership performance updates.

3.  Resource Mobilization & Proposal Development

• Assist in identifying funding opportunities and donor priorities relevant to UNICEF’s programmes.
• Support the drafting of high quality concept notes, proposals, and donor briefs.
• Contribute to landscape analyses and donor intelligence to inform engagement strategies.

4. Donor Reporting & Compliance

• Prepare or coordinate inputs for high quality donor reports, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with donor requirements.
• Support financial monitoring, tracking budget utilization, and ensuring expenditures align with donor conditions and UNICEF regulations.

5. Monitoring of Partnership Performance

• Monitor implementation of donor funded activities in collaboration with programme and operations teams.
• Support the collection and consolidation of programmatic and financial data for reporting.
• Flag risks or delays related to implementation, finances, or reporting.

 

Key-end results expected:

1. Effective and regular monitoring system administered against donor funded projects and programmes, with  timely status reports prepared, and challenges and corrective actions identified.
2. Strengthened UNICEF’s resource mobilization and reporting efforts by helping to gather and synthesize programmatic and financial data for proposals, reports, donor briefs, and concept notes - using results-based management.
3. Strengthened partner collaboration by ensuring timely follow‑up on commitments, reporting timelines, and emerging engagement opportunities.
4. Enhanced partnership collaboration by helping to deliver well‑organized field missions, visibility events, and joint monitoring visits.
5. Strengthened and timely fulfillment of partnership commitments through effective cross‑team coordination with programme and operations.
6. Enhanced internal capacities and understanding of colleagues on donor requirements, reporting standards, contractual requirements.
7. Ensured effective partnership management by maintaining accurate documentation systems, and providing timely inputs to internal briefings, dashboards, and performance updates.

 

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: 1 GJD Programme Officer NOA.doc

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

• Minimum requirements

• • 1. 1. Education: Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in Economics,Social Science,Political Science, International Relations, Public Administration, Public Policy, Community Development and any other related fields.
       2. Work Experience: At least 1 years of relevant work experience in Partnerships, Programme management, Project management, Data analysis, Monitoring. and any other related fields.
       3. Skills: Data analysis, budget analysis, report writing, Planning, Organizing, Strategic thinking.
       4. Language Requirements : English - Proficient/Fluent

• Desirables
  
  1. 1. Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language
     2. EU funded projects, donor coordination, partnerships management
     3. Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts. 

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF's Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
(3) Drive to achieve results for impact
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others

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