Innovative Financing and Resource Mobilization Specialist, FGM Joint Programme
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United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- Career category: Admin, Finance, Fundraising/ Grant management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: 5-10 years
- Organisation type: Inter-governmental
- Remote option: Not Specified
- Right to work requirements: International contract
- Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 08/07/2026
- Location: Kenya
UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health and population data agency operating in over 150 countries and territories. UNFPA promotes gender equality and empowers women, girls, and young people to take control of their bodies and their futures. In partnership with governmental, non-governmental, and civil society organizations, alongside dedicated activists, the agency provides access to a wide range of sexual and reproductive health services. UNFPA’s transformative three goals are to end the unmet need for family planning, preventable maternal death, and gender-based violence and harmful practices by 2030.
UNFPA is seeking candidates who transform, inspire, and deliver high-impact sustained results, ensuring effective external relations, communications, partnership-building and resource mobilization in a rapidly changing development and funding landscape. We need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them, and who commit to delivering excellence in programme results
UNFPA is seeking candidates who transform, inspire, and deliver high-impact sustained results, ensuring effective external relations, communications, partnership-building and resource mobilization in a rapidly changing development and funding landscape. We need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them, and who commit to delivering excellence in programme results
How can you make a difference?
The expert will be based in UNFPA HQ (Nairobi, Kenya) and report directly to the Administrative Agent of the FGM Joint Programme in the Public Funding and Financing Branch (PFFB) in New York, with a dotted reporting line to the JPFGM Global Coordinator in Nairobi. The incumbent will also operate in alignment with corporate resource mobilization policies and private sector partnership frameworks established by the Private Sector and Civil Society Branch (PSCSB).
The Innovative Financing and Resource Mobilization Specialist will apply an integrated approach to building opportunities with key existing and emerging donors, providing strategic guidance to the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation to navigate an increasingly diverse partnership environment spanning public, philanthropic, and private markets. S/he will cultivate close relationships with the programme’s diverse stakeholders, financial institutions, and civil society partners to advance innovative financing mechanisms, such as blended finance and private capital mobilization. Additionally, the Specialist will provide strategic guidance to amplify evidence-driven messaging and corporate resource mobilization strategies through diverse advocacy channels to close persistent funding gaps and secure greater, sustainable investment for ending harmful practices by 2030.
Education:
Advanced university degree in development studies, global health, international relations, business administration, economics, development financing and other related fields.
Education:
Advanced university degree in development studies, global health, international relations, business administration, economics, development financing and other related fields.
Experience:
- A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible professional work experience in complex partnership management involving resource mobilization and/or innovative financing.
- Proven capacity to experiment and innovate in a professional context resulting in net gains for their organization
- Significant competencies in and understanding financial innovation in a development context
- Proven communications in public and/or private advocacy experience
- Strong track record of effective negotiation and advocacy at high levels, resulting in concrete outcomes.
- Experience in successfully convening valuable networks, including senior stakeholders for consultation and joint action, ideally with both public and private actors
- Strong ability to express ideas and concepts clearly and concisely in written and oral form
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