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High-value Fundraising Specialist
UNOPSUnited NationsProgrammeMid LevelICA - IICA - Regular
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**Job Highlight**
Digital Inclusion (DI) Partnerships team seeks a High-value Fundraising Specialist who will be responsible for originating, developing, converting and managing a portfolio of high-value partnerships for DI/Giga, with a primary focus on securing new business from corporate, foundation and philanthropic partners. The incumbent owns partnership opportunities end-to-end — from pipeline development and partner engagement through proposal development, negotiation, contracting, stewardship, renewal and growth — across assigned audiences.
**About the Region**
UNOPS is the operational arm of the United Nations, supporting partners in implementing peacebuilding, humanitarian, and development projects. We help people build better lives by providing expertise in infrastructure, procurement, project management, and human resources.
Our Global Portfolios deliver multi-regional initiatives that advance sustainable development and climate action. Working from hubs in Geneva, New York, and Vienna, we collaborate closely with the UN family and international partners to provide essential services in the world’s most challenging environments.
**About the Country/Multi-Country Office**
Based in Geneva, UNOPS facilitates the 2030 Agenda by hosting flagship initiatives and providing high-level fund management, oversight, and operational support to UN agencies and global partners.
As a strategic resource for the UN system, the Geneva Office provides cost-effective, results-oriented management solutions to a wide range of global health, nutrition, and environmental initiatives. It is also home to the UNOPS Europe and Central Asia Regional Office.
**Job Specific Context**
UNOPS Geneva Office is providing support to a wide range of portfolios, including UNEP, UNICEF, UNHCR, and other partners.
This position is a Partner Personnel role. The selected candidate will be hired by UNOPS under its rules and regulations and will be engaged as UN Partner Personnel for UNICEF - Digital Inclusion (DI) and will operate under the effective management and supervision of UNICEF.
UNOPS is supporting UNICEF-DI as a UN Partner and acting on its behalf to provide recruitment and administrative support for this position.
About UNICEF Digital Inclusion
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
UNICEF’s Digital Inclusion team accelerates access to affordable, sustainable, safe and resilient digital infrastructure for every child. We do so by supporting governments and partners to expand equitable and affordable connectivity across child-facing service locations such as schools, health facilities, and social protection locations, and addressing related infrastructure such as electricity and computer. Our work empowers children and their communities through information, opportunity, choice and dignity. The Digital Inclusion team includes functions that support Giga, the joint partnership between UNICEF and ITU to connect every school to the internet. The Giga team is based at the Giga Connectivity Centre in Geneva and the Giga Technology Centre in Barcelona.
Digital Inclusion team is part of the Digital Impact Division (DID), which is at the heart of reshaping how UNICEF delivers lasting results for all children everywhere, and is committed to harnessing the full potential of emerging digital technologies to advance UNICEF’s mission. DID works in close collaboration with a network of colleagues in more than 190 countries and territories at country, region and headquarters levels to leverage technologies and capabilities that accelerate progress on UNICEF’s goals, strengthen community resilience, and expand access to essential digital services and information.
**Role Purpose**
Under supervision of DI Partnerships Manager and working closely with the partnership team, the programme and technical teams, communications, legal/contracting colleagues, and relevant National Committees and Country Offices, the postholder translates partnership opportunities into signed agreements, funded initiatives and long-term strategic relationships.
DI is looking for an experienced High-value Fundraising Specialist with strong commercial fluency and a working understanding of the technology, telecommunications, digital infrastructure, cloud, satellite, connectivity, AI and related investment sectors. The role is intended to strengthen our team’s ability to engage credibly with corporate partners, structure practical collaboration opportunities that raise funding for our work, and convert private sector interest into funded, operational, or market-shaping partnerships that advance our work.
The contractor will bring private sector discipline to DI’s partnership development work. This includes identifying companies with a strategic interest in connectivity, understanding their interests and translating DI’
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