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We are looking for highly experienced philanthropic/high- value fundraiser with background in direct donor relationship cultivation and management of philanthropic partnerships in excess of $1 million.  

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an international financial institution and a specialized United Nations agency dedicated to eradicating rural poverty and hunger. It does so by investing in rural people. IFAD finances programmes and projects that increase agricultural productivity and raise rural incomes, and advocates at the local, national and international level for policies that contribute to rural transformation.  The Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE) ensures that IFAD's supported programs are set to achieve their maximum impact and serve as a learning opportunity for future ones. Specifically, ODE is responsible for coordinating corporate strategy and measuring the relevance of IFADs business model to ensure the effective implementation of the strategy. ODE is also responsible of managing, measuring, and facilitating the effectiveness of IFAD program of work, including adequately incorporating knowledge of effectiveness and efficiency into all its investments. Through the systematic integration of research findings, evidence-based innovations and best practices into IFAD's project design, implementation, and self-evaluation processes, the effectiveness and impact of IFAD-supported initiatives are enhanced. ODE contributes to five key corporate objectives: - Supporting the long-term development strategy of the institution given its mandate, - Curating evidence, innovations and operational solutions for rural economies, and their deployment for  effective programming, - Ensuring the appropriate feedback loops work to ensure quality through the compliance of policies, quality assurance, standards, and lessons learned through the whole evaluation function of IFAD, - Driving corporate and operational effectiveness and efficiency, - Supporting capacity development for project management, monitoring and evaluation at the country-level ODE is led by a Managing Director, a Deputy Chief Strategy and Effectiveness Officer, and three units: Quality Assurance and Environmental and Social Safeguards Unit (QAS); Results, Resources and Systems Unit (RRS); and Evidence for Development Impact and Innovation Unit (EDI). The Quality Assurance and Environmental and Social Safeguards Unit (QAS) ensures that operational and environmental and social safeguards guidelines and standards are adequately complied with along the project cycle: country strategies, sovereign and non-sovereign loans, grants, implementation and completion. The Results, Resources and Systems Unit (RRS) is responsible for i) corporate results reporting and portfolio performance monitoring, as well as M&E capacity development and guidance; ii) for managing the allocation of IFAD core resources through the performance-based allocation system (PBAS), and iii) coordinating the process for access to borrowed resources (BRAM); iv)  developing, maintaining and managing operational policies/guidelines and systems. In particular, the unit coordinates the relationship with the Independent Evaluation Office (IOE), coordinates IFAD's data governance work and leads on IFADs GIS initiatives across the house withing the data governance work.  EDI strengthens IFAD's ability to curate and share evidence that supports country dialogue, policy influence and partnerships. Working with MDBs, the UN Rome Based Agencies, academia, the private sector, research organizations and others to promote exchange of evidence and innovation for greater impact. ODE works in close coordination with other departments, offices, and divisions in IFAD and the Managing Director works under the direct supervision of the Vice President. Job Role The Managing Director, ODE, is a member of IFAD's Senior Management Team and holds executive accountability for the Office of Development Effectiveness. The role exists to ensure that IFAD's programme of work is strategically coherent, operationally effective and demonstrably impactful: that the Fund's investments are designed and implemented to achieve maximum development results, that corporate strategy is grounded in evidence and performance data, and that robust quality, safeguards and evaluation systems are in place and functioning across the institution. The Managing Director provides the intellectual and managerial leadership that enables ODE to fulfil its five corporate objectives: supporting the long-term development strategy of the institution; curating and disseminating evidence, innovations and operational solutions; ensuring that quality feedback loops - through compliance, policy adherence and evaluation - are operational across the Fund; driving corporate and operational effectiveness and efficiency; and strengthening country-level capacity in project management, monitoring and evaluation. The Managing Director directly leads the Deputy, Chief Strategy and Effectiveness Officer, who serves as the primary internal management support, and provides strategic direction to the heads of the three ODE units: Quality Assurance and Environmental and Social Safeguards (QAS); Results, Resources and Systems (RRS); and Evidence for Development Impact and Innovation (EDI). The Managing Director is responsible for the full human, financial and material resources of ODE and for delivery of its programme of work within the approved budget. As a member of the Executive Management Committee (EMC), chaired by the President, the Managing Director carries collective institutional responsibility for IFAD's overall performance and acts in the Fund's broader interest in all corporate deliberations. The managing Director is responsible for ensuring transparent, equitable, and efficient management of IFAD's resource including Human, financial and material. This includes managing staff through workforce planning, recruitment, performance management, and career development. They are also responsible for managing office's plans and budget ensuring accountability and fiduciary integrity. Additionally, they are responsible for managing material resource and promoting knowledge and content management to achieve innovative outcomes and cost-effective processes while leveraging information technology to improve business results, reporting processes and client services.   Corporate Strategy and Operational Policy: - Lead ODE's role in coordinating, designing and monitoring IFAD's corporate strategy, ensuring it reflects the Fund's mandate and is operationally actionable across all divisions and country programmes. - Guide the development, interpretation and implementation of major operational policies, guidelines, regulations and rules that govern IFAD's programme of work, ensuring they are coherent, fit for purpose and aligned with the Fund's strategic objectives. - Lead the design of compliance frameworks for key operational building blocks such as procurement and Social, Environmental and Climate Assessment Procedures (SECAP). - Oversee monitoring and reporting on replenishment commitments, to ensure timely, accurate and credible reporting to governing bodies. - Provide the President, Vice-President and senior management with authoritative, evidence-based assessments of the relevance and performance of IFAD's business model, drawing directly on ODE's analytical products. Quality Assurance and Development Effectiveness: - Hold ultimate institutional accountability for the quality at entry of country strategies and operations, and for the rigour of IFAD's design standards across the programme cycle. - Lead the secretariat of arms-length analytical and technical reviews of design quality at entry for country strategies and operations, ensuring review processes are independent, rigorous and systematic. - Ensure that effectiveness and efficiency considerations are embedded throughout IFAD's project cycle - from country strategy design through implementation to self-evaluation - with systematic feedback loops that translate lessons into improved practice. - Provide strategic oversight of environmental and social safeguards compliance function across country strategies, sovereign and non-sovereign lending, grants, and project implementation and completion. - Champion the integration of research findings, best practices and evidence-based innovations into IFAD's project design and operational guidance. Results Measurement, Resource Management and Operational System: - Provide strategic oversight of ODE's corporate results reporting and portfolio performance monitoring, ensuring that IFAD's results framework is credible, coherent and useful for management decision-making. - Own and manage IFAD's self-evaluation architecture, including the systems, processes and governance arrangements for corporate reporting on operational performance, results and transparency. - Ensure sound and transparent management of IFAD's core resource allocation through the performance-based allocation system (PBAS) and oversee coordination of access to borrowed resources (BRAM) in line with corporate priorities. - Oversee the coordination and development of corporate ICT systems and databases for operations, ensuring that digital infrastructure supports effective programme management, results tracking and institutional transparency. - Lead ODE's stewardship of IFAD's data governance agenda and GIS initiatives, ensuring that data infrastructure underpins both management accountability and strategic decision-making. - Maintain a productive, well-governed relationship with the Independent Office of Evaluation (IOE) and other external oversight bodies, ensuring evaluation findings are appropriately actioned within ODE's remit. Knowledge, Evidence, Innovation and Global Engagement:  - Provide IFAD's intellectual leadership on development effectiveness, modelling an entrepreneurial and evidence-driven approach to institutional innovation and championing creative solutions to persistent operational challenges. - Direct EDI's agenda for curating and disseminating evidence, innovations and operational solutions that strengthen IFAD's country dialogue, policy influence and partnerships. - Broker knowledge, innovation and lessons learned across the programme cycle - from country strategy design through implementation and assessment - ensuring that ODE's analytical products are actively incorporated into IFAD's investment decisions. - Promote the development of rigorous evaluations, reviews and analysis to inform IFAD's lending and non-lending portfolio, particularly on issues of food security, agriculture and rural development. - Ensure that ODE's knowledge products and institutional partnerships - with multilateral development banks, research institutions, Rome-based agencies, and the private sector- generate actionable insights that feed into IFAD's operational and policy decisions. - Ensure that the best available evidence and knowledge systematically inform country dialogue and thematic development and strengthen the capacity of project management units of IFAD-supported projects to apply effective programme management, monitoring and evaluation practices. Corporate Governance and Internal Leadership: - Contribute to institutional policy and operational decisions as a member of the Executive Management Committee (EMC), bringing ODE's perspective on effectiveness, strategy, quality and results to collective senior management deliberations. - Serve as Secretary of the Operational Strategy and Policy Guidance Committee (OSC), providing substantive secretariat support, coordinating the committee's agenda and ensuring that OSC decisions are translated into actionable guidance for operational divisions. - Participate as a member of the Programme Management Committee (PMC) and other relevant corporate committees, ensuring development effectiveness considerations are reflected in institution-wide decisions. - Lead ODE as a high-performing, cohesive team: setting clear strategic priorities, allocating resources purposefully, developing staff and maintaining a culture of accountability, innovation and continuous improvement. - Under the guidance of the President and Vice-President, design and implement adjustments to ODE's roles, responsibilities and structure as required to enhance its effectiveness and responsiveness to corporate needs. External Representation and Advocacy: - Represent IFAD in global policy for symposiums and global conferences upon the request of the President, as the Fund's designated senior representative on development effectiveness matters. - Advocate IFAD's policy positions externally, expanding the Fund's visibility and positioning on issues of rural poverty, food security, agricultural development and development effectiveness at international, national and local levels. - Develop and maintain strategic relationships with key member states, bilateral and multilateral development agencies, UN agencies, international financial institutions, non-governmental organisations and academic institutions, with a view to advancing IFAD's effectiveness agenda and contributing to resource mobilisation where appropriate. - Build and sustain organisational networks with peers in major private, public and international institutions to advance evidence-based policymaking and strengthen IFAD's external positioning. Key Performance Indicators The following six indicators define the outcomes against which the Managing Director, ODE's performance is assessed annually. - Corporate Strategy and Policy: Corporate strategy monitoring reports, replenishment commitment updates and evidence-based assessments of IFAD's business model are delivered to governing bodies and senior management on schedule, free of material error and demonstrably inform institutional decision-making. - Quality Assurance and Development Effectiveness: Quality-at-entry reviews for country strategies and operations are completed within agreed timeframes, with findings that are independent, rigorous and demonstrably acted upon in subsequent project design and implementation. - Results, Resources and Operational Integrity: Corporate results reports, PBAS allocations and BRAM coordination are delivered on schedule and in full compliance with governing body decisions and fiduciary standards, with results data actively informing EMC and PMC deliberations. - Innovation, Knowledge, Evidence and Capacity Development: ODE's knowledge and evidence products demonstrably inform country dialogue, thematic development and project design, and project management units of IFAD-supported projects show measurable improvement in M&E capacity and practice following ODE support. - Corporate Governance and Team Leadership: OSC secretariat functions are delivered to a standard assessed as satisfactory or above, with decisions consistently translated into operational guidance; ODE operates as a cohesive, high-performing team with staff engagement at or above the IFAD institutional average. - External Representation and Strategic Partnerships: IFAD's positions on development effectiveness are represented credibly in designated international fora, with the Fund's positions reflected in joint statements or partnership frameworks, and strategic partnerships yield knowledge products or innovations adopted within IFAD's programme of work. Working Relationships      Managing Directors are responsible for building and maintaining strong working relationships both within and outside of IFAD. Internally, they provide strategic advice to the President and Vice-President and collaborate with other departments, offices and divisions to ensure effective coordination of programme planning and activities. Externally, they develop strategic partnerships with a range of institutions, including borrowers, development agencies, UN agencies, and non-governmental organizations, for the purpose of programme cooperation, knowledge sharing, policy dialogue, and resource mobilization. Managing Directors also represent IFAD in official committees, meetings, and conferences, and build organizational networks with peers in major private, public, and international financial institutions.   As a member of IFAD's senior management, the Managing Director, supports the President and Vice President in providing vision and oversight, as well as reporting to governing bodies. Organizational Competencies: Level 2: - Building relationships and partnerships - Builds and maintains strategic partnerships internally and externally - Communicating and negotiating - Acquires & uses a wide range of communication styles & skills - Demonstrating leadership - Leads by example; initiates and supports change - Focusing on clients - Contributes to a client-focused culture - Learning, sharing knowledge and innovating - Challenges, innovates & contributes to learning culture - Managing performance and developing staff - Manages wider teams with greater impact on others and on the organization - Managing time, resources and information - Coordinates wider use of time, information and/or resources - Problem-solving and decision-making - Solves complex problems and makes decisions that have wider corporate impact - Strategic thinking and organizational development - Staff in management and/or strategic leadership roles - Team working - Fosters a cohesive team environment Education: - Education includes Advanced university degree from an accredited institution listed on https://whed.net/home.php in economics, development economics, agricultural economics or related field is required (*). Preferably a PhD. (*) Note:  For internal candidates, this requirement will be assessed in line with the provisions set forth in IFAD's Human Resources Implementing Procedures.  - Relevant certifications (ICCE) would be an asset.  Experience: - At least 15 years of substantive relevant experience at an international level in an institution, which could include multilateral development banks and/or international financial institutions, UN agencies or other development finance-related organizations.  - Demonstrated leadership experience with strategic vision and proven skills to manage a complex organization with staff of diverse cultural backgrounds in multiple locations.  - Extensive and proven managerial experience with a focus on people management.  - Progressively responsible management experience in senior level positions.  Languages: - Required: English and one other IFAD official language (4 - Excellent) - Desirable: Other IFAD official languages: Arabic, French, Spanish (3 - Good)  Skills: - Economic evaluation: Know-how relevant to specific role in Evaluation roles (e.g. Monitoring and managing evaluation processes and methodologies, carrying out Programme/Project evaluation, Impact evaluation, Corporate-level evaluation) - Evidence-based policy: Know-how in the formulation of concrete and actionable policy recommendations based on hard evidence (going beyond simple data interpretation) - IFAD governance & mandate: In depth knowledge of IFAD`s governance structure, mandate, strategic priorities and technical work - IFAD partners: Knowledge of IFAD's partners' functioning and mandate , such as the public sector (e.g. governments and policy, institutions and system), non-state actors (NGOs, CSOs, Foundations, etc.) and private sector actors - Policy dialogue: Know-how in the representation of IFAD as a trusted and strategic partner; effective consultations with IFAD counterparts - like ministries and governmental bodies at all administrative levels, donors, civil society - Analytical skills: Outstanding ability to analyse and synthesize qualitative and/or quantitative information from a variety of sources and filter out key insights and recommendations - Strategy implementation: Ability to lead and manage the development and implementation of medium to longer-term strategies for IFAD / for respective divisions - Change management: Role modelling, anticipation of key risks & conflicts and formulation of contingency plans/solutions, action-oriented - Confidentiality & Discretion: Establishes self and division as trusted advisor to internal stakeholders by maintaining high level of discretion and confidentiality in assignments; demonstrates sound judgement when dealing with sensitive and/or confidential matters; drives good governance and is a "Culture Carrier" demonstrating IFAD institutional conscience through his/her work. - Corporate approach: Ability to bring in corporate vision and priorities into one's area of work (e.g. budgeting going beyond simple budgetary considerations, taking into account strategic priorities) - Integrity and ethics: Strong emphasis on acting with honesty, not tolerating unethical behaviour, demonstrating equity, impartiality and sensitivity in exercising authority and interacting with staff, and other  stakeholders. Conduct must be guided by IFAD core values, the Code of conduct and a high sense of ethics. - Leadership: Group thought leader, sought out by others and providing mentorship and effective guidance to others; Ability to build trust, inside and outside the organization by acting as a role model for IFAD's core values and competencies, and to provide a clear sense of direction, mentorship and effective guidance to the team, strategizing the IFAD's goals, giving the vision, empowering the team and ensuring a positive environment for all. - Political acumen: Ability to conduct sound political analysis and understand complex environments, providing options and advice - Specialized communication skills: Ability to negotiate on behalf of IFAD and drive for creative and pragmatic solutions in complex negotiations with key partners, both public and private sector - Social & Environmental Safeguards: Know-how in Social & Environmental compliance as specified in the IFAD's Social, Environmental and Climate Assessment Procedures (SECAP) - Policy making: Ability to provide expert guidance on IFAD's strategic direction and contribute to corporate and operational policy discussions - Quantitative skills: Significant understanding of the collection and quantitative analysis of impact assessment and operational data - Operational experience: Significant experience in working with operations in the context of an International Financial Institution - Results management: Strong understanding of managing for results in the context of an International Financial Institution Other Information IFAD staff members are international civil servants subject to the authority of the President of IFAD. In accordance with IFAD's Human Resources Policy, the President can decide to assign them to any of the activities of the Fund. All International Professional staff members are required to be geographically mobile and positions in the professional category are subject to changes in location at any time in line with strategic priorities and reform initiatives in IFAD. IFAD is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of ethnic, social or political background, colour, nationality, religion, age, gender, disability, marital status, family size or sexual orientation in line with its [Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Strategy](https://webapps.ifad.org/members/eb/134/docs/EB-2021-134-R-9.pdf) and the [Policy to prevent and respond to sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse](https://www.ifad.org/documents/38711624/42415556/SEA_e_web.pdf/85275c4d-8e3f-4df0-9ed8-cebaacfab128?t=1611326846000). Please be aware of fraudulent job offers. IFAD does not charge any fees at any stage of the recruitment process. Official communication from IFAD will always come from e-mails ending in @ifad.org In accordance with IFAD's provisions, all new staff members will normally be placed at the first step in the grade level for which they have been selected. For information on IFAD's remuneration package, please visit IFAD's [compensation and benefits page](https://www.ifad.org/en/careers/compensation-and-benefits) on our website. Applicants are invited to use the [ICSC compensation calculator](https://commonsystem.org/cp/calc.asp) to estimate the salary and benefit entitlements. Candidates may be required to take a written test and to deliver a presentation as well as participate in interviews. In the interest of making most cost effective use of funds and resources, we are only able to respond to applicants who are short-listed for interview. Candidates who do not receive any feedback within three months should consider their application unsuccessful.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME Unitaid,a partnership hosted by the World Health Organization is focused on accelerating the introduction and adoption of key health products primarily for HIV & co-infections, tuberculosis, malaria and women & children's health. It creates systemic conditions for sustainable and equitable access and aims to foster inclusive and demand-driven partnerships for innovation. It designs and invests in innovative approaches to make quality health products available and ...  

World Bank Group has a vacancy for the position of Environmental and Social Development Specialist Location: Washington, DC.  

UNICEF is looking to hire Director, Division of Global Communication and Advocacy. The mission of UNICEF is to promote the survival, well-being and rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does ? in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. As the custodian of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, UNICEF has helped transform countless children's lives around the world. In 1965, the organization won the Nobel Prize for its work in ensuring millions of children survive and thrive and are enabled to reach their full potential. With our multisectoral programs around the world, ranging from education, nutrition, health, water and sanitation, social protection and child protection, and working with partners far and wide, UNICEF has been able to reduce child mortality 50% since 2000.  

Requisition ID 36682 Office Country United Kingdom Office City London Division Risk Management   Contract Type Intern  Contract Length 12 months  Posting End Date 19/05/2026          Purpose of the Job   The intern will assist colleagues in the climate risk team to fulfil the Bank's commitments under its climate risk procedures and methodologies, as well as to meet the team's wider objectives. This includes supporting the overhaul of the methodology, process, data collection and management of information relating to climate-related financial risk assessment.   - A 12-month internship with a focus on the identification and assessment of climate-related financial risk - Supporting the work of the Climate Risk team in assessing, tracking and collecting data on climate-related financial risks of the EBRD's existing portfolio, as well as new clients - The priority of the Intern will be to collect, manage, organize, and control the data used for the identification and assessment of financial impacts of climate-related financial risk on the Bank's clients - The Intern will assist with a wide range of activities including client-specific research, data collection and organization, preparing presentations and ensuring items are documented, attending meetings keeping minutes, and some administrative tasks   Accountabilities and Responsibilities   Work under the supervision of a Climate Risk team member and assist on activities assigned. Key responsibilities include:   - Become familiar with Climate Risk team process documents - Gather research on EBRD clients from publicly available sources on their own disclosures of climate risk exposure and, were relevant, specific vulnerabilities within their supply chain - Aggregate and maintain current information and collect further information on climate-related financial risk into an overall database to allow for better data understanding and management   - Extract relevant screening data into the format needed for the new climate risk tool - Manage and ensure prudent control of the data collected for the EBRD's existing portfolio clients and new transactions in order to extract key trends/themes and improve on-going assessments the relevant climate risk approach - Assist with identifying and assessing existing and new clients, recording assessment outcomes and any relevant monitoring KPIs - Under guidance of a senior team member, analyse and compile data from internal sources to develop a comprehensive database by systematically interrogating various internal files to extract relevant data. The collected data will then be compiled into a meaningful and cohesive database, to support further analysis and decision-making - Under guidance of a senior team member, recalibrate quantitative assessments and processes carried out to reproduce results for audit control purposes - Meticulously collect and review existing data and procedures, recalibrating quantitative assessments to ensure accuracy, by reproducing results to verify consistency - Work on a range of assigned projects, and initiatives, as a team member and taking responsibility for assigned tasks and activities. These activities may include supporting the methodology drafting, collating comments, control checks, climate risk monitoring etc - When required, support in the coordination of meetings and events as well as assisting with collaboration with other Bank departments and propose potential refinements to improve the climate-related financial risk assessment and monitoring process - Contribute to the continuous improvement of internal processes and procedures, including the streamlining, collection, management, and automation of data - Work in line with Bank's Behavioural Competencies and Corporate Behaviours   Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Qualifications   - Degree in data science and/or, economics, engineering, or related field or comparable professional experience. Familiarity and some experience in control or finance as well as climate-related financial risk is desirable - Proven analytical research and quantitative skills, particularly advanced Excel, are critical - Ability to gather, organize, manage, derive insights, and control data is an essential requirement - Research and analytical skills - Knowledge of climate risks - Strong, effective time management delivery and effective organisational skills and ability to multi-task without losing attention to detail - Good interpersonal skills and an ability to work independently and within a team - Excellent written and spoken English - Ability to work effectively as a team member and to deadlines and under time pressure - Meticulous attention to detail with data analysis skill including the ability to interrogate and prompt co-pilot or similar LLM process and present the results to a non-technical audience   What is it like to work at the EBRD?   Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people's lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in.    The EBRD environment provides you with: - Varied, stimulating and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public and private sectors across the regions we invest in; - A working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity; - An environment that places sustainability, equality and digital  transformation at the heart of what we do.   Diversity is one of the Bank's core values which are at the heart of everything it does.  A diverse workforce with the right knowledge and skills enables connection with our clients, brings pioneering ideas, energy and innovation. The EBRD staff is characterised by its rich diversity of nationalities, cultures and opinions and we aim to sustain and build on this strength. As such, the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. The EBRD encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of the EBRD member countries to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, sexual orientation or disabilities.  As an inclusive employer, we promote flexible working and expecting our employee to attend the office 50% of their working time.   Please note, that due to the high volume of applications received, we regret to inform you that we are unable to provide detailed feedback to candidates who have not been shortlisted (for further consideration).  

You will help PFP strengthen financial planning, forecasting, and performance reporting by turning financial and non-financial data into clear insights for decision-making. Through high-quality analysis, management reporting, and dashboards?and by supporting the functional development and ongoing enhancement of the QFS application?you will contribute to stronger financial oversight and better results for children.  

World Bank Group has a vacancy for the position of Practice Manager Location: Washington, DC.  

The Division of Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) in Geneva works to deliver results for children by maximizing UNICEF's private fundraising, partnerships, and engagement?especially through National Committees (NatComs). Within PFP, the National Committee Relations Section ensures strategic alignment between NatComs and UNICEF through Joint Strategic Planning (JSP), manages relationships and risks, and acts as the primary liaison with NatCom Executive Directors and Board Chairs.The role described supports the Deputy Director, National Committee Relations by coordinating and strengthening UNICEF?NatCom relationships through communication, analysis, and facilitation. It provides tailored support to National Committees, tracks agreed follow-up actions, and helps connect NatComs with the wider UNICEF system to enhance their contribution to UNICEF's Strategic Plans, particularly in high-income countries.  

The Planning Specialist will play a key role in corporate reporting, development, review, and analysis of strategic planning in UNICEF, encompassing both global planning (the Strategic Plan) and country programme planning related processes. The Specialist will provide technically sound and rigorous analysis of progress and performance of the Strategic Plan in coordination with planning focal points across HQ Divisions and Offices as well as conduct other data analyses related to the Strategic Plan and country programmes, drawing onmultiple data sources. The Specialist will also provide technical support to the rigorous analysis of Country Programme performance and alignment with the UN development system reform.  

Join UNICEF's Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) Finance team, where data-driven investment decisions help grow private-sector fundraising and deliver results for children. In the Budget and Analysis Unit (BAU), you will support the Business Analyst (Investment) to design, test and manage fundraising investment and innovative financing vehicles across National Committees and UNICEF country offices?monitoring performance, analysing financial and non-financial data, and producing clear reporting and dashboards. You will also contribute to the functional enhancement and ongoing maintenance of the QFS application in close collaboration with technical stakeholders.  

The Chief Fundraising will be responsible for leading all UNICEF partnerships and fundraising activities from public and private sector, and supporting broader engagement and cultivation of partnerships to leverage results for children locally and globally.  

The Head of Office represents UNICEF in Qatar and provides strategic leadership across partnerships and programme areas, ensuring UNICEF is strategically positioned to deliver of high-quality results in line with UNICEF's programme of cooperation, management plans, and the overall vision of the Gulf Area Office.  

Requisition ID 36695 Office Country United Kingdom Office City London Division Information Technology   Contract Type Fixed Term  Contract Length 3 years  Posting End Date           Purpose of Job The Associate is responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and support of the Bank's platforms and software solutions. The Associate plays a critical role within the squad, taking a lead on designing, developing and optimising EBRD's infrastructure and software solutions within their own value stream.  The Associate provides guidance to individual contributors and works closely with other multi-functional teams and business product owners, to deliver high quality, product aligned services, that meets our users' needs.   The role may involve leading small projects and the individual is expected to be proficient in software design and ability to implement CI/CD pipeline, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or technologies within their specialism. Accountabilities & Responsibilities Software Design and Development Responsible for debugging and troubleshooting to resolve software issues. Accountable for designing and developing large-scale, high-availability backend systems. Responsible for API design principles, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems. Responsible for hands-on experience with messaging systems (ActiveMQ, Azure Service Bus) and event-driven architecture. Responsible for containerisation, Kubernetes, and cloud-native development. Week to month responsibility for design, development, testing, and maintenance of high-quality software solutions. Operates without supervision in writing clear, maintainable, and well-documented code. Responsible for developing and maintaining RESTful APIs ensuring scalability and maintainability. Responsible for integrating third-party services and APIs.       Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications Description - Educated to degree level in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). - Extensive working experience in C/C++ (preferably C++ 17 or later) and C#, Oracle. Knowledge of Python/Perl is preferable. - Extensive working experience in Summit SDK,Summit Meta model, Summit STP/RT process, Summit State Transition, Summit Interfaces, Accounting, Documents, Pricing, Summit FT . - Extensive working experience in developing and optimising RESTful APIs and microservices. - Confident with relational databases (Oracle SQL). - Extensive working experience with messaging systems such as ActiveMQ or Azure Service Bus.  - Extensive working experience Responsible for code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices for development. - Confident in writing unit and integration tests using frameworks like Google unit test ensure code quality. - Confident in managing complex automated testing frameworks and tools to ensure the reliability and performance of C/C++ solutions. - Solid understanding of deployment and release processes, ensuring smooth rollouts of new features. - Extensive working experience in monitoring production systems, investigates issues, and provides timely resolutions. - Extensive working experience in maintaining clear documentation of code and processes specific to SUMMIT, following established guidelines. - Confident in providing ongoing support and troubleshooting for SUMMIT solutions. - Extensive working experience to automate repetitive tasks and improves development workflows using scripting and DevOps practices. - Extensive working experience in DevOps. - Extensive working experience to design and implementation of data models and schemas for SUMMIT solutions. - Solid understanding to evaluates and recommends best practices for integrating SUMMIT with external systems and third-party services. - Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking skills. - Ability to work in a team-oriented environment. - Effective communication with peers and willingness to ask questions. - Basic documentation and technical writing skills. - Ability to manage time and tasks effectively in an Agile environment.   What is it like to work at the EBRD?   Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people's lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in.    The EBRD environment provides you with: - Varied, stimulating and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public and private sectors across the regions we invest in; - A working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity; - An environment that places sustainability, equality and digital  transformation at the heart of what we do.   Diversity is one of the Bank's core values which are at the heart of everything it does.  A diverse workforce with the right knowledge and skills enables connection with our clients, brings pioneering ideas, energy and innovation. The EBRD staff is characterised by its rich diversity of nationalities, cultures and opinions and we aim to sustain and build on this strength. As such, the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. The EBRD encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of the EBRD member countries to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, sexual orientation or disabilities.  As an inclusive employer, we promote flexible working and expecting our employee to attend the office 50% of their working time.   Please note, that due to the high volume of applications received, we regret to inform you that we are unable to provide detailed feedback to candidates who have not been shortlisted (for further consideration).  

Requisition ID 36689 Office Country United Kingdom Office City London Division Information Technology Full-Time/Part-Time​ Full Time Contract Type Fixed Term Contract Length 3 years   Posting End Date 13/05/2026              Accountability and Responsibility     The Analyst, AI/ML Engineer plays a supporting role in the development of AI/ML applications such as chatbots, conversational AI applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. The role will be supporting day-to-day tasks such as application design and implementation, data preparation, conversational bot development, model testing, documentation and pipeline support. Working under the supervision of senior engineers, the Analyst follows established engineering standards and agile practices to ensure quality and consistency across the AI delivery lifecycle.         - Assists in building AI solutions using Azure AI Services, Prompt Flow, and Azure AI Search (Vector Store).  - Writes clean, testable code and assists in peer code reviews.   - Supports the setup of automated testing and observability within CI/CD pipelines.  - Contributes to the validation and tuning of models to ensure performance and data quality, adhering to AI fairness and explainability principles.  - Participates in the refinement of AI/ML user stories and contributes to backlog grooming, estimation, and agile ceremonies.  - Supports the delivery of small to medium AI features in coordination with MLOps and Product teams.  - Contributes to the promotion of engineering best practices and responsible AI standards.  - Supports continuous improvement and innovation within the squad.  - Supports the team by conducting technical spikes for new initiatives, under guidance where required.  - Assists with the deployment of training and inference pipelines to shared development environments such as Azure ML and Prompt Flow.    Knowledge and Education     - Holds a degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related technical discipline.  - 2 years of experience working with Python.  - Demonstrates foundational understanding of machine learning concepts, model lifecycle and data processing principles.  - Basic understanding of Software Development principles, including writing unit and integration tests.  - Demonstrates problem-solving and analytical thinking skills.  - Able to follow guidance and apply structured approaches to technical challenges.  - Familiar with Agile ways of working and collaborative development practices (e.g. Scrum, Kanban).  - Basic understanding of version control systems (e.g. Git) and collaborative tooling (e.g. GitHub, Jira, Confluence).  - Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document work clearly.  - Curious, proactive and eager to learn in a hands-on engineering environment.  - Demonstrates an awareness of responsible AI principles such as fairness, transparency and explainability.  - Able to work in a diverse, multicultural team setting and follow standard delivery processes.  - Familiarity with containerisation using Docker is desirable.  - Hands-on experience or academic exposure to Python for data science or AI/ML development.  - Basic understanding of RESTful API design principles.  - Familiar with model development workflows, including training, evaluation and basic tuning.  - Exposure to tools such as Azure ML, Prompt Flow, or similar cloud ML platforms.  - Basic understanding of AI/ML application types such as chatbots, recommendation systems, or RAG.  - Supports building and testing ML models, preparing datasets and writing testable code.  - Exposure to vector search, embeddings, or retrieval techniques is desirable.  - Assists with basic ML pipeline configuration under guidance.  - Ability to write clear technical documentation and maintain API specifications using Open API 3.0+  - Basic understanding of System Design and Architecture  - Basic understanding of microservices architecture and distributed system design.  - Familiarity with application authentication protocols (e.g. OAuth 2.0, JWT), and security best practices.      What is it like to work at the EBRD? / About EBRD    Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people's lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in.     At EBRD, our Values ? Inclusiveness, Innovation, Trust, and Responsibility ? are at the heart of how we work. We bring these to life through our Workplace Behaviours: listening well and speaking up, collaborating smartly, acting decisively with full commitment, and simplifying to amplify our impact. These principles shape our culture and define our success. We seek individuals who not only share these values but are also committed to embedding them in their daily work, fostering a positive and high-performing environment.    The EBRD environment provides you with:  - Varied, stimulating and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public and private sectors across the regions we invest in.  - A working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity. Our workforce reflects a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, bringing fresh ideas, energy, and innovation and enhancing our ability to serve our clients, shareholders, and counterparties effectively. - A hybrid workplace that offers flexibility to teams and individuals; that is based on trust, flexibility and connectedness.  - An environment that places sustainability, equality and digital transformation at the heart of what we do.  - A workplace that prioritises employee wellbeing and provides a comprehensive suite of competitive benefits.    Diversity is one of the Bank's core values which are at the heart of everything it does.  As such, the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. The EBRD encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of the EBRD member countries to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socio-economic background or disability.      Please note, that due to the high volume of applications received, we regret to inform you that we are unable to provide detailed feedback to candidates who have not been shortlisted (for further consideration).