Partnerships Coordinator Specialist, P-4

UNICEF – Partnerships Coordinator Specialist, P-4

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• Partnerships

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Partnerships Coordinator Specialist, P-4, Temporary Position, 364 days, Supply Division, Copenhagen, Denmark #00138982

Apply now Job no: 596842

Contract type: Temporary Appointment

Duty Station: Copenhagen

Level: P-4

Location: Denmark

Categories: Partnerships

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

For every child, the right to Deliver

UNICEF Supply Division (SD) works to ensure equitable and inclusive access to essential supplies and services for children and their families across development, humanitarian and fragile contexts. SD brings together global supply chain expertise, market engagement, and partnerships with governments, civil society, the private sector, industry, and other stakeholders to support the needs of children worldwide.

This provides a strong operational and partnership foundation for the Humanitarian and Transport Logistics Alliance (HTLA) and its focus on strengthening humanitarian transport and logistics through collaboration across sectors.

The Humanitarian Transport and Logistics Alliance (HTLA) is a strategic UNICEF-led initiative designed to strengthen the resilience, efficiency, preparedness, and performance of humanitarian supply chains through structured collaboration between humanitarian organizations, commercial transport and logistics providers, governments, donors, academia, and other strategic stakeholders.

Building on UNICEF's role as holder of the United Nations Long-Term Arrangement (LTA) for global freight forwarding and transportation services, its established relationships with global carriers, freight forwarders, and logistics service providers, HTLA provides a coordination and operational mechanism to facilitate faster, more predictable and cost-effective movement of humanitarian goods. Through partnership MoUs with carriers, humanitarian shipments can benefit from priority handling and expedited bookings, alongside preferential conditions that help reduce delays and avoid additional logistics costs. These arrangements provide a strong operational and partnership foundation on which HTLA can build.

Building on this established foundation and the value already being delivered, HTLA aims to progressively strengthen and broaden the model into a multi-stakeholder alliance. The intention is to protect and expand the operational benefits already achieved while creating a structured mechanism through which humanitarian and commercial actors, and other strategic partners, can strengthen preparedness, address shared supply chain bottlenecks and develop collective solutions that improve humanitarian logistics resilience and system-wide performance.

The Partnerships Coordinator will play a central role in taking this work forward, driving implementation of the HTLA roadmap, coordinating stakeholders and supporting the Alliance's continued development.

How can you make a difference?

The Partnerships Coordinator will lead the day-to-day implementation and coordination of HTLA, translating its agreed strategic direction and roadmap into a functioning alliance. The role will drive delivery across the HTLA workplan, coordinate internal and external stakeholders, establish fit-for-purpose governance and ways of working, monitor progress and results, and ensure that decisions, dependencies and risks are actively managed. Under the supervision of the Chief, GTLC, the position will work closely with logistics and partnership functions colleagues, and relevant other technical and partnership functions. The post holder will serve as the central coordination and focal point for HTLA and ensure coherence across partnership development, industry engagement, governance, communications, resource mobilization and results monitoring.

Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks:

• Strategic Leadership and HTLA development
• HTLA design, implementation and monitoring
• Multi-Stakeholder Coordination and Alliance Management
• Governance and Partnership Development
• Budget management, Resource Mobilization and Sustainability
• Strategic Communications, Advocacy and External Positioning
• Knowledge Management and Innovation

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: ToR - Partnerships Coordinator Specialist_P4.pdf

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

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in one or more of the following fields: International Relations, Public Administration, Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Development Studies, Humanitarian Affairs, Political Science, Economics, Social Sciences or any other relevant disciplines.
• Work

Experience

• Minimum eight (8) years of progressively responsible professional experience in the following areas: partnership management, stakeholder engagement, project management, international freight and humanitarian logistics, supply chain management, external relations or related fields.
• Experience engaging with senior government officials, donors, UN agencies, NGOs, and private sector partners.
• Demonstrated experience in governance, partnership development, alliance building, or collective impact initiatives.
• Skills: Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex multi-stakeholder initiatives involving public, private and humanitarian sector actors, establishing accountability, managing dependencies and risks, and maintaining momentum in multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong organizational, facilitation and follow through skills, with demonstrated ability to structure delivery and manage competing priorities in complex and evolving environments.
• Demonstrated ability to build alignment, manage differing institutional perspectives and drive delivery through influence without formal line authority.
• Language

Requirements

• Fluency in English is required.

Desirables:

• Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

• Demonstrated experience in supply chain, international transport and freight and logistics is a strong asset.

• Experience in humanitarian and/or development contexts is highly desirable.

• 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

• Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.

• UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

• UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, includi