Senior Fund Raising Associate (Legacy)

Senior Fund Raising Associate (Legacy), (G-7), FT.pdf

The Senior Fundraising Associate (Legacy) supports the management, promotion, and administration of UNICEF Mexico’s Legacy Giving Program, contributing to the long-term sustainability of fundraising income through bequests, wills, and other planned giving opportunities.

The role serves as a key liaison between prospective legacy donors, existing supporters, and internal stakeholders involved in donor stewardship, legal review, finance, and database management. The position supports the implementation of strategies to raise awareness of legacy giving, strengthen engagement with hand raisers, and ensure a high-quality experience throughout the legacy giving journey.

The post holder will work closely with the fundraising teams within the Individual Giving programme and, where relevant, with the High Value and Communications teams to develop this new channel. The role will include activities aimed at acquiring new hand raisers (marketing initiatives, telemarketing clusters and segmentation, digital channels, radio, TV, and other channels), creating alliances with notaries and other facilitators and establishing a stewardship programme for committers and completers.

Key functions/accountabilities include:

• Define the strategy and work plan of the Legacy area, detect potential prospects inside or outside the UNICEF database.
• Establish campaign objectives, metrics, KPls and their corresponding monitoring and analysis.
• Promote personal interaction with key donors to advise them on technical and legal issues inherent to the process of inheritances and legacies.
• Assist in the maintenance of an accurate database, ensuring that records are kept fully up to date with all supporter communications, plans and information.

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: Senior Fund Raising Associate (Legacy), (G-7), FT.pdf

To qualify as a champion for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Completion of secondary education is required.
• Work

Experience

• A minimum of seven (7) years of professional work experience in fundraising or telemarketing is required. A completed bachelor’s degree from a recognized academic institution in a field relevant to the position such as marketing, sales or communications etc. may replace three (3) years of related work experience. A completed master’s degree may replace an additional two (2) years.
• Relevant experience managing stakeholder relationships, including prospective donors, clients, partners, or external networks, is required.
• Skills: Proven ability to develop and implement fundraising plans and strategies aligned with programme objectives.
• Demonstrated capacity to establish and monitor fundraising objectives, metrics and KPIs to assess performance and support decision-making.
• Strong ability to support donor engagement and stewardship activities to strengthen supporter relationships and commitments.
• Proven capacity to use research, benchmarking and market insights to inform fundraising campaigns and approaches.
• Language

Requirements

• Proficiency in Spanish and intermediate level of English are required.

Desirables:

• Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French or Russian) is desirable.

• Familiarity with inheritance, succession and estate administration frameworks is considered an asset.

• Direct experience in legacy fundraising is an asset.

• Experience working in other UN agencies is 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 (1)

• (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (1)

• (3) Drives to achieve impactful results (1)

• (4) Innovates and embraces change (1)

• (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

• (6) Thinks and acts strategically (1)

• (7) Works collaboratively with others (1)

• 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, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

• UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, discrimination, fraud, corruption and other forms of serious misconduct. UNICEF is committed to promoting the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference, safeguarding, and background verification checks. These checks may include verification of academic credentials and employment history, screening against relevant United Nations misconduct databases, and requests for misconduct disclosures from current and former employers, professional associations, other relevant organizations and participating organizations under inter-agency safeguarding initiatives, including the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS), where applicable. Appointment, selection and continued engagement are subject to the satisfactory completion of all required checks. Selected candidates may be requ