Re-advertisement Home-based: Global Wash Cluster

**Job no**: 576281
**Contract type**: Consultant
**Duty Station**: Geneva
**Level**: Consultancy
**Location**: Switzerland
**Categories**: WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene), Partnerships, Emergency, Fund Raising

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.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

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**Purpose of Activity/Assignment**

Exacerbating WASH needs and reduced funding landscape among traditional donors have strained global capacities to meet increasing requests of support from National Coordination Platforms (NCPs). Consequently, the Global WASH Cluster (GWC) seeks technical expertise to support exploring new opportunities, models of partnership, and collaboration specifically with the private sector to maximize its support to NCPs. To this end, this position will be instrumental in producing a mapping of private sector fundraising and partnership opportunities for the GWC.

This assignment will also develop a private sector fundraising strategy and stock proposal for the GWC, including identifying synergies and strengthened collaboration with UNICEF’s Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) Division. Through these key deliverables, this support will bring valuable knowledge to the GWC on how to showcase and position the importance of humanitarian WASH coordination and identify opportunities to expand into new and untraditional areas to innovate our approach to resource mobilization and partnership.

**Scope of work**

**1) Produce comprehensive mapping of private sector fundraising opportunities**
- Take stock of GWC priorities, achievements, and fundraising goals
- Undertake mapping of private sector fundraising opportunities and partnerships to advance GWC priorities outlined in the 2022-2025 Strategic Plan, including strengthened synergies with UNICEF PFP.

**2) Develop the Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships Strategy for the GWC**
- Conduct a landscape analysis of the external environment to assess strengthen, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
- Develop a comprehensive private sector strategy targeting the audiences with strongest potential, including individual supporters, key influencers (major donors and foundations) and/or businesses

**3) Create stock content to support implementation of the GWC Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships Strategy**
- Create stock content, including presentation and proposal, to support roll out of the GWC Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships Strategy.
- Provide key inputs to advocacy efforts to promote strategic priorities, including impact of humanitarian WASH coordination; portrays a strong GWC brand through effectively communicating key stories and messages.

**Work Assignment Overview**

**_Tasks / Milestone_**

**_Deliverables / Outputs_**

**_Timeline / Deadline_**
- 1. Produce comprehensive mapping of private
sector fundraising opportunities- Inception report of stocktaking and mapping conducted based on a desk review and 20 - 25 key informant interviews/focus groups discussions with relevant stakeholders- 20 working days- 2. Develop the Private Sector Fundraising and
Partnerships Strategy for the GWC- Develop a comprehensive private sector fundraising and partnerships strategy, based on a landscape analysis and SWOT30 working days
- 3. Create stock content to support implementation of the GWC Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships Strategy- Develop a generic proposal, presentation and advocacy brief
with key messages based on the private sector fundraising and partnerships strategy- 15 working days**Estimated Duration of the Contract**

65 working days between January and April 2025

The Consultant will be home-based.

As part of this assignment, some international travels are foreseen. The consultant will arrange her/his travel as and when they take place, and related costs will be reimbursed per UNICEF travel policy.
- Travel Clause_
- All UNICEF rules and regulations related to travel of Consultants apply.
- All travels shall be undertaken only upon the prior written approval by UNICEF.
- The consultant must be fit to travel, be in a possession of the valid UN BSAFE certificate, obligatory inoculation(s) and have a valid own travel/medical insurance and an immunization/vaccination card.

**Estimated Cost of the Consultancy & Payment Schedule**

Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of an invoice and satisfactory completion of the above-mentioned deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

Please submit a professional fee (in USD) based on 65 wo