Foundations, Philanthropies, Family Offices Advisor

The Foundations, Philanthropies, Family Offices Advisor will provide strategic advisory support to senior leadership on expanding and deepening UNCDF’s engagement with global philanthropic and private sector actors. The role contributes to defining UNCDF’s institutional positioning, partnership models, and engagement strategies across key markets.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of UNCDF’s global engagement strategy with foundations, philanthropies, family offices, corporates, and high-net-worth individuals.
• Define and continuously refine UNCDF’s value proposition and partnership models aligned with institutional priorities.
• Identify and pursue high-impact partnership opportunities that contribute to resource mobilization objectives.
• Lead engagement with key partners and stakeholders, including foundations, family offices, endowments, and private sector actors.
• Develop and maintain strategic relationships to position UNCDF as a partner of choice.
• Support and advise senior leadership in high-level engagements, negotiations, and partnership discussions.
• Provide ongoing analysis of global philanthropy, family offices and private capital trends to inform UNCDF’s engagement strategy.
• Identify emerging opportunities across priority regions (including the US, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East).
• Develop and maintain a structured pipeline of partners and opportunities aligned with institutional priorities.
• Design and advise on innovative partnership models, co-financing mechanisms, and collaboration frameworks.
• Contribute to strengthening UNCDF’s partnership pipeline and achievement of resource mobilization targets.
• Establish and monitor performance indicators (KPIs) to track engagement outcomes and partnership impact.
• Oversee the development of high-quality strategic materials, including proposals, partnership frameworks, and impact narratives.
• Guide the creation of communication products to support positioning, outreach, and engagement efforts.
• Contribute to institutional knowledge management and dissemination of best practices in partnership development.

Requirements

• An advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Economics, Finance, Business Administration, International Development, Public Policy or related area of study is required.
• A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with 2 additional years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of master’s degree.
• A minimum of 10 years (with master’s degree) or 12 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant professional experience in international development, finance, partnerships, or related fields.
• Experience in development finance, within multilateral, bilateral or international institutional settings.
• Experience leading resource mobilization strategies with measurable financial outcomes.
• Experience collaborating with high-profile stakeholders to advance partnership agendas, innovative partnership models.
• Experience in designing and implementing innovative partnership models in underserved markets, including blended finance, co-financing, or catalytic investment structures (desirable).
• Experience engaging and mobilizing resources with emerging philanthropic markets (e.g., Asia, Middle East, or other non-traditional donor geographies) and the private sector (desirable).
• Experience and knowledge of how to apply AI to programme management and investments (desirable).
• Fluency in English is required.
• Working knowledge of additional UN languages is an asset.

Skills

• Development Finance
• Resource Mobilization
• Partnership Development
• Financial Strategy Development
• International Development
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Innovative Partnership Models
• Blended Finance Structuring
• Co-Financing Mechanisms
• Catalytic Investment Structures
• Philanthropic Market Engagement
• Private Sector Engagement
• Programme Management
• Investment Management
• AI Application in Programme Management
• Strategic Advisory
• Multilateral Institutional Experience
• Bilateral Institutional Experience

Languages

English