Partnerships Development Specialist

The Partnerships Development Specialist will support strengthening strategic partnerships between the United Nations, International Financial Institutions, the European Union and Government counterparts. The role focuses on advancing joint programming, identifying investment opportunities and developing innovative financing solutions aligned with national development and peacebuilding priorities in the Central African Republic.

Responsibilities

• Support substantive engagement around the World Bank Country Partnership Framework and contribute analysis and coordination inputs relevant to the PRA eligibility process and prevention priorities.
• Deepen collaboration with AfDB on joint programming, prevention financing, catalytic approaches and collaborative analytical work, identifying concrete entry points for aligned or co-financed initiatives.
• Support the growing partnership with the IMF by preparing analytical inputs, mapping areas of complementarity with peacebuilding priorities, and facilitating relevant technical exchanges.
• Engage Government and partner teams to test interest in specific opportunities and establish the steps needed to advance them.
• Map and prioritize investable opportunities emerging from the SRF and PND, including opportunities where PBF resources can catalyze, sequence or complement larger IFI or EU financing.
• Coordinate or substantively contribute to concept notes, investment briefs, terms of reference, joint proposals and programming matrices for aligned or co-financed initiatives.
• Analyze financing options, sequencing, targeting and implementation dependencies and provide recommendations to support conflict-sensitive and gender-responsive investment design.
• Facilitate technical exchanges needed to move priority concepts from identification toward partner review, approval or financing decisions.
• Develop and maintain decision-oriented mapping of UN, PBF, IFI, EU and relevant Government investments linked to SRF priorities, including pipeline status and potential complementarities.
• Produce concise analytical and strategic products, including alignment briefs, financing notes, risk and opportunity analyses, pipeline overviews and inputs to joint assessments.
• Support conflict-sensitive and gender-responsive analysis, including attention to populations at risk, women and young people, as relevant to joint programming and investment decisions.
• Document lessons, good practices and recommendations on UN-IFI-EU collaboration and prevention financing and support their dissemination through appropriate country and global knowledge channels.
• Facilitate technical and programmatic coordination among the United Nations, IFIs, European Union and Government where this adds value to SRF implementation and partnership decisions.
• Support preparation and follow-up for SRF governance mechanisms, including concise materials, action tracking and partner inputs, in collaboration with the PBF Secretariat.
• Support collection and synthesis of partner information needed to track SRF indicators and connect reported results with active or planned programmes.

Requirements

• An advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent), preferably in international relations, development studies, economics, public policy, political science, finance, public administration or another relevant social science, with five (5) years of relevant experience is required.
• A first-level university degree (Bachelor's degree) preferably in international relations, development studies, economics, public policy, political science, finance, public administration or another relevant social science, with seven (7) years of relevant experience is desired.
• Relevant experience is considered progressively responsible experience in international development, peacebuilding, development finance, programme management or humanitarian affairs.
• Experience developing partnerships or programmes with international financial institutions, development banks, bilateral/multilateral partners or comparable financing institutions.
• Experience preparing strategic analysis, investment or programme concepts, financing proposals, partnership briefs or similar decision-oriented products.
• Experience facilitating multi-stakeholder processes involving government, United Nations entities and financing or development partners.
• Knowledge of results-based management, national development planning and UN cooperation frameworks.
• Experience in fragile or conflict-affected settings, including CAR or comparable contexts.
• Knowledge of prevention and peacebuilding financing, including catalytic or blended approaches.
• Fluent proficiency in English is required.
• Fluent proficiency in French is required.

Skills

• Partnership Development
• International Development
• Peacebuilding Processes
• Development Finance
• Programme Management
• Humanitarian Affairs
• Strategic Analysis
• Investment Proposal Preparation
• Financing Proposal Development
• Partnership Brief Preparation
• Multi-Stakeholder Facilitation
• Result-Based Management
• National Development Planning
• UN Cooperation Frameworks
• Fragile Settings Experience
• Conflict-affected Settings Experience
• Prevention and Peacebuilding Financing
• Catalytic Financing Approaches
• Blended Financing Approaches

Languages

English, French