Classified Grade: NO-C
First Level Supervisor: External Relations/Resource Mobilization Officer 
Unit: External Relations
Duty Station: Jerusalem
Closing date: 6 June 2025

Purpose of the Position:

Under the supervision of the External Relations/Resource Mobilization Officer, the incumbent will contribute to the resource mobilization efforts for health emergency and health system programmes of the WHO Country Office in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), especially for the country office’s Operational Response and Early Recovery Plan. To support this overarching objective, the incumbent will assist in key areas, including but not limited - developing grant proposals, ensuring timely donor reporting, producing donor intelligence and funding analysis pieces and other supporting tasks required by the country office. The incumbent’s results will aim to support WHO’s positioning in the local public health context, the office’s successful engagement with high-impact and diverse strategic partners and effective resource mobilization.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

The incumbent will perform the following duties:

• Apply expertise in the national partnerships’ landscape and public health system, to support the development of strategies and plans for engagement with partners covering state (including national, donors, United Nations partners) and nonstate actors (that is, civil society organizations/nongovernmental organizations, philanthropic foundations, academic institutions etc.) toward joint programming and funding opportunities.
• Support the implementation of partnership and resource mobilization strategies.
• Conduct research on existing and potential partners profiles; identify synergies, opportunities, and develop concept papers for collaboration and resource mobilization in relation to the strategic goals and programmes of the country office.
• Conduct funding landscape and gap analyses to inform strategic resource mobilization efforts, identify priority funding needs, and support the alignment of donor engagement with programmatic objectives.
• Under the guidance of WHO headquarters and the regional office, provide support in the negotiation and implementation of partnership agreements, as well as plans for mobilizing and allocating resources, securing the required legal and financial clearances.
• Support the development of grant proposals, the monitoring of the implementation of plans for donor contributions within the Programme Management Unit, and reporting on progress towards target attainment. Coordinate programme staff on the recalibration of inputs, outputs and compliance with the terms and conditions of related legal agreements and documents. Coordinate with Communications and Advocacy teams to ensure donor visibility.
• Develop donor meeting documents and communications, such as statements, briefing, talking points, presentations on partnerships activities.
• Develop and/or manage the office’s database/information management system on donor and partner contacts, intelligence, and resource mobilization.
• Guide management and the colleagues on cultural norms for successful dialogue with national partners and stakeholders.

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Qualifications

Educational background

Essential: A first university degree in a relevant field (such as international relations, political science, social sciences, communications, marketing, management, accounting, financial management, business or public administration).

Desirable: Qualifications/studies in external relations, communication, resource mobilization, partnership-building, development. Training in donor intelligence, or proposal writing, and/or general project management.

Functional Knowledge and Skills

• External relations, resource mobilization and partnership-building, complemented by the ability to conceptualize ideas.
• Proven skills in all sorts of writing products in relations to the function, including project proposals, donor reports, donor profiles, briefing notes, and meeting minutes.
• Expertise and knowledge of a rich variety of donors from tradition to non-traditional donors, from state donors to non-state donors to feed into the donor intelligence and donor engagement.
• Great knowledge of funding and financing modalities, e.g., pooled funding mechanisms, innovative finance, government financing, trust funds, and other funding mechanisms involving national governments.
• Understanding of the unique and complex working context of oPt.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including proven ability to facilitate and strengthen collaboration with a broad range of external partners.
• Strong coordination skills with the ability to facilitate effective collaboration across internal teams and adept at aligning efforts, streamlining communication.
• Ability to "think out of the box", and to make innovative proposals for the mobilization of resources.
• Ability to identify partnerships risks and propose mitigation measures in emergency settings.
• Good knowledge of WHO programmes and activities in the country as well as the work of the United Nations common system is an asset.

Professional experience  

Essential:

• A minimum of five years of experience relevant to the position (in external relations, partnerships’ building, and resource mobilization, with grants management) at the national level.
• Documented achievements in resource mobilization activities

Desirable:

• Prior work experience with WHO, United Nations or other international organizations.
• Experience in partnership-building ideally, with major public health donors (Central Emergency Response Fund, European Union/ Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Civil Aid Operations (ECHO), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), US Agency for International Development/Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/BHA), World Bank, Saudi Arabia/KS Relief, United Arab Emirates).

Language Skills

• English: Expert knowledge: read, write, speak
• Arabic: Expert knowledge: read, write, speak

Competencies

• *Teamwork
• *Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
• *Effective communication
• Result oriented
• Ensuring the effective use of resources Forward in a changing environment

Interested applicants must submit an introduction letter, a resume and copy of education certificates, in English, no later than 6 June 2025 to [email protected] indicating in the subject line: Resource Mobilization Officer  _ Your name.

Please note that applicants must respond to the questions listed below in their email application; applications submitted without answers to these questions will not be considered. 

1. Do you have a university degree in a relevant field such as international relations, political science, social sciences, communications, marketing, management, accounting, financial management, business or public administration?  (Yes/ No) 

2. Do you have over five years’ experience in resource mobilization, grants management or partnership building?  (Yes/ No) 

3. Do you have significant experience in proposal development? (Yes/ No, if yes for how many years)

4. Do you have significant experience in donor reporting? (Yes/ No, if yes for how many years)

Desirable: 

1. Do you have previous experience with WHO, United Nations or other international organizations? (If yes, please name the organizations.)

2. Do you have experience working with a variety of donors? (If yes, please name the donors)

Relevant applications will be considered, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.