Finance Capacity-Building Consultant, Global Foundations and Faith and Membership-Based Organizations (FFMBO), Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) Division. Rome, Italy, 6 months (Remote)

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture., coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

For every child, the right to future

How can you make a difference?

Inception and capacity assessment

• Review relevant UNICEF financial guidance, existing partnership tools, representative complex foundation budgets and results frameworks.
• Review internal UNICEF financial processes for Partnership financial tracking using existing UNICEF tools
• Consult FFMBO colleagues and relevant internal stakeholders to identify priority competency gaps, recurring challenges and practical use cases.
• Develop a document comprehensively capturing holistic financial systems, tools, tracking and reporting mechanisms and find the linkages across these areas. Include a Finance stakeholder map aligned to the finance systems mapping
• Establish a baseline assessment and agree a detailed workplan, learning objectives and success measures.
• Create a Competency Framework Crosswalk to map each required competency to:
  • The specific tool/template/module
  • Learning pathway content (academy-ready)
  • Common use cases

Finance guidance suite

• Develop a user-friendly suite of standardized ”how to “guidance and decision tools for complex foundation budgets, budget narratives, scenario planning, expenditure monitoring, forecasting and results tracking. Including a section on budget negotiation tactics with partners.
• Include clear instructions, quality checks, worked examples and guidance on adapting the tools to different partnership arrangements.
• Develop a checklist for Quality Assurance and Review Protocol to ensure:
  • Completeness of partnership budgets and narratives
  • Alignment between budget lines and results framework

• Plausibility checks for forecasts
  • Common errors and how to fix them
  • Suggested workflow for internal review/approvals.

• Develop a Learning & Tools Repository Inde and incorporate the following
  • A proposed folder structure and naming conventions and versioning approach
  • Location guidance (e.g., UNICEF SharePoint)
• Pilot and refine the guidance and tools with FFMBO colleagues and relevant technical counterparts.

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: ToR Finance Capacity-Building Consultant.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

• Education: An advanced university degree in finance, accounting, business administration, economics, international development or another relevant field is required. A first-level university degree in a relevant field combined with two additional years of qualifying professional experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree.
• Work Experience:
  • • At least eight years of progressively responsible professional experience in financial management, budgeting, grant management, partnership finance or a closely related field.
    • Demonstrated experience developing and managing complex, multi-year budgets for foundations, institutional donors or other grant-making partners.
    • Strong experience linking financial planning and monitoring to results frameworks, indicators and donor reporting requirements.
    • Demonstrated ability to design practical finance templates, guidance and quality-assurance tools for non-finance users.
    • Proven experience conducting capacity assessments and designing and facilitating adult learning, including assessments of knowledge and practical application.
    • Experience developing modular, facilitator-ready learning products for online, in-person or blended delivery.
    • Experience working in a complex international organization and familiarity with UNICEF financial, programme and partnership processes are strong assets.
• Skills: Excellent analytical, communication, facilitation, collaboration and project-management skills.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language—Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish—is an asset.

Desirables:A recognized professional accounting or finance qualification is an asset.

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 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 and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System):

• An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
• Cover letter
• A separate financial proposal (only acceptable in the format of the linked template) Financial proposal TMCxxx7324.docx

Advertised: 12 Nov 2026 W. Europe Standard Time
Deadline: 25 Nov 2026 W. Europe Standard Time

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.