This position is located within the Partnerships and Resource Mobilisation (PRM) team of the UNICEF Sudan Country Office (SCO). Sudan currently manages one of UNICEF’s largest humanitarian appeals globally, approaching one billion USD annually. The PRM team is structured around two core functions: budget management and partnerships.
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UNICEF has been present in Sudan since 1952, delivering long‑term humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding assistance to children and young people, their mothers, families, and communities. UNICEF’s programming prioritizes the most vulnerable children, including refugees, internally displaced persons, and children affected by conflict and climate shocks, through life‑saving interventions at household and community levels. At the same time, UNICEF works to strengthen national systems, sustain peace, and advocate for respect, dignity, and the full realization of children’s rights.
Sudan is currently facing one of the world’s largest and most complex humanitarian crises. Millions of children have been displaced, public services have been severely disrupted, and nearly half of all children in the country require humanitarian assistance to survive and develop. The scale, duration, and volatility of the crisis place exceptional demands on humanitarian coordination, programme delivery, and accountability to affected populations and donors alike.
Within this context, UNICEF operates across all 18 states, often under significant access, security, and operational constraints, while continuing to deliver integrated, life‑saving services across sectors. Strong donor reporting, visibility, and strategic communication are therefore essential to:
- Sustain large‑scale humanitarian financing by meeting donor compliance requirements, reinforcing confidence in UNICEF’s operational capacity, and supporting continued and flexible funding.
- Demonstrate results and accountability through evidence‑based reporting that clearly links resources to outcomes and shows measurable impact for children and communities.
- Position UNICEF as a key operational and coordination actor by showcasing leadership, scale, partnerships, and comparative advantage within the humanitarian response.
This role sits at the intersection of programme delivery, partnerships, and external communication, ensuring that reporting and narrative outputs accurately reflect operational realities while communicating results, challenges, and learning in a credible and compelling manner.
How can you make a difference?
The Partnerships Officer (Reporting) supports UNICEF Sudan’s resource mobilisation and accountability efforts by ensuring the timely production, quality assurance, and strategic positioning of donor reports and communication products, demonstrating results and impact for children in a highly complex humanitarian context.
This position is located within the Partnerships and Resource Mobilisation (PRM) team of the UNICEF Sudan Country Office (SCO). Sudan currently manages one of UNICEF’s largest humanitarian appeals globally, approaching one billion USD annually. The PRM team is structured around two core functions: budget management and partnerships.
The Partnership Desk consists of six staff members managing both humanitarian and development funding portfolios. Under the guidance of the Partnerships Specialist (Humanitarian Portfolio), the Partnerships Officer will play a central role in ensuring the quality, accuracy, and timeliness of all donor reporting for the Sudan Country Programme in Sudan. Some of the team is outposted to Nairobi, Kenya but this position will be based in Khartoum, Sudan.
You will work closely with the Partnerships Specialist to manage, steward, and strengthen the humanitarian funding portfolio, ensuring consistent engagement with donors and full adherence to reporting obligations. You will also lead the production and quality assurance of UNICEF Sudan’s Humanitarian Situation Reports (SitReps), coordinating with programme sections, field offices, the Regional Office (RO), and Headquarters (HQ). In addition, you will take a lead role in coordinating the preparation of the Sudan Country Office Annual Report, working closely with the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) section and other relevant teams.
Key functional responsibilities include:
- Leading the production and quality assurance of SitReps and donor reports, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and alignment with UNICEF and donor standards.
- Maintaining and tracking all donor reporting requirements and deadlines, ensuring full compliance and timely submissions.
- Compiling and editing narrative and results inputs from programme sections and field offices into coherent, donor‑ready reports.
- Supporting proposal development and funding documentation, contributing to resource mobilization efforts when required.
- Maintaining reporting archives and institutional memory, ensuring continuity and accessibility of key documents.
- Delivering capacity building on reporting and results articulation, strengthening internal reporting quality across sections and field offices.
- Developing communication and advocacy materials, such as briefing notes, presentations, funding cases, and human‑interest stories.
- Supporting donor visibility compliance, including branding requirements, documentation, and usage of visual assets.
If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: 
JD-Partnerships Officer_P-2.pdf
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Minimum requirements:
- Education: Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in social sciences, international development/relations, communications and any other related fields.
- Work Experience: 2 years of relevant work experience at national and/or international level.
- Skills:
- Strong analytical and writing skills
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines in high-pressure environments
- Experience in donor reporting and results-based management
- Strong coordination and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Familiarity with humanitarian contexts and UNICEF programming
- Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.
Desirables:
- Language: Knowledge of another official UN language, particularly Arabic (French, Spanish, Arabic, or Russian) or the local language is an asset.
- Experience in results-based management, donor visibility compliance, SharePoint, capacity building is an asset.
- Experience in reporting, communications, partnerships, or humanitarian programming is an asset.
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.
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 competencies required for this post are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
(3) Drive to achieve results for impact
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
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