Fund Raising Officer, NO-2, Tirana, Albania Post # 132864
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**Job no:**
589172
**Contract type:**
Fixed Term Appointment
**Duty Station:**
Tirana
**Level:**
NO-2
**Location:**
Albania
**Categories:**
Fund Raising
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 grow and develop!***
UNICEF Albania operates in a Middle-Income Country context with a programme throughput of approximately USD 4 million projected for 2026. In response to a shrinking global and local funding landscape, the Country Office has prioritized strategic engagement with Albania’s emerging private sector, diaspora networks, and civil society organizations to diversify its resource base and ensure sustainable financing for child-focused initiatives.
The Albanian socio-economic environment presents both challenges and opportunities: a fragmented business landscape dominated by micro-enterprises, limited philanthropic infrastructure, and outdated legal frameworks for donations. However, the country’s momentum toward European integration, growing CSR interest among financial institutions, and strong diaspora connections offer significant potential for transformational partnerships.
UNICEF Albania has already taken proactive steps to engage the private sector, including the establishment of a Business Advisory Board, successful crowdfunding campaigns, and partnerships with key influencers and businesses. The office has developed a comprehensive strategic framework for private sector engagement and resource mobilization (2025–2030), which outlines mechanisms for partnership development, digital engagement, and advocacy for enabling policy reforms.
In this context, the Fund Raising Officer (NO-B) will play a pivotal role in operationalizing the strategy by coordinating partnership with businesses, fundraising efforts, cultivating long-term partnerships, and driving innovation in resource mobilization. The position will work closely with the Representative, Deputy Representative, Communication Officer and programme teams to build UNICEF Albania’s fundraising capacity, align efforts with global strategies, and ensure that private sector engagement contributes meaningfully to the realization of children's rights in Albania.
**How can you make a difference**
**?**
The position will be responsible for assisting UNICEF CO on fundraising efforts from the private sector and supporting broader engagement with business and key influencers in the private sector.
Under the general guidance of the Representative, the position will be responsible for the overall coordination, planning, development and realization of the country office’s private sector fundraising strategy, in line with UNICEF’s global private sector strategy. The incumbent will support in overseeing and coordinating resource mobilization strategy and activities, ensuring engaged and long-term private sector partnerships, and driving revenue growth for both the Country Programme needs as well as for UNICEF globally.
**Key Functions And Accountabilities For The Job Are Below**
- Support Private Sector Engagement and Fundraising Activities
- Assist in implementing private sector partnership and fundraising initiatives in line with the Country Office Private Sector Plan.
- Provide technical support for prospect identification, proposal development, and donor stewardship.
- Contribute to the preparation of performance objectives and work plans for staff engaged in private sector activities; provide guidance and feedback to ensure quality delivery.
- Identify training needs and support capacity-building activities for staff involved in private sector engagement.
- Contribute to Private Sector Planning and Monitoring
- Support the development and periodic review of the Country Office Private Sector Plan, ensuring alignment with global and regional strategies.
- Conduct market analysis and maintain updated information on potential partners, major donors, and corporate prospects.
- Monitor implementation of private sector activities, track progress against targets, and prepare regular performance reports.
- Assist in risk assessment and mitigation measures related to private sector partnerships.
- Partnership Development and Relationship Management
- Participate in identifying and cultivating relationships with businesses, foundations, and high-net-worth individuals.
- Support the preparation of engagement materials, presentations, and proposals for prospective partners.
- Represent UNICEF in meetings with partners at an operational level, ensuring effective communication of UNICEF’s priorities and programmes.
- Facilitate internal coordination with Communications, Programme, and Operations teams to ensure timely delivery of content and reporting for partners.
- Knowledge Sharing and Capacity Building
- Contribute to the development of guidance materials, templates, and tools for private sector engagement.
- Support knowledge exchange within the office and with regional/global PFP colleagues by sharing lessons learned and best practices.
- Assist in organizing workshops and training sessions to strengthen private sector fundraising skills among staff and partners.
*If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here:*
**To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…**
**Minimum Requirements**
- A university degree (Bachelor’s) in one of the following fields is required: Business Administration, Marketing, Communications, Fundraising, Management or another relevant technical field.
- Experience required: At least two (2) years of professional experience in fundraising is required, with progressively increasing responsibilities, including direct responsibility for setting and meeting income targets
- Skills:
- Proven ability to contribute to effective long-term strategic fundraising plans with focus on Private Sector Engagement is essential.
- Proven ability to implement clear goals that are consistent with agreed strategies is essential.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and seize fundraising opportunities, formulating fundraising strategies and models is essential.
- Demonstrated ability to adjust to unexpected challenges and proposing countermeasures accordingly is an asset.
- Diplomatic negotiation, influencing and networking skills to establish and maintain trusted partnerships and to develop close and effective working relationships with diverse stakeholders is an asset.
- Excellent communications skills, verbal and written is a must.
- Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
**Desirables**
- Experience in, and knowledge of the country’s context is an asset.
- Relevant marketing experience will be considered contributing to this work experience.
- Familiarity with the private sector is an asset.
- International fundraising experience is an asset.
- Previous managerial experience 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
**The UNICEF Competencies Required For This Post Are…**
- Builds and maintains partnerships
- Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
- Drive to achieve results for impact
- Innovates and embraces change
- Manages ambiguity and complexity
- Thinks and acts strategically
- Works collaboratively with others
[
*add the 8th competency (Nurtures, leads and manages people) for a supervisory role*
].
Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.
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.
UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be canceled.
**Remarks**
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce. For this position, eligible and suitable
***[Insert candidates from targeted underrepresented groups]***
are encouraged to apply.
Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.
UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.
Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.
UNICEF shall not facilitate the issuance of a visa and working authorization for candidates under consideration for positions at the national officer and general service category.]
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.
**Advertised:**
12 Jan 2026 Central Europe Standard Time
**Deadline:**
19 Jan 2026 Central Europe Standard Time
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**Job no:**
589172
**Contract type:**
Fixed Term Appointment
**Duty Station:**
Tirana
**Level:**
NO-2
**Location:**
Albania
**Categories:**
Fund Raising
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 grow and develop!***
UNICEF Albania operates in a Middle-Income Country context with a programme throughput of approximately USD 4 million projected for 2026. In response to a shrinking global and local funding landscape, the Country Office has prioritized strategic engagement with Albania’s emerging private sector, diaspora networks, and civil society organizations to diversify its resource base and ensure sustainable financing for child-focused initiatives.
The Albanian socio-economic environment presents both challenges and opportunities: a fragmented business landscape dominated by micro-enterprises, limited philanthropic infrastructure, and outdated legal frameworks for donations. However, the country’s momentum toward European integration, growing CSR interest among financial institutions, and strong diaspora connections offer significant potential for transformational partnerships.
UNICEF Albania has already taken proactive steps to engage the private sector, including the establishment of a Business Advisory Board, successful crowdfunding campaigns, and partnerships with key influencers and businesses. The office has developed a comprehensive strategic framework for private sector engagement and resource mobilization (2025–2030), which outlines mechanisms for partnership development, digital engagement, and advocacy for enabling policy reforms.
In this context, the Fund Raising Officer (NO-B) will play a pivotal role in operationalizing the strategy by coordinating partnership with businesses, fundraising efforts, cultivating long-term partnerships, and driving innovation in resource mobilization. The position will work closely with the Representative, Deputy Representative, Communication Officer and programme teams to build UNICEF Albania’s fundraising capacity, align efforts with global strategies, and ensure that private sector engagement contributes meaningfully to the realization of children's rights in Albania.
**How can you make a difference**
**?**
The position will be responsible for assisting UNICEF CO on fundraising efforts from the private sector and supporting broader engagement with business and key influencers in the private sector.
Under the general guidance of the Representative, the position will be responsible for the overall coordination, planning, development and realization of the country office’s private sector fundraising strategy, in line with UNICEF’s global private sector strategy. The incumbent will support in overseeing and coordinating resource mobilization strategy and activities, ensuring engaged and long-term private sector partnerships, and driving revenue growth for both the Country Programme needs as well as for UNICEF globally.
**Key Functions And Accountabilities For The Job Are Below**
- Support Private Sector Engagement and Fundraising Activities
- Assist in implementing private sector partnership and fundraising initiatives in line with the Country Office Private Sector Plan.
- Provide technical support for prospect identification, proposal development, and donor stewardship.
- Contribute to the preparation of performance objectives and work plans for staff engaged in private sector activities; provide guidance and feedback to ensure quality delivery.
- Identify training needs and support capacity-building activities for staff involved in private sector engagement.
- Contribute to Private Sector Planning and Monitoring
- Support the development and periodic review of the Country Office Private Sector Plan, ensuring alignment with global and regional strategies.
- Conduct market analysis and maintain updated information on potential partners, major donors, and corporate prospects.
- Monitor implementation of private sector activities, track progress against targets, and prepare regular performance reports.
- Assist in risk assessment and mitigation measures related to private sector partnerships.
- Partnership Development and Relationship Management
- Participate in identifying and cultivating relationships with businesses, foundations, and high-net-worth individuals.
- Support the preparation of engagement materials, presentations, and proposals for prospective partners.
- Represent UNICEF in meetings with partners at an operational level, ensuring effective communication of UNICEF’s priorities and programmes.
- Facilitate internal coordination with Communications, Programme, and Operations teams to ensure timely delivery of content and reporting for partners.
- Knowledge Sharing and Capacity Building
- Contribute to the development of guidance materials, templates, and tools for private sector engagement.
- Support knowledge exchange within the office and with regional/global PFP colleagues by sharing lessons learned and best practices.
- Assist in organizing workshops and training sessions to strengthen private sector fundraising skills among staff and partners.
*If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here:*
**To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…**
**Minimum Requirements**
- A university degree (Bachelor’s) in one of the following fields is required: Business Administration, Marketing, Communications, Fundraising, Management or another relevant technical field.
- Experience required: At least two (2) years of professional experience in fundraising is required, with progressively increasing responsibilities, including direct responsibility for setting and meeting income targets
- Skills:
- Proven ability to contribute to effective long-term strategic fundraising plans with focus on Private Sector Engagement is essential.
- Proven ability to implement clear goals that are consistent with agreed strategies is essential.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and seize fundraising opportunities, formulating fundraising strategies and models is essential.
- Demonstrated ability to adjust to unexpected challenges and proposing countermeasures accordingly is an asset.
- Diplomatic negotiation, influencing and networking skills to establish and maintain trusted partnerships and to develop close and effective working relationships with diverse stakeholders is an asset.
- Excellent communications skills, verbal and written is a must.
- Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
**Desirables**
- Experience in, and knowledge of the country’s context is an asset.
- Relevant marketing experience will be considered contributing to this work experience.
- Familiarity with the private sector is an asset.
- International fundraising experience is an asset.
- Previous managerial experience 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
**The UNICEF Competencies Required For This Post Are…**
- Builds and maintains partnerships
- Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
- Drive to achieve results for impact
- Innovates and embraces change
- Manages ambiguity and complexity
- Thinks and acts strategically
- Works collaboratively with others
[
*add the 8th competency (Nurtures, leads and manages people) for a supervisory role*
].
Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.
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.
UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be canceled.
**Remarks**
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce. For this position, eligible and suitable
***[Insert candidates from targeted underrepresented groups]***
are encouraged to apply.
Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.
UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.
Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.
UNICEF shall not facilitate the issuance of a visa and working authorization for candidates under consideration for positions at the national officer and general service category.]
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.
**Advertised:**
12 Jan 2026 Central Europe Standard Time
**Deadline:**
19 Jan 2026 Central Europe Standard Time
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