Partnerships Associate

About the role

The Partnerships Associate will support UNOPS’ North Africa Multi‑Country Office in driving strategic partnerships and resource mobilisation. Reporting to the Partnerships and Communication Team Lead, the role involves identifying new project opportunities, preparing proposals, and ensuring a transparent partnership development process from inception to engagement.

Key responsibilities

• Research development priorities, donor strategies and government programmes to identify potential UNOPS engagements.
• Prepare expressions of interest, concept notes, capacity statements, proposals and logical frameworks.
• Liaise with internal teams and prospective partners to gather information and shape project concepts.
• Support the estimation of project scope, effort and costs and consolidate data for project development.
• Maintain up‑to‑date records of prospective projects, opportunities and partner intelligence.
• Participate in meetings with partners, follow up on agreed actions and contribute to UNOPS positioning as an implementation partner.
• Assist in mapping and analysing funding opportunities from governments, UN entities, bilateral and multilateral donors.

Required profile

• University degree in international development, business administration, economics or a related field.
• Experience in partnership development, resource mobilisation or project development within an international or UN context.
• Strong analytical abilities and capacity to produce high‑quality written documents.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex procedures to diverse stakeholders.

Required skills

• Research and analytical skills
• Proposal and concept‑note writing
• Project costing and budgeting basics
• Stakeholder engagement and liaison