For every child, the right to a Future
UNICEF has been working in Mexico since 1954, in coordination with the Government, civil society organizations and the private sector, guided by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, to ensure that the rights of all children and adolescents are guaranteed.
Our efforts focus on ensuring that all our programmes and initiatives reach those who are most disadvantaged and vulnerable throughout childhood and adolescence.
How can you make a difference?
The Senior Fundraising Associate (Legacy) supports the management, promotion, and administration of UNICEF Mexico’s Legacy Giving Program, contributing to the long-term sustainability of fundraising income through bequests, wills, and other planned giving opportunities.
The role serves as a key liaison between prospective legacy donors, existing supporters, and internal stakeholders involved in donor stewardship, legal review, finance, and database management. The position supports the implementation of strategies to raise awareness of legacy giving, strengthen engagement with hand raisers, and ensure a high-quality experience throughout the legacy giving journey.
Key functions/accountabilities include
- Define the strategy and work plan of the Legacy area, detect potential prospects inside or outside the UNICEF database.
- Establish campaign objectives, metrics, KPls and their corresponding monitoring and analysis.
- Promote personal interaction with key donors to advise them on technical and legal issues inherent to the process of inheritances and legacies.
- Assist in the maintenance of an accurate database, ensuring that records are kept fully up to date with all supporter communications, plans and information.
Minimum requirements
Relevant experience managing stakeholder relationships, including prospective donors, clients, partners, or external networks, is required.
Demonstrated capacity to establish and monitor fundraising objectives, metrics and KPIs to assess performance and support decision-making.
Strong ability to support donor engagement and stewardship activities to strengthen supporter relationships and commitments.
Proven capacity to use research, benchmarking and market insights to inform fundraising campaigns and approaches.
Desirables
- Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French or Russian) is desirable.
- Familiarity with inheritance, succession and estate administration frameworks is considered an asset.
- Direct experience in legacy fundraising is an asset.
- Experience working in other UN agencies is desirable.
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.
For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (1)
(3) Drives to achieve impactful results (1)
(4) Innovates and embraces change (1)
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)
(6) Thinks and acts strategically (1)
(7) Works collaboratively with others (1)
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, discrimination, fraud, corruption and other forms of serious misconduct. UNICEF is committed to promoting the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference, safeguarding, and background verification checks. These checks may include verification of academic credentials and employment history, screening against relevant United Nations misconduct databases, and requests for misconduct disclosures from current and former employers, professional associations, other relevant organizations and participating organizations under inter-agency safeguarding initiatives, including the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS), where applicable. Appointment, selection and continued engagement are subject to the satisfactory completion of all required checks. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information and consent to enable UNICEF to undertake these checks. Background checks will include 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 are conditional on the selected candidate's willingness to comply with current or future vaccination requirements, should UNICEF mandate it for personnel. Failure to comply with such requirements, where applicable and without a duly approved medical exemption from the relevant UN authority, will result in the cancellation of the selection or may lead to other administrative measures, including separation from service.
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 indigenous candidates 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.
Visa residence requirements: i.e. 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.