ChildFund recruits 01 Corporate Partnerships Specialist (short-term consultancy

1. General Information
Title: Corporate Partnerships Specialist (short-term consultancy)
Application deadline: 18 April 2022
Location: Home-based
Contract: Consultancy, estimated 20 working days within 2 to 3 months
Expected start date: May – September 2022 (negotiable)
2. About ChildFund Alliance
ChildFund Alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development organizations that help children
and their families overcome poverty and the underlying conditions that prevent children from reaching
their full potential. We reach nearly 23 million children and their family members in 70 countries around
the world. Members work to end violence against children; provide expertise in emergencies and
disasters to ease the harmful impact on children and their communities; and engage children and youth
to create lasting change. Our commitment, resources, innovation, knowledge and expertise serve as a
powerful force to elevate the voices of children and transform their lives. For more details, please see:
www.childfundalliance.org.
3. Background
Members of the ChildFund Alliance have strategically engaged for several years with corporations in
different countries. Engagement and partnerships mechanisms are aligned with overall development
cooperation priorities in terms of themes, sectors and countries of focus.
In alignment with ChildFund Alliance members’ policies and practices, ChildFund Alliance is looking to
review and further develop its corporate partnerships guidelines, and develop a thorough analysis of
current corporate trends and opportunities to maximize results for all children around the world.
The vision of ChildFund Alliance’s corporate engagement is to build long-term, mutually beneficial,
integrated relationships with corporations and associations willing to provide funds, in-kind resources,
knowledge-sharing, employee and customer engagement, introductions and contacts, and marketing
resources to advance ChildFund Alliance’s mission.
• Long-term Relationships — To maximize benefits for both corporations and ChildFund Alliance,
we seek relationships with a long-term outlook and multi-year commitment.
• Mutually Beneficial — By creating a mutually beneficial relationship, both parties can advance
their goals: ChildFund Alliance receives support to advance its mission to create sustainable
solutions for children, and the corporate partner advances its commitment to social
responsibility, while also strengthening its brand and engaging its employees and customers in
important social issues. Mutual interests and goals are identified and impact is measured. Both
parties benefit from their investment of valuable time and resources.
• Integrated — The most successful corporate relationships are those that are authentic, organic
and woven into the fabric of each organization.
• Mission-driven — ChildFund Alliance seeks partners committed to its mission and to provide
children in situation of vulnerability with opportunities to reach their full potential and
contribute to lasting and positive change in their communities.
4. Scope of Work
ChildFund Alliance is seeking a consultant to conduct an in-depth review and update of the existing
Corporate Partnerships Guidelines, and an analysis of the child-focused philanthropic interests and
priorities of the overall corporate sector. The ChildFund Alliance Secretariat, in collaboration with the
Alliance Corporate Subcommittee, comprising technical representatives from all Alliance members, will
oversee the work.
Specific objectives are:
a) Analyze current policies, practices and trends for corporate partnerships within the ChildFund
Alliance
Recognizing that different Alliance members have distinct practices, objectives and policies for
corporate partnerships, the consultant will identify both commonalities and differences, as well as best
practices across our current corporate partnership approaches. This mapping exercise will result in an
analysis of the currents trends and latest developments within the Alliance, both at country and global
levels, for corporate engagement and partnerships.
b) Review goals, principles and conditions of corporate partnerships
This work will lead to the review of ChildFund Alliance’s current corporate partnerships guidelines. The
goal is to define how, in its partnership with the private sector, the Alliance will be selective and ensure
a corporate partner’s full alignment with ChildFund Alliance’s core values, as well as outline clear and
agreed upon responsibilities and accountability of all partners.
Through this review, the consultant will need to:
• Update the Alliance review processes for corporate partnerships, and include relevant quality
indicators, values, and standards across different areas (financial, relevance, development
impact, risk, environmental, governance, social governance (including CSR), human rights, core
values, child labor, child safeguarding, anti-corruption, terrorism, internal policies and
procedures, etc.
• Identify the type of partnerships that leverages the strengths of the corporate sector on behalf
of the world’s children, especially the most vulnerable.
• Develop clear procedures for identifying, assessing, and managing the risks of engaging and
partnering with private sector partners, which will take into consideration the specificities of
ChildFund Alliance work with and for children.
• Recommend innovative engagement and partnerships practices with the private sector.
c) Recommend internal guidelines for cross-Alliance cooperation for corporate partnerships
Based on the Alliance’s current protocols and procedures, the consultant will be asked to reflect on how
the different members of the Alliance cooperate for corporate partnerships, identify the value added
and barriers to joint engagement and partnerships, and recommend internal guidelines for crossAlliance collaboration and cooperation for corporate partnerships.
d) Analyzing current trends and provide guidance on the potential implications of adopting
common corporate partnerships guidelines for ChildFund Alliance
The consultant will take into consideration the global context that is shaping and influencing corporate
partnerships (Grand Bargain, Covid-19, etc.) and analyze partnership trends specific to ChildFund
Alliance area of intervention.
The consultant will suggest potential implications of endorsing and implementing the corporate
partnerships guidelines across ChildFund Alliance in relation to the current operational model. This
should be broken down into benefits, challenges and proposed recommendations.
Key questions to be covered include:
• What is the appetite for private sector engagement and partnerships (e.g., multi-national
corporations, national companies, and small- to medium-sized businesses) in the child rights
sector?
• What is the shared-value approach across all types of partnerships (e.g., strategic programmatic
funding, advocacy, leveraging a company’s core expertise and networks, and/or promoting
child-rights principles in responsible business practices) to make a transformational difference
for children?
• What is the appetite for risk amongst Alliance members regarding engagement, partnerships,
and contractual arrangements between Alliance members and in-country corporate partners?
• What are the key implications in terms of operations, finance, and indirect cost-recovery for the
existing ChildFund Alliance structure?
5. Timeframe and Deliverables
Activities are scheduled to take place during about 15 working days between May /September 2022.
Outputs and activities for this work are provided below. (Note that actual dates are subject to discussion
with the consultant.)
Indicative
dates
Outputs and Activities
Indicative
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Outputs and Activities
May • Finalization of contract
May • Introductory chat with key ChildFund staff: context setting and sharing
work plan and methodology
TBC • Desk review background / context documents
TBC • Virtual consultations with key stakeholders
TBC • Draft deliverables
TBC • Virtual consultations and feedback
TBC • Final deliverables
Expected deliverables are as follow:
• Summary of key findings based on the initial desk review and virtual consultations
• Reviewed Guidelines for Corporate Partnerships
• Internal Guidelines for Cross-Alliance Corporate Partnerships
• Review, analysis and recommendations report
Throughout the consultancy, the ChildFund Alliance Secretariat and the Alliance Corporate
Subcommittee will:
• Provide relevant background documents to the consultant
• Be available for meetings over Skype/phone when needed
• Organize virtual stakeholder consultations when needed.
The Consultant will report to ChildFund Alliance Global Partnership Advisor. All reports and documents
must be written in English and provided in an electronic format (Microsoft Word).
6. Required Qualifications and Experience
• University degree in social / development studies, or any other relevant areas
• Excellent knowledge of private sector engagement and partnerships in development, the CSR
ecosystem, and INGO structures
• Solid experience in grant-making / resource mobilization and partnership development with
private sector entities
• Working experience and/or knowledge of non-profit sector
• Ability to engage with internal and external stakeholders at all levels and on complex issues,
from field workers to senior civil servants and/or corporate/business leaders
• Proven record of professional, timely and high-quality consultancy assignments in the
development, humanitarian and/or non-profit sector
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Excellent analytical and report writing skills
7. Conditions
The successful applicant will be required to comply with the ChildFund Alliance Child Safeguarding Policy
and Procedures and to sign the Code of Conduct. If the consultant will have direct, contact with children
or have access to children’s personal information, a relevant Criminal Background Check must also be
completed.
The Parties shall treat all discussions and documents relating to this TOR as confidential. The ChildFund
Alliance, its Board and staff make no express or implied representation or warranty as to the currency,
reliability or completeness of the information contained in this TOR. Nothing in this TOR should be
construed to give rise to any contractual obligations or rights, expressed or implied, by the issue of this
TOR or the submission of an expression of interest in response to it. No contract will be created until a
formal written agreement is executed between ChildFund and a selected consultant.
Applying
Please submit your expression of interest (EOI), in English, to recruitment@childfundalliance.org by 18
April 2022. The EOI should include the Consultant’s CV, detailed technical and financial proposal based
on the TORs, and availability between May and September 2022. Only finalists will be contacted.