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About the Role

UNICEF Canada is seeking a Senior Manager, Foundation Partnerships to provide coordination, grant management, and partnership communications for a major institutional foundation partnership. This role is crucial for ensuring alignment across internal and external stakeholders, managing key dates and deliverables, and facilitating clear communication to advance UNICEF's mission for children.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate monthly/quarterly stakeholder meetings, updates, and follow-ups among UNICEF Canada, Global teams, Country Offices and Regional Offices to capture status updates across the internal network.
• Develop and maintain meeting agendas, actions, briefing notes, timelines, and shared coordination tools to support effective partnership management and decision-making.
• Track and monitor partnership commitments, grant deliverables, dependencies, & reporting requirements, proactively identifying and escalating risks, gaps, or delays that may impact partnership objectives.
• Facilitate effective information flow and alignment between teams to ensure that partnership priorities, program updates, and donor requirements are understood and acted upon.
• Serve as a central coordination point for scheduling, document sharing, and internal preparation for partner-facing engagements, including the Partnership Council meetings with the external partner.
• Oversee grant management processes, including detailed milestone tracking, reporting deadlines, approvals, payment schedules, and key partnership deliverables.
• Support Director, International Programs & Emergencies with UNICEF Canada’s oversight of programmatic reporting by tracking timelines, milestone reminders, and ensuring deliverables are provided on schedule.
• Coordinate with relevant internal and global stakeholders to collect accurate program, financial, and impact information for donor reporting, stewardship and decision-making.
• Monitor progress against agreed grant requirements and escalate risks or delays in a timely manner.
• Maintain organized records of grant-related documents, correspondence, reporting inputs, and partner commitments in Raiser’s Edge, UNISON, and Asana.
• Lead coordination of partnership communications across UNICEF Canada, Global teams and Country Offices to ensure messaging is consistent, timely, and aligned with partnership objectives.
• Draft, review, and coordinate updates, briefing materials, meeting notes, and partner-facing correspondence as needed.
• Coordinate the development of program updates and stewardship materials that reflect partner priorities and UNICEF’s programmatic work.
• Ensure consistency of messaging and partnerships of communications planning across the various grants.
• Provide an oversite of overall partnership communications strategies, ensuing alignment with donor expectations and organizational priorities.
• Maintain visibility on upcoming communications needs and ensure relevant teams have adequate time and information to contribute.

Requirements

• Demonstrated 5-7 years of experience in partnership management, project management, grant management, government communications and relations, international development, or a related field.
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple timelines, stakeholders, deliverables, and competing priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize information and prepare clear materials for different audiences.
• Experience leading and influencing cross-functional, geographically dispersed, or matrixed teams to achieve shared objectives.
• Strong attention to detail, with the ability to establish and maintain effective systems, processes, and documentation.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, discretion, and diplomacy when working with internal teams and external partners.
• Experience with institutional donors, foundations, grants, or international programs is an asset.
• Proficiency with project management, CRM, and collaboration tools, including Asana, MS Office, Raiser’s Edge and Salesforce.
• Must receive clearance by a police background check (including a vulnerable sector screen).

Skills

• Partnership management
• Project management
• Grant management
• Government communications and relations
• International development
• Organizational skills
• Written communication
• Verbal communication
• Cross-functional team leadership
• Attention to detail
• Judgment
• Discretion
• Diplomacy
• Asana
• MS Office
• Raiser's Edge
• Salesforce
• Relationship-building
• Coordination
• Follow-up systems
• Stewardship
• Reporting
• Risk identification
• Information flow facilitation
• Scheduling
• Document sharing
• Internal preparation
• Milestone tracking
• Approval processes
• Payment schedules
• Programmatic reporting
• Financial information collection
• Impact information collection
• Donor reporting
• Messaging consistency
• Communications planning
• Communications strategy oversight
• Proactive follow-through
• Collaboration
• Clear and concise communication
• Risk management
• Strategic thinking
• Execution and results orientation
• Managing ambiguity
• Structuring complex partnerships
• Solutions-focused
• Responsiveness

Location

• Toronto

Work Type

• Full-time
• Fixed contract - 18 months
• Fixed-Hybrid

Experience Level

• 5-7 years

Salary/Compensations

• $75,000 - $90,000 per year

Benefits

• Benefits
• 3 weeks paid vacation
• Extended Health/Dental benefits
• Healthcare Spending Account
• Wellness Account
• Life, AD&D, & Long-Term disability insurance coverage
• Access to parental leave top-up
• Fixed-hybrid work environment
• Minimum 3 weeks of annual vacation (increases with time served)
• 1 additional day per year of service (max 30)
• 10 paid sick days
• 2 personal days
• 9 employee wellness days
• Discounted rate for a GoodLife gym membership
• Access to an Employee and Family Assistance Program
• Access to a comprehensive global learning platform with over 1600 courses, webinars & resources
• Internal leadership development, training, & mentorship programs
• Opportunities to access both local & global stretch assignments

About the Company

• UNICEF is the world’s farthest-reaching humanitarian organization for children. Across 190 countries and territories, and in the world’s toughest places, we provide and advocate for education, health and nutrition services. Protect children from violence and abuse. Bring clean water and sanitation to those in need. Keep them safe from climate change and disease. Serve as the world’s largest provider of vaccines. Before, during and after emergencies, we’re on the ground with life-saving help and hope.
• UNICEF Canada is one of 32 National Committees located in high-income countries around the world. Our team exists to fundraise for UNICEF’s highest priorities, and to work neutrally with governments and the private sector in Canada and internationally to advance the rights and well-being of children and youth.
• UNICEF Canada is committed to being an employer of choice and building a culture that is inclusive, ambitious, compassionate, and high impact.
• UNICEF Canada is where diverse talent & passion come together to create extraordinary impact for every child.
• UNICEF Canada is an inclusive workplace and is committed to championing diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.
• At UNICEF Canada, we believe strongly in personal connections, and our hiring process is human driven. We do not use AI or automated systems to review applications or conduct interviews. Each candidate is evaluated by our experienced team to ensure a fair and thoughtful hiring experience.

Equal Opportunity

• UNICEF Canada is an inclusive workplace and is committed to championing diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process.