Senior Partnerships Officer (Private Sector)

Leads FAO's private-sector partnership strategy, building stronger engagement, monitoring and support mechanisms across headquarters, regional and country operations. The role steers strategic collaboration with non-state actors, oversees partnership processes and reporting, and helps FAO connect private-sector expertise and investment with agrifood-system transformation and its wider mandate.

• Lead implementation of FAO's private-sector strategy at global, regional and national levels
• Identify strategic collaboration with non-state actors to advance the FAO Strategic Framework
• Develop annual private-sector workplans aligned with organisational programmes
• Support headquarters and decentralised offices on partnership methods and relations with non-state actors
• Advise FAO entities and governing bodies on multi-stakeholder partnership policy discussions
• Oversee country-specific partnership materials, tools and processes
• Lead monitoring and evaluation of FAO private-sector partnerships and annual reporting
• Review partnership workflows and IT platforms, including the FAO CONNECT portal, to improve engagement and reporting

• Advanced university degree in rural development, political science, international cooperation, development, business, economics or a related field
• Ten years of relevant experience in international cooperation or business, donor programmes, government institutions, UN agencies, private-sector functions, civil society, negotiations or advocacy
• Working knowledge of English at level C and intermediate knowledge of another FAO official language at level B

• Experience in resource mobilization
• Private-sector partnership and negotiation experience in the UN common system

• Private Sector Partnerships
• Partnership Strategy
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Negotiation
• Resource Mobilisation
• Performance Monitoring
• Process Improvement
• Capacity Development

• FAO CONNECT portal