Overview
Provide technical support and quality assurance for financing strategies and institutional strengthening within Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFFs), with a focus on private investment and financial markets.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and quality assurance for the development of financing strategies.
- Facilitate the delivery of technical assistance and capacity building.
- Manage a portfolio of technical assistance programming at the country level.
- Develop and maintain service offers that help governments develop technical elements of financing strategies.
- Maintain a database and up-to-date information on financing strategies and INFF elements.
- Catalyse country-level implementation of private and financial market reforms.
- Deepen integration of private finance services and offers across SFH and BPPS.
- Shape new services and tools across global & country financing policy frameworks and private finance portfolios.
- Analyse and draw out lessons learned from implementation of private finance reforms.
- Strengthen engagement by regional and global private and financial sector networks with INFFs.
- Facilitate INFF exchanges between countries, organizing workshops and events.
- Develop and deliver training and capacity building activities on INFFs and SFH services.
- Coordinate the development of future financing services within the frame of the INFF.
- Manage the annual survey to track how countries are using INFFs and country platforms.
- Develop summary analysis, reports, briefings, and presentations.
- Work with INFF technical team and communications lead to develop knowledge products and case studies.
- Support UNDP and SFH thought leadership and contribute to publications.
- Identify and share innovations within INFF processes.
- Provide substantive inputs into global INFF communications.
- Lead on operational collaboration with external partners supporting INFF implementation.
- Manage and develop relationships with other external partners.
- Work with UN DESA to feed country experiences into updates of INFF methodological guidance.
- Perform other duties within functional profile as deemed necessary.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 7 years (with master’s degree) and 9 years (with bachelor’s degree) of professional experience in private finance policy, sustainable investment, finance policy analysis, capacity building and/or advisory services is required.
- Experience in leading consultations with senior government officials and facilitating policy dialogue among a wide group of stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience in supporting government agencies or development partners in the area of private investment or financial markets.
- Demonstrated experience working with private sector or financial market actors on sustainable finance or related policy areas.
- Demonstrated experience in producing research/analytical reports and policy notes.
- Experience in data management and analysis skills, including prior experience conducting large surveys.
- Experience working on Integrated National Financing Frameworks.
- Previous work experience with UN/UNDP in similar functions.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences or related discipline is required, OR
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
