Roster: Engagement of Individual Consultants to Develop Impact Financing and Related Innovative Finance Solutions for Innovative Finance for Children (IF4C), PFP (home-based)
Overview
This roster aims to engage individual expert consultants to conceptualize, design, and implement impact financing and related innovative finance solutions for UNICEF.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and market intelligence, opportunity identification, and investment-readiness services.
- Offer financing modelling, structuring, and implementation, partnership development services.
- Deliver technical, resource mobilization, operational, governance, and risk management services.
Required Experience
A minimum of five (5) years of relevant professional experience is required in one or more of the following areas: impact finance, development finance, outcome- or results-based financing, investment advisory, programme finance, resource mobilization, private sector engagement, UN agency programme management, or related innovative finance approaches. Demonstrated experience developing or leading investment cases or funding proposals, feasibility studies or market assessments, investment-readiness analyses or strategic analyses, financial structuring, business models, catalytic capital approaches, results frameworks and implementation plans for social impact or development outcomes, is required. Demonstrated experience and ability to translate programme priorities into viable financing solutions is required, including identifying market gaps, assessing investor and partner engagements and project implementation. Demonstrated experience and ability to work strategically and proactively across cross-functional teams and multi-stakeholder partnerships, including with UN agencies, governments, development finance institutions, multilateral development banks, foundations, donors, investors, intermediaries, private sector actors and social enterprises, is required. Demonstrated ability to proactively manage assignments under competing timelines, synthesize complex technical and financial information, and produce clear, high-quality written outputs for senior, technical and external audiences, is required. Experience supporting Micro, Small, Medium Enterprises, venture building, technical assistance facilities, impact measurement and management, or enterprise-focused programme design in low- and middle-income countries is considered a strong asset.
Qualifications
An Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or higher) in economics, finance, development finance, law, international development, or a closely related field is required. A first university degree in a relevant field combined with three (3) additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree especially where the work experience is in financial or fundraising services or results-based financing.