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Regional FinWise Technical Specialist – East and Southern Africa (P4) at United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)



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UNCDF is the United Nations’ flagship catalytic financing entity for the world’s 46 LDCs. With its unique capital mandate and focus on the LDCs, UNCDF works to invest and catalyze capital to support these countries in achieving ​the sustainable growth and inclusiveness envisioned by the Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Doha Program…


Regional FinWise Technical Specialist – East and Southern Africa (P4)

Lead the programme management of the FinWise Programme in Uganda

  • Serves as the Programme Manager – with direct oversight and responsibility on project implementation and delivery.

  • Directly manages the FinWise Country Coordinator, providing technical advice, professional guidance, and career development support.

    Ensures programme continuity when they are on leave.

  • Provides technical quality assurance, risk mitigation, budget oversight in coordination with respective UNCDF corporate units.

  • Leads implementation strategy, growth plans, programmatic donor relations, and strategic positioning of the programming.

  • Provides strategic guidance on knowledge sharing and advocacy, oversight of results and impact and project administrative and operations.

  • Ensures alignment of the programme with UNSDCF, other projects in Uganda, and selected FinWise programmes in the region as guided by the Regional Digital Manager, East and Southern Africa.

  • Manages key stakeholder relationships including the project board, all donors and government partners involved the programme.

  • Designs and executes the strategy to reach the resource goals targeted for the programme.

  • Designs and launching the MSME financing fund and ensuring proper working relationship with the investment team to measure, monitor and deal with financial risk.

  • Designs strategy for private sector partnerships, provides oversight on their selection and the delivery of their results.

  • Manages all project risks.

  • Manages board relations and reporting.
  • Provision of technical support on MSME financing, data driven lending, fund development / management to ESA FinWise teams

  • Provides technical support towards programming in the areas of MSME financing, data driven lending to FinWise focal countries ESA region– including the development of programme documents, concept notes and funding proposals.

  • Advise and supports FinWise programme teams in the region in structuring financing facilities, blended finance instruments for MSME financing and innovative fintech (data driven) lenders in coordination with respective UNCDF corporate teams.

  • Advise and support country teams in setting up an architecture for concessional financing of local financial service providers (FSPs) that can directly finance MSMEs sustainably at scale.
  • Contribute to cross country learning, and thought leadership 

  • Provide strategic guidance on knowledge sharing and learning across FinWise focal countries.

  • Contribute to the development and convening of a regional community of practice with pioneers in data driven lending and blended financing for MSMEs – to develop paradigms for strategy and products.

  • Contribute towards organizing events and drafting publications on emerging approach around MSME data driven lending and its challenges and opportunities.

  • Leverage the emerging successes and learnings to create opportunities for further programming and partnerships.
  •  Lead Resource Mobilization

  • Leads the resource mobilization for the US$60M unfunded portion of the FinWise Uganda programme document.

  • Supports the resource mobilization efforts for FinWise Ethiopia to achieve their fundraising goals.

  • Serves as technical lead for all resource mobilization efforts in FinWise focal countries.

  • Provides guidance to ESA Regional Digital Lead on expansion of the FinWise programmes to further focal countries.
  • Facilitate Knowledge Management

  • Identify best practices and lessons learnt from the project and other initiatives.

  • Contribute to knowledge networks and participate in knowledge sharing with other relevant programmes.

  • Facilitate generating of knowledge products such as best practices and lessons learnt for knowledge sharing.

  • Introduce and maintain proper documentation of the programme outputs.
  • The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.


    Competencies


    Core Competencies:


    Achieve Results: LEVEL 3

  • Set and align challenging, achievable objectives for multiple projects, have lasting impact
  • Think Innovatively: LEVEL 3

  • Proactively mitigate potential risks, develop new ideas to solve complex problems
  • Learn Continuously: LEVEL 3

  • Create and act on opportunities to expand horizons, diversify experiences
  • Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 3

  • Proactively initiate and champion change, manage multiple competing demands
  • Act with Determination: LEVEL 3

  • Think beyond immediate task/barriers and take action to achieve greater results
  • Engage and Partner: LEVEL 3

  • Political savvy, navigate complex landscape, champion inter-agency collaboration
  • Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 3:

  • Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity
  • People Management


    UNDP People Management Competencies can be found in the dedicated site.


    Cross-Functional & Technical competencies


    Business direction and strategy: Systems Thinking

  • Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system.
  • Business direction and strategy: Negotiation and Influence

  • Reach a common understanding/agreement, persuade others, resolve points of difference through a dialogue, negotiate mutually acceptable solutions and create ‘win-win’ situations.
  • Business Development: Knowledge Generation

  • Ability to research information and to turn it into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need.

    Ability to apply existing concepts to new situations, and to develop new concepts to generate workable solutions and new approaches.

    Knowledge of relevant concepts, conceptual models, and theories that can be useful in addressing new situations.
  • Business Management: Results Based Management

  • Ability to manage the implementation of strategies, programmes, and projects with a focus at improved performance and demonstrable results.

    Knowledge and understanding of relevant theories, concepts, methodologies, instruments, and tools.
  • Business Management: Portfolio Management

  • Ability to select, prioritize and control the organization’s programmes and projects in line with its strategic objectives and capacity Ability to balance the implementation of change initiatives with regular activities for optimal return on investment.

    Knowledge and understanding of key principles of project, programme, and portfolio management.
  • Business Management: Communication

  • Communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience.

    ‡Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels.
  • Partnership Management: Multi-stakeholder engagement and funding

  • Knowledge and ability to forge multi-stakeholder partnerships and remove any obstacles to resource mobilization and multi-stakeholder funding platforms.
  • Required Skills and Experience


    Education:

  •  Advanced university degree (Master’s Degree or equivalent) in Business Administration, Public Administration, Statistics, Finance, Economics or related field is required.

    Or

  • A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas stated above, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree
  • Experiences:

  • A minimum of seven years (with master’s degree) or 9 years (with bachelor’s degree) of demonstrated experience, in designing and implementing development programmes / projects from strategic conceptual level to detailed implementation level focusing on digital finance, digital innovation, MSMEs, in at least one of the following countries: Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania.

  • Proven track record of successfully leading resource mobilization for projects and programs targeting low-income populations in the East and Southern Africa (ESA) region is desired.

  • Experience in managing relationships with high-level stakeholders in government, multilateral agencies, corporates, industry bodies, and the private sector, preferably in emerging markets in East and Southern Africa (ESA) region is preferred.

  • At least five years working within the UN system around digital innovation, digital finance, access to finance, financial inclusion is an asset.

  • At least five years cumulative experience working for banks and/or microfinance institutions, ideally in Least Developed Countries is considered as an advantage.

  • Demonstrated thought leader in the field of innovative finance through past publication of articles and moderation of panels on the subject matter at high level events is preferred.

  • Demonstrated experience in supervising and managing cross-country teams is an advantage.

  • Required Skill Profession

    Other General



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