Long Term Agreement (LTA) of Individual Consultant as Innovative Finance Consultant (Impact Investing/Carbon Credits), Innovative Finance for Children (IF4C), PFP
Job no: 576792
Position sort: Consultant
Location: Switzerland
Division/Equivalent: Partnerships
School/Unit: Geneva, Switzerland
Department/Office: Private Fund Raising and Partnerships
Categories: Communication, Partnerships, Fund Raising
UNICEF works in some of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 nations and territories, we work for each youngster, in all places, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody.
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UNICEF’s Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) in Geneva is pivotal to attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outlined within the group’s 2022-2025 Strategic Plan. The division focuses on maximizing personal sector fundraising, partnerships, and engagement. Central to those efforts is the Innovative Financing for Children (IF4C) perform, which develops and implements progressive financing mechanisms to mobilize assets for youngsters’s welfare globally. These initiatives deal with important points such as local weather change, environmental sustainability, and catastrophe threat discount, focusing on essentially the most weak and marginalized youngsters and adolescents. The IF4C staff performs a vital function in driving these efforts ahead by strategic personal sector engagements.
How are you able to make a distinction?
PURPOSE OF ASSIGNMENT
Reporting to the Innovative Finance Manager, the Innovative Finance Consultant (Impact Investing/Carbon Credits) will assist actions to implement the brand new Global Vision & Strategy for IF4C at UNICEF. These actions will embody exploring varied strategies for structuring progressive financing mechanisms, such as fairness, debt, grants, concessional financing, blended finance, mezzanine financing, and carbon credit. The marketing consultant may even advance the Joint Private Sector Financing Facility (JPSFF), specializing in: i) exploring related affect investing fashions to deal with programmatic challenges on the bottom; ii) figuring out alternatives and sources of funding for these mechanisms; and iii) structuring efficient frameworks to draw and have interaction personal sector capital.
Additionally, the marketing consultant will assist the structuring and implementation of varied financing options geared toward enhancing the personal sector’s contribution to sustainable growth by affect investing.
OBJECTIVE(S)
- Explore and develop affect investing methods and options to deal with programmatic challenges on the bottom.
- Conduct analysis and feasibility evaluation for these options.
- Create an enabling surroundings for these options, by constructing and sustaining robust partnerships with governments, worldwide monetary establishments (IFIs), growth finance establishments (DFIs), and asset managers to have interaction personal sector capital.
MAJOR TASKS TO BE ACCOMPLISHED
1. Build and keep relationships with key stakeholders (traders, monetary establishments, governments). Identify and pursue new funding alternatives aligned with UNICEF’s targets. Collaborate with governments to create a conducive surroundings for affect investing.
2. Conduct in-depth analysis on affect investing and personal finance mechanisms. Analyze the feasibility and affect potential of funding alternatives. Perform monetary due diligence and threat assessments. Identify and consider potential investees (SMEs and initiatives).
3. Establish strong governance frameworks and procedures. Develop threat administration methods to mitigate monetary, operational, and reputational dangers. Implement a rigorous vetting course of for potential investments.
4. Design progressive financing constructions (e.g., debt, fairness, blended finance). Prepare compelling funding proposals and displays. Secure funding from affect traders and different monetary establishments.
5. Identify and assess native suppliers for potential financing. Develop monetary fashions and threat administration methods for provider financing. Collaborate with stakeholders to advertise localization and social affect.
6. Develop affect measurement frameworks and metrics. Track the efficiency of investments and generate common experiences. Share insights and classes discovered with inner and exterior stakeholders.
Responsibilities of the Consultant:
- The marketing consultant will use their very own tools, together with laptops, microphones, software program, and some other equipment required for this activity.
- The marketing consultant won’t present the content material/materials or any half thereof to any third occasion with out the written permission of UNICEF. All elements will stay the property of UNICEF, and the marketing consultant won’t them with anybody else.
- The marketing consultant won’t place their very own identify or brand/emblem on the content material or remaining product. The solely branding used might be UNICEF’s, if required.
- Maintain common liaison with supervisor, content material homeowners, and any associated items.
Responsibilities of UNICEF:
- UNICEF will present all particulars pertaining to the exercise and the necessities.
- UNICEF will orient the marketing consultant on its branding pointers.
- UNICEF will share the paperwork and specs with the marketing consultant as they turn out to be obtainable and can coordinate the well timed supply of work.
DELIVERABLES:
1. Creating an enabling surroundings
- Build and keep robust relationships with institutional traders, monetary establishments, personal corporations, and nationwide governments.
- Identify areas of alternative and develop a strong pipeline of actions, engagements, and partnerships, that reply to country-level programmatic priorities.
- Work with nationwide governments to generate an applicable enabling surroundings for inclusive and sustainable enterprise fashions and child-aligned investments.
- Support the adoption and implementation of UNICEF’s child-lens investing framework for personal corporations.
2. Research and evaluation
- Conduct thorough analysis on affect investing and personal fairness mechanisms.
- Analyze the potential affect and feasibility of these mechanisms in addressing particular programmatic challenges.
- Explore totally different affect investing fashions, conduct threat assessments and feasibility analyses, and make suggestions.
- Conduct discipline visits and have interaction with native communities to know their wants and establish high-potential small and medium-sized (SMEs) and initiatives.
- Perform monetary analyses, enterprise mannequin evaluations, and social affect evaluation of potential investees.
- Review historic monetary statements, projections, and the creditworthiness of native SMEs.
3. Risk administration and governance
- Finalize the process for UNICEF’s engagement with asset managers.
- Generate memorandums of understanding, customary working procedures, and different governance frameworks and documentation to make sure transparency and threat administration.
- Create a verifying and vetting course of for choosing SMEs for affect investing (e.g., definition of affect standards, preliminary screening, due diligence, and threat evaluation).
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- For every of the constructions, establish and assess potential dangers (such as monetary, forex, market, and reputational dangers) and develop threat mitigation frameworks and techniques primarily based on UNICEF’s inner requirements and pointers.
4. Project Financing, Strategy and Engagement
- Structure options to make sure in-country SME and challenge financing (e.g., fairness, debt, grants, concessional financing, blended finance, and mezzanine financing).
- Prepare and ship compelling displays and proposals to potential affect traders that reveal challenge viability and successfully talk the challenge’s optimistic affect.
- Conduct website visits and interviews as wanted to look at SMEs and challenge operations, interview stakeholders and beneficiaries, and assess how affect is measured and reported.
- Explore, construction, and implement potential financing constructions with a carbon credit score part.
5. Supplier financing and localization
In shut collaboration with UNICEF’s Supply Division:
- Conduct in-depth market analysis to establish native companies and suppliers that might profit from provider financing.
- Evaluate potential funding alternatives primarily based on their monetary well being, social affect, and alignment with localization methods.
- Develop monetary fashions to evaluate the viability and potential returns of provider financing investments.
- Analyze and mitigate dangers related to investing in native suppliers, together with credit score threat, market, forex, and operational threat.
- Work carefully with native suppliers, neighborhood organizations, governments, worldwide monetary establishments (IFIs), growth finance establishments (DFIs), and different stakeholders to foster relationships and guarantee alignment with affect targets.
6. Monitoring, analysis, and reporting:
- Develop methods and frameworks for measuring the social and environmental affect of investments, such as job creation, native financial growth, and sustainability enhancements.
- Prepare detailed experiences for traders, highlighting the monetary efficiency and affect outcomes of the funding portfolio.
- Establish monitoring and analysis frameworks to evaluate the effectiveness of carried out affect investing mechanisms.
- Prepare common experiences and updates for senior management and different inner and exterior stakeholders.
LTA CONTRACT MANAGEMENT: Innovation Manager
TRAVEL: There is a risk of travelling to numerous areas, such as Africa and Latin America, on a per-need foundation. UNICEF will cowl journey bills, so a journey price range ought to be included within the LTA /work order for any mandatory journey.
ESTIMATED DURATION OF LTA: 3 years
FINANCIAL PROPOSAL: Financial Proposal LTA Innovative Finance Consultant (affect investing_carbon credit).pdf
To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you should have…
Education:
- An superior college diploma in worldwide growth, finance, economics, public or enterprise administration or a carefully associated discipline is required. A primary college diploma in a related discipline mixed with 2 extra years of related expertise could also be accepted in lieu of a complicated college diploma.
Experience:
- A minimal of twelve (12) years of related work expertise at nationwide and worldwide ranges in worldwide finance, growth finance, ESG/affect investing function in a growth finance establishment, personal fairness, funding banking, structured finance, or different associated fields is required/
- A mix of business personal fairness and/or personal credit score/structured finance and growth finance/affect investing expertise is required.
- Strong working data and prior work expertise in nationwide and/or worldwide growth is an asset.
- Prior expertise with Innovative partnerships or monetary innovation, as properly as expertise working with various stakeholder teams, multi-stakeholder partnerships, useful resource mobilization or capital formation from personal sector companions, IFIs and DFIs.
- Experience in and data of the UN system and UNICEF’s work is an asset.
Language:
- Fluency in English is required; data of one other official UN language is taken into account an asset.
Others:
- Strategic and international pondering, together with robust analytical potential.
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communications expertise.
- A mix of self-driven motivation and fervour for attaining outcome.
- Ability to conceptualize, plan, and execute concepts, as properly as handle initiatives.
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UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
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Remarks:
The utility to be submitted by the net portal ought to comprise 4 separate attachments: i. A Cover letter explaining the motivation for making use of and explaining how the {qualifications} and skillset of the candidate (to be uploaded on-line).
ii. Curriculum Vitae (CV) (to be uploaded on-line).
iii. A monetary proposal indicating skilled payment as per the above template. Please don’t forget to specify your identify within the file whereas saving. (to be uploaded on-line underneath “Financial Proposal” tab).
Without all of the above paperwork your utility might be thought of incomplete and invalid and won’t be thought of additional.
Only shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.
Individuals engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought of “staff members” underneath the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (such as go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service might be ruled by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.
The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the complete interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking over the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and are usually not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF for the period of their consultancy contracts.
UNICEF is dedicated to range and inclusion inside its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, spiritual or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to turn out to be a component of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF provides paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks, and affordable lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of versatile working preparations. Click right here to be taught extra about versatile work preparations, well-being, and advantages.
According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), individuals with disabilities embody those that have long-term bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with varied boundaries, could hinder their full and efficient participation in society on an equal foundation with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has dedicated to extend the quantity of staff with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer affordable lodging for work-related assist necessities of candidates and staff with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen bodily and digital accessibility. If you’re an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility assist in finishing the net utility, please submit your request by the accessibility e-mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.
UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to youngsters (individuals underneath 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination primarily based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, spiritual or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply extra info to conduct a background examine, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.
Advertised: Nov 04 2024 W. Europe Standard Time
Application shut: Nov 22 2024 W. Europe Standard Time
