Long Term Agreement (LTA) of Individual Consultant as Innovative Financing Consultant, Innovative Finance for Children (IF4C), PFP
Job no: 576795
Position kind: 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 kids. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 international locations and territories, we work for each baby, in all places, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody.
And we by no means surrender.
For each baby, sustainability
UNICEF’s Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) in Geneva is pivotal to reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outlined within the group’s 2022-2025 Strategic Plan. The division focuses on maximizing non-public sector fundraising, partnerships, and engagement. Central to those efforts is the Innovative Financing for Children (IF4C) perform, which develops and implements modern financing mechanisms to mobilize sources for kids’s welfare globally. These initiatives tackle vital points such as local weather change, environmental sustainability, and catastrophe danger discount, focusing on probably the most susceptible and marginalized kids and adolescents. The IF4C crew performs an important function in driving these efforts ahead by strategic non-public sector engagements.
How are you able to make a distinction?
PURPOSE OF ASSIGNMENT
The Innovative Financing Consultant might be instrumental in exploring, designing, and implementing a range of financing options in collaboration with non-public sector entities. The function includes making vital contributions to program design, product growth, and the execution of financing methods to successfully mobilize sources that assist UNICEF’s mission.
OBJECTIVES
- Support the event of modern finance mechanisms that align with UNICEF’s strategic objectives and the SDGs (e.g., sovereign debt restructuring/swaps, bridge financing, sustainability-linked bonds, disaster bonds, outcome-based financing, local weather financing, and insurance coverage).
- Contribute to the implementation of modern finance fashions with the non-public sector.
- Support the scaling of IF4C tasks by offering technical experience in modern finance, technique, and product growth.
MAJOR TASKS TO BE ACCOMPLISHED
1. Development of Financial Models, Structures and Concepts:
- Prepare detailed phrases of reference and undertaking initiation plans for new financing initiatives.
- Provide strategic suggestions on modern finance transaction constructions and produce related written content material, such as technical pitches, analysis research, and idea notes.
- Support the implementation of modern financing options.
2. Feasibility Analysis and Program Design:
- Formulate enterprise analyses of monetary markets and traits, together with analysis on key inner and exterior dangers and related mitigation methods, within the kind of written reviews.
- Conduct thorough assessments and feasibility analyses of potential modern finance devices to be deployed, together with concerns and proposals for structuring, incubating, and capacitating every initiative. This contains calls, conferences, consultations, and potential shut collaboration with varied Divisions, Regional Offices, Country Offices, and National Committees as wanted to finish the product.
- Working intently with the Innovative Finance Manager to assist the Innovative Finance Hub in Finland on the child-lens influence investing framework and its adoption.
3. Reporting and Documentation:
- Document strategic choices and operational processes to make sure transparency and facilitate future initiatives.
- Develop displays of enterprise survey findings and outcomes to serve as steering for UNICEF senior management by reviewing and validating the “best use” case, optimum situations, and basic necessities for these new modern financing mechanisms, as wanted, to satisfy UNICEF’s objectives and goals (together with these associated to structuring and danger mitigation). This contains calls, conferences, and consultations, as properly as potential shut collaboration with varied Divisions, Regional Offices and Country workplaces, as wanted, to finish the product.
- Write content material for the annual IF4C influence report.
- Produce detailed influence reviews offering data-driven insights and proposals.
- Create different inner and exterior information administration and capacity-building supplies.
Responsibilities of the Consultant:
- The guide will use their very own tools, together with laptops, microphones, software program and different equipment that could be required for this process.
- The guide won’t present the content material or any half thereof to any third celebration with out the written permission of UNICEF. All parts might be a property of UNICEF, and the guide won’t share them with anybody else.
- The guide won’t embrace their very own title or brand/emblem on the content material or last product. The solely group branding might be UNICEF’s, if required.
- Maintain common liaison with supervisor, content material homeowners, and any associated models.
Responsibilities of UNICEF:
- UNICEF will present all particulars pertaining to the exercise and the necessities.
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- UNICEF will share the paperwork and specs with the guide as they grow to be accessible and can coordinate the well timed supply of work.
DELIVERABLES: 1. Development of Financial Models, Structures and Concepts
- Provide strategic suggestions for modern finance transaction constructions and produce related written content material, such as technical pitches, analysis research, and idea notes.
- Manage the implementation of IF4C options.
2. Feasibility Analysis and Program Design
- Formulate enterprise analyses of monetary markets and traits, together with analysis on key inner and exterior dangers and related mitigation methods, within the kind of written reviews.
- Conduct thorough assessments and feasibility analyses of potential modern finance devices to be deployed, together with concerns and proposals for structuring, incubating, and capacitating every initiative. This contains calls, conferences, consultations, and potential shut collaboration with varied Divisions, Regional Offices, Country Offices, and National Committees as wanted to finish the product.
3. Reporting and Documentation
- Document all strategic choices and operational processes to make sure transparency and facilitate future initiatives.
- Develop displays of enterprise survey findings and outcomes to information UNICEF senior management by reviewing and validating the “best use” case, optimum situations, and basic necessities for these new modern financing mechanisms, as wanted, to satisfy UNICEF’s objectives and goals (together with structuring and danger mitigation). This contains calls, conferences, and consultations, as properly as potential shut collaboration with varied Divisions, Regional Offices and Country Offices as wanted to finish the product.
- Coordinate a gathering or workshop, together with the creation of the agenda, stakeholder administration, documentation of outcomes, and growth of post-meeting supplies.
4. Content creation and Communication
- Develop IF4C video scripts for inner and exterior functions.
- Create ad-hoc communication property (e.g., ICON replace, IFC Directors replace, video/brochure, social media, and many others.).
- Develop content material for the IF4C biannual Newsletter.
- Develop briefing notes, speaking factors, and different communication items of as much as two pages.
- Develop influence reporting content material.
LTA CONTRACT MANAGEMENT: Innovation Manager
TRAVEL: There could also be alternatives for journey, such as to conferences in Geneva throughout the task or on a per-need foundation. UNICEF will cowl journey bills, so a journey finances needs to be included within the work order for any essential journey.
ESTIMATED DURATION OF LTA: 3 years
FINANCIAL PROPOSAL TEMPLATE: Financial Proposal Template LTA Innovative Finance Consultant.pdf
To qualify as an advocate for each baby you should have…
Education:
- An superior college diploma in worldwide growth, finance, economics, public or enterprise administration, or a intently associated subject is required. A primary college diploma in a related subject, mixed with 2 further years of related expertise, could also be accepted in lieu of a sophisticated college diploma.
Experience:
- A minimal of 8 years of related work expertise at nationwide and worldwide ranges in worldwide growth, modern finance, ESG/influence investing, undertaking administration, consulting, or different associated fields.
- Experience in modern finance or a associated subject is required, with a strong understanding of the modern finance panorama.
- Strong strategic pondering abilities; expertise in technique growth is desired.
- Prior expertise in structuring modern finance merchandise (such as sustainability-linked bonds, influence bonds, outcome-based financing, and debt swaps) can be a robust asset.
- Prior expertise with International Financial Institutions (IFIs), and Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) is a robust asset.
- Experience in or information of the UN system and UNICEF’s work is an asset.
Language:
- Fluency in English is required; information of one other official UN language is taken into account an asset.
Others:
- Excellent planning and organizing abilities.
- Exceptional interpersonal abilities, with the power to work successfully in a multi-cultural atmosphere.
For each Child, you reveal…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
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Remarks:
The software to be submitted by the web portal ought to include 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.
Important Note: Please don’t point out financials anyplace else within the on-line software kind, please mark “n/a or 00”, below the payment associated questions within the on-line software kind.
Without all of the above paperwork your software might be thought-about incomplete and invalid and won’t be thought-about additional.
Only shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.
Individuals engaged below a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought-about “staff members” below the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages offered 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 whole interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing in opposition to 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 should not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF for the length of their consultancy contracts.
UNICEF is dedicated to variety and inclusion inside its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, non secular or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to grow to be an element of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF provides paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks, and cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of versatile working preparations. Click right here to study 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 embrace 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 workers with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer cheap lodging for work-related assist necessities of candidates and workers with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen bodily and digital accessibility. If you might be an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility assist in finishing the web software, 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 kids (individuals below 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 based mostly on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, non secular or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embrace the verification of tutorial credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply further data to conduct a background test, 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
