Senior External Relations Officer, Innovative Financing. (Time-limited Parental coverage), Geneva, Switzerland

Senior External Relations Officer, Innovative Financing. (Time-limited Parental protection)

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Grade : P5

Contractual Arrangement : Temporary appointment beneath Staff Rule 420.4

Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days) : 6 months. Time restricted parental protection. Maximum period as much as 27 June 2025

Job Posting: Nov 19, 2024, 3:49:31 PM

The mission of the External Relations and Governance Division (EXT) is to make sure a robust and supportive set of stakeholder relations for WHO and encompasses useful resource mobilization, governing our bodies, partnership features, and elements of communications. Within the division, the brand new staff answerable for revolutionary finance will search to enrich the division present effort to speed up SDGs by means of using new monetary buildings that may leverage further assets for Global Health.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

• Develop the Innovative Finance and Impact Investment Agenda inside WHO.
• Lead the revolutionary finance and affect funding staff.
• Lead the New Health Impact Investment Platform by coordinating the MDBs and WHO on the three ranges of the group to make sure the implementation of concrete funding tasks inside this platform.
• Evaluate the place particular alternatives round revolutionary finance could be constructed to serve WHO General Programme of Work and WHO funding spherical.
• Provide senior degree recommendation and steerage to the Assistant Director General on the technical and programmatic content material associated to affect funding and revolutionary finance that may allow the ADG to carry-out his/her mandate successfully.
• Make suggestions to ADG on revolutionary finance devices that can be utilized throughout the Investment spherical.
• Provide technical recommendation, experience, and management recommendation to ADG to make sure the event and execution of advocacy efforts that may guarantee efficient dedication of crucial companions comparable to MDBs on the highest degree.
• Oversee the preparation of knowledge, evaluation and background documentation to assist ADG agenda gadgets and supply strategic steerage to Senior administration to facilitate strategic decision-making on precedence tasks linked to MDBs.
• Represent the ADG in numerous technical degree inside and exterior throughout the Three Levels of the Organization, throughout the UN businesses, Member States, Donors, and different Stakeholders.
• Lead and arrange beneath the mandate of ADG, excessive degree conferences involving head of MDBs, head of States, excessive degree representants from Governments, Private Sector to advertise funding in Health.
• Develop revolutionary monetary devices with MDBs utilizing blended finance options, pay-for-performance, ensures to assist Global Health and contribute to SDGs progress.
• Ability to have interaction with Senior Leadership and to advertise potential monetary instrument to senior management, together with ADG and DG degree. Work throughout the three ranges of WHO and technical divisions at HQ, Regional and nation degree to determine and implement new monetary alternatives with excessive affect.
• Build capability throughout the Innovative Finance staff and past to have the ability to perceive and implement applicable revolutionary finance options.
• Represent WHO when wanted and act as an Innovative Finance focus for the Organization.
• Carry out different duties as assigned by the ADG.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Essential: Advanced degree college diploma in worldwide relations with a qualification in worldwide finance.

Experience

Essential:

• At least ten years’ expertise specializing in Impact Investments with Strong expertise partaking with Multilateral Development Banks.
• Considerable expertise in growing new partnerships with MDBs.
• Considerable expertise in growing and implementing revolutionary financing devices/transactions to assist low center earnings nations utilizing numerous MDBs devices comparable to ensures, mixing, debt swaps, final result fee schemes.
• Strong expertise working throughout groups.
• Experience in organizing and main high-level dialogues, occasions, involving head of MDBs, excessive degree representant from Governments.
• Experience in organizing and main pledges with concrete outcomes and outcomes.
• Considerable expertise in writing and modifying, significantly briefing notes, speaking factors, and growing messaging for advocacy functions.

Desirable: Experience working with determination makers in space of revolutionary finance and affect funding.

Skills

• Excellent networking and negotiation expertise with multilateral growth banks.
• Knowledge and understanding of MDBs panorama and out there monetary devices that may be utilized to Global Health.
• Substantial expertise in constructing monetary transactions / revolutionary finance options with MDBs to assist Global Health and some other related sector.
• Experience and skill to work with executives and specialists in Multilateral Development Banks.
• Ability to handle exterior and inside political complexity.Excellent interpersonal and diplomatic expertise.Integrity, tact, and discretion.

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• Teamwork
• Respecting and selling particular person and cultural variations
• Communication
• Building and selling partnerships throughout the group and past
• Producing outcomes
• Creating an empowering and motivating atmosphere

Use of Language Skills

Essential: Expert information of English.

Desirable: Intermediate information of French. Intermediate information of WHO offcl. language.

REMUNERATION

WHO salaries for employees within the Professional class are calculated in US {dollars}. The remuneration for the above place includes an annual base wage beginning at USD 92,731 (topic to necessary deductions for pension contributions and medical insurance, as relevant), a variable publish adjustment, which displays the price of residing in a selected obligation station, and presently quantities to USD 7364 per thirty days for the obligation station indicated above. Other advantages embrace 30 days of annual depart, allowances for dependent relations, home depart, and an training grant for dependent kids.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Time restricted parental protection. Maximum period as much as 27 June 2025.
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