Apply for Innovation Specialist (Innovative Financing), (P-3), TA (until 31 Dec 2025), post # 131674, Innovative & Alternative Finance Children, PFP, Geneva, Switzerland Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

UNICEF works in over 190 international locations and territories to save lots of kids’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood by way of adolescence.

At UNICEF, we’re dedicated, passionate, and pleased with what we do. Promoting the rights of each child is not only a job – it’s a calling.

UNICEF has set out formidable objectives for its 2022-2025 Strategic Plan to speed up progress in the direction of reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP), primarily based in Geneva, goals to attain outcomes for kids by maximizing UNICEF’s non-public sector fundraising, partnerships and engagement actions, together with work with National Committees, regional and nation workplaces, and different HQ Divisions.

The international progressive financing for kids (IF4C) initiative is essential to UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2022-2025 and useful resource mobilization technique and goals to assist handle advanced international challenges equivalent to local weather change and disasters, confronted by tens of millions of kids and adolescents at this time and disproportionately affecting the poorest, most weak, and marginalized.

The PFP IF4C staff allows, drives, and accelerates progressive various financing and funding options for kids in partnership with the Private Sector by way of initiatives that entice investments for local weather change, atmosphere, and catastrophe danger discount. 

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For each child, a Champion

UNICEF is in search of to enhance its present efforts to speed up outcomes for kids by way of the usage of new monetary constructions (e.g. blended finance, ensures, affect investing) that may leverage extra sources for kids (in addition to make the usage of present sources extra environment friendly and results-oriented).

Under the course of the Innovation Manager, the Innovation Specialist will take a strategic and undertaking administration perform within the PFP’s Innovative and Alternative Finance for Children unit, because it pertains to the positioning of PFP IF4C and the event and implementation of progressive finance frameworks and initiatives. The goal of the PFP IF4C Unit is to allow the usage of monetary devices and monetary frameworks to assist speed up outcomes for kids with the non-public sector.

How are you able to make a difference?

Summary of key features/accountabilities:

1. Development of Financial Models, Structures and Concepts:

• Analyze UNICEF’s portfolio and present progressive finance mechanisms to establish potential progressive finance alternatives with the non-public sector.
• Support the initiation, design, and implementation of progressive financing options throughout the board (together with sovereign debt, affect investing and local weather danger financing).
• Formulate enterprise analyses of monetary markets and tendencies, together with analysis on key inner and exterior dangers and related mitigation methods.
• Conduct assessments and feasibility analyses of potential progressive finance devices to be deployed.
• Working intently with the Innovative Finance Hub in Finland on the child-lens affect investing framework and its adoption.
• Document strategic selections and operational processes to make sure transparency and facilitate future initiatives.
• Provide inputs, content material and general assist for the IF4C Training Programme.

2. Planning and Project administration

• Project administration and coordination to make sure that the PFP IF4C staff’s work plan and key deliverables are met successfully and on time.
• Collaborate with UNICEF’s PRIME staff to combine planning, danger administration, and governance features into the staff’s work.
• Maintain strong monitoring and reporting mechanisms to watch progress in opposition to targets and deliverables.

3. Partnerships and engagement

• Support with technical inputs as wanted, the event and administration of partnerships with non-public sector entities, donors, and different stakeholders to drive progressive financing initiatives.
• Work intently with the Innovation Officer to supply high-quality, audience-specific content material for inner and exterior positioning, fundraising proposals, and promotional supplies.
• Draft and curate content material for the IF4C publication, affect studies, and different communication channels to showcase achievements and construct visibility for progressive financing efforts.

 Deliverables:

1. Development of PFP IF4C unit’s communication and advocacy content material, PFP IF4C undertaking/initiative displays to key inner/exterior stakeholders, IF4C funding instances, and so forth., as wanted.
2. Support and drive a minimum of one progressive financing resolution.
3. Support the event of a minimum of one technique doc.
4. Support the event and implementation of the IF4C coaching.

 Estimated length of the contract:

•  Until 31 December 2025

Reporting to:

• The Innovation Manager, IF4C

Working Place:

• Geneva, Switzerland

To qualify as a champion for each child you should have…

Education:

• An superior college diploma (grasp’s diploma or equal) in one of many following fields is required: International improvement, finance, economics, public or enterprise administration, legislation or intently associated fields.   
• Alternatively, a first-level college diploma (bachelor’s diploma or equal) in a related subject mixed with (2) extra years of qualifying skilled expertise could also be accepted in lieu of the superior college diploma.

Work Experience:

• A minimal of 5 (5) years {of professional} work expertise in improvement, progressive finance, ESG/affect investing, undertaking administration, funding banking, non-public banking, administration consulting, danger and market evaluation, is required.
• Experience working in progressive finance or associated fields, together with a stable understanding of the progressive finance panorama, is an asset.
• Prior expertise in structuring progressive finance merchandise (equivalent to sustainability-linked bonds, outcome-based financing, local weather danger financing and debt swaps) is an asset.
• Experience in partnership constructing and capital useful resource mobilization is an asset.
• Experience producing funding instances, communication and advocacy supplies is an asset.
• Ability to work throughout a number of initiatives, with a number of stakeholders and shifting deadlines is an asset.
• UN/UNICEF expertise is an asset.
• Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is an asset.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, or Russian) is an asset.

For each Child, you exhibit…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the pieces we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drives to attain impactful outcomes (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

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Remarks:

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