CLOSING:
22 Oct 2014
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION:
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) is a multilateral donor agency under the administration of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It promotes a sector-based approach to financial inclusion and is both a facilitator and an investor in the industry. UNCDF offers a unique combination of investment capital, capacity building, and technical advisory services to promote microfinance and local development in the least developed countries (LDCs). It is channeled primarily to poor rural areas in the LDCs where poverty reduction, capacity, and governance challenges are typically the greatest.
Background: The United Nations Mission for Emergency Ebola Response (UNMEER) is the first-ever UN emergency health mission and it is being set up in response to the unprecedented outbreak. The mission will be temporary and will respond to immediate needs related to the fight against Ebola.
ABOUT THE JOB:
UNCDF is seeking Financial Specialists - Experts. They will be invited to support UNMEER’s work on making payments to health care workers and social transfer beneficiaries as an essential service.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- National payments infrastructure at a retail and wholesale level;
- National payments regulation and supervision as well as the regulatory frameworks through which governments receive and make payments;
- Coordinate at a senior level among donors, governments, and private sector in financial sector development;
- Financial sector strengthening during and post crisis situations;
- Work with the banking sector including ATMs and POS devices as delivery channels for salaries, incentives, vouchers, and cash/social transfers;
- Work with non-bank financial institutions including MFIs as delivery channels for salaries, incentives, vouchers, and cash/social transfers;
- Work with mobile money operators and technology innovators as delivery channels for salaries, incentives, vouchers, and cash/social transfers;
- Design and/or implement diagnostic studies, surveys, and interviews that will help identify risks and challenges in terms of national payment regulation, service providers, payment infrastructure, delivery channels, payment solutions;
- Design and/or implement diagnostic studies, surveys, and interviews that will help identify risks and challenges in terms of marketing and communications to access points and recipients, among others;
- Support elaboration of an informed and sound payment system strengthening strategy in a crisis and post-crisis situation and subsequent evolution towards an inclusive financial ecosystem;
- Manage and effectively implement ongoing projects for payment solutions and overall payment system strengthening;
- Help ensure payment and incentives delivery for health care workers and social transfers by both government and international community, with special emphasis on UN, UN-family, and UN-partners’ payments and disbursements in affected areas;
- Support the targeting, identification, registration, KYC, and delivery for salaries, vouchers, cash transfers and social protection benefits with special emphasis on activities during and post crisis;
- Provide support, training and build capacity of main payment system stakeholders including support with the management of cash transfer, vouchers, salary and social protection delivery channels.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree on a subject relevant to the core responsibilities is required;
- Master's degree and/or technical certification on a subject relevant to relevant to the core responsibilities is required is desirable;
- Minimum of 7 years total professional work experience is required to apply to join the pool of experts. Much more may be required for specific assignments needing senior consultants;
- Strong subject-matter expertise, knowledge, and demonstrated work experience in one or more specific areas of the core responsibilities is required;
- Work during or post-crisis or conflict situations is desirable;
- Experience in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and/or Ghana is desirable;
- Professional fluency in English or French is required;
- Proficiency in other geographically specific languages or dialects may be required on an assignment basis;
- Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment;
- Self-development, initiative-taking;
- Demonstrated capacity for strategic thinking;
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality, and age sensitivity, and adaptability;
- Highest standards of integrity, discretion, and loyalty;
- Excellent analytical and writing skills.
HOW TO APPLY:
