The Ugandan Jobline

• Develop
  in-depth relationship and buy-in from digital stakeholders in Uganda at
  government, private & non-profit sectors & academics;
• Based
  on discussion with funders and input from stakeholders, update and win
  acceptance for the Uganda country strategy for Digital innovation &
  digital finance, identify priorities, strategies and key milestones to
  develop the Ugandan market;
• In
  October, November of each year, develop detailed work plan and budget for
  the following year, monitoring and updating quarterly using the country
  log book;
• Lead
  monthly progress calls on Uganda, preparing agendas, leading calls,
  updating plans and logs;
• Lead
  a team of 7-10 people in Uganda with various skills and background.
  Provide leadership and technical advice and strong management.
• Assign
  clear responsibilities to the country team, develop annual performance
  plans, providing regular meetings, feedback on performance, and  provide mid-term and annual review.
  Provide the necessary structure and leaderships for the country team,
  organizing regular calls and meetings, maintaining a team schedule (including
  country calendar), monitoring daily work and activities;
• Ensure
  the proper planning, staffing and contracting through the  annual staffing and procurement plan,
  and providing the necessary inputs for MM4P’s quarterly staff travel plan,
  and semi-annual budget revisions.
• Lead
  monthly calls with funders and manage quarterly reporting. Host monthly
  calls, responding to requests and draft quarterly reports for funders;
• Work
  closely with the Results Measurement Analyst to ensure the on-time and
  accurate reporting of results from partners and facilitating the annual
  survey to DF market growth;
• Participate
  in digital team meetings and events (2 – 3 times per year);

• The
  TS directly manages the in-country relations and activities with the
  government and manage stakeholder relationships and outreach efforts of
  the programme.
• Be
  a catalyst for digital solution & digital finance innovations in
  Uganda, seeking opportunities to empower people’s life with digital
  innovations, and develop the Uganda program as a flagship country in
  regard to digital innovation
• Under
  the guidance and with the support of the Global Technical Specialist,
  based in Brussels, advise the government in creating a more enabling
  digital environment.
• Oversee
  the implementation of UNCDF’s plan for policy and regulation; support the
  BoU,MoFPED and other governement bodies and organize technical assistance
  for policy and regulation; 
• Support
  the Better than Cash Alliance member services team on ways to support the
  government in fulfilling its commitments to the alliance, such as: work
  closely with the MoFPED and recommendations to convert payment flows from
  cash to digital; 
• Work
  closely with our funders and FSDU to coordinate policy work, developing
  consistent messages and collaborating on key initiatives;
• Participate
  in industry working groups, providing thought leadership and identifying
  opportunities to build partnerships;
• Assist
  partners in identifying opportunities with others, including recommending
  or fostering strategic, financial or technical partnerships;
• Act
  as primary resource person on digital for UNCDF, UNDP and other funders,
  helping to provide information, make introductions, coordinating efforts
  around the plan.
• On
  an ad-hoc basis, provide on-going technical advice to partners (providers,
  regulators, funders), including sharing of information and updates on
  innovations;
• Help
  to build awareness and build a consumer protection agenda with country
  stakeholders. 
• Build
  effective and efficient partnerships at the operational level with major
  donor agencies to coordinate financial inclusion, including financial
  literacy, activities in country;
• Seek
  opportunities for coordinating and co-funding projects with other funders,
  ensure the program’s efforts complete those of other digital finance
  initiatives;

• The
  TS sets the direction and oversees the development of the project
  pipeline, and plays a key role in identifying innovative projects,
  appraising and monitoring for results, while the technical team manages
  the daily work or project identification and implementation.  
• Investigate
  opportunities to expand digital work into finance, agriculture, education,
  health, transport, energy and water sector (People+) with projects
  focusing on empowering people’s life with digital innovations (low income
  people, women, youths, (im)mogrants and MSMEs;
• Leverage
  relationships with innovation accelerator/ hubs, start-up community,
  universities and entrepreneurs
• Oversee
  a DF technical team (4-5) of digital 
  consultants and expert on key sectors,  develop and manage of the existing
  pipeline of projects with the objective to reach project KPIs on time and
  reach scale.
• Help
  set priorities, provide advice and assistance as required, and ensure
  compliance with policies and procedures related to Direct Technical and
  Financial Support;
• Review,
  appraise and reject/endorse new project descriptions completed by the
  Expert and consultants; team and consultants;
• Draft
  technical terms of reference for consultants to support partners, provide
  all technical input for procurement, drafting TORs and reviewing and
  evaluating technical proposals.
• Develop
  regular contact (e.g. monthly) with partners, monitoring overall progress
  and satisfaction with UNCDF support;
• Participate
  in quarterly project steering committee meetings for larger projects with
  partners’ senior management, resolve problems and seek opportunities for
  improving, expanding relationships.
• As
  needed, schedule field visits to check projects’ progress together with
  consultants and partners;
• Review
  and respond to quarterly reports, ensuring partners are reporting
  accurately, monitor progress and reporting under agreements and contracts,
  verify milestones and targets for disbursements;
• Work
  with the funders and the Financial Sector Deepening Programme Uganda
  (FSDU) to coordinate project pipelines, ensuring the regular communication
  and systematic sharing of information on current and planned
  projects; 

• The
  TS directly manages the range of activities that contribute to educating,
  strengthening and consolidating the sector as a whole with support from
  the KM Associate in Brussels and the KM Consultant in Uganda. 
• In
  support of the country strategy, propose ecosystems activities (workshops,
  researches, conferences, trainings, exposure visits, etc.) needed to
  educate stakeholders.  Write/review
  TORs and implement ecosystem activities;Prepare/ review workshop
  materials, research documents, learning documents, etc. to insure high
  quality level information;
• Identify
  learning, training, and knowledge sharing opportunities for partners and
  key stakeholders and provide scholarships for attendance;
• Manage
  country level research and data collection projects, support research and
  data collection firms in their work.
• Participate
  on project team of Mobile Analytics projects, managing UNCDF’s
  contribution to the project by working with identified Ugandan partners to
  use mobile data in decision making;
• Collaborate
  with FSD Uganda, Intermedia, Finscope and other key partners and
  stakeholders for research and development of innovative, cutting-edge
  strategies and approaches to sharpen delivery of digital finance;
• Work
  closely with the Knowledge Management Associate to plan and deliver
  knowledge management and learning outcomes;
• Help
  synthesize learnings from research and projects into short notes to share
  experience and lessons learned from partners;
• Lead
  one of the Digital  key learning
  questions, planning and implementing activities for this area with other
  digital country teams;
• Each
  year, provide at least 4 blog posts for the UNCDF or other stakeholder’s
  websites highlighting lessons learned; 
  Help draft press releases or short announcements of key UNCDF
  inclusive finance activities or achievements in country;
• Help
  drive the Uganda Community of Practice through multi-media (d-groups,
  yammer, etc.) and contributed to the overall digital social media
  presence;
• Participate
  in local knowledge sharing networks on inclusive finance;
• Participate
  to key DF conferences;
• Develop
  and provide annual Learning Plan for oneself and the team;
• Attend
  approved trainings; share debriefing and value of training with the wider
  Practice community;

• As
  Team Leader, the TS is responsible for the overall smooth and procedurally
  compliant implementation of activities, as well as supporting the PMU in
  reporting and results measurement so that they are consistent across
  countries.
• Work
  closely with the Operations Analyst (PMU) to manage the Uganda operations
  team.   Support the Uganda
  Operations Associate and the operations team to manage all financial,
  administrative, procurement and results measurement activities to deliver
  the expected results from activities and projects;
• Work
  closely with the Operations Analysts to manage the country budget
  revisions, reporting and analysis;
• Work
  closely with the Research and Results Measurement Analyst (PMU) to
  coordinate and to contribute to the project monitoring and country data
  collection plan;
• Ensure
  country compliance and on-time delivery with policies and procedures
  (document storage, agendas, timesheet, meeting minutes, etc.)
• Assist
  in implementation of mid-term and final evaluations of the programme;
• Support
  the development of UNCDF programme and business strategies and to annual
  reviews;
• As
  requested, assists in fundraising and relationship management with donors
• As
  requested, conduct DF scoping missions 
  in other countries;
• Raise
  funds:  work with UNCDF on
  fundraising to support activities in Uganda, identifying opportunities and
  assisting in proposal development and agreement negotiation;
• Provide
  corporate support to UNCDF as it relates to Uganda and fully participate
  in UNCDF’s global planning, learning, communication and reporting
  activities;

• UNCDF
  and Stakeholders are informed on current trends, market conditions, and
  special topics as needed, learning are shared cross-countries and UNCDF is
  viewed as a leader in inclusive digital economies in Uganda.
• Some
  flagship projects that have reached scale and a diverse mix of strong
  digital projects that meeting their targets, including the underserved,
  women and rural users.
• Regulators
  and Policymakers and other key stakeholders are empowered and supported to
  make decisions, develop policies and implement changes that both enable
  sector growth and protect consumers.
• Clear,
  prioritized country strategy for digital inclusion, with a broad and
  effective range of activities, that is well planned, implemented and
  monitored.
• An
  efficiently-managed, monitored and evaluated programme that is highly
  rated by its partners and is meeting or exceeding all targets.
• All
  well integrated programme contributing to overall UNCDF objectives,
  compliant with policies and procedures.

• The
  ideal candidate for the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) Technical
  Specialist, Digital Innovation, MM4P job placement should a Master’s
  degree in technology, economics, public/business administration, social
  sciences, or related discipline
• At
  least seven years’ experience in progressively more responsible positions
  in the financial services, telecommunications field and or digital field;
  out of which at least four years’ experience must be in area of digital
  services, preferably in Africa region
• Language: Fluency in English.  Excellent communication skills
  (comprehension, verbal & written communication)

• Possesses
  expert knowledge of advanced concepts in to digital and/or digital
  financial inclusion, a broad knowledge of related disciplines, as well as
  an in-depth knowledge of relevant organizational policies and procedures;
• Proven
  ability to get things done, managing multi-million dollar initiatives for
  results, preferably in digital and digital finance;
• Ability
  to lead a team for learnings, results, inspiring, leading, monitoring and
  getting results;
• Experience
  in the implementation of digital services for key segments (Low income
  people, Women, Youths, (Im)migrants, MSMEs) and/or key sectors
  (agriculture, health, education, water, energy, transport & finance)
  is required
• Experience
  in manging relationships with funders and fundraising is a plus
• Good
  understanding of legal and regulatory issues related to digital, such as
  know your customer and bank agency rules;
• Experience
  working with the mass market, including rural or low income communities,
  preferably related to financial services;
• Experience
  managing or conducting research, particularly related to product
  development or client demand, able to use research to foster change;
• Experience
  working with an  international donor
  organizations is a plus, but not mandatory;
• A
  passion for digital and innovation

• Comfortable
  managing a project team, with appropriate motivation, delegation and oversight,
  sets and monitors key performance indicators (KPIs);
• Strong
  management skills, energizing and organizing small teams or consultants
• Strong
  personal skills with key stakeholders, understands how to build strategic
  partnerships and alliances, build relationships;
• Innovative
  and thoughtful, proactively identifies, develops and discusses solutions
  for internal and external clients,
• Results
  driven and willingness to always improve and innovate;
• Comfortable
  working in a developing country and within very low income areas;
• Comfortable
  advocating and advancing an agenda, including with high level counterparts
  and other stakeholders;
• Positive,
  constructive attitude and responds and gives constructive feedback

• Excellent
  speaking and writing skills in English;
• Excellent
  analytical skills;
• Proven
  ability to manage projects and teams;
• Strong
  general IT skills, including ability to work regularly with MS Word,
  Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint;
• Proven
  cross-cultural communication, able to function effectively in an
  international, multicultural environment and manage a team consisting of
  multiple nationalities.

• Builds
  confidence, creating an environment of creativity and innovation;
• Demonstrates
  ethics and integrity;
• Conducts
  fair and transparent decision making;
• Demonstrates
  political acumen and calculated risk-taking;
• Builds
  and promotes teams and partnerships;
• Creates
  and promotes open communication;
• Remains
  calm, in control and good humored even under pressure
• Displays
  cultural and gender sensitivity and adaptability
• Treats
  all persons fairly without favoritism
• Shows
  strong corporate commitment

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