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Job Title:   Digital Financial Services Analyst (Fresher UN Jobs)

Organisation: United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About US:

The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) makes public and private finance work for the poor in the world’s 47 least developed countries (LDCs). With its capital mandate and instruments, UNCDF offers “last mile” finance models that unlock public and private resources, especially at the domestic level, to reduce poverty and support local economic development. This last mile is where available resources for development are scarcest; where market failures are most pronounced; and where benefits from national growth tend to leave people excluded.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Technical

• Provide technical inputs to selected public and private partners in order to advance the Digital and Digital Finance Ecosystem in Ethiopia and the East and South African (ESA) region.
• Build UNCDFs Digital Finance leadership in the ESA region (with a priority focus in Ethiopia as a pilot country) by providing technical inputs to UNCDFs publications.
• Write technical documents such as Requests for Applications for partners, Presentations, meeting minutes, project documents, project workbooks, and others as may be required.
• Coordination and facilitation role in the implementation of assigned projects:
  • Coordinate and work closely with other colleagues on learning, and networking events
  • Facilitate follow up and monitoring field visits
  • Liaises and work closely with project implementing partners
  • Work closely with Knowledge Management and Comms team to increase visibility of UNCDF and its partner’s work.
  • Supervise and engage in with project implementation partners.
  • Deliver technical assistance in the implementation of the projects by partner organization (on assigned projects).
  • Technical assistance to DFS providers and FinTech’s to develop or scale products that contribute to the increase of women’s financial inclusion such as integrated innovations, women’s access to mobile phones and/or digital/financial literacy. Development and usage of micro credit, saving and insurance products.

Policy

• Coordinate and support the DFS Working Group (WG) initiative of UNCDF ESA region.
• Support DFS WG operations and its move towards an association.
• Organise quarterly meetings and series of webinars for the Digital Financial service WG
• Assist the WG in the role of secretariate while providing technical assistance
• Create collaboration and learning sessions between working group members and by onboarding other experts to fill the gap
• Develop relationships with other WG or associations in the DFS space regionally or in other areas where experience can be leveraged.
• Builds relationship with members and other stakeholders that engage in the working group

Other

• Demonstrates openness to change, ability to manage complex organisations and resolve problems.
• Focus on impact and results for clients and stakeholders.

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Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant for the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) Digital Financial Services Analyst job must hold a Master’s degree in technology, economics, public/business administration, social sciences, or related discipline or the equivalent experience is mandatory.
• At least two years of experience in progressively more responsible positions in the digital financial services and/or telecommunications field is mandatory.
• Experience in working with the implementation of branchless banking and mobile financial services projects is mandatory.
• Experience working with private sector or international organisations in Africa. Demonstrated experience building partnerships, either public private partnerships or between private sector players is mandatory.
• Experience working on DFS projects in rural areas or related to agriculture/Value Chain finance, merchant payment, distribution network or G2P payments or similar projects.
• Experience in supporting in a team and/or leading development of DFS product at any capacity.
• Demonstrated ability in interacting and adapting communications with regards to different stakeholders.
• Language(s): Proficiency in English is mandatory.

Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section

• Experience designing or building data systems is preferred but not mandatory.
• Experience designing and piloting DFS products in peri-urban and rural geographies is preferred but not mandatory.
• Experience in writing business cases, project and programme documents or similar type of documents is preferred, but not mandatory.
• Experience in capacity building and/or advisory services to private and public actors is preferable but not required.
• Experience working with regulators in the Central Bank on digital financial services is preferred but not mandatory.

Competencies

Core

• Achieve Results: LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work
• Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
• Learn Continuously: LEVEL 3: Create and act on opportunities to expand horizons, diversify experiences
• Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 3: Proactively initiate and champion change, manage multiple competing demands
• Act with Determination: LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously
• Engage and Partner: LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies

• Digital & Innovation / Digital ecosystems: Knowledge of how they work, understanding of the opportunities / and challenges for governments and society
• Digital & Innovation / Digital business analysis / Ability to support digital business processes across a range of digital projects, programmes and activities.
• Digital & Innovation / Facilitation of digital innovation / Ability to facilitate groups and individuals through a digital innovation process
• General (across the functions) Public relations / Ability to build and maintain an overall positive public image for the organisation, its mandate and its brand, while ensuring that individual campaigns and other communications and advocacy initiatives are supported in reaching the public

Cross functional competencies:

Strategic thinking

• Ability to develop effective strategies and prioritised plans in line with UNDP’s objectives, based on the systemic analysis of challenges, potential risks and opportunities; linking the vision to reality on the ground, and creating tangible solutions
• Ability to leverage learning from a variety of sources to anticipate and respond to future trends; to demonstrate foresight in order to model what future developments and possible ways forward look like for UNDP Project Management
• Ability to plan, organise, prioritise and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals

Digital Awareness and Literacy

• Ability and inclination to rapidly adopt new technologies, either through skilfully grasping their usage or through understanding their impact and empowering others to use them as needed

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested applicants who wish to join the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) should apply online at the link below.

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Deadline: 24th November 2022

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