Background

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The following documents shall be required from the applicants:

Personal CV or P11, indicating all past positions held and their main underlying functions, their durations (month/year), the qualifications, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate, and at least three (3) the most recent professional references of previous supervisors. References may also include peers.

A cover letter (maximum length: 1 page) indicating why the candidate considers him-/herself to be suitable for the position.

Managers may ask (ad hoc) for any other materials relevant to pre-assessing the relevance of their experience, such as reports, presentations, publications, campaigns or other materials.

Office/Unit/Project Description 

Founded by a General Assembly resolution in 1966, the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) makes public and private finance work for the poor in the world’s 46 least developed countries (LDCs). With its capital mandate and instruments, UNCDF offers financial solutions that try to mobilize public and private resources, both internationally and domestically, to reduce poverty and support local economic development.

UNCDF uses a combination of grant, reimbursable grant, loans, guarantees and technical assistance to support early stage businesses, SMEs, projects, microfinance institutions and municipal investments. UNCDF's investment activity is structured around on-balance-sheet catalytic investments and off-balance-sheet third party managed funds, for which UNCDF sources pipeline aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), primarily in LDCs. In response to the need to deploy different kind of risk tolerant capital, a blended finance impact fund was launched by Bamboo Capital Partners, as the result of a joint initiative between UNCDF and this private asset manager. The fund, called BUILD, is able to provide finance to an additional set of potential investees coming from UNCDF and the wider UN system. The BUILD Fund is complemented by a sidecar technical assistance (TA) vehicle, the BUILDER TA Facility which is specialized in providing pre or post investment business advisory services. Such advisory support is fundamental to de-risk financial transactions, both for UNCDF and potential co- or follow-on investors, and to maximize the developmental impact of the investment.

UNCDF’s LDC Investment Platform (LDCIP) serves as UNCDF’s center of excellence on innovative development finance by creating the conditions for investment viability in financially underserved areas, in the LDCs. The aim of the LDCIP is to be part of a system that (a) demonstrates to domestic and international investors that LDC markets can and do generate returns, provide opportunities for successful investment, and merit the attention of a wider range of investors and that (b) uses those demonstration effects to support policy and regulatory improvements which will help the scale up of investment activities.

The LDCIP team in New York now consists of eight people among which a team member managing the Technical Assistance activities. The LDCIP team is lead by a Director assisted by a Deputy Director. LDCIP has also established a country-based network of four investment specialists.

Institutional Arrangement

The TAF Analyst will be directly reporting to the TA Facility Manager of the LDCIP Unit in New York.

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work

The TAF Analyst role is based in New York and will support the work of the TA Facility Manager. The TAF Analyst will contribute to the development of the UNCDF’s technical assistance transactions deployment and advocate for its achievements namely with regards to SDG and impact, with a specific focus on supporting the operationalization of UNCDF’s Theory of Change, supporting TA as strategically aligned to UNCDF’s 2022-2025 Strategic Framework and impact narrative. The TAF Analyst will contribute to move TA  transactions along the  TA process cycle as well as playing a key role in the management of the TA  pipeline using the available corporate IT tools. The main functions could be summarized as:

Summary of key functions:

1. Management and development of SDG and impact related TA activities
2. TA pipeline and TA portfolio monitoring
3. Advocacy, reporting and knowledge management

Detailed Description of Job Roles and Responsibilities

1) Management and development of SDG and Impact related TA activities

• Contribute to launching and scaling impact-related activities at the TA portfolio level, as they pertain to improving UNCDF’s impact narrative
• Support the due diligence and business need diagnostics of the potential investees
• Support in collecting, analyzing SDG and impact data, and compiling impact reports at individual TA recipient level and at a consolidated TA portfolio level, in order to measure the results/impact of the TA initiative. This might require working with external stakeholders.
• Support TA facility clients in the preparation of KPIs and monitoring reports.

2) TA pipeline and TA portfolio monitoring

• Support the deployment of the pre-investment and post investment TA projects
• Support in TA pipeline and TA portfolio monitoring along the TA cycle:
  • Support in performing TA needs analysis with a focus on ESG and impact areas
  • Support in carrying out the procurement process/recruitment of consultants 
  • Support in TA projects monitoring and TA project closing in terms (quality controls, communication flow with consultants, etc.)
  • Contributing to the drafting of TA contractual documentation for TA projects (TA term sheets, contracts with TA recipients, contracts with TA consultants or consulting firms)
• Support in updating the TA Project database periodically.
• Support in problem resolution with the rosters of individual consultants and consulting companies

3) Advocacy, reporting and knowledge management

• Support in collecting, analyzing SDG and impact data, and compiling impact reports at individual TA recipient level and at a consolidated TA portfolio level, in order to measure the results/impact of the TA initiative
• Support in preparing periodic performance reports for the entire TA portfolio  
• Create and maintain a knowledge base management for TA projects and SDG/impact management activities with multiple formats of learning including (but not limited to) solution articles or FAQs, white papers, “wiki-TA”, tutorials, videos/photos, troubleshooting guide, etc.
• Support in organizing convenings, events, advocacy, communication, planning, and analysis related to impact related activities and TA projects 

Competencies

Required Skills and Experience