Antecedentes

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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

The UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) is the UN’s capital investment agency for the world’s 46 least developed countries. 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. These models work through two channels: firstly through financial inclusion that expands the opportunities for individuals, households, and small businesses to participate in the local economy, providing them with the tools they need to climb out of poverty and manage their financial lives; and secondly, by showing how localized investments can drive public and private funding that underpins local economic expansion and sustainable development by strengthening how finance works for poor people at the household, small enterprise, and local infrastructure levels.

Policy Accelerator 

UNCDF operates the Policy Accelerator (PA), which supports countries to strengthen their regulatory environments around Digital Financial Services. It does this by providing expert-guided policy advice, encouraging data and insights for decision-making, supporting multi-stakeholder dialogue, delivering tailored capacity building, and introducing countries to global policy examples. The PA also partners with governments to ensure policies are intentional about strengthening financial consumer protection and addressing the barriers women face to becoming digitally and financially included.? 

Institutional Arrangement

The position will directly report to the Gender Lead of the Policy Accelerator (PA) Programme and will collaborate closely with the Ethiopia Country Coordinator, as well as the Community Organizer. 

Deberes y responsabilidades

Scope of Work

UNCDF is looking for a Gender Analyst to support our work on digital financial services (DFS) with a particular focus on Ethiopia and women’s digital and financial inclusion. The Gender Analyst will oversee the effective mainstreaming of gender into country programmes and activities, including providing strategic support to UNCDF’s WDFI (Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion) Advocacy Hub through stakeholder engagement, technical assistance and coordination and knowledge and financial resources.? 

Key responsibilities include:   

Lead the integration of a gender lens into country policies and projects (30%):  

• Provide technical support for gender-related projects in Ethiopia, by working with key partners to design, implement and monitor policy and practice solutions to advance WDFI;
• Support in identifying, building and managing partnerships with external stakeholders across government, private sector, non-profit and academia; 
• Provide strategic advice to Ethiopia team to mainstream gender in existing and new programmes, and identify opportunities to promote gender-intentional policies and regulations in the country and the region; and 
• Provide feedback and actively participate in regional gender programming and coordination processes, as well as ad-hoc global gender-focused activities.

Coordinate the resource allocation and results monitoring for WDFI Advocacy Hub country projects (50%):  

• Oversee the timely distribution and effective implementation of funds for WDFI country projects in collaboration with strategic partners;? 
• Support the implementation of Ethiopia gender-focused grants by monitoring achievement of results and reporting progress;? 
• Support the team to identify opportunities for scale and expansion of WDFI activities in the region; and 
• Represent UNCDF at workshops, conferences and events to build awareness of success from gender-related projects and create space for more collaboration opportunities.? 

Support advocacy, capacity building and research activities (20%):  

• Support the development of advocacy strategies, in collaboration with the local communications team, that secure support for UNCDF projects  
• Develop and coordinate learning and training opportunities for policymakers and other WDFI stakeholders on gender-intentional approaches;? 
• Support the delivery of research activities, such as stakeholder interviews, field research, assessment of policies and regulations, as well as the dissemination of findings; and 
• Facilitate internal and external knowledge building by sharing lessons learned from WDFI country and regional projects. 

Competencias

Habilidades y experiencia requeridas