Consultancy: Blended Financing Project Development Expert, UNICEF, ESARO (10 days over 3 months)
Provide expert advice on blended financing for water projects.
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Overview
Provide expert advice on blended financing for water projects.
You have:
- Advanced degree in water services financing, sustainability, international development or related fields.
- Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible professional work experience in programme development, water financing, and investment planning.
- Demonstrated experience with an established network in development of bankable water projects.
- Work experience with development banks or industry stakeholders will be highly valued.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English; skills in Portuguese highly valued.
- Ability to work independently in a multicultural environment.
Contract
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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
For every child, WASH
How can you make a difference?
Kindly see attached TORs TOR Blended Financing Project Development Expert.docx
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- Advanced degree in one of the following fields: water services financing, sustainability, international development or other related fields. A first level university degree in combination with and additional two years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
- Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible professional work experience in programme development, water infrastructure financing and investment planning, economics, and private sector engagement, sustainability or human rights impact assessments; preferably with some at the international level and within developing country contexts.
- Demonstrated and proven experience, with an established network and track record of engaging governments and private sector partners in development of bankable water projects or investment
- Work experience with development banks or industry-related stakeholders will be highly valued. Work experience in Africa is desirable and/or good knowledge of African social issues, or willing to learn about these issues.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English. Skills in Portuguese will be highly valued.
- Ability to work independently in a multi-cultural environment.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA).
To view our competency framework, please visit here.
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.
Potential interview questions
| Can you describe a successful water financing project you led? | This question assesses your past experience and ability to manage projects effectively. | Provide a brief overview of the project, your role in it, and the outcomes achieved. |
| How do you approach building partnerships with governments and the private sector? | The interviewer wants to understand your networking and communication strategies. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What challenges have you faced in water project financing, and how did you overcome them? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
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Source:
unicef.org
