Job Description

Job Title Migrant Financial Resilience Specialist

Description

Many of UNDP's relationships with countries and territories on the ground exceed 60 years. Find details on our successes and ongoing work. Regional PresenceMuch of UNDP's work is administered through 5 regional bureaus.
Africa
Arab States
Asia and the Pacific
Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
Latin America and the Caribbean
Migrant Financial Resilience Specialist - IPSA 13
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Location : Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Application Deadline : 08-Jun-22 (Midnight New York, USA)

Type of Contract : IPSA (Regular)

Post Level : IPSA-13

Languages Required :
English

Duration of Initial Contract : 12 months

Expected Duration of Assignment : 12 months

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
Background
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Office/Unit/Project Description

UNCDF is the UN's capital investment agency for the world's least developed countries (LDCs). It creates new opportunities for poor people and their communities by increasing access to inclusive finance and investment capital. UNCDF focuses on Africa and the poorest countries of Asia and the Pacific, with a special commitment to countries emerging from conflict or crisis. It can provide seed capital both grants and loans as well as technical support that will improve poor peoples' lives.

The UNCDF digital agenda for migration and remittances falls within the organization's broader global strategy, set forth in 2019, of "Leaving No One Behind in the Digital Era." This vision is to empower millions of people by 2024 to use services daily that leverage innovation and technology and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. Through a market development approach, UNCDF continuously seeks to address underlying market dysfunctions. The Programme contributes to, and benefits from, this overarching corporate mandate. The Programme is administered by UNCDF with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, or SDC, and Sida, the Swedish International Development Agency.

UNCDF's Migration and Remittances for Development Programme, or the Programme, aims at contributing to sustainable development by making remittances more accessible and affordable, while helping build resilience for migrants and their families. For both sending and receiving countries, the Programme seeks to increase the share of migrant remittances flowing through formal channels, thereby giving policymakers at both ends greater visibility into the true picture of inbound and outbound financial flows. For remittances service providers, the Programme seeks to build the capacity to understand the financial needs and preferences of migrants and their families, and to design and deliver responsive products accordingly. For migrants themselves, the Programme aims not only to lower the costs and increase the safety and convenience of sending money, but also to link remittances to a broader suite of financial services-including insurance, savings, pensions, investments, and credit-that can help them reach their goals. The Programme recognizes digitization as the key to achieving these objectives.

Institutional Arrangement

The direct supervisor of the Migrant Financial Resilience Specialist will be the Lead Specialist, Migration and Remittance portfolio at UNCDF.
Duties and Responsibilities
Scope of Work
Manage implementation activities in the migrant financial resilience domain, including selection of partners, curation of technical assistance projects, and project management functions, including reporting, quality delivery, partner engagement, and relationship management.
Establish and leverage networks with think tanks, policy platforms, and national and regional chambers of commerce in the Middle East and South Asia region to explore their role in policy advocacy, capacity building of private sector players and supporting inclusive innovation.
Strengthen inter-regional and intra-regional cooperation with the public sector stakeholders in the Middle East and South Asia to mitigate the challenges of migrant financial resilience and derive broad level agreement on policy paradigm to support wage digitization, insurance and pension products for the migrant communities.
Develop learning products at the country level, regional and global trends in private sector innovations in migrant financial resilience (wage digitization, insurance and pension).
Lead advocacy and convenings from the research and learnings with public and private sector in Middle Easy
Core

Achieve Results:

LEVEL 3: Set and align challenging, achievable objectives for multiple projects, have lasting impact

Think Innovatively:

LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential risks, develop new ideas to solve complex problems

LEVEL 4: Create systems and processes that enable learning and development for all

Adapt with Agility:

LEVEL 3: Proactively initiate and champion change, manage multiple competing demands

Act with Determination:

LEVEL 3: Think beyond immediate task/barriers and take action to achieve greater results

Engage and Partner:

LEVEL 4: Construct strategic multi-partner

alliances in high stake situations, foster co- creation

Enable Diversity and Inclusion:

LEVEL 3: Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity

People Management
Understand and proactively builds the team/organization culture
Promote honestly, openness, trust and psychological safety and create opportunities to innovate and learn
Provide praise and recognition, as well as ensure accountability
Encourages debate and discussion, creating a culture where people are comfortable to challenge senior leaders and feel listened too
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies

Thematic Area

Name

Definition

Digital and Innovation

Digital Inclusion

Knowledge of how digital inclusion works, opportunities and challenges for governments and society

Digital and Innovation

Digital Product Design

Ability to design digital products which are user-centred, intuitive, functional and achieve desired outcomes

Digital and Innovation

Ability to identify key players in an ecosystem, engage with them and mobilise them to build a community and over time a movement around a common mission that can bring about changes at the system level.
Required Skills and Experience
Min. Education requirements
Master's degree in business, technology, business/public administration, economics, finance, or a related discipline
Min. years of relevant work experience
15 years of dedicated experience in financial services, financial inclusion or digital finance
Required skills
Prior relevant work experience in the Middle East and/or South Asia
Previous experience with the UN / UNDP is considered an advantage
Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section
Prior experience in implementation and innovation in migrant remittances, digital finance and bundled financial services
Previous experience of working in low income countries including in South Asia in the domain of inclusive finance and migrant remittances is an advantage.
Experience in project management, and a high level of thoroughness in executing multiple time-sensitive projects.
Required Language(s)
Proficiency in English
Expertise in any the following languages is considered an advantage:
Professional Certificates
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