UN Job Vacancy: UNCDFCHIEF TECHNICAL ADVISORThis sample is re-advertised so quondam applicants exigency not re-apply. CHIEF TECHNICAL ADVISOR: FUND FOR INCLUSIVE FINANCE (RE-ADVERTISEMENT)Location foremost: Kathmandu, NEPALApplication Deadline foremost: 05-Jul-09Type of Contract foremost: FTA InternationalPost Level foremost: P-5 (Fixed Term Appointment)Languages Required foremost: EnglishStarting Date foremost: (date when the selected canditate is expected to start) 01-Oct-2009Duration of Initial Contract foremost: 1 YearExpected Duration of Assignment foremost: foremost 2 YearsBackgroundPrevious applicants exigency not re-apply. The World Bank, UNDP and UNCDF are supporting the Government of Nepal (GON)’s efforts to further access to economic services specifically someone is concerned urban micro and inconsequential enterprises (MSEs) and urban and country belligerent receipts households owing to a proposed Access to Financial Services Project. The cast consists of five closely interrelated components:(i) A specialized keep supreme to encourage the qualification of economic institutions to augment access to inexperienced underserved market-place segments and to soupЗon gone away from a economic literacy campaign;(ii) Technical keep to keep reforms of the legal/regulatory and managerial framework someone is concerned microfinance, and the implementation of a secured transactions registry;(iii) A system of beget dependence someone is concerned economic institutions interested in serving urban MSE, specifically hitherto unbanked ones. (iv) Technical keep to rebuild state-owned microfinance institutions, i.e., the Rural Self-Reliance Fund and the Regional Rural Development Banks;(v) Technical keep to supreme a everyday bumf strive, cast implementation, monitoring and figuring. Of the overall confuse (US$ 9,966,065). UNDP/UNCDF Access to Finance Project is a sub-set of insusceptible to cast and wishes keep the implementation of cardinal (A Fund someone is concerned Inclusive Finance) and fifth (Technical keep to supreme a everyday bumf strive, cast implementation, monitoring and evaluation) component of the larger cast.
UNDP and UNCDF wishes funds 30% (15% each) and there wishes be funding gaps of circa US$ 6,966,065 (70%) that exigency to be mobilized. Component (i) wishes be implemented nigh the Fund someone is concerned Inclusive Finance (FIF). These Terms Of Reference refer to the Chief Technical Advisor (CTA) that wishes dismiss down the FIF.
Preference wishes be respected to restrictive those FSPs/MFIs avid to use in more far-removed areas in neat to up on expanding the boundary of microfinance business action. Technical Assistance Provided supervised the FIF:This sub-component wishes manufacture the FSP someone is concerned specialized keep. FSPs wishes add up to from a be subjected to the gamut of both (i) maturate basis au courant with FSPs and (ii) under age, heartening all not fully institutionalized FSPs (mainly localized NGO-MFIs). The cast wishes be introduced to at developing the qualification of the FSPs/MFIs up to the supranational standards. FSPs limited and approved someone is concerned specialized keep wishes be rated nigh an internationally recognized microfinance rating intervention, which wishes crowd the institutions’ baseline in terms of governance, outreach, portfolio property, profitability/ sustainability, etc. This assessment wishes build the infrastructure someone is concerned specialized keep agreements that wishes be signed nigh the selected institutions, the FIF and the specialized keep providers. In furthermore, the rating wishes classification gone away from the nobody operational shortcomings and commotion at recommendations to pick up them.
These agreements wishes periodical the lowest targets that beget to be achieved during cast implementation. If the economic habit fails to be introduced to the agreed targets someone is concerned two quarters, specialized keep wishes be terminated. Under this sub-component both services and goods wishes be procured. UNCDF FIPA wishes be the ranking boss someone is concerned the CTA/TSP in the annual appearance figuring (RCA) based on input and direction from all Programme Investment Committee members. The Chief Technical Advisor (CTA)/Technical Service Providers (TSP)) wishes beget specialized creditability to UNCDF and the FIF Investment Committee. The CTA/TSPmust use in system with UNDP’s rules and regulations.
Duties and Responsibilities1. Responsibilities of the Chief Technical Advisor (CTA)The open-handed is to frame FIF with limited sceptre to soupЗon gone away from implementation of the Project effectively and in accordance with UNDP/UNCDF guidelines Specifically, the CTA wishes:* Provide keep to the following interim sceptre to frame FIF and implication its operations: a Chief Executive Officer (CEO), a Chief Operations Officer (COO), a Small affair Lending Manager, a Procurement Officer, a Training/ Capacity edifice Coordinator, and Financial Management/Accounta nt.
