Wednesday, May 5, 2021

New Job Vacancy United Nations (UN) at UNCDF Tanzania – Investment Officer

AJIRA LEO
UNDP

Jobs in Tanzania 2020: New Job Opportunities at UNDP Tanzania, 2020

Investment Officer
Agency UNCDF
Title Investment Officer
Job ID 37129
Practice Area – Job Family Management – INVESTMENT OFFICER, Capacity Development – INVESTMENT OFFICER
Duty Station Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of
Education & Work Experience I-Master’s Level Degree – 2 year(s) experience
Languages
Required: English
Desired: Swahili
Grade NOB
Vacancy Type FTA Local
Posting Type External
Bureau Africa
Contract Duration 2 Year with possibility for extension
Open only for Tanzania Nationals and People with disability are encouraged to apply.
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Background
The UN Capital Development Fund makes public and private finance work
for the poor in the world’s 46 least developed countries (LDCs). 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.

UNCDF’s financing models
work through three channels: (1) inclusive digital economies, which
connects individuals, households, and small businesses with financial
eco-systems that catalyze participation in the local economy, and
provide tools to climb out of poverty and manage financial lives; (2)
local development finance, which drives structural transformation of
localities through policy and regulatory reform, fiscal
decentralization, innovative municipal finance, and project finance to
unlock capital flows to the local level, combined local economic
expansion and sustainable development; and (3) investment finance, which
provides catalytic financial structuring, de-risking, and capital
deployment to drive SDG impact and domestic resource mobilization.

UNCDF’s Local Development Finance Practice (LD) aims to be center of
excellence and innovative fund for local government finance and local
economic development finance in the world’s 46 LDCs. LD promotes and
supports transformative investments through local governments and
domestic financial institutions (banks, pension funds) in LDCs by
piloting and scaling up innovative financing mechanisms and policies in
the public and private sectors. UNCDF’s work in Local Development
Finance is best understood as an appreciation that the local dimension
to development is essential for least developed countries (and least
developed regions in all developing countries) to transform their
economies and societies into an inclusive, diverse and sustainable
system for human realization and planetary health. Local development is
clearly defined not just as a local initiative, because everything
happens somewhere, but as an initiative that draws from local assets to
add value that is inclusively shared locally: infrastructure, services,
value chains and environmental value – in other words an initiative with
transformative impact.

The Local Finance Initiative (LFI)
programme is designed to unlock the flow of capital to invest small and
medium-sized infrastructure projects that are required to accelerate
local economic development and private sector development. It is a UNCDF
front office capacity that help to deliver local economic development
in collaboration with national institutions, local authorities and SMEs
in developing countries. Furthermore, LFI through the UNCDF’s
International Municipal Investment Fund Technical Assistance Facility
(IMIF-TAF) help municipalities to prepare projects to be investment
ready and support to ensure that they meet the requirements for
accessing financial markets.

The UNCDF is seeking to hire an
experienced Investment Officer with expertise in developing and
financing municipal investment projects and the formulation of public
private partnership investment frameworks. The Investment officer will
be based in Tanzania and work under the direct supervision of the Global
LFI Manager based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. There is a secondary
coordination reporting line to the Municipal Investment Finance (MIF)
Manager based in New York.

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Duties and Responsibilities
Summary of Key Functions
Organization and facilitation of project development and financing activities of the IMIF-TAF investment pipeline – 40%
Organization and facilitation of key LFI and Tanzania country programme
activities related to commercially viable investments, project
development, transaction structuring and financing – 40%
Knowledge
mangement, capacity development and support to develop and disseminate
knowlege tools for IMIFTAF and Global LFI work -20%

1. Organization and facilitation of project development and financing activities of the IMIF-TAF investment pipeline: 40%

  • Manage a portfolio and provide specialized project development and due
    dilligience support that will lead to the financial closure of municipal
    investment projects. The activities will include but not limited to the
    following: credit analysis (including financial model), legal review,
    technical appraisal, procurement, environmental and social integrity due
    diligence; governance and political;
  • Prepare project financing
    documentation to present to investment committes, potential lenders and
    investors having clear, transparent and relevant information that is in
    accordance with international standards;
  • Interact with local
    stakeholders (such as central and local government officials, private
    sector banks, equity investors, project sponsors, development partners,
    etc.) during investment identification, project development life cycle
    and during external financing stages;
  • Integrate and work
    efficiently and effectively with a team of international consultants
    supporting IMIF project pipeline development;
  • Provide reports in the format agreed upon and other adhoc and periodic reporting;
  • Timely planning, budgeting and reporting in accordance with the
    guidelines of the Implementing Partner, UNCDF and Global LFI
    Secretariat.

2. Organization and facilitation of key
Global LFI and Tanzania country programme activities related to
commercially viable investments, project development, transaction
structuring and financing: 40%

  • Perfom Peer Review of the investments managed by the network of Global
    LFI investment officers including the Tanzania country programme
    pipeline
  • Supervise the work of associate investment officers and consultants;
  • Provide targeted technical support to municipal project sponsors to
    prepare their projects to be investment ready for PPPs and municipal
    bonds. This includes review of technical feasibility studies, collection
    of relevant data to enhance business plans and confirm project
    bankability, technical due diligence market assessment, and advisory
    services;
  • Provide support to local government and other public
    sector partners in the PPP steps of procurement, tendering, assessment,
    approval, concession agreement, contract management and performance
    management. Develop investment projects using single purpose investment
    vehicles (SPV)‘s;
  • Provide support to the public partners in the
    areas of legal, policy, regulatory, risk management etc and other areas
    of the enabling environment;
  • Facilitate the required
    technical studies under guidance of the Global LFI Secretariat by
    engaging the project sponsors, consultants, local authorities and
    communities as appropriate, including the development of TORs that
    reflect project finance requirements and support of the procurement
    processes;
  • Prepare and facilitate technical missions for investment projects validation and pipeline development;
  • Liaise closely with UNCDF local development finance investment
    committee and impact teams responsible for measurement of transformative
    impact of investment projects, including in climate change, food
    security, women’s economic empowerment and local economic development.
    Exchange data and information to ensure that selected projects meet the
    criteria for transformational impact.

3. Capacity development of key stakeholders of the programme in the areas of commercially viable investments: 20%

  • Provide support and awareness training to key stakeholders including
    the local governments, capital markets, private sector and relevant
    ministries, ensuring programme knowledge generation and dissemination,
    including support to the development of IMIF-TAF and LFI tools and
    toolkits, case studies, briefs, research documents, and client impact
    evaluations.
  • Support the development of training materials and workshops related to the work of IMIF-TAF and Global LFI .
  • Provide specialist input in the development and application of
    municipal bonds; SPVs; PPP processes and tools to facilitate knowledge
    transfer, training, and development of capacities of local stakeholders
    in the public and private sectors.

Competencies

  • Job Knowledge and required technical expertise;
  • Client Orientation;
  • Building Partnerships;
  • Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment;
  • Self-development, initiative-taking;
  • Acting as a team player and facilitating team work;
  • Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively;
  • Creating synergies through self-control;
  • Managing conflict;
  • Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others.
    Promoting learning and knowledge management/sharing is the
    responsibility of each staff member;
  • Informed and transparent decision making.
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Required Skills and Experience
Education:

  • Master of Business Administration (MBA) or Masters in accounting,
    finance, or financial management is required. In addition, a Bachelor’s
    degree in accounting, finance, economics, engineering or a related field
    of the position with additional years of experience is also acceptable.
  • A Certified Public Accountant (CPA) qualification is an advantage


Experience:

  • Minimum two years of relevant experience in areas of municipal
    investment finance and the provision of technical assistance to public
    and private sector project sponsors;
  • Demonstrated experience
    of developing and financing commercially viable investments from both
    the public and private sector. Demonstrated experience of developing and
    defending investment recommendations for review and approval by
    investment committees of a fund, lender or investor. Demonstrated
    experience in development of investment projects through the entire
    project development life cycle and the financing stages for investments
    through single purpose investment vehicles (SPV)‘s;
  • Demonstrated experience of creation and evaluation of advanced and complex financial models;
  • Practical experience of working with PPP models, municipal bonds and sub-national finance;
  • Demonstrated experience of project proposals evaluation and assessment
    of economic and technical feasibility.. This involves the initial
    screening of project application package, desk review and evaluation of
    financials and business plans, preparing evaluation notes for
    presentation to the Management Technical Team to determine a project’s
    suitability for investment, and detailed project concept notes to obtain
    clearance for full appraisal or fact-finding field trips;
  • Practical experience of carrying out independent research on the
    investment climate for municipal investment finance, project sponsors,
    management, and economic, financial, marketing, technical, environmental
    and legal aspects of the project;
  • Demonstrates ability to
    engage across multiple stakeholders, including project sponsors,
    government partners and financial institutions;
  • Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments.

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Language Requirements:
Fluency in English and Swahili essential

Disclaimer
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vacancy announcement. We may also retain applications and consider
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at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and
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Vacancy End Date (Midnight New York, USA) 18/05/2021

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