Overview
The role supports the Fund Management Unit of the Infrastructure Resilience Accelerator Fund (IRAF) in programme implementation, fund portfolio oversight, and fund operations. The Specialist will focus on due diligence, risk management, financial reporting, and policy development.
Tasks Summary
- Oversee accreditation of IRAF Fund recipient organizations, including HACT micro assessment and SEAH risk assessment.
- Support calls for proposals selection process, including review of budgets and procurement plans.
- Support implementation of prevention and mitigation measures for risk management and update the Fund risk management dashboard.
- Support the management of the Fund complaints mechanism.
- Monitor IRAF programme delivery and prepare delivery reports.
- Oversee IRAF programme budget, ensuring compliance.
- Research Fund operations innovations and support the adaptation of CDRI policies and procedures.
- Establish and maintain a secure information management and archiving system for IRAF.
Experience Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years (with Master's degree) or 7 years (with Bachelor's degree) of experience in overseeing the financial management and operations of large programmes, preferably in the United Nations, bilateral or multilateral development cooperations agencies, or multilateral banks.
- Demonstrated extensive experience with development project implementation, operations and finance, including project appraisal, risk management, audit and oversight.
- Experience in the use of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and advanced knowledge of web-based management systems such as ERP.
- Demonstrated experience in using and maintaining complex organization information management systems.
- Demonstrated experience in managing projects in fragile and/or high fiduciary risk context is highly desirable.
- Experience of exposure with Vertical Funds such as GEF, GCF, Adaptation Fund, Global Fund and their programming/operational processes.
- Proven expertise in due diligence and fiduciary risk control and oversight including for international multilateral organizations.
- Proven expertise in financial management, budget oversight and reporting, including for international donor agencies.
- Demonstrated understanding/experience and familiarity with international procurement processes, rules and regulations.
- Demonstrated understanding/experience and familiarity with information technology applications to organization information systems, including e- document management, and to project management.
- Demonstrated ability/experience to research best practices with the view to generate new ideas and approaches.
- Demonstrated ability/experience to share knowledge across the organization and build a culture of knowledge sharing and learning.
- Demonstrated ability/experience to establish, build and sustain effective working relationships working in a diverse environment and communicate sensitively.
Qualification Requirements
- Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in finance, law, business or public administration, or other relevant field is required, or
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
