Overview
The Field Associate will contribute to the delivery of UNCDF activities by supporting partners in the execution of country projects, contributing to monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities, and supporting knowledge-sharing efforts at the regional level.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the execution of country projects by supporting UNCDF partners.
- Provide technical support to UNCDF partners in executing their plans.
- Coordinate day-to-day field activities with local government authorities, partners, community leaders, and beneficiaries.
- Facilitate community entry, stakeholder engagement, and participatory approaches.
- Support pilot activities, demonstrations, trainings, and sensitization sessions.
- Contribute to coordination efforts with key stakeholders.
- Facilitate consultation and exchange of information at the local level.
- Monitor field-level implementation.
- Contribute to the data collection system in the region.
- Provide general administrative support.
- Prepare regular field reports, mission reports, and inputs to progress reports.
- Identify implementation challenges, risks, and opportunities, and propose solutions.
- Contribute with data and information collection to knowledge sharing creation.
- Support partners to identify learnings from the field.
- Conduct desk and literature review on digital and Fintech solutions.
- Contribute to knowledge-sharing initiatives at the regional level.
- Build and maintain relationships with the local government.
- Actively advocate for practices that support UNCDF objectives.
- Support logistics for field missions, trainings, workshops, and monitoring visits.
- Ensure compliance with UNCDF and UN rules, procedures, and safeguarding standards.
Required Experience
- A minimum of seven (7) years (with secondary education) or four (4) years (with a Bachelor’s degree) of relevant work experience in development projects with international donors, preferably in the field of digital innovation and/or access to finance.
- Relevant work experience in supporting community engagement or field operations.
- Relevant work experience in data collection tools and reporting systems.
- Exposure to key stakeholders at the local level.
- Experience with UN entity or UN-funded programmes is an asset.
Qualifications
- Secondary education is required.
- A university degree (bachelor´s degree) in Economics, Finance, Accounting, and/or Business Administration or equivalent field will be given due consideration, but it is not a requirement.
