Overview
Provides technical and administrative support to sustainable urban development initiatives in Ghana, focusing on innovative financing strategies and resource mobilization for impact projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Supports resource mobilization for scaling up programmes/projects.
- Assists in monitoring and analyzing resource mobilization partnerships.
- Supports management with analysis of funding streams.
- Drafts proposals/concepts for funding.
- Supports strengthening and building new partnerships.
- Analyzes and researches information on donors.
- Supports identification and prioritization of SDG impact projects.
- Supports assessment of impact projects.
- Supports the structuring of impact projects for financial feasibility.
- Contributes to the design and implementation of innovative financing strategies.
- Promotes innovative financing mechanisms and development finance solutions.
- Supports building partnerships with non-traditional actors.
- Supports engagement with private sector, financial institutions, and impact investors.
- Prepares briefing papers and discussion points on programme/projects finance.
- Participates in the design and formulation of UN-Habitat projects and programmes.
- Supports the identification of opportunities and conceptualisation of strategic programme interventions.
- Researches, analyzes, and presents best practices and lessons learned.
- Supports diagnostic assessment of key local institutional capacities.
- Supports local institutional capacity development.
- Supports a knowledge repository of potential donors.
- Monitors and analyzes best practices and successful models of SDG partnerships and resource mobilization.
- Keeps abreast of emerging financing models and development finance innovations.
- Reflects on processes and generates knowledge.
- Collects, documents, and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns.
- Performs other related tasks as assigned.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience with completion of secondary education is required.
- OR A minimum of two (2) years of extensive working experience in development finance and resource mobilization is required.
- Desired: Proven experience in developing project proposals and a track record of grants won.
- Desired: Proven experience in analysing and structuring projects for financial feasibility.
- Desired: Proven experience and knowledge in Development Finance and cooperation.
- Desired: Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc) and advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling web-based management systems.
Qualifications
- Required: Secondary school diploma (or high school equivalent).
- OR First-level university degree (undergraduate, bachelor, or equivalent) in Business or Public Administration, Development Finance, Development Studies, Social Sciences, International Development or a related field.
