Overview
Provide technical leadership to advance financial inclusion and enterprise development components of UN Women South Sudan's Women's Economic Empowerment initiatives. Support the delivery of interventions on gender-responsive financial inclusion and entrepreneurship development for MSMEs and Women Collectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute technical inputs to programme strategies and approaches for gender-responsive financial inclusion and entrepreneurship development.
- Provide technical and analytical inputs to programme strategies, concept notes, project proposals, and workplans.
- Support research, data collection, and analysis on women's entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, and private sector development.
- Prepare briefing notes, background papers, presentations, and technical documents.
- Provide substantive technical and operational support for programme implementation and management.
- Coordinate day-to-day implementation of enterprise development and financial inclusion activities.
- Coordinate technical and logistical arrangements for programme activities.
- Liaise with implementing partners and local stakeholders.
- Support management of calls for proposals, partner selection, and capacity assessments.
- Follow up with implementing partners on implementation and reporting.
- Provide technical assistance and capacity development support to partners and beneficiaries.
- Support the design, coordination, and delivery of training, coaching, mentorship, and capacity development initiatives.
- Assist in identifying capacity development needs.
- Facilitate coordination and collaboration with financial institutions, private sector actors, ESOs, BDS providers, and government institutions.
- Monitor implementation progress against workplans, indicators, and targets.
- Collect, compile, and analyze programme data and partner reports.
- Conduct field monitoring visits and provide inputs to mission reports.
- Provide substantive input to quarterly, annual, donor, and ad hoc reports.
- Maintain programme documentation, databases, and records.
- Monitor programme expenditures and budget utilization.
- Support preparation of budget revisions, financial tracking tools, and financial reports.
- Review implementing partner reports and supporting documentation.
- Support administrative and operational processes related to programme implementation.
- Provide inputs to stakeholder mapping, partnership development, and resource mobilization initiatives.
- Compile and maintain information on donors, private sector actors, financial institutions, and development partners.
- Support preparation of partnership briefs, donor profiles, concept notes, presentations, and visibility materials.
- Provide technical inputs to inter-agency coordination.
- Participate in relevant technical working groups, coordination meetings, and stakeholder engagements.
- Provide inputs to background notes, presentations, and briefing materials for inter-agency coordination.
- Support coordination with government institutions, UN agencies, development partners, civil society organizations, and private sector actors.
- Support the preparation of communication and advocacy materials.
- Assist in organizing advocacy campaigns, knowledge-sharing events, workshops, and consultations.
- Document lessons learned, good practices, success stories, and programme achievements.
- Contribute to the development of knowledge products and communication materials.
- Perform other duties as deemed necessary.
Required Experience
- At least 2 years of progressively responsible work experience in development programme/project implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation, donor reporting and capacity building is required.
- Experience in the area of gender-responsive financial inclusion and entrepreneurship development support programme is desirable.
- Result-based management experience including in designing, monitoring and evaluating programs and projects.
- Experience coordinating and liaising with national and sub-national government partners, UN, International Financial Institutions, private sector and/or donors is desirable.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree or equivalent in social sciences, human rights, gender/ women’s studies, international development, or a related field is required.
- A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
- A project/programme management certification (such as PMP®, PRINCE2®, or MSP®) would be an added advantage.
