SNV Vietnam is looking for an Senior Analyst/Team Leader (International), based in Bangkok, Thailand (with occasional travel to Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam - CLMV)
SNV is a not-for-profit international development organisation. Founded in the Netherlands 50 years ago, we have built a long-term, local presence in 38 of the poorest countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Our global team of local and international advisors works with local partners to equip communities, businesses and organisations with the tools, knowledge and connections they need to increase their incomes and gain access to basic services – empowering them to break the cycle of poverty and guide their own development.
Using market-based approaches, SNV is committed to reducing poverty by catalysing environmentally sustainable solutions for the poor in agriculture, renewable energy, water & sanitation, and REDD+.
SNV is seeking a qualified Senior Analyst/Team Leader for the UNCDF Shaping Inclusive Finance Transformations (SHIFT) and CleanStart South East Asia External Fund Manager project.
Responsibilities:
- Promote, inform and demonstrate the merits of the fund to potential grantees
- Organise targeted workshops with potential grantees to improve the eligibility and quality of applications
- Develop and manage potential grantees pipeline
- Marketing the fund to range of stakeholders at the country, regional and if required at the global level through a process of engagement throughout the application process; integrating gender equity considerations and articulate a strategy if special efforts are needed to achieve equitable or preferential targets.
- Develop a pipeline of potential proposals for funding from the fund facilities which will require significant levels of direct engagement with potential applicants
- Ensure that Fund activities and products are gender equitable, and highlight where appropriate strategies to ensure that this gender component of the SHIFT portfolio of projects is enhanced;
- Initiate and manage collaborations, partnerships between potential grantees to meet the objectives of the fund facilities.
- Develop closure report for each funding facility and ‘windows’
- Liaise with the SHIFT and CleanStart fund leadership and serve as the main organisational point of contact
- Supervise and manage the activities and outputs of the Analyst and Junior Analyst positions as well as short-term consultants on this project
Candidate profile:
- The equivalent of a master’s degree and 11 or more years of relevant experience; For candidates without a master’s degree, an additional three years of experience is required to qualify for this position
- Have working experience on financial inclusion across multiple countries
- Should have demonstrated experience in developing and managing pipelines for challenge funds or large competitive co-funded grant projects
- Have working knowledge of stakeholder’s requirements and priorities – government, private sector, investors, financial institutions, technical assistance providers etc.
- Have demonstrated experience of undertaking due diligence of financial institutions
- Proven ability of writing good quality reports
- Should have demonstrated experience of working on women’s economic empowerment
- Proven capacity to work with teams operating at a distance;
- Excellent (English) communication (written and oral);
- Working experience in CLMV countries will be preferred
Contract Duration: full-time assignment for 24 months, with the possibility of an additional three year extension.
How to apply: Please send your application letter stating your applying position, experience and motivation to apply for this position, and CV to Manoli Strecker, Business Development Manager, at [email protected] [1] by 28th September 2015.
For more information on SNV, please refer to our website: www.snvworld.org [2]
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