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Posted Date

Oct, 16

Expire Date

Oct, 27

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The following documents shall be required from the applicants:

a) Personal CV, indicating all past positions held and their main underlying functions, their durations (month/year), the qualifications, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate, and at least three (3) the most recent professional references of previous supervisors. References may also include peers.

Office/Unit/Project Description:

UNCDF is the UN's capital investment agency for the world's least developed countries (LDCs). It creates new opportunities for poor people and their communities by increasing access to inclusive finance and investment capital. UNCDF focuses on Africa and the poorest countries of Asia and the Pacific, with a special commitment to countries emerging from conflict or crisis. It can provide seed capital both grants and loans as well as technical support that will improve poor peoples' lives.

The UNCDF digital agenda for migration and remittances falls within the organization's broader global strategy, set forth in 2019, of "Leaving No One Behind in the Digital Era." This vision is to empower millions of people by 2024 to use services daily that leverage innovation and technology and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. Through a market development approach, UNCDF continuously seeks to address underlying market dysfunctions. The Programme contributes to, and benefits from, this overarching corporate mandate. The Programme is administered by UNCDF with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, or SDC, and Sida, the Swedish International Development Agency.

UNCDF's Migration and Remittances for Development Programme, or the Programme, aims at contributing to sustainable development by making remittances more accessible and affordable, while helping build resilience for migrants and their families. For both sending and receiving countries, the Programme seeks to increase the share of migrant remittances flowing through formal channels, thereby giving policymakers at both ends greater visibility into the true picture of inbound and outbound financial flows. For remittances service providers, the Programme seeks to build the capacity to understand the financial needs and preferences of migrants and their families, and to design and deliver responsive products accordingly. For migrants themselves, the Programme aims not only to lower the costs and increase the safety and convenience of sending money, but also to link remittances to a broader suite of financial services-including insurance,savings, pensions, investments, and credit-that can help them reach their goals. The Programme recognizes digitization as the key to achieving these objectives.

Institutional Arrangement:

The direct supervisor of the Senior Payments Specialist will be the Lead Specialist, Migration and Remittance portfolio at UNCDF.

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work

Leading UNCDF's effort and convenings on an open regulated payments network, which includes dissemination and following up with stakeholders on adopting key recommendations
Leading UNCDF's effort to design a global interoperability scheme for remittances
Leading UNCDF's work on open digital infrastructure, including designing APls to help scale remittance linked products
Contributing to the cross-border interoperability reference guide project
Reviewing key publications linked to UNCDF's work on share market infrastructure, portability of digital identity, migrant and gender centric open-source user interfaces, remittance-linked credit research, digitization of wage payments, micro-insurance and pensions, etc.

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