דרושים Fund Specialist בכל הארץ

Job Highlight

This role offers a unique opportunity to provide hands-on technical and operational support across a complex, multi-country pooled fund, serving as a key liaison between the Secretariat, UN country and regional programme teams, and MPTFO. The Fund Officer will directly influence programme quality, results monitoring, and the consolidation of narrative reporting, while contributing to the operationalization and strengthening of the Fund’s management and governance processes. This position holder will be expected to be available for duty travel to programme countries, primarily located in Africa but also across other regions.

Even though the level of the position is indicated as IICA 2, depending on the incumbent's personal situation (candidate with national ID or resident permit in duty station), a local fee scale (LICA-10) might be applied in determining the contractor's fee.

**Role Purpose

**The Fund Specialist is expected to support the overall coordination and management of the Spotlight Initiative 2.0 Fund, under the supervision and direction of the Senior Programme Manager (Senior Trust Fund Manager).

The Fund Specialist will support the Fund’s governance and advisory structures, fund processes, and coordination with the Administrative Agent. They will help ensure compliance with the Programme and Operations Manual (POM), oversee the quality of narrative and consolidated reports, and provide technical and operational guidance to country and regional programmes. The role includes support to the fund’s programme portfolio in terms of programme management and coordination, quality-assuring programme documents, budgets, and reports, developing fund-level dashboards and analyses, and ensuring timely, accurate reporting to governance bodies and stakeholders. For this purpose, duty travel may be required from time to time as needs arise.

Functions / Key Results Expected

• Support the Spotlight Initiative 2.0 Fund Governance and Management
• Support the coordination fund management processes, including planning, allocations, disbursements, monitoring, and reporting.
• Support the coordination and preparation of Operational Steering Committee, Advisory Board and Programme Appraisal Committee proceedings and records the advice, suggestions and decisions through meeting minutes and follow up action plans.
• Aggregates information of the key decisions made by Programme-level National/Regional Steering Committees and consolidates this key information to periodically brief the Fund’s governance bodies.
• Support the development of analytical inputs and documentation on fund results and budget utilization.
• Liaise with the Administrative Agency (MPTFO) on fund operations, reporting as well as contractual and compliance matters.
• Support the strategic shaping and evolution of the Fund as it adapts to the changing donor funding landscape and seeks stronger coherence with other UN pooled financing mechanisms, particularly within the DCO and UN reforms (including the UN80 Initiative) context.
• Assist in developing country eligibility and prioritization criteria, including the design and issuing of expressions of interest as requested by the Fund Governance Structures.
• Programmatic and Operational Support to country and regional programmes of the Spotlight Initiative 2.0 Fund
• Contribute to the elaboration, periodic review and updates of the Fund’s POM and related operational guidance.
• Provide programmatic and operational support to country and regional programmes throughout all stages of the programme cycle — development, implementation, and closure — ensuring alignment with the POM and the Spotlight Initiative model and principles.
• Support the substantive quality assurance of programme documents and budgets to ensure high-quality submissions to the Fund’s governance bodies for review and approval.
• Liaise with the MPTFO, as the administrative agent of the Fund, to support and quality assuring the execution of allocations to recipient UN organizations, including record-keeping, fund transfers and file management.
• Coordinate targeted technical and management support to UN country and regional teams during the programme design, implementation and closure through regular check-in calls, troubleshooting sessions, capacity development trainings as well as quality assurance of programme budgets, work plans, and narrative reports in alignment with the POM.
• Maintain regular bilateral communication with country and regional teams as the Secretariat focal point for programme management, providing operational guidance, facilitating problem-solving, and promoting consistency across programmes.

c. Fund Performance Monitoring and Reporting

• Support the preparation of Spotlight Initiative’s / Spotlight Initiative 2.0 Fund’s annual and final consolidated global narrative reports, including based on programme-level narrative reports.
• Conduct comprehensive technical reviews and quality assurance of programme-level narrative reports, ensuring compliance with contractual requirements and readiness for aggregation into fund-level results.
• Coordinate with MPTFO on their timely submission of the Fund reports to key stakeholders, including programme-level and global governance bodies and donors, ensuring alignment with contractual and reporting obligations.
• Contribute to the development of content for fund-level dashboards and analytical products, including the MPTFO Gateway, ensuring clear, accurate, and insightful performance data and results

**Required

**Education Requirements

• Advanced University degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) preferably in gender studies, political science, international relations, international development, public administration or other related field with 5 years of relevant experience is required OR
• A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent) preferably in gender studies, political science, international relations, international development, public administration or other related field with 7 years of relevant experience.

****Required

****Experience Requirements

• Relevant experience is defined as experience in coordination and management support of programmes focused on joint programming, gender equality, women’s empowerment and/or the elimination of violence against women and girls.
• Experience working in Joint Programmes or multi partner pooled funds.
• Experience working in a Country or Regional Office within a development organization.

Desired

• Experience servicing multi-stakeholder Governance mechanisms is desirable.
• Experience with working with the Resident Coordinator system and UN Development System Reform processes is desirable.
• Experience with EU-funded programming is an asset.