Fund Management Advisor Full-time Job

Functional Responsibilities:

Under the direct supervision of Head of Programme Management Office/CFM, the Fund Management Advisor will be responsible to advise and support UNOPS Programmes on a need basis, and as defined in the task notes, covering but not limited to negotiate, design, advise, start up or turn-around single and multi-donor pooled funds. Support needed will mostly be for programmes in Asia but may also include assignments from other UNOPS regions. Such assignments may be home-based or require travel to specific country offices.

The Fund Management Advisor will have a thorough understanding of the terms, conditions, and the respective roles and responsibilities of the partners/stakeholders to ensure the programmes managed by UNOPS are capable of meeting the business cases of both UNOPS and its donors.

The Fund Management Advisor will broadly carry out the following tasks, in accordance with UNOPS policies, procedures and practices based on needs expressed by country offices.

Fund/Programme design

Participate in donor negotiations for designing new funds/programmes when requested by country offices

Draft concept notes/project proposals/budgets for designing financing mechanisms

Draft programme/fund related documentation such as operational guidelines, governance architecture, safeguards policies and strategy

Support offices in designing fund’s organogram and terms of reference

Provide surge capacity to new funds during start up in leadership or support roles when needed

Conceptualize innovative financing approaches to meet donor requirements

Fund Management/Programme Management

Provide diagnostic assessment of ongoing funds and provide advice on turnaround, especially with regards to strategy, governance, grants model, risk management etc.

Provide on-going assurance/peer review on active funds to country office or regional office

Propose strategies to attract further funding for ongoing funds

Any other related tasks on programme management cycle as needed

Knowledge Management:

Understand and manage UNOPS pricing policy and related corporate charges as they apply to the Fund

Contribute to CFM’s publications and knowledge management initiatives by documenting best practices

Actively interact with other stakeholder to share case studies, lessons learned and best practice on UNOPS Communities

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