The Ugandan Jobline

• Develop in-depth relationship and buy-in
  from digital stakeholders in Uganda at government, private &
  non-profit sectors & academics;
• Based on discussion with funders and
  input from stakeholders, update and win acceptance for the Uganda country
  strategy for Digital innovation & digital finance, identify
  priorities, strategies and key milestones to develop the Ugandan market;
• In October, November of each year,
  develop detailed work plan and budget for the following year, monitoring
  and updating quarterly using the country log book;
• Lead monthly progress calls on Uganda,
  preparing agendas, leading calls, updating plans and logs;
• Lead a team of 7-10 people in Uganda
  with various skills and background. Provide leadership and technical
  advice and strong management.
• Assign clear responsibilities to the
  country team, develop annual performance plans, providing regular
  meetings, feedback on performance, and  provide mid-term and
  annual review. Provide the necessary structure and leaderships for the country
  team, organizing regular calls and meetings, maintaining a team schedule
  (including country calendar), monitoring daily work and activities;
• Ensure the proper planning, staffing and
  contracting through the  annual staffing and procurement plan,
  and providing the necessary inputs for MM4P’s quarterly staff travel plan,
  and semi-annual budget revisions.
• Lead monthly calls with funders and
  manage quarterly reporting. Host monthly calls, responding to requests and
  draft quarterly reports for funders;
• Work closely with the Results
  Measurement Analyst to ensure the on-time and accurate reporting of
  results from partners and facilitating the annual survey to DF market
  growth;
• Participate in digital team meetings and
  events (2 – 3 times per year);

• The TS directly manages the in-country
  relations and activities with the government and manage stakeholder
  relationships and outreach efforts of the programme.
• Be a catalyst for digital solution &
  digital finance innovations in Uganda, seeking opportunities to empower
  people’s life with digital innovations, and develop the Uganda program as
  a flagship country in regard to digital innovation
• Under the guidance and with the support
  of the Global Technical Specialist, based in Brussels, advise the
  government in creating a more enabling digital environment.
• Oversee the implementation of UNCDF’s
  plan for policy and regulation; support the BoU,MoFPED and other
  governement bodies and organize technical assistance for policy and
  regulation; 
• Support the Better than Cash Alliance
  member services team on ways to support the government in fulfilling its
  commitments to the alliance, such as: work closely with the MoFPED and
  recommendations to convert payment flows from cash to digital; 
• Work closely with our funders and FSDU
  to coordinate policy work, developing consistent messages and
  collaborating on key initiatives;
• Participate in industry working groups,
  providing thought leadership and identifying opportunities to build
  partnerships;
• Assist partners in identifying
  opportunities with others, including recommending or fostering strategic,
  financial or technical partnerships;
• Act as primary resource person on
  digital for UNCDF, UNDP and other funders, helping to provide information,
  make introductions, coordinating efforts around the plan.
• On an ad-hoc basis, provide on-going
  technical advice to partners (providers, regulators, funders), including
  sharing of information and updates on innovations;
• Help to build awareness and build a
  consumer protection agenda with country stakeholders. 
• Build effective and efficient
  partnerships at the operational level with major donor agencies to
  coordinate financial inclusion, including financial literacy, activities
  in country;
• Seek opportunities for coordinating and
  co-funding projects with other funders, ensure the program’s efforts
  complete those of other digital finance initiatives;

• The TS sets the direction and oversees
  the development of the project pipeline, and plays a key role in
  identifying innovative projects, appraising and monitoring for results,
  while the technical team manages the daily work or project identification
  and implementation.  
• Investigate opportunities to expand
  digital work into finance, agriculture, education, health, transport,
  energy and water sector (People+) with projects focusing on empowering
  people’s life with digital innovations (low income people, women, youths,
  (im)mogrants and MSMEs;
• Leverage relationships with innovation
  accelerator/ hubs, start-up community, universities and entrepreneurs
• Oversee a DF technical team (4-5) of
  digital  consultants and expert on key
  sectors,  develop and manage of the existing pipeline of
  projects with the objective to reach project KPIs on time and reach scale.
• Help set priorities, provide advice and
  assistance as required, and ensure compliance with policies and procedures
  related to Direct Technical and Financial Support;
• Review, appraise and reject/endorse new
  project descriptions completed by the Expert and consultants; team and
  consultants;
• Draft technical terms of reference for
  consultants to support partners, provide all technical input for
  procurement, drafting TORs and reviewing and evaluating technical
  proposals.
• Develop regular contact (e.g. monthly)
  with partners, monitoring overall progress and satisfaction with UNCDF
  support;
• Participate in quarterly project
  steering committee meetings for larger projects with partners’ senior
  management, resolve problems and seek opportunities for improving,
  expanding relationships.
• As needed, schedule field visits to
  check projects’ progress together with consultants and partners;
• Review and respond to quarterly reports,
  ensuring partners are reporting accurately, monitor progress and reporting
  under agreements and contracts, verify milestones and targets for
  disbursements;
• Work with the funders and the Financial
  Sector Deepening Programme Uganda (FSDU) to coordinate project pipelines,
  ensuring the regular communication and systematic sharing of information
  on current and planned projects; 

• The TS directly manages the range of
  activities that contribute to educating, strengthening and consolidating
  the sector as a whole with support from the KM Associate in Brussels and
  the KM Consultant in Uganda. 
• In support of the country strategy,
  propose ecosystems activities (workshops, researches, conferences,
  trainings, exposure visits, etc.) needed to educate
  stakeholders.  Write/review TORs and implement ecosystem
  activities;Prepare/ review workshop materials, research documents,
  learning documents, etc. to insure high quality level information;
• Identify learning, training, and
  knowledge sharing opportunities for partners and key stakeholders and
  provide scholarships for attendance;
• Manage country level research and data
  collection projects, support research and data collection firms in their
  work.
• Participate on project team of Mobile
  Analytics projects, managing UNCDF’s contribution to the project by
  working with identified Ugandan partners to use mobile data in decision
  making;
• Collaborate with FSD Uganda, Intermedia,
  Finscope and other key partners and stakeholders for research and
  development of innovative, cutting-edge strategies and approaches to
  sharpen delivery of digital finance;
• Work closely with the Knowledge
  Management Associate to plan and deliver knowledge management and learning
  outcomes;
• Help synthesize learnings from research
  and projects into short notes to share experience and lessons learned from
  partners;
• Lead one of the Digital  key
  learning questions, planning and implementing activities for this area
  with other digital country teams;
• Each year, provide at least 4 blog posts
  for the UNCDF or other stakeholder’s websites highlighting lessons
  learned;  Help draft press releases or short announcements of
  key UNCDF inclusive finance activities or achievements in country;
• Help drive the Uganda Community of
  Practice through multi-media (d-groups, yammer, etc.) and contributed to
  the overall digital social media presence;
• Participate in local knowledge sharing
  networks on inclusive finance;
• Participate to key DF conferences;
• Develop and provide annual Learning Plan
  for oneself and the team;
• Attend approved trainings; share
  debriefing and value of training with the wider Practice community;

• As Team Leader, the TS is responsible
  for the overall smooth and procedurally compliant implementation of
  activities, as well as supporting the PMU in reporting and results
  measurement so that they are consistent across countries.
• Work closely with the Operations Analyst
  (PMU) to manage the Uganda operations team.   Support the
  Uganda Operations Associate and the operations team to manage all
  financial, administrative, procurement and results measurement activities to
  deliver the expected results from activities and projects;
• Work closely with the Operations
  Analysts to manage the country budget revisions, reporting and analysis;
• Work closely with the Research and
  Results Measurement Analyst (PMU) to coordinate and to contribute to the
  project monitoring and country data collection plan;
• Ensure country compliance and on-time
  delivery with policies and procedures (document storage, agendas,
  timesheet, meeting minutes, etc.)
• Assist in implementation of mid-term and
  final evaluations of the programme;
• Support the development of UNCDF
  programme and business strategies and to annual reviews;
• As requested, assists in fundraising and
  relationship management with donors
• As requested, conduct DF scoping
  missions  in other countries;
• Raise funds:  work with UNCDF
  on fundraising to support activities in Uganda, identifying opportunities
  and assisting in proposal development and agreement negotiation;
• Provide corporate support to UNCDF as it
  relates to Uganda and fully participate in UNCDF’s global planning,
  learning, communication and reporting activities;

• UNCDF and Stakeholders are informed on
  current trends, market conditions, and special topics as needed, learning
  are shared cross-countries and UNCDF is viewed as a leader in inclusive
  digital economies in Uganda.
• Some flagship projects that have reached
  scale and a diverse mix of strong digital projects that meeting their
  targets, including the underserved, women and rural users.
• Regulators and Policymakers and other
  key stakeholders are empowered and supported to make decisions, develop
  policies and implement changes that both enable sector growth and protect
  consumers.
• Clear, prioritized country strategy for
  digital inclusion, with a broad and effective range of activities, that is
  well planned, implemented and monitored.
• An efficiently-managed, monitored and
  evaluated programme that is highly rated by its partners and is meeting or
  exceeding all targets.
• All well integrated programme
  contributing to overall UNCDF objectives, compliant with policies and
  procedures.

• The ideal candidate for the United
  Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) Technical Specialist, Digital
  Innovation, MM4P job placement should a Master’s degree in technology,
  economics, public/business administration, social sciences, or related
  discipline
• At least seven years’ experience in
  progressively more responsible positions in the financial services,
  telecommunications field and or digital field; out of which at least four
  years’ experience must be in area of digital services, preferably in
  Africa region
• Language: Fluency in
  English.  Excellent communication skills (comprehension, verbal
  & written communication)

• Possesses expert knowledge of advanced
  concepts in to digital and/or digital financial inclusion, a broad
  knowledge of related disciplines, as well as an in-depth knowledge of
  relevant organizational policies and procedures;
• Proven ability to get things done, managing
  multi-million dollar initiatives for results, preferably in digital and
  digital finance;
• Ability to lead a team for learnings,
  results, inspiring, leading, monitoring and getting results;
• Experience in the implementation of
  digital services for key segments (Low income people, Women, Youths,
  (Im)migrants, MSMEs) and/or key sectors (agriculture, health, education,
  water, energy, transport & finance) is required
• Experience in manging relationships with
  funders and fundraising is a plus
• Good understanding of legal and
  regulatory issues related to digital, such as know your customer and bank
  agency rules;
• Experience working with the mass market,
  including rural or low income communities, preferably related to financial
  services;
• Experience managing or conducting
  research, particularly related to product development or client demand,
  able to use research to foster change;
• Experience working with
  an  international donor organizations is a plus, but not
  mandatory;
• A passion for digital and innovation

• Comfortable managing a project team,
  with appropriate motivation, delegation and oversight, sets and monitors
  key performance indicators (KPIs);
• Strong management skills, energizing and
  organizing small teams or consultants
• Strong personal skills with key
  stakeholders, understands how to build strategic partnerships and
  alliances, build relationships;
• Innovative and thoughtful, proactively
  identifies, develops and discusses solutions for internal and external
  clients,
• Results driven and willingness to always
  improve and innovate;
• Comfortable working in a developing
  country and within very low income areas;
• Comfortable advocating and advancing an
  agenda, including with high level counterparts and other stakeholders;
• Positive, constructive attitude and
  responds and gives constructive feedback

• Excellent speaking and writing skills in
  English;
• Excellent analytical skills;
• Proven ability to manage projects and
  teams;
• Strong general IT skills, including
  ability to work regularly with MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint;
• Proven cross-cultural communication,
  able to function effectively in an international, multicultural
  environment and manage a team consisting of multiple nationalities.

• Builds confidence, creating an
  environment of creativity and innovation;
• Demonstrates ethics and integrity;
• Conducts fair and transparent decision
  making;
• Demonstrates political acumen and
  calculated risk-taking;
• Builds and promotes teams and
  partnerships;
• Creates and promotes open communication;
• Remains calm, in control and good
  humored even under pressure
• Displays cultural and gender sensitivity
  and adaptability
• Treats all persons fairly without
  favoritism
• Shows strong corporate commitment

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