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The World Food Programme is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. They are currently seeking to fill an Innovation Accelerator Head of Business Operations Consultancy position.
The incumbent, reporting to the Strategic Projects and Organisational Design Advisor, is expected to:
Foster the development and implementation of the accelerator’s innovative financing models, with a focus on helping to design and implement a Innovation Impact Fund, to create social impact at scale:
Design, test, prototype, validate and implement innovative financing models suitable to the WFP innovation projects and external startups addressing impact, humanitarian and development topics ;
Support the development and implementation of the WFP Innovation Impact Fund, to pool donor funds and private investors’ money towards investable and scalable innovations creating social impact at scale;
Support the development of all the necessary WFP Innovation Impact Fund documentation and processes, secure internal WFP endorsement and engage internal and external stakeholders, donors and investors, as appropriate;
Manage daily innovative finance operations including investments’ impact measurement and evaluation, reporting, and communication;
Engage with all necessary internal stakeholders (including finance, partnerships, legal) to gather needed input to derive and structure agreed upon innovative financing models;
Support the building of strong collaborations and partnerships within the Innovative Financing ecosystem globally, as applicable.
Support innovations/new ventures (internal and external) innovative financing activities to accelerate their path to scale advancing towards Zero Hunger and other Sustainable Development Goals:
Support and provide best practices to innovation teams on key decisions regarding innovative financing models from ideation to implementation (as applicable), using methodologies such as human centered design, lean start-up, agile project management and SCRUM;
Support piloting and/or integration of new Innovative Financing models within WFP operations or within other organizations (as applicable), while liaising with internal units such as country offices, finance, partnerships and legal, as required;
Participate in and carry out discussions with WFP colleagues in other divisions or WFP operations to showcase the potential value of Innovative Financing models;
Provide technical expertise and input into Innovative Financing and overall Accelerator strategy and plans.
Support the overall WFP Innovation Accelerator operations:
Provide analysis & content preparation (data on projects, presentations, briefs, etc.) for corporate priority topics and management meetings;
Participate and carry out discussions with colleagues in other divisions or external stakeholders on topics related to innovation and innovative financing models;
Support other core processes of the Innovation Accelerator (e.g. innovation sourcing; innovation bootcamps; sprint programme; thought leadership; scale-up enablement; innovation services; knowledge management) as required;
Support the Head of the Innovation Accelerator and the Director of Innovation and Knowledge Management with any other activities as required.
Required qualifications and experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration or equivalent. Master’s degree a plus.
At least 5 years of progressively responsible international experience in innovative financing in a leading innovative finance, venture capital or investment banking institution, fintech start-up l, or in the humanitarian or international development sector.
A proven track record of driving and implementing innovative finance projects, preferably in an impact, humanitarian and/or development context;
Strong conceptual thinking and analytical skills to develop new innovative financing strategies & models;
Passion and understanding of technology innovations (e.g. digital payments, blockchain, artificial intelligence) and business model innovations (e.g. innovative finance, venture capital, impact bonds);
Experience in innovation project life cycle — from ideation, minimum viable product, testing, prototyping and implementation;
Experience working cross-functionally and getting things done in a scrappy and hands-on way;
Able to interact with a broad range of stakeholders and external audience with maturity and tact.
Excellent communication/presentation skills, with the ability to write strategy documents, to develop business plans and to write and deliver presentations.
Collaborative spirit, able to partner with a wide range of people at all levels and across different cultures and to act with credibility and diplomacy;
Self-motivated and able to work with a high degree of autonomy;
Sets a high-level of ambition for own work to achieve impact for the vulnerable people we serve;
Fully committed and motivated to achieve the aims of the UN World Food Programme.
Fluency in oral and written English mandatory. Intermediate knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) or Portuguese (one of WFP’s working languages) is a plus.
Terms and Conditions:
WFP offers a competitive compensation package which will be determined by the contract type and selected candidate’s qualifications and experience.
Closing Date: 24 July 2021.
