Field Associate (8 positions Tanzania - Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, Tanga, Mafia, Mtwara & Lindi)

UNCDF utilizes its unique capability in the UN system to deploy grants, loans and guarantees to crowd-in finance for the scaling of development impact. UNCDF focuses on where the needs are greatest, a deliberate focus and capability rooted in UNCDF’s unique investment mandate to support the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the realization of the Doha Programme of Action for the least developed countries, 2022–2031.

As per its Strategic Framework, UNCDF works to deploy its functions as a hybrid development organization and development finance institution. UNCDF responds to Member States requests for assistance by providing targeted technical and financial advisory services on investments for development outcomes, designing bespoke financial structuring solutions, undertaking financial derisking of investments, and enhancing investment readiness of SDG aligned projects in partnership with private sector, UNOs, International and Local Finance Institutions, Development Finance Institutions as well as Foundations and Philanthropy, among others. UNCDF works to develop local financial systems, new markets and mobilize and crowd in capital from public and private sources. UNCDF is driven by a partnership mindset which enables it to deploy its different capital capabilities in highly tailored and responsive ways in order to mobilize investments flows from other sources, in particular from the private sector.  By structuring transactions which are highly impactful, but also recognize the need for multiplying the impact of its own capital, UNCDF seeks to position itself as a preferred partner for different stakeholders.  UNCDF’s work is focused on six priority areas, including:

•                     Sub-national and local infrastructure financing

•                     Women-owned enterprise financing

•                     Nature and climate financing

•                     Energy and decarbonization finance

•                     Sustainable food systems financing

•                     Inclusive digital finance

Following a recent restructuring, UNCDF’s organizational set up includes an Investment and Implementation Division (IID), Investment and Finance Oversight Division (IFOD), Operations and Oversight Division (OOD) and a Directorate of the Executive Office. UNCDF staff and personnel are located in regional hubs based in Dakar (Senegal), Nairobi (Kenya) and Bangkok (Thailand) with sub-regional presence in a number of locations in the Caribbean and Pacific Regions. UNCDF is led by an Executive Secretary based out of New York, USA. Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 2321(XXII, para 1.a), the Administrator of the UNDP performs the function of the Managing Director of UNCDF. UNCDF is overseen by the Executive Board of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and performs the function of the Executive Board of UNCDF.

In Tanzania, UNCDF is implementing the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) in collaboration with the President's Office Regional Administration and Local Government (PORALG). LoCAL is one of the programmes under UNCDF, which was piloted in three districts of the Dodoma region, i.e., Chamwino, Mpwapwa and Kondoa, potentially benefiting more than 800,000 people, particularly women. The identified districts have so far been able to access climate finance by using the established PBCRG mechanism to support implementation of climate change adaptation investments, mostly related to water and agricultural.

The programme is now moving to Phase II of its implementation. While new districts will be identified, new villages will also be identified in the existing districts, hence increasing the geographical coverage of the programme. In particular, the LoCAL Phase II will be implemented in Kondoa, Chamwino and Mpwapwa districts in Dodoma region; and 18 coastal districts of Tanzania. However, for the PBCRG, the implementation will cover Mkinga district,Tanga; Kigamboni Municipal, DSM; Mafia district,Pwani; Mtama district, Lindi; and Mtwara DC,Mtwara. The new phase programme will mostly focus on advancing local adaptation interventions and investments while paying special attention to sustainable productive sectors in coastal ecosystems, including integrated management of coastal natural resources, biodiversity, sustainable water and waste/plastic management, sustainable fisheries and climate- smart agriculture (CSA) techniques and solutions to local development.

UNCDF is seeking to recruit 8  Field Associates to provide practical technical support on climate smart agriculture techniques and solutions to advance climate adaptation action at the district level. The Field Associates will work under the direct supervision of the assigned Climate Change Specialist, Programme Specialist (Local Governmen