Re-advertisement: Senior Manager (Supply Financing), P-5, Fixed Term Position, 24 months, Copenhagen, Denmark, #00133714

This is a re-advertisement, candidates who have already applied do not need to re-apply.

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

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For every child, the right to a Future

UNICEF Supply Division (SD) works to ensure equitable and inclusive access to essential supplies and services for children and their families, in development, humanitarian and fragile contexts. As the UN’s largest end to end supply chain entity, UNICEF leverages its global reach, market influence, supply chain expertise and partnerships with governments, civil society, private sector, industry, and other stakeholders to meet children’s needs and protect their rights around the world. SD focuses on three result areas to maximize impact, scale, and effectiveness: strategic procurement; supply preparedness and response in humanitarian and fragile contexts; and supply chain optimization. To facilitate and accelerate progress toward these results, SD employs three change strategies: financing for supply and services, supply chain digitalization and supply chain localization.

How can you make a difference?

The purpose of this position is to provide leadership and oversight management to SD’s portfolio of supply financing tools to support the timely availability of affordable essential supplies. Timely access requires good forecasting, planning, and adequate budgeting, financing, and execution on that financing. However, funding delays, market constraints, and other factors jeopardize systematic access and are a leading cause of commodity stockouts in countries. The position will lead the deployment of pre-financing interventions to help bridge these short-term funding gaps and deploy risk financing to improve access and market dynamics of these supply of critical essential commodities supplies. The position will oversee UNICEF’s main tool for supply pre-financing and other supply financing interventions, the Vaccine Independence Initiative (VII), which is deployed to improve access to vaccines and other non-immunization commodities.

The Senior Manager (Supply Financing) has the overall strategic leadership of the VII and other financing tools and will:

• Building upon a well-established foundation and risk management process, take VII to the next level in terms of professionalization and sustainability.
• Lead the internal and external work on expansion of VII and other bridge financing tools with the objective of helping improve operational timeliness for the provision of essential commodities and/or market dynamics, and improved domestic resource mobilization
• Identify opportunities from both a country financing and market dynamics perspective that would benefit from a financing intervention, including by engaging with respective UNICEF SD business units and external partners.
• Originate transactions from both a country-facing and markets-facing perspective which will utilize the VII and VII-enabled transactions, including on design and negotiation of terms with countries and suppliers.
• Develop and pursue a smart risk management strategies, including with active recovery efforts for executed transactions to protect the VII capital base.
• Oversee & monitor capital base utilization to optimize use for financing and reporting.
• Manage a team that seamlessly executes on transactions and actively manages risks and opportunities.
• Manage forecasting of demand for pre-financing and other financing interventions.
• Coordinate the underwriting process and financial management of country-subscriptions (including efficient credit line applications and VII action plans are followed), ad hoc prefinancings special contracting ensuring the good stewardship of the VII.
• Provide technical advice, guidan