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This United Nations Volunteers (UNV) assignment is part of the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) Inclusive Digital Economies (IDE) project in Bangladesh. Established in 1966, UNCDF has a mandate to promote financial inclusion and foster economic growth in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) by providing investment capital and technical support. UNCDF’s IDE initiative aims to leverage digital technologies to enhance access to financial services, focusing on underserved populations, including migrant workers and their families.

This project engages a wide range of stakeholders, including local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), financial institutions, government agencies, private sector partners, and community-based organizations. Together, these stakeholders work to deliver key interventions such as financial literacy programs, remittance management training, and the development of gender-sensitive, migrant-centric financial products and services. The project outcomes are designed to empower beneficiaries by improving their financial capabilities, enhancing their access to digital financial services, and ultimately contributing to broader socio-economic development and poverty reduction goals in Bangladesh. To address the above, Gender Unit of the 9th Country Programme (9 CP) 2017-2020 of UNFPA aimed to prevent and response to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and harmful practices in development and humanitarian settings.

The Gender Unit will provide technical support to the GO-NGO-Private Sectors’ Implementing partners (IPs) to operationalize the national mechanism to plan, coordinate and monitor the implementation of strategies, policies, and protocols to address gender-based violence and harmful. The Gender Unit will also facilitate its IPs to increase availability of and access to information and services to prevent and address GBV and harmful practices, in both development and humanitarian settings.

Under the direct supervision of the UNCDF IDE Country Lead (Access to Finance) in collaboration with UNCDF Bangladesh IDE Digital Expert and Project Officer, the District Project Associate will undertake the following functions:

A. Support to implement the activities of the project at field level/District and monitor pro-gress against the approved work plan.

• Coordinate the production of projects outputs, as per the project document and work plan in a timely and high-quality manner.

• Facilitate on-ground monitoring and support the implementation of the Shafal project intervention in five districts by collaborating with partners who will provide DFL (Digital Financial Literacy), entrepreneurship training, skills-based training referrals, and promote
financial product development on the ground.

• Support in identifying local-level implementation partners, service providers, and potential business opportunities at the district and upazila (sub-district) levels.

• Provide support and inputs to operationalize the interventions at the local level for the targeted beneficiaries and report to the project manager on the progress.

• Provide support to establish and maintain field-level partnerships with relevant government and local agencies and organize knowledge dissemination meetings, including local government representatives such as DC/UNO, and relevant representations, and liaise with them to ensure sustainability.

• Conduct preliminary site-level scoping studies to support the implementation of the project, that specifically focus on the most vulnerable populations (i.e., women, migrants etc).

• Perform appropriate project management actions to ensure output and outcomes as outlined in the project document and Annual Work Plan are met in a timely manner.

• Facilitate administrative support to subcontractors and project partners at the field/district levels.

• Provide substantive support to the IDE Country Lead Technical Specialist (Digital Finance) for overall project implementation at the field/district levels.

B. Support capacity building and knowledge sharing

• Ensure that results from the field and district levels are properly collected and disseminated to other team members and external stakeholders.

• Prepare presentations and briefings including performance monitoring charts and tables on all the results achieved by the project at the field and district levels, or as deemed necessary for internal or donor reporting.

• As requested, assist in organizing and leading information dissemination, seminars, conferences and meeting to take place at the field/district level.

• Ensure Gender-mainstreaming and collection of sex-disaggregate data from partners at the field/district levels

C. Support for Monitoring and Reporting and Knowledge Management

• Prepare progress and other monitoring reports based on the format provided by the M&E analyst with data collected at field/district levels.

• Prepare and submit weekly, monthly and all other types of progress reports, case studies, good practices, and photos of all field activities.

• Provide information from the field/district levels to prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual progress reports, etc. as per UNCDF and Donor guidelines.

• Collect information about the communities and direct beneficiaries during all the phases of the projects.

• Participate and collaborate with consultancy firms for any kind of study, survey, or assessment of the projects.

• Prepare and keep a database of projects activities with the beneficiary at the field/district levels.

• Collect impact stories from the field to produce case studies as per requirement.

• Prepare background information and documentation, update relevant data for the project and compile background material for donors.

• Support the formulation of new projects, including desk research, documentation, drafting concept notes, proposals and project documents building on the results achieved by the projects.

D. Institutional Arrangement:

• The incumbent will work under the supervision of the UNCDF’s IDE Country Lead Technical Specialist (Digital Finance) and closely collaborate with IDE Digital Lead, for Bangladesh.

• The position will be expected to engage with UNCDF Bangladesh Team, UNCDF Regional Team, UNDP Bangladesh team, Donors and our key external stakeholders in Bangladesh as needed, to ensure smooth delivery of our projects.

• The country meeting with team members will be arranged on weekly basis, the incumbent is required to provide work arrangement and update of projects’ activity to the team.

• The Regional call will be conducted on monthly basis, the incumbent must be involved on up-dating and presenting the projects’ progress on each month as well as providing the plan for the following month and potential risks to regional team.

• The incumbent will be expected to join weekly progress and planning calls with the Digital Economies Expert, Bangladesh.

• The incumbent will also participate in working groups and steering committee meetings as requested.

Results/Expected Outputs:

• Expanded financial access for marginalized groups.
• Improved financial literacy and economic stability.
• Enhanced capacity of local financial institutions.
• Developed supportive policies and regulations.
• Strengthened partnerships with key stakeholders.
• Contribution to relevant SDGs.

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