| Overview : Background information: UNDP SDG Finance Sector Hub seeks to engage a Risk Financing Specialist (Individual Contractor) who is expected to drive forward UNDP’s work in all areas relevant to its growing work in Insurance and Risk Finance. In particular the successful candidate will be responsible for playing a key leadership role across critical insurance/development spaces such as the Insurance Development Forum and InsuResilience Global Partnership, developing and implementing joint workplans, knowledge management and advocacy work, and increasingly country operations. S/he will also be playing a technical lead role for sovereign risk financing work across UNDP’s portfolio, supporting the team’s Regional Specialists in their work at regional and country levels. In addition to this, the Risk Financing Specialist will be working with partners to originate and develop initiatives of all kinds in the sovereign risk financing area. A critical focus for the consultant will be the successful delivery of the tripartite agreement between the insurance industry, UNDP and BMZ, particularly with regards to risk financing, across 20 countries by 2025. Application Deadline: 28 June 2020 (Midnight, New York time, USA) Duty Station: Geneva, Switzerland (Home-based is possible during the current COVID-19 outbreak) Duration of assignment: approx. 250 working days within 12 months Please click on the link below to apply: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=91998 Annexes (click on the hyperlink to access the documents): Annex 1 - UNDP P-11 Form for ICs Annex 2 - IC Contract Template Annex 3 - IC General Terms and Conditions Annex 4 - RLA Template | 
