Partnerships Development Consultant

UN Women seeks a home-based consultant to design and operationalize a private-sector and innovative-financing engagement model for East and Southern Africa. The consultant will develop gender-responsive investment cases, private-sector engagement strategy and market segmentation, build partnership and financing pipelines, structure blended-finance opportunities, facilitate co-investment and str...

• Develop a private-sector engagement strategy
• Build investment pipelines of bankable programmes
• Structure blended-finance vehicles and catalytic instruments
• Cultivate relationships with foundations and private-sector companies
• Develop investment-ready partnership propositions
• Train and coach Country Office teams

• Experience in private-sector engagement and innovative financing
• Experience developing investment-ready programme offers and partnership pipelines
• English fluency

• ESG integration experience
• Development-finance institution engagement
• Gender-responsive investment expertise

• Private-sector engagement
• Innovative finance
• Blended finance
• Investment cases
• Partnership development
• Resource mobilization

• Home-based consultancy with possible travel within East and Southern Africa