RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACTIVITIES 

Convening and Facilitating the Digital Finance Community of Practice for USAID Partners

• Leads the organization of the Digital Finance CoPr. This includes participatory development of an action plan (including deliverables) for the CoPr evidence generation and synthesis to be carried out.
• Assist the design and delivery of events by working closely with the RLA’s point of contact and CoPr members to define the scope of the event and create agenda and participatory exercises.
• Maintain the records of each facilitation events and develop a post-event summary.
• Continuously brief the CoPr members on progress by actively flagging potential issues and suggesting methods for remediation.
• Address any issue that may arise during the process of Digital Technology and Financial Instruments research activities in consultation with the RLA team.

Lead the learning activities for CoPr including the design and implementation of the evidence generation and analysis 

• Provide strategic leadership, setting priorities in conducting analysis on major obstacles and opportunities for financial product development in Ethiopia with recommendations for USAID and IPS in collaboration with the RLA and CoPr team members.
• Providing insights and recommendations iEnvironmental IncentivesEnvironmental Incentivesn sequencing, layering, and integration programing around behavior change, business skills, and access to finance in developing resilience capacities.
• Provide technical oversight for the information collection approach and tools in collaboration with CoPr team members and RLA to maintain a quality and consistent approach.
• Coordinate with the Digital Technology and Financial Instruments CoPr team and RLA technical team in developing evidence-based knowledge products and documenting all steps of the CoPr process.
• Provide regular progress reports on facilitation of the Digital Technology and Financial Instruments, and more especially linked to the learning for adaptive management.
• Design and apply other learning approaches such as consultative workshops.

Support the adaptive management for CoPrs 

• Facilitate Pause and Reflect sessions during mid and end of CoPr implementation.
• Engage CoPrs in After-Action-Reviews to help them continuously learn and adapt.
• Produce relevant learning products, oriented to two audiences: 1) USAID 2) Resilience implementing partners.
• Integrating adaptive management in its all support to help USAID and IPs apply adaptive management processes and integrate the recommendations from this exercise to their programming.
• Lead the dissemination of lessons to wider stakeholders in collaboration with the RLA team.

Monitoring and measuring progress and effectiveness of the Digital Technology and Financial Instruments CoPrs

• Integrate a monitoring and evaluation process to track and report on the progress of CoPrs.

DELIVERABLES  

• Comprehensive work plan for Digital Technology and Financial Instruments CoPr.
• Facilitation of regular in-person meetings for CoPrs with an agenda and facilitation guides.
• Engaging and interactive tools prepared and executed for active audience participation.
• Detailed plan for conducting analysis on key obstacles and opportunities for financial product development in Ethiopia, with recommendations for USAID and IPs.

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES 

• An advanced degree (Master’s) in an area relevant to Digital Financial Solutions.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant Digital Financial Technology Options and conducting analysis/research.
• Experience working on USAID-funded programs.
• Excellent facilitation skills and experience in participatory approaches.
• Familiarity and experience with current financial instruments and digital technology on access to finance in Ethiopia, government processes, national policies, and strategies.
• Demonstrated experience with organizing and facilitating sessions, as well as working with co-facilitators and subject matter experts.
• Ability to understand the needs of the participants and adapt quickly.
• Excellent communication skills, including verbal, presentation, and written.
• Effective teamwork skills.
• Excellent command of English, both spoken and written, is required.
• Amharic language proficiency is required.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS 

Legally authorized to work in Ethiopia with no restrictions.