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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>United Nations Foundation (UNF) / Better World Fund (BWF) <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Director of Market Development, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Vacancy Announcement <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.unfoundation.org/who-we-are/careers/GACC-market-dev.html">http://www.unfoundation.org/who-we-are/careers/GACC-market-dev.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Background<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>When the Alliance launched, it identified the creation of a thriving global market for clean cookstoves and fuels as the most viable way to achieve universal adoption. This principle was enshrined in its mission: ‘to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women and combat climate change by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient cookstoves and fuels.’ Giving away stoves to half the world’s population was simply not a viable option and past attempts to do donate stoves had failed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This market-based approach is the central tenet of the Alliance’s strategic business plan to reach its goals of 100m households adopting clean cooking solutions by the year 2020. The Alliance has developed a three-pronged strategy for creating such a market: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Enhance demand by understanding and motivating potential users, developing better and more technology, providing consumer finance and creating innovative distribution models to reach remote consumers;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Strengthen supply by attracting more finance and investment, accessing carbon finance, enhancing market intelligence and creating inclusive value-chains;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Foster an enabling environment by engaging national and local stakeholders, building the evidence base for the benefits of stoves, promoting international standards and rigorous testing protocols and enhancing monitoring and evaluation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The priority now is to turn strategy into implementation in order to deliver results.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Overview<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Director of Market Development will develop and implement the Alliance’s market enabling approach/framework and activities towards achieving the Alliance’s goal of 100m households adopting clean cooking solutions by 2020. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Director will support with the implementation of a range of activities on the global level to enable markets, including: attracting more social investment (by for example promoting the sector at key global forums), making it easier and cheaper for stove enterprises to access carbon finance (for example by creating a one-stop-shop web portal for stove carbon finance) and driving technological innovation and enterprise development (through innovation and working capital funds, respectively) – and are already starting to implement these. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In parallel, the Director will focus primarily on the Alliance’s market enabling efforts in 2-3 ‘Focus’ target regions or countries, with a secondary focus on the Alliance’s 4-6 ‘Active’ countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:40.5pt;text-indent:-40.5pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Focus Regions/Countries: Candidate focus regions/countries include: East Africa (Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda), Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Vietnam. We plan to initially focus efforts in 3-5 of these focus regions/countries where impact will be transformative in nature. Here, the Alliance will work with all stakeholders to deliver a wide range of in-country market enabling activities – collecting and publishing market information, working with governments to create favorable regulatory and policy environments, enhancing stove value-chains through capacity building organizations and helping improve access to finance. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:40.5pt;text-indent:-40.5pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Active Countries: Candidate active countries include: Ghana, Guatemala, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Peru. The Alliance will also address major market barriers in select active countries by prioritizing 1-2 targeted interventions that will help take the market for clean cookstoves and fuels to the next level.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:40.5pt;text-indent:-40.5pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• India/China: The Alliance is developing specific relationships with both China and India given their unique position as both donor and implementing partners with significant stove-related experience. They will likely fall into a separate category of leadership partner.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Director will also contribute to the development and implementation of the overall strategic vision of the Alliance. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Reporting Relationships<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Director of Market Development reports to the Senior Director – Programs and Market Development and ultimately to the Alliance’s Executive Director. The Director will be responsible for a small (likely 2-4) team of in-region/country Alliance staff. The Director will work closely with all team members of the Alliance Secretariat, partners of the Alliance and liaise with appropriate teams within the UN Foundation. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Responsibilities/Deliverables<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To develop and implement the Alliance’s market enabling approach and activities, delivering tangible and measurable benefits to the cookstove sector. To do this primarily in the Alliance’s Focus countries but also in its Active countries and on the global level. Specifically:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-31.5pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Finalize the Alliance’s in-region/country market enabling approach/framework and its priority geographies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-31.5pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Understand the needs of players in the clean cookstove and fuel value-chain (e.g. stove entrepreneurs and businesses, NGOs, MFIs, investors) and keep abreast of new developments in the global cookstove market.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-31.5pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Work with key stakeholders in Alliance priority regions/countries to finalize then implement so-called ‘Country Action Plans’ (CAPs); documents that define what the Alliance – both the Secretariat and its 350 Partners – will do and how it will do it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-31.5pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Recruit then manage a team (exact size TBD but likely 2-4), mostly located in Focus regions/countries with the ability to work with Partners to implement the CAPs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-31.5pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Manage, with the team, all existing in-region/country Alliance stakeholders; wherever possible obtaining their enthusiastic support for and buy-in to the Alliance’s work and the CAPs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-31.5pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Identify and take account of lessons learned from similar non-stove market enabling initiatives e.g. Lighting Africa and the Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-31.5pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Manage and co-ordinate relationships with other similar market enabling stoves initiatives, including the World Bank’s Africa Clean Cooking Initiative, Asian Develpoment Bank and other large bilaterally funded cookstove initiatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-31.5pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Work with the Executive Director and the rest of the Alliance team to support the overall implementation of the Alliance’s Strategic Business Plan.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-31.5pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Robustly monitor and evaluate all Alliance market enabling activities and evolve them based on a constant feedback loop with key stakeholders.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Selection Criteria<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Required:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Master’s degree in a relevant subject e.g. business or international development/ affairs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• At least 10 years professional experience in both business and international development, including significant experience working on-the-ground.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Experience at the Base-of-the-Pyramid promoting Clean Cookstoves and fuels and/or products at a similar price point and facing similar challenges e.g. solar lanterns or water purifiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Significant experience developing and managing complex, multi-stakeholder, multi-geography initiatives directly delivering change.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Ability to manage diverse teams based remotely.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite to include Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Ability to work independently, as well as member of a team and to be flexible to accommodate the needs of a global team.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Ability to take initiative; self-starter; innovative.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Demonstrated ability to prioritize multiple, competing priorities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Dependable and consistent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Personal commitment to UN Foundation and the Alliance’s vision and mission.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>• Ability to travel extensively, particularly to Africa and Asia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Preferable<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Experience working in the household energy sector and a detailed understanding of clean cooking technologies and fuels<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Location<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Washington, DC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To Apply<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please apply on-line at </span><a href="https://home2.eease.adp.com/recruit/?id=2683372"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>https://home2.eease.adp.com/recruit/?id=2683372</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Important note - <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Our online system allows ONLY ONE document to be uploaded. 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