Sustainable and Blended Finance Consultant - Financing for Groundwater Schemes, Office of Innovation, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6 months (remote)

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How can you make a difference?

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. And we never give up.

The Sustainable and Blended Finance Specialist (the Specialist) will bring their expertise in support to the Senior Adviser Sustainable Financing (SF) to offer expert advice and guidance around the Sustainable Finance work of the Hub in development and humanitarian contexts.

More specifically, the consultant will support UNICEF in designing feasible, scalable, and sustainable financial models for groundwater development in the ASAL region. Working with the Kenya Country Office and WASH Hub finance and water specialists, the consultant will:

• Analyze groundwater scheme cost structures, O&M profiles, and lifecycle costing.
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