Innovative Finance Venture Lead

World Food Programme; München; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Teilzeit

Zusammenfassung

World Food Programme in Munich seeks an Innovative Finance Venture Lead for a 6-month consultancy (part time 80%). You will design, pilot and scale ventures that pool donor funds and private capital to accelerate impact and advance Zero Hunger.

Based in Munich, you will lead a small team, build external partnerships with donors and investors, and ensure governance, reporting and value creation across the venture lifecycle from ideation to scale-up and impact assessment.

Aufgaben

• Lead the development and implementation of innovative finance ventures, pooling donor funds and private investors’ money toward investable and scalable innovations.
• Lead a team of Innovative Finance Consultants to reach unit goals, providing coaching and ensuring engagement in value-creation activities.
• Support external and internal resource mobilisation opportunities through donor and investor partnerships.
• Contribute to strategic development of the Innovation Accelerator's strategy deployment and operations.

Jobbeschreibung

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

9 September 2026-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Berlin)

WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.

ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.

To learn more about WFP, visit our website: https://www.wfp.org and follow us on social media to keep up with our latest news: YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok.

WHY JOIN WFP?

• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.

• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.

• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

JOB TITLE: Innovative Finance Venture Lead
TYPE OF CONTRACT: Consultancy (part time 80%)
UNIT/DIVISION: WFP Innovation Accelerator (INNA)
DUTY STATION (City, Country): Munich, Germany
DURATION: 6 months

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency fighting hunger. WFP reaches more than 100 million people every day - delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with smallholder farmers, communities, and governments to improve nutrition and build resilience.

The WFP Innovation Accelerator was named by Fast Company as Most Innovative Non-Profit Organization 2021 for its work in identifying, nurturing, and scaling disruptive start-ups and innovations to end global hunger. Based in Munich, Germany, the Innovation Accelerator provides WFP employees, entrepreneurs, and start-ups with funding, hands-on support, and access to WFP's global operations. Through the Innovation Accelerator, WFP is leveraging unprecedented advances in digital innovation - such as mobile technology, artificial intelligence and blockchain - and new business models to transform the way it serves vulnerable communities across the world. In 2024, the Accelerator supported innovations that positively impacted the lives of 61 million people globally.

More information here: http://innovation.wfp.org and https://youtu.be/OnKkQlRdh2c.

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

The Innovative Finance Venture Lead Consultant, reporting to the Head of Innovative Finance, Frontier Innovations and Venture Launchpad, is expected to:
1.Lead the development and implementation of innovative finance ventures, to pool donor funds and private investors’ money towards investable and scalable innovations, and/or towards the promotion of financial inclusion of the people WFP serves, accelerating their path to advance towards Zero Hunger and the Sustainable Development Goals:
a. Scope, deliver, design, and implement selected innovative finance ventures throughout the ideation, pilot, development, and scale-up phases, contributing to the ventures’ launch, development and growth.
b. Drive the landscape mapping to further inform WFP innovative finance and impact investing activities and support relationship building with external investor partners to help with fundraising efforts for the WFP funding mechanisms as well as direct capital raising for the innovative finance ventures.
c. Guide the development of all the necessary innovative finance venture processes and documentation, as appropriate.
d. Define key performance indicators and milestones for the innovative finance venture and guide their implementation, impact measurement, and reporting.
e. Orchestrate the selected innovative finance ventures’ operations ranging from the steering and guidance to the venture team, to the attraction of funding via grants and other sources of resource mobilisation and financing, to their investment and the corresponding impact measurement and evaluation, reporting, and communication.
2.Lead a team of Innovative Finance Consultants to reach the goals of the Innovative Finance, Frontier Innovations and Venture Launchpad unit:
a. Guide and grow a team of Innovative Finance Consultants and/or other disciplines by establishing priorities, providing coaching and making sure people are engaged in the right value-creation activities.
b. Coach innovative finance venture team from ideation to implementation (as applicable), with a focus on innovative finance and impact investing while using methodologies such as human-centered design, lean start-up, project management, venture building, and business modelling.
c. Engage in creative leadership methods to foster the right conditions for collective and individual learning and growth.
d. Cultivate a collaborative and high-performing innovative finance team culture to help the team thrive in constantly changing environments.
e. Conduct performance feedback and development sessions.
3.Support the business growth of the WFP Innovation Accelerator and the Innovative Finance, Frontier Innovations and Venture Launchpad unit to realise external and internal resource mobilisation opportunities:
a. Build up a network of public, private and philanthropic donors, multilateral agencies and impact investors to identify and realise resource mobilisation opportunities for innovative finance ventures and instruments.
b. Engage and collaborate with all necessary internal and external stakeholders(including WFP programme units, regional bureaux, country and field offices, finance, partnerships, legal) to gather needed input, secure internal support and approval, and launch, develop and scale innovative finance ventures and instruments.
c. Actively support the building of strong external partnerships within the Innovative Finance and venture-building ecosystem globally.
d. Define and implement outreach campaigns and communication plans to amplify the scope and impact of the innovative finance ventures.
4.Contribute to the strategic and organisational development of the Innovation Accelerator’s strategy deployment and operations:
a. Contribute to the establishment strategic objectives and ensure work plans are in place to meet key results.
b. Ensure the building up of capabilities and skills across the unit and that resources are adequately deployed to the right projects and activities.
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