Deputy Director, Regulation, Policy & Research (Inclusive Financial Systems)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Seattle, WA or London, UK
Position Summary
While financial service providers ensure the last-mile delivery of financial services, their ability to serve unbanked population segments hinge on whether policymakers, regulators, and commercial providers adopt evidence-based interventions which have been proven to expand the poor’s access to digital financial tools. The Deputy Director, Regulation, Policy & Research will lead a team which seeks to (1) support regulators in LMICs to develop inclusive financial regulations; (2) protect DFS consumers by equipping supervisors with policy guidance and technology tools which enable them to mitigate consumer risks; (3) support regulators in expanding healthy access to productive credit markets; 4) generate evidence which informs decision-makers in LMICs; and 5) ensure the IFS strategy and programming reflects the latest research and data.
What You’ll Do
- Serve on the IFS Leadership Team and Investment Committee, informing overall IFS team strategy and grant making.
- Manage and cultivate a cohesive, high-impact team which leads the IFS team’s Regulations, RegTech & Consumer Protection, Research & Measurement, and Strategic Partnerships portfolios.
- Lead the development, implementation, and refinement of these IFS team strategies.
- Cultivate a high-impact grant portfolio and partner ecosystem to advance the IFS team strategy, with a strong focus on regional partners in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Represent the foundation to external constituencies. This could include formal and informal presentations, attending conferences, sitting on working groups, and holding board seats as appropriate.
- Write and produce briefings, reports, email updates, and other materials to inform foundation leadership.
- Serve as a point of contact on IFS issues for internal and external collaborators, working within the complex matrix-style organization across the foundation.
- Conceptualize and manage high impact partnerships and coalitions to advance the IFS team agenda.
- Provide clear, concise, and insightful written analyses and recommendations for investments and team strategy.
- Ability to travel up to 20% domestically and internationally.
Your Experience
We are looking for a recognized global professional with deep expertise in policy and regulation (ex. Country Central Bank) of financial markets in low- and middle-income countries. Additional knowledge and skills include:
- Understanding of the key issues driving the growth of financial inclusion, as well as barriers impeding progress.
- Understanding of financial and data regulation and supervision, ideally including experience regulating and supervising financial institutions in LMICs or engaging directly with financial regulators and policymakers in LMICs.
- Understanding of supply side and demand side barriers and opportunities for women’s financial inclusion.
- Experience interpreting academic evidence and translating that evidence to inform financial inclusion policy.
- Understanding how credit markets work, and the policies and regulations which can foster healthy access to productive credit.
- Understanding the technologies and policies needed to support data regulation.
- Understanding of key financial consumer protection issues faced by LMIC consumers.
- Understanding how investments in financial inclusion can advance a range of development objectives, including social protection, domestic resource mobilization, and women’s economic power.
- Excellent strategic thinker and strategy development experience.
- Demonstrated ability to organize/prioritize work and meet deadlines within a fast-paced environment with multiple and competing demands.
- Innovative thinker who is hands-on and willing to go as deep or broad as necessary to achieve outcomes.
- Excellent manager, with a track record of building cohesive and high-impact teams.
- Demonstrated ability to question and challenge colleagues in a constructive manner.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to effectively synthesize. information to reach diverse audiences and create consensus.
- Deep commitment to development issues.
- High standards of personal integrity.
- Advanced degree preferred in public policy, law, business, international relations, development or a related field with 15+ years experience in financial inclusion or related fields (preferably with a mix of service in the public and private sectors).
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