Community Economic Development (CED) Program Manager

Nuru’s Community Economic Development (CED) Program Manager is experienced in operational and performance management of rural microcredit and savings programs serving one to two thousand clients in remote, agricultural communities. The fundamental role of the CED Program Manager is to ensure that field operations preserve the integrity and efficacy of the program’s microfinance model, including direct management of CED staff, data and reporting, and supervision of the delivery of rural financial services and training. The program manager is expected to have formal analytical and quantitative skills, professional project management experience, and a background in effective team management.

Specific Responsibilities:
• Effectively manage microfinance operations in order to deliver high quality training and services to community members, while ensuring loan portfolio and all lending activities comply with Nuru CED microfinance model guidelines and performance expectations.
• Maintain and develop Nuru’s information systems, including basic bookkeeping, Mifos MIS and reporting suite, and integration of reporting needs for operational and accounting systems.
• Ensure the CED Program is operationally and financially sustainable and scalable, including efficient management of program budget.
• Achieve pre-determined seasonal goals.
• Train and mentor the CED Program team, empowering local leaders in the CED Program to continuously take more ownership of the program.
• Oversee and further develop financial trainings for individuals, groups, and staff.
• Improve implementation of CED interventions to meet the needs of Nuru’s members.
• Assess and develop Nuru CED’s mobile banking services.
• Implement monitoring tools and processes to evaluate impact of the CED Program.
• Refine existing program metrics to improve accuracy in its reflection of the community poverty level and operational effectiveness.
• Recruit new members and scale to new communities within the CED Program expansion framework.

Specific Skills and Attributes:
• Bachelors degree in Business, Finance, or International Development, MBA preferred.
• At least 2 years operational field experience in microfinance (rural credit cooperatives or microsavings and microcredit institutions preferred).
• Minimum 2 years of project management, preferably in an international setting.
• Experience setting up and maintaining information systems (experience with Mifos MIS strongly preferred).
• Formal data management experience, solid quantitative skills, and advanced level experience with Excel.
• Prior experience living and working in the developing world.
• High commitment to organization’s mission and theory of change.
• Strong leadership and team building experience.
• Effective crisis management and rapid, innovative problem solving in uncertain environments.

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If you are interested in this position, please submit your resume/CV and cover letter to jobs@nuruinternational.org by June 30, 2011. Please outline how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position, and include how you heard about this opportunity.