Opportunity Type : Job
Grameen Foundation
Kenya
About the Organization:
Grameen Foundation (GF) helps the world's poorest, especially women, improve their lives and escape poverty by providing them with access to small loans, essential information, and viable business opportunities. It provides MFIs in poor communities with access to the capital they need to make microloans to those working to develop or expand a small business.
About the Job:
Grameen Foundation USA is looking for an Agricultural Financial Services Manager to lead GF’s agricultural finance initiatives in Kenya. S/he will have dual reporting to the Kenya country manager of GF, with dotted line reporting to and technical input from GF’s program manager, MicroSavings initiative.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
• Project management:
- Manage one-year project to support GF partner MFI Musoni in financial product design, human capital management, poverty measurement as they expand into rural areas;
- Responsible for managing a two-year USAID-funded project piloting an innovative financing scheme (e-warehouse) for smallholder farmers to increase access to appropriate financial services and markets, while leveraging mobile technology;
- Oversight of project budget, overall project timeline, and activities. Manage relationship and coordinate activities with implementing partners and internal groups within GF, and ensuring project deliverables are being met.
• Agricultural financial services:
- Work with Musoni Kenya to design and test an agricultural lending product and structure pilot plan and work with relevant Musoni programs (operations, IT, HR, marketing) to prepare for pilot;
- Recruit and manage product development consultant to support Musoni project;
- Document process for GF and Musoni’s purposes of replication and project documentation;
- Provide agricultural finance and product management/integration expertise to GF’s financial services efforts globally;
- Contribute to GF’s global financial services and agricultural finance strategies.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Finance, Business or IT. Graduate degree preferred;
• More than 6 years of financial services execution expertise around agricultural/rural finance;
• Strong preference for candidates with formal banking experience;
• Deep understanding of financial challenges facing poor, smallholder farmers, and corresponding financial needs;
• Financial product management and launch expertise, including experience integrating products into a financial institution’s processes and systems from a technology standpoint;
• Familiarity with mobile money/mobile financial services preferred.
Posted : 25 Oct 2012
Closing Date : 30 Dec 2012
For More Informations:
http://www.grameenfoundation.org/agricultural-financial-services-manager
How to Apply:
Apply Online : https://home2.eease.adp.com/recruit2/?id=4270972&t=2
Agricultural Financial Services Manager Grameen Foundation Nairobi, Kenya
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