Ethiopia_Team Leader / Microfinance Lending Specialist

Technical Assistance Programme to Support lending Operations to the Women’s Entrepreneurship Development Project in Ethiopia

This assignment will be undertaken under the aegis of WEDP, a Government of Ethiopia operation for supporting women entrepreneurs managed and financed by the World Bank and co-financed by EIB and other development partners. The purpose of this technical assistance operation is to support both WEDP partner MFIs in Ethiopia and the DBE to deploy WEDP funds in an efficient, responsible and sustainable manner, in accordance with the EIB’s and WEDP standards and requirements through capacity building and technical assistance, thereby safeguarding the EIB’s reputation and investments.


It will further contribute towards unemployment reduction by offering women in Ethiopia improved access to a diverse and responsible range of financial products aimed at encouraging income generation and to grow their businesses accordingly.

 

For this assignment, we are looking for an expert in microfinance, who will be involved as a senior consultant providing training, coaching and mentoring support for microfinance institutions and the Development Bank of Ethiopia, but notably in relation to:

  • Understand the success factors and constraints of WEDP loan disbursement;
  • Provide tailor made TA to WEDP actors;
  • Establish a local source of TA support for WEDP MFIs.
Qualifications: 

Qualification and Skills:

  • A university degree, preferably at Masters’ level, in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Banking, or related field;
  • Full fluency in English is required; the ability to work in Ethiopian languages would be an asset;
  • Computer literate;
  • Educational / trainer certification would be an asset.

Professional Experience

  • In depth knowledge of MSME lending, microfinance and/or banking sector, as evidenced by 8 years recent professional experience (either working for an inclusive financial services provider or delivering direct capacity building to MFIs in the last 15 years);
  • Good management skills as evidenced by 3 years in a recent senior management role at least as COO/CFO level in the last 15 years;
  • Experience of working in a senior expert/management position on donor/DFI financed TA operation projects in the past 5 years would be an asset;
  • Previous experience of assisting financial institutions to improve their social performance/achieve SMART certification and knowledge of the USSPM would be an advantage.
  • Strong regional/country experience as demonstrated by 5 years of professional experience in the inclusive finance sector in several African countries, ideally including Ethiopia;
  • 5 years practical experience and proven track record in managing the provision of successful capacity building activities to MFIs including, for example; conducting needs assessments and analysis of results, development and delivery of subsequent training and coaching plans, development of curricula and training materials.
  • Conducted 3 successful product development assignments for microfinance and/or financial institutions. Previous experience of developing women entrepreneur focused lending products for MFIs/FIs is an asset.
Start / Duration: 

The project is intended to start in March 2020 and to last for 30 months

If you are interested, please send your most recent CV by e-mail, mentioning the title of the project in question, to job [at] afci.de">job [at] afci.de