Organisation: Agricultural Business Initiative (aBi) Trust
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
The
Agricultural Business Initiative (aBi) Trust is supporting agribusiness development
in the private sector to achieve the objective of the Government of Uganda’s Competitiveness
and Investment Climate Strategy (CICS). The Trust is a multi-donor entity
jointly founded by the Governments of Denmark and Uganda. The mandate of aBi
Trust is to support the private sector actors to increase their contribution to
the agricultural sector by increasing land and labour productivity, and market
competitiveness thereby contributing to poverty reduction through economic
growth, wealth, and employment creation. The aBi Trust strengthens
competitiveness of the Agricultural and Agro-processing sectors through three (3)
interrelated components: Value Chain Development (VCD) including trade-related
Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary and Quality Management Systems (SPS/QMS), Financial
Services Development (FSD) and a cross cutting Gender for Growth (G4G) Fund.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Works
closely with financial Institutions to expand financial services in all
areas of agribusiness lending and other products. - Provide
technical assistance to improve and strengthen financial services for
agricultural and agribusiness enterprises and broader finance and
investment issues impacting on rural finance and value chain development; - The
incumbent will be participating in design and implementation of aBi
agribusiness programmes, especially in relation to financial services and
investment; as required and provide technical backstopping to supported
field projects; - Offer
technical guidance to aBi partners on ways to address strategy and policy
issues for finance and investment which support increased flows of financing
of the agricultural sector, especially to small and medium agro-enterprises,
rural households; - Appraise
financing and investment requirements for agribusiness and recommend
appropriate financing strategies to financial institutions for reducing
risk and improving effectiveness in agribusiness lending; - Actively
participate in capacity assessments and training needs of both existing
and potential partners, evaluate capacity building needs in financial
partner institutions for products and services which support improved
impacts of access to finance and financial inclusion; - Actively
participate in coordination and preparation of subcomponents business
plans annual work plans, quarterly and annual reports; - Work
closely with partners and technical assistance consultants to develop,
pilot and market new products that contribute to value chain development as
well as participate in the forums for promoting agricultural insurance,
financial services and innovations, institutional strengthening and other
stakeholder partnerships; - Develop
and maintain working contacts with counterparts in other organizations, associations,
private sector firms and development agencies specialised in finance and
agribusiness; - Support
component team especially Operations and Portfolio Officer to track
outstanding technical assistance and provide informative reports in accordance
with the monitoring and evaluation system; maintain records the
performance of aBi portfolio with partner financial institutions. - Perform
any activities as assigned to him/her by the component Head.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The
candidate should possess a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA),
Development Economics, Statistics and/or related degree(s) required. - At
least eight to ten years of proven operational and/or project management
experience in one and/or a combination of i the following areas in access
to finance: Microfinance, SME banking, agri-finance, insurance/micro
insurance, m-banking, credit reporting, and risk management. - Strong
expertise and experience working with client I financial institutions;
experience in participatory and qualitative methodologies such as process
evaluations, before-after designs, and other approaches that make use of
interviews and focus-groups; etc. - Skills
and competencies in marketing financial services - Institutional
Development and strategic management - Credit
risk analysis skills - Working
knowledge of Branch banking or rural lending needs - Working
knowledge of financial product development - Lending
to agricultural firms, - Proficient
in portfolio analysis and building a lending, - Guarantee
or credit portfolio; - Possess
excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills. - Keen
attention to detail, analyse and interpret complex documents. - Initiative
and ability to manage multiple tasks with ; - Excellent
planning and organizational skills - Possess
the ability to effectively communicate and respond to i sensitive
inquiries. - A
good and resilient negotiator with sound judgment - Past
excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills.
All qualified
and interested candidates should send their applications enclosing detailed
curriculum vitae giving three professional referees and copies of academic and
professional certificates /testimonials via E-mail to: vacancy@abi.co.ug
NB:
Documents should not be more than 2MB. Only Shortlisted candidates who meet the
criteria will be contacted.
Deadline: 13th March 2015.
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