*Additional Locations: Kigali, Rwanda; Kampala, Uganda; Lusaka, Zambia; Lilongwe, Malawi; and any other country where WVI is registered.
VisionFund – World Vision International
VisionFund is World Vision’s microfinance provider serving vulnerable clients through loans, savings, and insurance. We enable families to grow their livelihoods in hard to reach, rural locations in 28 countries so that caregivers can create secure futures for their children.
We believe in brighter futures for children; empowering families to create incomes and jobs; unlocking economic potential for communities to thrive.
Join VisionFund as we seek to end intergenerational poverty through microfinance.
Here’s where you come in:
As Senior Technical Agricultural Finance Manager, VisionFund International, you provide technical support to agricultural finance provided by our MFI network. The position is a grant-funded position and will primarily focus on 10 countries but will also be able to provide support to the rest of the network. To date, much of VFIs agricultural finance has been simple “vanilla finance” and balloon loan as being often the only distinguishing component. This position will seek to provide more hands-on technical support in the assessment, design, pilot and roll out of new agricultural products that will allow VF MFIs to finance farmers that World Vision is facilitating through its local value chain work (LVCD) and as savings groups (S4T) continue to grow with the support of FAST.
Requirements include:
- 10 years + working in agricultural finance field in Africa either for Banks, MFIs, Finance companies or NGOs
- Agricultural Economics or relevant agricultural degree
- Postgraduate level degree
- At least 5 years of this must be in providing financial services to farmers and not just in an advisory/ consulting manner
- Experience across a range of countries (not limited to one or two places)
- Experience of Value chain finance or finance to agricultural cooperatives
- Experience of working with International organisations on projects (E.g World Bank, IFAD, FAO)
- Demonstrated experience of working on and or designing programs with a climate change component (e. FMNR)