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Post:Financial
Services Consultant - Uganda
Organization:Mercy
Corps
Location:Kampala,Uganda
Opportunity Type: Job
About the
Organization:
Mercy Corps is a not for profit organization that exists to
alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure,
productive, and just communities. They have created standalone start-up banks
and commercialized financial institutions which lend to people in countries
recovering from war, disaster or painful economic upheaval.
TechnoServe is an organization that develops business
solutions to poverty by linking people to information, capital, and markets.
The organization focuses on developing entrepreneurs, building businesses and
industries, and improving the business environment.
Background:
Mercy Corps Uganda in partnership with TechnoServe is
implementing a three-year U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) funded market
development program in Lamwo district of Acholi sub- region in northern Uganda.
RAIN stimulates economic prosperity and food security in by improving the
performance of the agriculture sector. Program strategic objectives include:
- Enhancing smallholder farmer production and profitability;
- Improving agribusiness and trade performance of key input and output markets;
- Expanding access to rural financial services.
About the Job:
Mercy Corps is seeking a Financial Services Consultant - Uganda.
S/he will be assisting the market development program in the implementation of
key recommendations by the headquarter technical support unit. In the process
the consultant is expected to build technical capacity of staff under the
department. This consultancy will be for a period of three months or 66 working
days.
Tasks and
Responsibilities:
- Conduct rapid operational capacity and product development assessment of RAIN partner Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCO) to inform interventions to improve operational efficiency and financial products and services responsive to demand of saving group members;
- Conduct SACCOs’ capacity building activities that are informed by the assessments. These may include technical assistance and training, and suggest recommendations for consideration by the program beyond this assignment period;
- Develop segment profiles of market actors;
- Develop monitoring and evaluation tools for capturing outputs, outcomes, and impacts of interventions and develop reporting templates for partnering institutions
- Review the existing financial and digital literacy training curricula and the training offered by or planned by RAIN financial institutions, market chain actors, and MNOs and work closely for improvement of curricula and delivery methodologies based on based practices/impact research;
- Weekly progress updates to the chief of party and monthly updates to Mercy Corps Uganda country director;
- SACCOs’ capacity assessment report, recommended training and technical assistance, and reports on the follow up implementation of recommended actions;
- End of assignment report with recommendations.
Qualifications:
- At least 7 years of experience in financial services sector and rural financing with focus on the agriculture sector;
- Uganda experience preferred;
- Experience in financial services including financial literacy programs and product development;
- Experience in capacity building of lower tier financial institutions;
- Demonstrated experience in finance in market facilitation programming.
Posted: 16 Sep
2013
Closing Date: 30 Sep
2014
How to Apply:
Apply Online
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Contact:
Nate Oetting
noetting@mercycorps.org
