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Position Title: Senior Bank Training
Consultant (x2) - Technical Assistance Programme to various EIB Financial
Sector Operations in East and Central Africa
Location: East Africa
Location Details: Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania,
Uganda
Division: Economic Growth
Job Code: 1267
Background Information:
DAI is an employee-owned global development company.
For 40 years, we have
worked on the frontlines of international development, tackling fundamental
social and economic development problems caused by inefficient markets,
ineffective governments, and instability. Currently, DAI is delivering results
that matter in some 60 countries. Our integrated development solutions turn
ideas into impact by bringing together fresh combinations of expertise and
innovation across multiple disciplines—crisis mitigation and stability
operations, democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and
agribusiness, private sector development and financial services, economics and
trade, HIV/AIDS and disease control, water and natural resources management,
and energy and climate change. Our clients include international development
agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and
philanthropies, and national governments.
Description
Senior Bank Training Consultant (x2) - Technical Assistance Programme to
various EIB Financial Sector Operations in East and Central Africa
Objectives of the role:
Full time positions with 1 based in Kenya and the other in Uganda. They
will work as consultant-trainers, and diagnose needs in the Financial
Intermediaries and drafts TORs to mobilise short-term experts and quality
control their deliverables. They will primarily be involved with microfinance
institutions, and microfinance/small business departments of commercial banks,
but also with other FIs, according to the needs and internal organisation of
work among consultants.
They may also be called upon to provide training and mentoring support for
the EIB’s global loan Allocation Processing and together with Key Expert 1,
design, coordinate, and implement TA and Consultant Actions for
MFIs/microfinance departments of commercial banks, and monitor M/SME Support
Actions and Outreach Events.
They will be in charge of preparing training sessions and/or mobilising
STEs to that effect within the geographic zones/financial Intermediaries under
his remit.
Responsibilities include drafting Training TOR, quality management control,
training evaluation, guidance to trainees, reporting the obtained attendance,
performance, satisfaction, and other indices relating to the functioning of the
in situ training programme or consulting actions delivered. The reporting is to
enable project progress monitoring of results and impacts achieved.
Length of the project: 36 months
Start Date: 5th May 2014
Qualifications and Skills:
·
University degree, preferably in
Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Banking, or related field or
equivalent professional experience
·
Should have management or
operational credit management experience from a microfinance institution/ small
business bank of minimum 5 years
·
Good writing skills
General Professional Experience:
Good management skills,
preferably in the financial and credit analysis function in a credit department
/ corporate lending department of a microfinance institution with a minimum of
5 years in management
Ability to use the advanced
functions of word to create reports and excel to create customised spreadsheets
for financial analysis purposes and database management reporting purposes
Specific Professional Experience:
·
Minimum of 5 years professional
experience within a microfinance provider/ small business bank, with specific
focus on financial analysis and micro and small business lending,
non-performing loan management, identification of key lending risks, and
participation in the drafting of loan contracts to mitigate and control
identified risks
·
Good analytical skills in
economic and M/MSE project finance planning and implementation (market and
financial analysis risk analysis techniques, and ability to implement computer
based models to analyse balance sheets, calculate key financial ratios, and
make proactive recommendations in drafting loan documentation and security
arrangements)
·
Practical experience and proven
track record in organising and delivering professional bank training programmes
and development of curricula and training materials
·
Good analytical skills in
economic and MSE project finance planning and implementation, fully conversant
with market and financial analysis risk analysis techniques, and ability to
implement computer based models to analyse balance sheets and calculate key
financial ratios for lending analysis
·
Together, the Team Leader and
this Key Expert should be able to cover all the requisite training topics and
be able to provide proof that they have successfully delivered such training
programmes in EU banks as well as developing markets, as well as developed the
supporting training materials
Deadline for Application: 31st January 2014
How to apply:
visit the the link below for orginal job postings and application
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