FINANCIAL INCLUSION TECHNICAL ADVISOR

Job Purpose Statement

The Financial Inclusion Technical Advisor is responsible for the development of strategy, interventions and tools as required for ensuring best practice in Financial Inclusion . S/he develops quality control tools/mechanisms that are used to evaluate the effective implementation of strategies and builds capacity of staff and partners to positively impact the lives of vulnerable women and girls. The position holder represents CARE in Financial Inclusion forums and strategically positions CARE as a major voice in the development sector. The position holder liaises with the program quality and learning team, project team and stakeholders to develop and pilot innovative approaches related access to finance/financial Inclusion, facilitates their evaluation and recommends scale up strategies.

Responsibilities

1. Technical Assistance and Leadership: Provide Leadership and Transfer knowledge and capacity to staff and partners; enabling them to implement Access to finance and Financial Inclusion strategies effectively, and positively impact the lives of vulnerable women and girls.

2. Quality Assurance and Learning: Develop and implement quality control mechanisms that will support CARE staff, implementing partners and other project stakeholders to implement best practice in Financial Inclusion.

3. Lead the design and development and implementation of new theories of change, approaches and tools in Financial Inclusion, including piloting new and scaling up successful interventions.

4. Strategy & Program Development: Contribute to the development and implementation of CARE Rwanda’s strategy; aiming to maximize our beneficial impact on vulnerable women and girls.

5. Advocacy and relationship Management: Under the leadership of the Programs Director, and Program manager, actively participate in the development and implementation of CARE Rwanda’s relationships, and advocacy efforts to maximize CARE’s impact on poverty and social justice.

Requirements for the Role:

1. Educational Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field (e.g. Agricultural Economics, Development Economics, Financial Education, Business Management, Micro-finance, Development Management or Social Science)
• Master’s Degree in Development Management or Agriculture/Development Economics

2. Experience :
• At least 5 years of professional experience in micro-finance, banking, rural and agriculture investment finance; business development services, and private sector development and banking for donor-funded projects.
• 5 years’ experience in designing, coordinating, and managing projects in Financial Inclusion projects.
• At least 3 years’ experience in designing strategies and coordinating capacity building of partner organizations
• At least Demonstrated experience in program design, implementation and evaluation; including participatory approaches
• Experience in establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with implementing partners, donors and government counterparts.
• Experience in Agri-value chain development, market access and Agric- financing models such as FFBS, VSLAs and other digital models that suits better for youth in agriculture.
• Demonstrated experience and competence in drafting and advising on agri-business and SME/MSME business plans, forecasting profit/loss, etc. with strong ability to understand and address financing needed of entrepreneurs and businesses

3. Technical skills
• Demonstrated management capacities, as evidenced by strong planning, coordination, and teamwork skills leading to the consistent achievement of significant results
• Excellent understanding of economic development and poverty analysis
• Strong people management skills including capacity building, coaching and conflict management;
• Demonstrated interest and ability to give feedback, develop, motivate and lead a diverse team to achieve results
• Ability to establish a learning culture and to facilitate knowledge sharing
• Demonstrated proposal writing and report writing skills
• Ability to engage, motivate and drive high performing teams through influencing and adult learning techniques
• Excellent writing, communication and presentation skills in English; fluency in spoken Kinyarwanda and French