Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, December 09, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
SPARK is looking for a professional Programme Manager for our Covid19 response MSME support programme. The Programme Manager will be setting up and managing Loan Guarantee Funds, works closely with M/FIs, SPARK business coaches and Technical Assistance partners to support, mostly rural and cross border trade, MSMEs. He/she will be also responsible for resource mobilisation for further growth of the SPARK MSME Loan Guarantee Fund and developing SPARK’s ideation, acceleration and business development services tailored to Rwanda’s Business Support Ecosystem with a high focus on youth. .

Main Tasks and Responsibilities:
The Responsibilities and tasks include, but are not limited to:
Programme management:
• Identify and close deals with key FIs, MFIs, and Technical Support partners.
• Set up the fund structure and mechanism including the deal flows from the donors towards the final MSME beneficiaries.
• Continuously conduct (together with SPARK coaches) Capacity Needs Assessments, context and stakeholder analysis, labour market assessment, and other relevant reports and reflections for the project beneficiaries and other field studies in order to develop coherent technical vision, initiate innovative strategies and design detailed business coaching intervention plans with an adequate field project structure to achieve the outputs of the programme.
• Monitor the performance of the finance institutions in the programme and make sure loans are performing well.
• Prepare operational plans, schemes, and reports needed for the MSMEs Loan Guarantee Fund.

Job Skills: Not Specified

Requirements and Skills
• Residents of Rwanda and anyone with a working permit for Rwanda are encouraged to apply.
• University degree in International development, rural finance or economic development or rural business development;
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience in project management in a financial institution, private sector, or international development; project design, implementation, operations, MEL, reporting and budgeting.
• Proven experience in rural financing, financial inclusion and cross border trade and rural SME environment in Rwanda;
• Proven experience in credit guarantee schemes and fund management; establishing Loan Guarantee funds are an asset;
• Experience in youth and woman inclusion is an asset.
• Skilful people manager, with the ability to lead, inspire, coach and train subordinates and contracted experts, and to achieve the highest possible results through the staff.

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
If interested, please apply with your motivation letter and your CV (both in English) on https://vacancy.spark-online.org/Tab1/LoadProfileFromVacancy/292  until 04.01.2021. Please, with application send to us two references (phone number and email) which we can contact in the selection process.
All applications will be assessed on a rolling basis; interviews can therefore take place before the application deadline. However, due to the large volume of applications we receive, we cannot respond to every applicant individually. There may be a delay between the deadline and the moment we contact selected applicants.
If you have not received a reply, we regret to inform that we have continued with other candidates with other candidates.

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