ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION:
Founded in 2005, Kiva is a non-profit organization. It works with MFIs on five continents to provide loans to people without access to traditional banking systems. Its mission is to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty.
ABOUT THE JOB:
Kiva is seeking a Portfolio Manager (Francophone) - Africa. S/he will be responsible for developing, fostering, and supporting relationships with the organization's field partners within countries in Africa. S/he will monitor the partners through regular borrower verifications, review of repayment reports, and occasional on site visits. S/he will also monitor risk, financial and social, of the existing partners in the assigned region to mitigate any potential risk to organization’s reputation.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Partner management:
- Monitor assigned partnerships (both remotely and in-person), including tracking financial performance, monitoring credit risk, and social performance to ensure organization's investments are impactful;
- Provide updates to lenders on partners’ risk and social performance status as necessary.
- Monitor all partners for compliance with organization's policies, and adjust organization's funding as necessary;
- Business development:
- Develop extensive network to source and recruit new partner organizations;
- Screen potential partners, review partner applications, accept/reject applications from partners, as necessary.
- Due diligence:
- Conduct desk review and onsite due diligence for new potential partner organizations in the region to understand and assess financial management, and social performance. Present potential new partners for approval.
- Partner support:
- Act as the key point person at organization for field partners;
- Assist in onboarding approved partners, act as liaison between organization and the partners, communicate organization's policy to partners and update organization on any new partner developments and/or issues;
- Provide assistance, as needed, to resolve issues faced by the partners such as trouble accessing tools provided by organization.
- Manage volunteers:
- Oversee organization fellows including assisting with training week and providing supervision and guidance throughout the fellow’s placement;
- Develop a work plan and review each fellow’s deliverables on an ongoing basis.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s preferred;
- About 2-5 years’ work experience in Finance, and/or Social impact business role;
- Experience in microfinance industry, non-profits, social enterprise, or financial sector in general;
- Experience working in a developing country. Africa preferred;
- Comfortable traveling extensively when needed, and working remotely in developing countries;
- Finance, international affairs, and/or NGO management experience required;
- Ability to network extensively and manage relationships;
- Flexible and willing to adjust schedule in working across varying time zones;
- Cultural sensitivity;
- Strong communication skills including the ability to tailor communications to a wide variety of audiences and stakeholders;
- Ability to manage time well and prioritize across competing tasks;
- Comfortable designing and delivering trainings to individuals and groups;
- Flexible and willing to adjust schedule to work across varying time zones;
- Tech savvy. Proficient in MS Office and adept at learning and using web-based platforms;
- Able to travel up to 30% of the time and to adapt to the various work environments travel presents;
- Fluency in English and French are required. Applications without working proficiency in French will not be considered.
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