Organization profile
Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation (ICCO Cooperation) is an international non-governmental organisation founded in 1964 in the Netherlands and implements programmes with partners in Central, Eastern and Southern Africa since the 1980s. We work towards a world in which people can live in dignity and well-being, a world without poverty and injustice.
To strengthen its operations in Ethiopia, ICCO would like to invite qualified applicants for the position of STARS Microfinance Field Specialist
The STARS Program of ICCO“Strengthening African Smallholders (STARS)” is implemented by ICCO to improve the livelihood of Smallholder Farmers (SHF), see also https://www.icco-cooperation.org/en/projects/stars
The three activity areas of STARS are as follows:
Specification of the job
The Microfinance Field Specialist will assist the Microfinance Advisor and be responsible for implementing STARS program microfinance related activities. The job holder will be responsible for executing all the activities of the microfinance program including product development, pilot testing, capacity building, pilot monitoring and managing relationships with MFI partners & consultants. S/He will advise and consult in all the technical details of the new product development.
Reporting Relationships
The Microfinance Field Specialist will be part of a small team of the STARS project office in Ethiopia. The Microfinance Field Specialist reports to the Microfinance Advisor. The four country teams will be part of a bigger project team managed from Rwanda
Job Category
Third Country National (TCN) salary scale or Ethiopia salary scale as appropriate
Job Summary/Overall goal of the position
The Microfinance Field Specialist will support the Microfinance advisor and be responsible for implementation of the agri-finance product development and value chain finance interventions under the STARS program.
Duties and responsibilities
Key Result Areas
Deliverables
Terms of employment
Working hours
Travel
Department
Person specifications
Qualifications and Skills needed
Competences needed