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Description
The Senior Technical Advisor, Financial Inclusion for Southern Africa will join a dynamic team that leads CARE’s expansion of access to financial services across the continent. The team is composed of specialists who provide holistic support services to CARE initiatives working with CARE’s trademark Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA) model including supporting country office and regional scale-up strategy development; co-creating programs and project designs; contributing to and/or leading proposal and fundraising efforts; providing technical support to project start-up and implementation; and supporting CARE’s efforts to continually learn from and improve our initiatives; supporting connections between CARE’s work in communities and regional, national and international advocacy efforts.
As a leader in savings-led financial services, this position presents candidates with unparalleled opportunities to influence CARE’s work and the work of the broader financial inclusion sector. The role will have a particular emphasis on supporting the integration and expansion of CARE’s financial inclusion work with food and nutrition security and climate change resilience programming across Southern Africa as part of a dedicated regional effort. For the Technical Advisor, Financial Inclusion in Southern Africa, we are seeking experienced, high-energy and creative candidates who can support our efforts to build on the power of VSLA to improve the agriculture-based livelihoods of most VSLA members and their households. The candidate will work with technical specialists across disciplines to advance evidence-based interventions that deliver meaningful change for low income, food-insecure households.
The ideal candidate will have the following:
Ability to summarise and synthesise learning into plain English for a wide range of audiences
Experience working with colleagues from different cultures
Experience leading or contributing to multi-disciplinary teams with substantial experience working to help households to improve food and nutrition security and/or resilience to climate change
Deep personal commitment to CARE’s mission and the importance of advancing women’s empowerment and gender equity
Self-starter who takes initiative and personal responsibility for problem-solving and delivering quality results.
Effective communicator, able to keep key stakeholders informed and knows when to ask for help
Highly-organized and able to prioritize among a wide array of competing pressures
Flexible and able to adapt to changing environments with confidence
Responsibilities:
Strategy and Programme Quality
Regional Savings-led Financial Inclusion Learning Hub Coordination
Technical Assistance to Specific Projects
Resource Mobilization and New Business Development
Qualifications:
MA in development or related subject, or MBA, or equivalent expertise.
Native speaker of English high level of competency in written and oral communications
In-depth understanding of key concepts in financial inclusion, experience applying these to development programmes.
Deep, practical understanding of villages savings and loan associations or similar savings group modalities
Strong negotiation, influencing and networking skills
Strong project management and budgeting skills
Understanding of principles of participation, gender equity and women’s empowerment
Understanding of quality monitoring and evaluation, basic understanding of statistics
Highly-effective in conceptualizing and communicating opportunities for new initiatives and leading new business development efforts to support them.
Experience advising non-profit teams on and implementing financial inclusion interventions, particularly those that build on informal savings group models
Experience managing major (USD $1-10M) development initiatives, including budget management experience
Experience leading multi-national learning initiatives and familiarity with or experience designing effective learning strategies for professional adults
Experience designing and leading research initiatives, monitoring and evaluating projects/programmes, and demonstrating impact
Description
The Senior Technical Advisor, Financial Inclusion for Southern Africa will join a dynamic team that leads CARE’s expansion of access to financial services across the continent. The team is composed of specialists who provide holistic support services to CARE initiatives working with CARE’s trademark Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA) model including supporting country office and regional scale-up strategy development; co-creating programs and project designs; contributing to and/or leading proposal and fundraising efforts; providing technical support to project start-up and implementation; and supporting CARE’s efforts to continually learn from and improve our initiatives; supporting connections between CARE’s work in communities and regional, national and international advocacy efforts.
As a leader in savings-led financial services, this position presents candidates with unparalleled opportunities to influence CARE’s work and the work of the broader financial inclusion sector. The role will have a particular emphasis on supporting the integration and expansion of CARE’s financial inclusion work with food and nutrition security and climate change resilience programming across Southern Africa as part of a dedicated regional effort. For the Technical Advisor, Financial Inclusion in Southern Africa, we are seeking experienced, high-energy and creative candidates who can support our efforts to build on the power of VSLA to improve the agriculture-based livelihoods of most VSLA members and their households. The candidate will work with technical specialists across disciplines to advance evidence-based interventions that deliver meaningful change for low income, food-insecure households.
The ideal candidate will have the following:
Ability to summarise and synthesise learning into plain English for a wide range of audiences
Experience working with colleagues from different cultures
Experience leading or contributing to multi-disciplinary teams with substantial experience working to help households to improve food and nutrition security and/or resilience to climate change
Deep personal commitment to CARE’s mission and the importance of advancing women’s empowerment and gender equity
Self-starter who takes initiative and personal responsibility for problem-solving and delivering quality results.
Effective communicator, able to keep key stakeholders informed and knows when to ask for help
Highly-organized and able to prioritize among a wide array of competing pressures
Flexible and able to adapt to changing environments with confidence
Responsibilities:
Strategy and Programme Quality
Regional Savings-led Financial Inclusion Learning Hub Coordination
Technical Assistance to Specific Projects
Resource Mobilization and New Business Development
Qualifications:
MA in development or related subject, or MBA, or equivalent expertise.
Native speaker of English high level of competency in written and oral communications
In-depth understanding of key concepts in financial inclusion, experience applying these to development programmes.
Deep, practical understanding of villages savings and loan associations or similar savings group modalities
Strong negotiation, influencing and networking skills
Strong project management and budgeting skills
Understanding of principles of participation, gender equity and women’s empowerment
Understanding of quality monitoring and evaluation, basic understanding of statistics
Highly-effective in conceptualizing and communicating opportunities for new initiatives and leading new business development efforts to support them.
Experience advising non-profit teams on and implementing financial inclusion interventions, particularly those that build on informal savings group models
Experience managing major (USD $1-10M) development initiatives, including budget management experience
Experience leading multi-national learning initiatives and familiarity with or experience designing effective learning strategies for professional adults
Experience designing and leading research initiatives, monitoring and evaluating projects/programmes, and demonstrating impact