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World Vision is a global relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children,families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.World Vision serves all people regardless of religion,race,ethnicity,or gender.
With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
Overview
VisionFund is World Vision’s microfinance provider serving vulnerable clients through loans, savings, and insurance. We enable families to grow their livelihoods in hard to reach, rural locations in 28 countries so that caregivers can create secure futures for their children. We believe in brighter futures for children; empowering families to create incomes and jobs; unlocking economic potential for communities to thrive. Join VisionFund as we seek to end intergenerational poverty through microfinance.
Job Summary
VisionFund primarily focuses on rural clients and 40% of its 466m portfolio is in Agriculture. This position is to provide technical support to agricultural finance provided by our MFI network. The position is a grant-funded position and will primarily focus on 10 countries but will also be able to provide support to the rest of the network. To date, much of VFIs agricultural finance has been simple “vanilla finance” and balloon loan as being often the only distinguishing component. This position will seek to provide more hands-on technical support in the assessment, design, pilot and roll out of new agricultural products that will allow VF MFIs to finance farmers that World Vision is facilitating through its local value chain work (LVCD) and as savings groups (S4T) continue to grow with the support of FAST.
Additionally, as climate change increasingly impacts our rural clients the position will look to expand both our capacity and profile in developing climate appropriate products and services. The position will also seek to bring together all our learnings and practices to enable VFI to more competitively compete for grants and position us as more of a leader in the agricultural finance space.
Preferred Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Additional Locations: Kigali, Rwanda; Kampala, Uganda; Lusaka, Zambia; Lilongwe, Malawi; and any other country where WVI is registered.
Major Responsibilities
Support World Vision in new or revised market assessments and building the capacity of the local MFI team to engage more effectively in these assessments.
This role should lead the documentation, monitoring, technical support to the agricultural and product technical teams (or person) in the MFI.
Technical support for agricultural finance products
Support in innovative agricultural finance products. This is a subset of the above section, but intentionally focused on new and innovative products
Provide technical advice and support in the design and writing of new and existing agricultural grant applications
Working with the Partnerships Director, key support offices and the fundraising team to support how VisionFund can better engage with World Vision both in its existing network, but also outside of its network in developing funding applications for agricultural finance programs
This role should lead the learning and dissemination of VF work in agricultural finance
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Required Professional Experience:
Preferred knowledge
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only
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