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!

Major Activities

Technical guidance to project staff

• Developed technical guidance and tools on financial services components and share with project staff
• Stay abreast of other financial services focused projects to ensure harmony and cross-collaboration with other related USAID and donor projects
• Review project documents from a financial services perspective and advise accordingly
• Advise project staff on financial services components to ensure industry standards, best practices and upheld and/or lesson learned
• Understanding of government financial services activities and ensure harmonization

Implementation of project activities to meet established targets

• Oversee financial services activities, advise implementing staff to ensure timelines adhered to, technical aspects implemented with fidelity, and recommend any possible changes based on the lessons learned.
• Review and advise on tools and guidelines to aid in project implementation of financial services activities, ensuring established guidelines are adhered to by WV staff and consortium members. Coordinate with World Vision staff and sub-grantees staff on meeting established targets.
• During the life of the intervention, review the performance indicators and reports produced by different stakeholders for all livelihoods related activities, and suggest necessary changes to ensure targets are met.
• Review performance metrics and suggest measures to improve implementation progress.
• Ensure lessons learned are drawn and shared and course correction is undertaken to continuously improve and strengthen the project performance.

Coordination & Communication with Stakeholders

• Coordinate with communities, service providers, and local governments, consortium members and donor representative, sharing project performance, transparency of challenges with USAID and mitigation measures.
• Ensure timely and effective communication and information sharing between different stakeholders on livelihoods aspects.
• Assess training needs relevant to technical areas and provide, if required, training to local stakeholders.

Capacity Building

• Oversee capacity building plans as aligned with project goals and work plan for financial services
• Oversee and support capacity building activities with project beneficiaries as aligned with the work plan

Staff Management

• Supervise staff that report directly to this position. Conduct regular coaching.
• Conduct field visits in conjunction with field staff, to monitor implementation, to ensure compliance with operational procedures and assess progress.
• Provide staff with recommendations, guidance and mitigation measures as needed.
• Ensure that project staff conduct activities adhering to the donor/SO standards and that the information is used to enhance decision-making process within and outside the organization.

Reports

• Review quarterly and annual reports for financial services activities prior to submission to donor, provide technical guidance as needed to ensure high quality. Review reports from sub-awards and provide guidance as needed.

• Work with the Collaboration, Learning and Adaptation (CLA) Lead to ensure high quality, coordinated, and demand driven learning, knowledge management and capacity strengthening activities.
• Perform other duties as required.

Minimum education, training and experience requirements to qualify for the position:

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• Master’s degree or equivalent in agricultural Economics/Agriculture, Rural Development, Economics or related fields is preferred.
   

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• Minimum 5 years demonstrated experience with USG or other similar development projects focused on financial services for the poor, including credits, savings, insurance, payment systems, and remittance services, preferably with understanding of the financial services context in Ethiopia.

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Spoken and Written fluency in English.  Experience with USG funded programs and USG regulations.

Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

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Demonstrated ability to work and coordinate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders, including national and local government, donors, cooperatives, community-based organizations, and the private sector.

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