Major Responsibilities
Key responsibilities
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Key tasks & outputs
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Indicators
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Project Mobilization and Commencement
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- Establishment of legal authorization through:
- Understanding the legal and regulatory requirement for an institution of this nature.
- Submit and obtain approval for the organization to be organized and operate
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- Report on the legal and operational requirements
- Approved operational license
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Project Growth
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- Grow the CDT membership base through outreach, attraction and retention strategies supported by expansion to new areas.
- Grow the CDT savings and loan portfolio in line with project budget.
- Ensures that policies and procedures are applied consistently & uniformly.
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Growth in membership and portfolio
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- Coordinates with Program team, the Finance Manager and Natural Resource Management Coordinator to make sure that groups are adequately facilitated from skills, tools and resource perspective
- Coordinates with the Program team in planning group management capacity.
- Coordinates with M&E function in monitoring and reporting related issues, and resolves the issues at the soonest time possible
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Smooth flow of Work
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Project Planning
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- Generates primary Program planning data.
- Coordinates the individual Field Officers work plans and works with the Finance Manager & the NRM Coordinator on the development of an overall Program work plan.
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Variance Analysis Report |
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Project Reporting
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- Plans and ensures the implementation of an adequate and timely reporting system with focus on each group’s key success indicators;
- Membership growth
- Community members capacity development
- Financial Access [Savings and Loan level]
- Sustainable business growth
- Champions the management and monitoring of the savings groups and ensuring strict compliance to all policies and procedures.
- Actively leads in timely response to the group with unacceptable group performance
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- Performance Reports
- Savings Report
- Loans Report
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Risk Management and Compliance
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- Ensures compliance to all existing regulations, policies and procedures across the organization uniformly
- Oversees the implementation of the internal control systems, ensuring the smooth running of the project and safeguarding the institution’s assets.
- Proposes to the Program Board any changes or enhancements to the project policies and procedures.
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Compliance issues raised in audits
- Internal Audit
- External Audit
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Performance Management
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- Supervises a team of Field Officers.
- Sets performance targets for the team
- Undertakes Quarterly performance appraisals
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- Performance Review Reports
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(0%) And any other duties that may be assigned by the Project Manager from time to time
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Core Capabilities:
- Community mobilization
- Credit management and member mobilization
- Achieving results through people [People management]
- Team and collaborative relationship building
- Thinking clearly, deeply and broadly
- Innovative and aggressive in project growth
Other Competencies/Attributes:
- Must be a committed leader upholding high standards of integrity
- Analytical with a keen eye to spot opportunities.
- Perform other duties as required by the Project Management.
Qualifications: Knowledge and Technical Skills:
The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or self-education, prior experience or on-the-job training:
- University Degree in Sociology, Social Work, economics, accounting or business administration.
- Extensive experience (over 5 years) in Project Coordination/Rural Development/microfinance operations.
- Determined personality with initiative, perseverance and the ability to motivate and manage a team
- Capability and willingness to take responsibility and highly developed sense of rectitude
- Ready to comply and live up to and in accordance with the Five Talents Ideals and Core Values
- Be a good trainer, facilitator, mentor, and coach
- Very good communication and marketing skills
- Good analytical and problem solving skills
Working Environment / Conditions:
- Office environment: Combination of typical office and field
- Travel: 75% Domestic travel is required.
On call: When called upon outside normal working hours