Catholic Relief Services - CRS Program Manager I - Financial Services for the Poor Jobs in Ethiopia
Catholic Relief Services - CRS Program Manager I - Financial Services for the Poor Jobs in Ethiopia
Job SummaryThe job holder will manage financial services for the poor programming in the Country Program (CP) for Feed the Future Ethiopia Livelihoods for Resilience – Oromia (LRO), designing and implementing interventions advancing Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) work in serving the poor and vulnerable.
Your management skills and knowledge will ensure that the CP delivers high-quality programming and continuously works towards improving the impact of its programming.
Job Requirements
Job Responsibilities
Manage and implement all activities throughout relevant project cycles - project design, start-up, implementation, and close-out
to ensure efficient and effective implementation in line with CRS program quality principles and standards, donor requirements, and good practices. Ensure the project team and partner staff uses the appropriate systems and tools.
Effectively manage talent and supervise. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being.
Provide coaching, strategically tailor individual development plans, contribute to the recruitment process of project staff, and complete performance management for direct reports.
Champion learning with project staff and partner teams. Analyze and evaluate project performance data following the MEAL policy.
Proactively identify issues and concerns and use participatory processes to overcome implementation obstacles.
Act as a key resource person in project design and proposal development in the respective programming areas, gap-filling and taking on growth responsibilities, as needed.
Effectively manage talent and supervise. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Provide coaching, strategically tailor individual development plans, contribute to the recruitment process of project staff, and complete performance management for direct reports.
Coordinate the identification of staff capacity and technical assistance needs of partner organizations and capacity strengthening and required interventions to support quality project implementation.
Help identify, assess and strengthen partnerships relevant to Feed the Future Ethiopia Livelihoods for Resilience – Oromia (LRO) applying the appropriate application of partnership concepts, tools, and approaches.
Coordinate and monitor financial and material resources relevant to project needs. Through planning and oversight ensure efficient use of project resources
Scope
Supervise the LRO Access to Finance Officer
Work with informal (Saving and Internal Lending Communities-SILC) and financial service providers (MFIs, SACCO Unions and RuSACCOs to improve the design and delivery of their products and services (credit, savings, insurance) to reach larger numbers of the poor, both for on-farm and off-farm activities
Develop strategies to address the problem of household over-indebtedness, terms and conditions of financial service providers (FSPs) to suit the needs of the poor
Work to expand existing FSPs reach to new geographical areas and design alternative financing (value-chain financing) considering existing value-chain financing actors (multi-purpose cooperatives, agro-dealers, etc.)
Monitor and provide technical assistance for smooth implementation of the loan guarantee fund and conditional capacity-building support to FSPs
Provide technical assistance to program and partner staff in the implementation of Savings and Internal Lending Communities and Private Service Providers (PSP) methodologies.
Technically lead assessments related to assessing to finance that may be conducted by LRO or/and jointly with others
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; Catholic Relief Services - CRS Program Manager I - Financial Services for the Poor Jobs in Ethiopia
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