SME Finance Officer at Enabel Tanzania September 2024

SME Finance Officer (m/f) – Tanzania

SME Finance Officer at Enabel – Belgian Development Agency September 2024

Category: National
Location: Kigoma, Tanzania
Reference: 22265

SME Finance Officer (m/f) – Tanzania

Enabel
is a Belgian development agency. Our mission is to build a sustainable
world where all live under the rule of law and are free to thrive. With
our partners, we offer solutions addressing pressing global challenges –
Climate Change, Social and Economic Inequalities, Urbanisation, Peace
and Security, Human Mobility – and promoting Global Citizenship. We have
over 20 years’ of experience in areas ranging from education and health
care to agriculture, environmental protection, digitalization,
employment, and governance.

Enabel’s
expertise is eagerly sought after by partners around the globe – ranging
from the Belgian government, European Union institutions, governments
of other countries, and the private sector. We work with civil society,
research institutes as well as businesses and we foster fruitful
interaction between development policy and other areas.

With over 2,100 staff, Enabel manages about 170 projects in more than twenty countries, in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Background
The Tanzanian office of the Belgian Development Agency, Enabel
Tanzania, is implementing the Wezesha Binti Project which is the
bilateral cooperation programme funded by the Belgian Federal
Government. The general objective of the project is to ensure that
“Young people, especially young women, are empowered to thrive in a
protective and gender-equal environment, to acquire education and
skills, and to pursue decent work opportunities in Kigoma Region”. Its
specific objective is to ensure that “Girls and young women (14 to 29
years), in targeted districts of Kigoma, are empowered, access multiple
conducive learning pathways and enjoy decent and green employment and
entrepreneurship”.

The Wezesha Binti project is designed as an
integrated programme that is fully focused on girls and young women
through three results areas of the same holistic intervention as defined
below:

• Result area 1 is focusing on secondary education for vulnerable youth with a special focus on girls.
• Result
  area 2 is dedicated to skills development and entrepreneurship, with
  the ambition to increase opportunities for decent employment of young
  people, specifically women, through skills development, entrepreneurship
  promotion and business development support.
• Result area 3 is
  focusing on supporting a protective and gender-equal environment. It
  will contribute to tackle the discriminatory social norms and structural
  barriers that girls and young women face in their family, in their
  community, in the educative and professional spheres, so that girls and
  young women benefit from the same chances to continue their education
  and seize increasing remunerative economic opportunities.

Job description
The SME Finance Officer will report to the
Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Growth Expert. The main responsibilities
will be as follows:

• Contribute to
  the development of terms of reference for studies and assessments that
  will be done to inform the project on access to finance strategy.
• Support financial institutions in developing financial products customized to the needs of the young women entrepreneurs.
• Support financial institutions in developing financial products for value chain financing.
• Taking the lead in identifying the financing needs of entrepreneurs and lead the design and implementation of these components
• Provide
  direct one-on-one advisory to SMEs that are credit or investment-ready
  and support them with developing their business plans
• Support the design and operationalisation of a catalytic SME investment fund hosted by a partner institution.
• Develop tools for guiding pre- and post-investment processes related to the SME investment fund.
• Represent the project on the investment committee of the catalytic SME investment fund.
• Conduct portfolio monitoring of the SME investment fund and take actions to mitigate any identified risks.
• Plan
  and convene meetings with entrepreneurial financial ecosystem actors to
  facilitate coordinated investments and enhance SME access to finance
• Support
  financial institutes in the development of (alternative) financial
  products customized to the needs of the young entrepreneurs.
• Lead the capitalisation of project experiences related to access to finance interventions.

Your profile

• Tanzanian National

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Qualifications and experience:

• University degree in finance, economics, banking or another related field
• Minimum 3 years of experience in SME financial facilitation
• Experience working with SMEs and understanding of their needs and challenges, particularly related to financing.
• Experience working in Kigoma will be an added advantage.

Specific competencies or knowledge required:

• Experience in assisting micro, small and medium-scale enterprises to access financing
• Demonstrated experience in facilitating entrepreneurial financing;
• Ability to work with multiple financial service providers to achieve optimal financing outcomes for SMEs;
• Experience in conducting financial management training for group-based enterprises and cooperatives.
• Experience
  in conducting investment appraisals, market assessments, and financial
  analysis; Experience in new venture appraisal and entrepreneurial
  financing structuring.
• Understanding of multi-stakeholder
  approaches, gender approaches in agricultural value chain development,
  rural youth support, decent work in agriculture, digital and
  communication skills, market intelligence
• Understanding of catalytic and blended financing structures for sole proprietor enterprises and group-based enterprises
• Knowledge of value chain financing; experience with value chain finance is an asset.
• Given
  that the programme has a focus on women and youth entrepreneurship,
  candidates with a high sensitivity regarding inclusion and women and
  youth entrepreneurship will be an asset.
• Advanced skills in excel and other Microsoft office package
• Fluent in spoken and written English

Applicants are also required to commit to the vision, mission, and values of Enabel: Enabel’s Vision, Mission & Values

We offer you

• A fascinating job in an international environment.
• A specific period contract of 36 months.
• Estimated Start Date: 01/12/2024.
• You will be based in Kasulu district with frequent travels within and to other targeted districts of the region.
• You
  are employed by Enabel in the function of “Field Officer”. A salary
  package that comprises the monthly gross salary, in accordance with our
  salary scales (Class 4), and more benefits such as health care
  insurance, 13th month, holiday allowance and if applicable dependants
  school fees allowance.
• Relevant recognized experience for the function will be valorised.

Are you interested?
Apply HERE with an application letter and your updated CV, at the latest by 22nd September 2024.
Only applications that are registered here via our online portal will be considered.
Final date for application: 22nd September 2024