Portfolio Officer- Tanzania Clean Cooking Programme at AECF

Portfolio Officer- Tanzania Clean Cooking Programme

Portfolio Officer- Tanzania Clean Cooking Programme at AECF October 2024

Job Title: Portfolio Officer- Tanzania Clean Cooking Programme

The AECF
The
AECF (Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund) is a development institution
that finances early and growth-stage businesses to innovate, create jobs
and leverage investments & markets to create resilience and growth
sustainable incomes in rural and marginalized communities in Africa.

Since
2008, we have invested over US$300 million in over 510 businesses
across sub-Saharan Africa focusing on Agribusiness, Renewable Energy and
Climate-Smart Technologies. We have impacted more than 33 million
lives, created over 35,000 jobs, and leveraged over US$ 838 million in
matching funds to our portfolio companies.

AECF is headquartered in Kenya, with offices in Cote d’Ivoire, Tanzania, Nigeria, South Sudan, Benin, and Somalia.

The Tanzania Clean Cooking Programme
The
Tanzania Clean Cooking Program (TCCP) is a US$ 3.75 million, three-year
program that aims to transform the clean cooking sector and enable
access to clean cooking to more than 300,000 rural and marginalized
households in Tanzania. The program aims
to address the two-fold challenge of supply and demand through
innovative mechanisms that de-risk private sector investments through
supply-side grants and make clean cooking solutions more affordable
through demand-side grants.

The program will deploy a direct
matching grant financing facility coupled with technical assistance as a
means of incentivizing and de-risking the private sector to venture
into these markets and expect that by the end of the program period, the
target markets will have opened and be able to crowd in other private
sector actors.

The key objectives of the program are:

• Catalyze the private sector participation in clean cooking solutions in underserved markets
• Accelerate the uptake of clean cooking solutions through innovative financing mechanisms
• Strengthen
  the clean cooking sector coordination and advocate for a conducive
  policy environment for a market-led clean cooking sector.

The Role
The
Tanzania Clean Cooking Program (TCCP) is a US$ 3.75 million, three-year
program that aims to transform the clean cooking sector and enable
access to clean cooking to more than 300,000 rural and marginalized
households in Tanzania. The program aims to address the two-fold
challenge of supply and demand through innovative mechanisms that
de-risk private sector investments through supply-side grants and make
clean cooking solutions more affordable through demand-side grants. The
program will deploy a direct matching grant financing facility coupled
with technical assistance as a means of incentivizing and de-risking the
private sector to venture into these markets and expect that by the end
of the program period, the target markets will have opened and been
able to crowd in other private sector actors.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop portfolio management plans, in line with the program and the
  overall AECF operational and technical management strategy.
• Work
  with the AECF competition team to execute competition activities,
  including marketing open windows, evaluating concept notes and business
  plans, conducting due diligence, supporting business plan development at
  the application stage, and contracting selected companies
• Responsible for ensuring effective investees’ performance and relationship management
• With support from the AECF Impact Team, develop results measurement plans together with each investee company.
• Lead
  the planning and execution of the investee’s performance monitoring
  activities, including data verification exercises to ensure the quality
  of program results.
• Implementing the AECF’s operational
  processes for grant management including contribution to the
  operationalization of the Portfolio Management Information System
  (PMIS).
• Implementation of the financial policies, procedures, and systems guidelines for grant recipients
• Ensure all investee site visits are conducted periodically, as per the agreed site visit schedule.
• Coordinate
  identification of investees who require technical assistance and
  investment services and arrange to deliver services based on the AECF TA
  and Learning service delivery framework.
• Reviewing periodic investee narrative and financial reports, as well as disbursement requests from investee.
• Ensure legal review and opinion on investees that require the legal departments’ review.
• Manage
  the flow of disbursements throughout implementation, advising the
  Program manager on timing and potential issues that need to be
  addressed.
• Provide periodic reports on the program, information
  trends, and other relevant information as requested as well as periodic
  portfolio management reports.
• Contribute to the Impact & Learning agenda, specifically on the TCCP.
• Ensure continuous improvement of the portfolio relationship management based on learning.
• With
  the support of the Knowledge and Insights Manager, regularly apply
  lessons, emerging innovations, and best practices from investee project
  evaluations, field visit reports, and project reports across the TCCP
  and the organization.

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Qualifications

• Degree
  in the areas of Business Management, Energy, Economics, Rural
  Development, Project Management, Development Studies, or any related
  studies.
• Minimum of five (5) years experience in private sector
  development, and sustainable finance, preferable in the energy sector in
  Tanzania.
• Strong understanding of and practical experience in the energy sector preferably clean cooking
• Have an ability and demonstrate experience in designing and appraising energy business cases.
• Have
  a demonstrated track record in portfolio management, specifically in
  conducting project due diligence monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and
  financial management for early-stage companies.
• Have experience managing gender-responsive programs/investments.
• Have excellent analytical and communication skills with the ability to prepare portfolio analysis reports
• Have a high degree of initiative and energy, “can-do” attitude, flexibility, teamwork, and attention to detail.
• Have excellent interpersonal skills including a strong work ethic, impeccable integrity, and judgment.

How to Apply:
This is Full-time Job, To submit your application, please follow the link provided below.