RESPONSIBILITIES 

include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Management of Strategic Plan

• Implement an Inclusive Finance strategy by facilitating the integration, collaboration, and learning across the AgFinance team.
• Enhance the organizational understanding of industry best standards, particularly rural women’s empowerment strategies.
• Drive portfolio and outreach growth for loan clients and trained farmers.
• Assess gender-disaggregated client data and identify gender gaps, barriers to entry, and opportunities for product and service adjustments.
• Provide targeted technical and financial support around product development, client segmentation, and risk management.
• Develop recommendations for improvements for our client-facing materials and interactions for gender inclusivity and women’s empowerment best practices.
• Assist in identifying, onboarding, and supporting a growing portfolio of mission-aligned financial institutions.
• Provide technical assistance to partners in creating a structure to enhance inclusive practices and empower women borrowers.
• Implement tools and train staff to conduct inclusivity assessments.
• Foster and maintain relationships with gender champions at financial institution partners.
• Construct key messaging to support women’s empowerment in recruiting, onboarding, training, and supporting partners.
• Incorporate Inclusive Finance strategy into team policies, procedures, and products.
• Offer training aimed at increasing gender inclusivity awareness and capacity building.
• Assess gender equity in program recruiting, people management, and capacity building.
• Track and monitor staff goals toward gender equity and inclusion.

Women’s Economic Advancement Strategy

• Set, monitor, and analyze gender-inclusive metrics and reporting to drive program strategy.
• Construct and lead a gender-focused learning agenda.
• Participate in Opportunity’s Global Gender Community of Practice.

Business Development

• Integrate gender analysis tools to strengthen gender equality and empowerment across all business development processes.
• Contribute to project design, indicators, and budgeting for new proposals.
• Participate and speak at conferences, networking, & and fundraising events to promote our work in women’s empowerment in agriculture.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY 

• Financial Inclusion consultant.
• Matrix supervisory responsibility across the Financial Products and Client Services program verticals.
• Demonstrable capacity for management and leadership growth as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s Degree in Gender, Development, Finance, Banking, Business Administration, Agriculture, or related field or commensurate experience.
• Minimum of 15 years relevant experience in banking or microfinance, working with women, smallholder farmer groups, and VSLAs at a management or supervisory level.
• Strong presentation skills and writing skills to summarize and disseminate strategy and learnings.
• Exceptional interpersonal, networking, and relationship management skills and ability to influence change across various cross-cultural contexts.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and facilitating participatory and remote training and mentoring.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office apps, specifically Excel, Android Apps, and other business intelligence tools. Experience in PowerBI is a plus.
• Driven and extremely passionate about Inclusive Finance in Rural Africa.
• An understanding of and a commitment to advancing the mission and core values of Opportunity International.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Written and verbal fluency in English is required; fluency in French or a partner country’s local language is desirable.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

• May travel internationally up to 30% of the time. Significant focus across Africa.
• Candidates must be able to be based in the United States, the United Kingdom, or an AgFinance African Country of Operations.