Technical Director
Over the past ten years the UK’s Department for International
Development (DFID) has worked with other leading agencies including the Swedish
International Development Agency (Sida), Canadian International Development
Agency (CIDA), World Bank, Danish International Development Agency and the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation to establish financial market development
programmes across Africa, including FinMark Twst, Financial
Sector Deepening
Tanzania (FSD Tanzania), FSD Kenya, Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR), and
Enhancing Finance Innovation and Access (EFInA) Nigeria. These programmes share
a common vision of making financial markets work for the poor, increasing
access by poor people to savings, credit, agriculture finances, insurance and
payments services.Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR), was launched in March 2010 at the request of the Government of Rwanda (GoR)and with support from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the World Bank.
The core element of AFR is to remove systemic barriers to
financial services by putting the poor at the centre of its
interventions.
Improving financial access by the rural poor will be of a
particular focus using specific investment criteria as well as rigorous impact
assessment for each activity.
It is expected that the programme investment will be split between and deliver three interventions which will support and complement each other.
These are as follows:
- Micro
level - more than 60% of resources will be spent at micro level with an
aim to enable financial institutions (mainly microfinances institutions
and funders of MSME5) strengthen their capacity to provide innovative
products/financial services for the poor including amongst others:
targeted saving products, access to credit, agriculture finance,
supporting informal savings and loans associations as well as financial
education programmes.
- Meso
level — 20% of resources: This will mainly focus on (but is not limited
to) capacity building — human resources, systems and technology
development including mobile phone banking
- Macro
level — 1 0% of resources: this will be spent on activities to strengthen
appropriate legal and regulatory structure of the financial sector in
Rwanda in order to improve delivery of financial services to the poor.
To achieve this three-fold objective, the Technical Director is
required to play high quality steering role.
This ranges from identification/assessment of market failures and to proposing pragmatic interventions for AFRIC’s (AFR Investment Committee) approval that can enable those markets to work more effectively.
AFR is now seeking an exceptional individual to establish and lead this new programme.
The Technical Director will have overall responsibility for
leading AFR to achieve its vision of expanding financial inclusion across
Rwanda, working with existing interventions to explore possible synergies and
strengthen the capacity of financial service providers with a clear focus on
micro-finance and funding of MSMEs, facilitating skills, knowledge and
technology transfers, bringing innovative interventions that can be applied to
the local context and have a big impact and increasing coordination between
markets.
The Technical Director will (amongst other tasks):
- Lead
the development of AFR’s strategy and business plans
- Establish
and lead a full team of professionals to deliver results
- Establish
clear monitoring and evaluation frameworks with clear annual targets and
milestones as well as required resources
- Lead
management of the programme’s external stakeholder relationships
- Provide
thought leadership on financial inclusion
- Funds
mobilisation and establishment of long-term sustainability for AFR
We need someone with a deep understanding of the financial
inclusion field, financial markets and significant professional experience working
in Sub-Saharan Africa and professional experience in East Africa will be an
added advantage.
You will need to have a strong track record in management and
excellent communication skills. A minimum of a masters’ degree (or equivalent)
in a relevant subject is required. Working knowledge of French is desirable.
Detailed terms of reference for the position can be downloaded from:
www.kpmg.com/eastafrica, www.minecofin1gov1rw, www.jeuneafrique.com www1dfid.gov1uk and www.cgap.org
You will need to submit a covering letter explaining in no more than 900 words the reasons why you are the best candidate for this post. Please put “The Technical Director, AFR” in the subject line.
If you think you are who we are looking for then please send
your CV (no more than 6 pages) and the covering letter specified above (include
all your contact details) to the Executive Selection Division, KPMG at the
following email address: esdkpmg.co.ug.
Application through registered company with proven track record in the relevant field is desirable but not a mandatory requirement.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted to arrange for interviews. AFR reserves the right to annul the recruitment process and not to appoint anyone to perform the role of Technical Director.
Closing date: 10:00am GMT on Thursday 30th August, 2012.
For any questions regarding the application process, please contact Executive Selection Division, KPMG on +256 414 347833, +256 414346294 or +256 414 340 315.
