Manager, Lender Capacity Building
$10,000–$1,500,000 year
HybridKe, Rivers State, Federal Republic of Nigeria
Job Summary
Lead Aceli's lender capacity building program by owning strategy, translating priorities into annual workplans, and managing engagements across Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Coordinate provider procurement, oversee technical delivery, and drive monitoring, evaluation, and learning to ensure program quality and donor reporting. Manage the full program budget, including lender co-investments, while collaborating with Country Teams, Impact & Learning, and external advisory firms. Report to the Associate Director, Innovation & Partnerships, with a deadline of August 31st, 2026 for applications requiring a cover letter.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Agricultural Economics, Development Studies, or a related field
- A minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience
- At least 4 years of experience in advisory or experience working in/ with financial institutions
- Demonstrated understanding of agricultural lending practices in sub-Saharan Africa
- Knowledge of agri-SME credit appraisal
- Knowledge of loan structuring
- Knowledge of portfolio risk management
- Proven project management skills
- Experience managing multiple simultaneous assignments
- Experience managing external service providers
- Experience managing client relationships
- Strong analytical capabilities
- Ability to conduct financial institution diagnostics
- Ability to interpret portfolio data
- Ability to translate findings into actionable recommendations
- Excellent written communication skills
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Ability to prepare high-quality reports
- Ability to prepare engagement briefs
- Ability to prepare presentations
- Ability to prepare terms of reference
- Experience managing or contributing to MEL frameworks
- Demonstrated ability to engage credibly with senior leadership of financial institutions
- Ability to engage as a peer with senior financial institution leaders
- Brings substantive knowledge of lending operations
- Takes end-to-end accountability for delivery quality and outcomes
- Proactively identifies and resolves issues
- Comfortable with financial data
- Comfortable with portfolio diagnostics
- Comfortable with evidence-based program design
- Ability to translate complex information into clear recommendations
- Skilled at holding external service providers to high standards
- Ability to maintain productive working relationships with external service providers
- Works effectively across diverse internal teams
- Navigates organizational complexity with maturity and diplomacy
- Curious and reflective
- Actively seeks to improve program design
- Manages multiple workstreams simultaneously
- Structured planning
- Consistent follow-through
- Attention to detail
- Applications without a Cover Letter will not be considered
Desired Qualifications
- A Master's degree
- Experience at a management consulting firm
- Experience at a specialist advisory firm
- Experience at a development finance institution
- Experience at a financial sector advisory mandate
- Familiarity with the agri-finance ecosystem in East Africa
- Knowledge of key lender segments
- Knowledge of regulatory environments
- Knowledge of value chain financing models
- Exposure to climate finance
- Exposure to gender-lens lending
- Exposure to ESG integration in financial institutions
- Experience procuring and managing external consultants
- Experience procuring and managing technical service providers
- Proficiency in Excel (advanced)
- Proficiency in Power BI
- Proficiency in Salesforce for program reporting
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