Program Manager
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION
TERMS OF REFERENCE
Programs: Access to Finance – Financial Infrastructure and Agri-Finance
Position: Program Manager
Employment period: Two years
Reporting Line: ECA A2F Regional Business Line Manager
Location: Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
The Organization:
International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, fosters sustainable economic growth in developing countries by financing private sector investment, mobilizing private capital in local and international financial markets, and providing advisory services to business and governments. Our purpose is to create opportunity for people to escape poverty and improve their lives in the areas where it’s needed most. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.
The Program:
IFC’s Access to Finance Program in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (A2F ECA) seeks to increase access to finance for small and medium-sized business, farmers, and those living in rural areas often overlooked by banks and other financial institutions. Through mainstreaming microfinance and introducing SME banking, agri-finance, and sustainable energy finance, IFC is helping banks to diversify their products to underserved markets, greatly extending the reach of secure and reliable banking services. IFC also supports systemic change in the infrastructure of the financial sector to increase access to finance by supporting the establishment or improvement of private credit bureaus, collateral registries, or innovations such as mobile banking.
More specifically, the following projects are currently ongoing:
- Azerbaijan and Central Asia Financial Infrastructure program (ACAFI)
- Tajikistan Agricultural Finance and Business Enabling Project (TAFBEP)
- Central Asia Microfinance Transformation program
- Kyrgyzstan Housing MicroFinance project
Individual teams are in place for the implementation of these projects.
Reporting Lines:
The position reports jointly to the ECA Regional Business Line Manager Access to Finance and the Regional Manager for Central Asia.
Duties and Accountabilities:
The Program Manager will take overall responsibility for ACAFI and TABEP, and manage both projects. This includes design, managerial and financial oversight, day-to-day delivery of advisory services to clients, financial and operational reporting to IFC and donors, and overall quality control of the work. S/he will do this in close collaboration with regional staff, regional and global product specialists, and short term consultants.
• Program Design and Management: Oversee all aspects of further elaborating the design and implementation of the Program, including impact targets and timelines. Draw on the expertise of regional and global product specialists to ensure Program design exemplifies best practice and lessons learned from similar initiatives globally.
• Technical & financial: Assist FIs to develop new A2F financial products and/or program structures and/or lending programs. Provide direct support and conduct trainings if and where needed.
• Team Coordination: Recruit and manage a team of professionals and a resource base of consultants who can deliver on the various components. Each project (ACAFI and TAFBEP) has a project manager in place for its respective implementation. Day-to-day operational issues can be delegated to these project managers.
• General stakeholder engagement: Collaborate with other advisory staff in the implementation of AS projects and investment staff in identifying and assessing investment potential. Engage with and support relations with stakeholders, including WBG and other IFIs, financial institutions, business associations, project developers, government entities both federal and regional, NGO’s and other civil society stakeholders among others.
• Communications & Outreach: Support the Project managers on developing and delivering various external engagement events throughout the life of the program.
• Program reporting: Manage the cyclical reporting requirements both according to IFC and donor guidelines. Coordinate with the ECA Regional Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Advisor and the Global Business Line M&E Advisor, overseeing and quality controlling the inputs to the M&E framework.
• Knowledge and document management: Systematically consolidate and analyze lessons learned from program implementation experience and share, along with subject matter knowledge, with team members and colleagues across the region and IFC globally. Ensure connectivity with other IFC or World Bank related projects within the region and globally.
• Any other activities as assigned by the Regional Manager for Access to Finance.
The Program Manager will additionally provide support to other A2F projects in Central Asia in the sphere of Micro- and Responsible Finance.
All of the above activities must be in compliance with IFC/WBG policies, standards, and processes.
Qualifications and Minimum Requirements:
The Candidate should be a seasoned professional with comprehensive and in-depth expertise in project/program management, and in providing advisory services in financial sector with emphasis on microfinance, agri-finance, and credit information systems. S/he routinely leads complex projects and integrates work of other (often multi-disciplinary) professional staff. S/he can interact with clients at the policy level or with senior counterparts in national governments and/or other organizations with confidence.
Minimum Requirements
• Master’s degree in economics, finance, business or other relevant discipline;
• At least ten years of relevant working experience, preferably working with/in the financial sector in an emerging market environment;
• Sound knowledge of policy and legal/regulatory issues related to financial markets;
• Proven ability to conceptualize, design and implement major projects and to produce major/complex reports or studies;
• Demonstrated professional leadership and ability to lead a team of professionals in the execution of major project components;
• Ability to engage with various stakeholders, effective influencing skills and demonstrated diplomacy;
• Strong leadership, organizational, and communications skills; ability to communicate ideas clearly and confidently, articulate issues and recommend solutions.
• Relevant experience working in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is desirable;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English. Additional Russian language skills preferred;
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly within Central Asia.
Qualified candidacies of women professionals will be positively viewed.
For corporate information and how to apply please visit www.ifc.org , Careers page. Click on Current Opportunities - Job reference # 121191. Deadline for applications – May 31, 2012
TERMS OF REFERENCE
Programs: Access to Finance – Financial Infrastructure and Agri-Finance
Position: Program Manager
Employment period: Two years
Reporting Line: ECA A2F Regional Business Line Manager
Location: Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
The Organization:
International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, fosters sustainable economic growth in developing countries by financing private sector investment, mobilizing private capital in local and international financial markets, and providing advisory services to business and governments. Our purpose is to create opportunity for people to escape poverty and improve their lives in the areas where it’s needed most. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.
The Program:
IFC’s Access to Finance Program in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (A2F ECA) seeks to increase access to finance for small and medium-sized business, farmers, and those living in rural areas often overlooked by banks and other financial institutions. Through mainstreaming microfinance and introducing SME banking, agri-finance, and sustainable energy finance, IFC is helping banks to diversify their products to underserved markets, greatly extending the reach of secure and reliable banking services. IFC also supports systemic change in the infrastructure of the financial sector to increase access to finance by supporting the establishment or improvement of private credit bureaus, collateral registries, or innovations such as mobile banking.
More specifically, the following projects are currently ongoing:
- Azerbaijan and Central Asia Financial Infrastructure program (ACAFI)
- Tajikistan Agricultural Finance and Business Enabling Project (TAFBEP)
- Central Asia Microfinance Transformation program
- Kyrgyzstan Housing MicroFinance project
Individual teams are in place for the implementation of these projects.
Reporting Lines:
The position reports jointly to the ECA Regional Business Line Manager Access to Finance and the Regional Manager for Central Asia.
Duties and Accountabilities:
The Program Manager will take overall responsibility for ACAFI and TABEP, and manage both projects. This includes design, managerial and financial oversight, day-to-day delivery of advisory services to clients, financial and operational reporting to IFC and donors, and overall quality control of the work. S/he will do this in close collaboration with regional staff, regional and global product specialists, and short term consultants.
• Program Design and Management: Oversee all aspects of further elaborating the design and implementation of the Program, including impact targets and timelines. Draw on the expertise of regional and global product specialists to ensure Program design exemplifies best practice and lessons learned from similar initiatives globally.
• Technical & financial: Assist FIs to develop new A2F financial products and/or program structures and/or lending programs. Provide direct support and conduct trainings if and where needed.
• Team Coordination: Recruit and manage a team of professionals and a resource base of consultants who can deliver on the various components. Each project (ACAFI and TAFBEP) has a project manager in place for its respective implementation. Day-to-day operational issues can be delegated to these project managers.
• General stakeholder engagement: Collaborate with other advisory staff in the implementation of AS projects and investment staff in identifying and assessing investment potential. Engage with and support relations with stakeholders, including WBG and other IFIs, financial institutions, business associations, project developers, government entities both federal and regional, NGO’s and other civil society stakeholders among others.
• Communications & Outreach: Support the Project managers on developing and delivering various external engagement events throughout the life of the program.
• Program reporting: Manage the cyclical reporting requirements both according to IFC and donor guidelines. Coordinate with the ECA Regional Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Advisor and the Global Business Line M&E Advisor, overseeing and quality controlling the inputs to the M&E framework.
• Knowledge and document management: Systematically consolidate and analyze lessons learned from program implementation experience and share, along with subject matter knowledge, with team members and colleagues across the region and IFC globally. Ensure connectivity with other IFC or World Bank related projects within the region and globally.
• Any other activities as assigned by the Regional Manager for Access to Finance.
The Program Manager will additionally provide support to other A2F projects in Central Asia in the sphere of Micro- and Responsible Finance.
All of the above activities must be in compliance with IFC/WBG policies, standards, and processes.
Qualifications and Minimum Requirements:
The Candidate should be a seasoned professional with comprehensive and in-depth expertise in project/program management, and in providing advisory services in financial sector with emphasis on microfinance, agri-finance, and credit information systems. S/he routinely leads complex projects and integrates work of other (often multi-disciplinary) professional staff. S/he can interact with clients at the policy level or with senior counterparts in national governments and/or other organizations with confidence.
Minimum Requirements
• Master’s degree in economics, finance, business or other relevant discipline;
• At least ten years of relevant working experience, preferably working with/in the financial sector in an emerging market environment;
• Sound knowledge of policy and legal/regulatory issues related to financial markets;
• Proven ability to conceptualize, design and implement major projects and to produce major/complex reports or studies;
• Demonstrated professional leadership and ability to lead a team of professionals in the execution of major project components;
• Ability to engage with various stakeholders, effective influencing skills and demonstrated diplomacy;
• Strong leadership, organizational, and communications skills; ability to communicate ideas clearly and confidently, articulate issues and recommend solutions.
• Relevant experience working in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is desirable;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English. Additional Russian language skills preferred;
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly within Central Asia.
Qualified candidacies of women professionals will be positively viewed.
For corporate information and how to apply please visit www.ifc.org , Careers page. Click on Current Opportunities - Job reference # 121191. Deadline for applications – May 31, 2012
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