Head – Inclusive Finance
2025-04-14T11:59:12+00:00
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
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FULL_TIME
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
Finance
Accounting & Finance
2025-04-25T17:00:00+00:00
Kenya
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Head – Inclusive Finance
The Position
Head – Inclusive Finance Job Reference: IF/IMTF/04/2025
AGRA’s approach is to build an inclusive agricultural finance system based on partnerships and opportunities that will reduce the cost and risk of agricultural finance. The strategy focuses on three critical integrated components that can make the agricultural finance system work inclusively for food crops. These are: availability of concessional, blended capital, capable providers of financial services, and finance-able SMEs and farmers.
Head – Inclusive Finance will be responsible for designing and implementing a strategy to improve the availability of affordable financial services (credit, investment capital, savings, insurance, etc.) to the actors across the agricultural value chains, including smallholder farmers. The person should be committed to delivering, be agile and responsive to different stakeholders and opportunities. S/he should be entrepreneurial and open to innovative ideas and able to draw and build on consultative input from other AGRA stakeholders where needed.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage AGRA’s Inclusive Finance sub-unit in scaling AGRA’s transferable assets in inclusive finance through leveraging partners’ funds and making catalytic investments in new solutions that can reduce the cost and risk of agricultural finance.
- Lead the implementation and regular review and adjustment of AGRA’s Inclusive Finance Strategy, including the hypothesis, the theory of change, action, and the interventions.
- Lead our SME and BDS ecosystem development strategies within and across input and output markets, mechanization, gender and youth inclusion, as well as around policy and state capability.
- Drive AGRAs efforts in shaping the continental policy and regulatory agenda on agri-lending as a critical driver of agriculture transformation driven by small farmers and SMEs.
- Co-lead in the implementation of inclusive finance and insurance initiatives and programs at country and regional levels, such as MAJI, REGAIN, RK-FINFA, among others.
- Identify, build, and maintain strong relationships with other partners, working to improve access to finance for agriculture in Africa to understand the landscape of current efforts, refine AGRA’s role in ensuring appropriate access to financial services for food systems actors, and to improve collaboration in investments that further this work by sharing the lessons that inform future.
- Inspire high-level intellectual leadership to enable the team to develop innovative solutions that reduce the cost and risk of agricultural finance and catalyze private sector investment in food systems in Africa.
- Build and maintain a wide network of stakeholders and contributors to the inclusive finance Including networks such as SAFIN, AMEA, AFRACA, and others.
- Disseminate insights and results through written and verbal
- Inspire and grow teamwork, partnership, and collaboration among the center of expertise and country teams to raise the overall quality of deployment of financial resources in AGRA’s grant-making activities.
- Achieve talent development of existing staff, hiring new staff as necessary, and managing team dynamics of the team to ensure a high-performance team.
- Direct and provide coaching to relevant program and country staff and
- Oversee the current Inclusive Finance investments to ensure that they are being executed effectively and make any adjustments needed.
- In partnership with the Resource Mobilization team, contribute to fundraising of sufficient resources to AGRA’s operations, as well as investments directly into dedicated programs in the IMT&F business line.
- Represent AGRA on governing bodies of returnable grant investments (ABC fund, IAHCL, and ASIF) and report on those portfolios.
- In partnership with the monitoring and Evaluation team, set indicators of success and support the measurement plans for these indicators to be well-defined (SME performance, leverage) and effectively implemented for each investment
Key Qualifications and Experience Required:
- Master’s degree in finance, rural development, business, economics, or another relevant field.
- Bachelor’s degree from a reputable academic institution in a relevant field, such as agriculture, agricultural economics, rural development, business, or economics.
- Experience spanning operational, strategic managerial, and leadership in the financial services sector, preferably in Africa, specifically in the areas of rural and agriculture finance, advisory and analysis, knowledge development and dissemination, and partnership development.
- Proven writing and communication skills, including an ability to edit and/or produce final strategy documents and proposals for external review.
- Deep familiarity with the agricultural finance landscape in Africa, including its challenges and opportunities, and ability to develop creative and innovative solutions that improve access to financial services for Agri SMEs and farmers.
- Strong networks that can be leveraged to reduce cost and risk of Agri-financing in partnerships can reach the scale and depth necessary to achieve a sustainable food systems transformation.
- Familiar with key developments, research, and industry trends centered on innovative products for financial inclusion such as blended finance, long and short-term credits, savings, and insurance.
- Ability to engage in high-level policy dialogue with regulators, central banks, and financial service providers to promote enabling environments for inclusive finance.
- Strong skills in managing large-scale inclusive finance programs and donor-funded initiatives, ensuring alignment with KPIs, timelines, and impact targets.
- Ability to translate innovative concepts and models into investment opportunities for AGRA’s grant-making activities.
- Fluency in English required; ability to communicate in French is an added
Lead and manage AGRA’s Inclusive Finance sub-unit in scaling AGRA’s transferable assets in inclusive finance through leveraging partners’ funds and making catalytic investments in new solutions that can reduce the cost and risk of agricultural finance. Lead the implementation and regular review and adjustment of AGRA’s Inclusive Finance Strategy, including the hypothesis, the theory of change, action, and the interventions. Lead our SME and BDS ecosystem development strategies within and across input and output markets, mechanization, gender and youth inclusion, as well as around policy and state capability. Drive AGRAs efforts in shaping the continental policy and regulatory agenda on agri-lending as a critical driver of agriculture transformation driven by small farmers and SMEs. Co-lead in the implementation of inclusive finance and insurance initiatives and programs at country and regional levels, such as MAJI, REGAIN, RK-FINFA, among others. Identify, build, and maintain strong relationships with other partners, working to improve access to finance for agriculture in Africa to understand the landscape of current efforts, refine AGRA’s role in ensuring appropriate access to financial services for food systems actors, and to improve collaboration in investments that further this work by sharing the lessons that inform future. Inspire high-level intellectual leadership to enable the team to develop innovative solutions that reduce the cost and risk of agricultural finance and catalyze private sector investment in food systems in Africa. Build and maintain a wide network of stakeholders and contributors to the inclusive finance Including networks such as SAFIN, AMEA, AFRACA, and others. Disseminate insights and results through written and verbal Inspire and grow teamwork, partnership, and collaboration among the center of expertise and country teams to raise the overall quality of deployment of financial resources in AGRA’s grant-making activities. Achieve talent development of existing staff, hiring new staff as necessary, and managing team dynamics of the team to ensure a high-performance team. Direct and provide coaching to relevant program and country staff and Oversee the current Inclusive Finance investments to ensure that they are being executed effectively and make any adjustments needed. In partnership with the Resource Mobilization team, contribute to fundraising of sufficient resources to AGRA’s operations, as well as investments directly into dedicated programs in the IMT&F business line. Represent AGRA on governing bodies of returnable grant investments (ABC fund, IAHCL, and ASIF) and report on those portfolios. In partnership with the monitoring and Evaluation team, set indicators of success and support the measurement plans for these indicators to be well-defined (SME performance, leverage) and effectively implemented for each investment
Master’s degree in finance, rural development, business, economics, or another relevant field. Bachelor’s degree from a reputable academic institution in a relevant field, such as agriculture, agricultural economics, rural development, business, or economics. Experience spanning operational, strategic managerial, and leadership in the financial services sector, preferably in Africa, specifically in the areas of rural and agriculture finance, advisory and analysis, knowledge development and dissemination, and partnership development. Proven writing and communication skills, including an ability to edit and/or produce final strategy documents and proposals for external review. Deep familiarity with the agricultural finance landscape in Africa, including its challenges and opportunities, and ability to develop creative and innovative solutions that improve access to financial services for Agri SMEs and farmers. Strong networks that can be leveraged to reduce cost and risk of Agri-financing in partnerships can reach the scale and depth necessary to achieve a sustainable food systems transformation. Familiar with key developments, research, and industry trends centered on innovative products for financial inclusion such as blended finance, long and short-term credits, savings, and insurance. Ability to engage in high-level policy dialogue with regulators, central banks, and financial service providers to promote enabling environments for inclusive finance. Strong skills in managing large-scale inclusive finance programs and donor-funded initiatives, ensuring alignment with KPIs, timelines, and impact targets. Ability to translate innovative concepts and models into investment opportunities for AGRA’s grant-making activities. Fluency in English required; ability to communicate in French is an added
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Vacancy title:
Head – Inclusive Finance
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Finance, Category: Accounting & Finance]
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Deadline of this Job:
Friday, April 25 2025
Duty Station:
Nairobi | Nairobi | Kenya
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Date Posted: Monday, April 14 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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Head – Inclusive Finance
The Position
Head – Inclusive Finance Job Reference: IF/IMTF/04/2025
AGRA’s approach is to build an inclusive agricultural finance system based on partnerships and opportunities that will reduce the cost and risk of agricultural finance. The strategy focuses on three critical integrated components that can make the agricultural finance system work inclusively for food crops. These are: availability of concessional, blended capital, capable providers of financial services, and finance-able SMEs and farmers.
Head – Inclusive Finance will be responsible for designing and implementing a strategy to improve the availability of affordable financial services (credit, investment capital, savings, insurance, etc.) to the actors across the agricultural value chains, including smallholder farmers. The person should be committed to delivering, be agile and responsive to different stakeholders and opportunities. S/he should be entrepreneurial and open to innovative ideas and able to draw and build on consultative input from other AGRA stakeholders where needed.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage AGRA’s Inclusive Finance sub-unit in scaling AGRA’s transferable assets in inclusive finance through leveraging partners’ funds and making catalytic investments in new solutions that can reduce the cost and risk of agricultural finance.
- Lead the implementation and regular review and adjustment of AGRA’s Inclusive Finance Strategy, including the hypothesis, the theory of change, action, and the interventions.
- Lead our SME and BDS ecosystem development strategies within and across input and output markets, mechanization, gender and youth inclusion, as well as around policy and state capability.
- Drive AGRAs efforts in shaping the continental policy and regulatory agenda on agri-lending as a critical driver of agriculture transformation driven by small farmers and SMEs.
- Co-lead in the implementation of inclusive finance and insurance initiatives and programs at country and regional levels, such as MAJI, REGAIN, RK-FINFA, among others.
- Identify, build, and maintain strong relationships with other partners, working to improve access to finance for agriculture in Africa to understand the landscape of current efforts, refine AGRA’s role in ensuring appropriate access to financial services for food systems actors, and to improve collaboration in investments that further this work by sharing the lessons that inform future.
- Inspire high-level intellectual leadership to enable the team to develop innovative solutions that reduce the cost and risk of agricultural finance and catalyze private sector investment in food systems in Africa.
- Build and maintain a wide network of stakeholders and contributors to the inclusive finance Including networks such as SAFIN, AMEA, AFRACA, and others.
- Disseminate insights and results through written and verbal
- Inspire and grow teamwork, partnership, and collaboration among the center of expertise and country teams to raise the overall quality of deployment of financial resources in AGRA’s grant-making activities.
- Achieve talent development of existing staff, hiring new staff as necessary, and managing team dynamics of the team to ensure a high-performance team.
- Direct and provide coaching to relevant program and country staff and
- Oversee the current Inclusive Finance investments to ensure that they are being executed effectively and make any adjustments needed.
- In partnership with the Resource Mobilization team, contribute to fundraising of sufficient resources to AGRA’s operations, as well as investments directly into dedicated programs in the IMT&F business line.
- Represent AGRA on governing bodies of returnable grant investments (ABC fund, IAHCL, and ASIF) and report on those portfolios.
- In partnership with the monitoring and Evaluation team, set indicators of success and support the measurement plans for these indicators to be well-defined (SME performance, leverage) and effectively implemented for each investment
Key Qualifications and Experience Required:
- Master’s degree in finance, rural development, business, economics, or another relevant field.
- Bachelor’s degree from a reputable academic institution in a relevant field, such as agriculture, agricultural economics, rural development, business, or economics.
- Experience spanning operational, strategic managerial, and leadership in the financial services sector, preferably in Africa, specifically in the areas of rural and agriculture finance, advisory and analysis, knowledge development and dissemination, and partnership development.
- Proven writing and communication skills, including an ability to edit and/or produce final strategy documents and proposals for external review.
- Deep familiarity with the agricultural finance landscape in Africa, including its challenges and opportunities, and ability to develop creative and innovative solutions that improve access to financial services for Agri SMEs and farmers.
- Strong networks that can be leveraged to reduce cost and risk of Agri-financing in partnerships can reach the scale and depth necessary to achieve a sustainable food systems transformation.
- Familiar with key developments, research, and industry trends centered on innovative products for financial inclusion such as blended finance, long and short-term credits, savings, and insurance.
- Ability to engage in high-level policy dialogue with regulators, central banks, and financial service providers to promote enabling environments for inclusive finance.
- Strong skills in managing large-scale inclusive finance programs and donor-funded initiatives, ensuring alignment with KPIs, timelines, and impact targets.
- Ability to translate innovative concepts and models into investment opportunities for AGRA’s grant-making activities.
- Fluency in English required; ability to communicate in French is an added
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