DAI Senior Bank Training Consultant Job Vacancy in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

Senior Bank Training Consultant (x2) – Technical
Assistance Programme to various EIB Financial Sector Operations in East and
Central Africa

Location: East Africa

Location Details: Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania,
Uganda

Division: Economic Growth

Job Code: 1267

DAI is an employee-owned global development
company. For 40 years, we have worked on the frontlines of international
development, tackling fundamental social and economic development problems
caused by inefficient markets, ineffective governments, and instability.
Currently, DAI is delivering results that matter in some 60 countries. Our
integrated development solutions turn ideas into impact by bringing together
fresh combinations of expertise and innovation across multiple
disciplines—crisis mitigation and stability operations, democratic governance
and public sector management, agriculture and agribusiness, private sector
development and financial services, economics and trade, HIV/AIDS and disease
control, water and natural resources management, and energy and climate
change. Our clients include international development agencies, international
lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and national
governments.

Description

Senior Bank Training Consultant (x2) – Technical
Assistance Programme to various EIB Financial Sector Operations in East and
Central Africa

Objectives of the role:

Full time positions with 1 based in Kenya and the
other in Uganda. They will work as consultant-trainers, and diagnose needs in
the Financial Intermediaries and drafts TORs to mobilise short-term experts
and quality control their deliverables. They will primarily be involved with
microfinance institutions, and microfinance/small business departments of
commercial banks, but also with other FIs, according to the needs and
internal organisation of work among consultants.

They may also be called upon to provide
training and mentoring support for the EIB’s global loan Allocation
Processing and together with Key Expert 1, design, coordinate, and implement
TA and Consultant Actions for MFIs/microfinance departments of commercial
banks, and monitor M/SME Support Actions and Outreach Events.

They will be in charge of preparing training
sessions and/or mobilising STEs to that effect within the geographic
zones/financial Intermediaries under his remit.

Responsibilities include drafting Training TOR,
quality management control, training evaluation, guidance to trainees,
reporting the obtained attendance, performance, satisfaction, and other
indices relating to the functioning of the in situ training programme or
consulting actions delivered. The reporting is to enable project progress
monitoring of results and impacts achieved.

Length of the project: 36
months

Start Date: 5th May 2014

Qualifications and Skills:

University degree, preferably in Business Administration,
Economics, Finance, Banking, or related field or equivalent professional
experience
Should have management or operational credit
management experience from a microfinance institution/ small business
bank of minimum 5 years
Good writing skills

General Professional Experience:

Good management skills, preferably in the
financial and credit analysis function in a credit department /
corporate lending department of a microfinance institution with a
minimum of 5 years in management
Ability to use the advanced functions of
word to create reports and excel to create customised spreadsheets for
financial analysis purposes and database management reporting purposes

Specific Professional Experience:

Minimum of 5 years professional experience
within a microfinance provider/ small business bank, with specific focus
on financial analysis and micro and small business lending,
non-performing loan management, identification of key lending risks, and
participation in the drafting of loan contracts to mitigate and control
identified risks
Good analytical skills in economic and M/MSE
project finance planning and implementation (market and financial
analysis risk analysis techniques, and ability to implement computer
based models to analyse balance sheets, calculate key financial ratios,
and make proactive recommendations in drafting loan documentation and
security arrangements)
Practical experience and proven track record
in organising and delivering professional bank training programmes and
development of curricula and training materials
Good analytical skills in economic and MSE
project finance planning and implementation, fully conversant with
market and financial analysis risk analysis techniques, and ability to
implement computer based models to analyse balance sheets and calculate
key financial ratios for lending analysis
Together, the Team Leader and this Key
Expert should be able to cover all the requisite training topics and be
able to provide proof that they have successfully delivered such training
programmes in EU banks as well as developing markets, as well as
developed the supporting training materials