Head – Inclusive Finance

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.

Industries:Food Production

Function: Accounting and Finance