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To play a key role in activity planning and sequencing of activities to ensure maximum impact:

• Work in close consultation with the Project Coordinator (PC) to review and prepare the project’s work plan and budget as part of the monthly, quarterly and annual planning process.

• Manage monthly, quarterly and annual work plans for project activities and logistics, identifying and responding to the implications of interdependencies between different sub-project work stream activities.

To deliver project activities to a high standard, and in line with Farm Africa and donor guidelines and requirements:

• Develop the access to finance and digitization for smallholder farmers

• Profile and build capacity of 400 VSLAs to save for a purpose, especially for agricultural inputs

• Train VSLAs on financial literacy, entrepreneurship and business planning

• Perform analysis of supply and demand of financial services for farmer groups and entrepreneurs.

• Identify, approach financial partners and, understand their specific barriers on lending to farmer groups/entrepreneurs and work with them to develop/customize solutions.

• Facilitate business opportunity meetings with financial institutions providing financial services

• Link 200 VSLAs to access diversified and affordable women and youth-centric financial services from public and private providers

• Work with digital service providers to leverage online/mobile technology solutions for profiling, saving and lending

• Stay updated on developments in the MSME, digitization and financing space, including new concepts, key partners, policy movements, and important events.

To deliver assigned activities in accordance with financial guidelines and within available budgets by:

• Closely monitoring expenditure on all relevant activity lines, ensuring that availability of funds is confirmed and approved before delivery of an activity begins

• Supporting the Project Accountant & Administrator (PA&A) and PC with budgeting and reforecasting budgets as required

• Ensuring that all expenditure incurred is in compliance with and exceeds the basic standards contained in the Farm Africa finance procedures manual.

• Participate in reviewing budget monitoring reports, and provide timely explanations and corrective actions for any significant variances relating to the AGRA project

• Ensuring that procurement of goods and services is carried out in line with Farm Africa procedures and follows the terms and conditions stipulated in the donor’s Financial Management Guidelines

Monitoring, evaluation learning & reporting:

• Contribute to the development and implementation of Monitoring & Learning Plan (MLP) for the project in line with Farm Africa’s guidelines and the donor’s requirements

• Support mid-term, final evaluation and other external evaluations, ensuring that learning and recommendations from those evaluations are explicitly incorporated into the project’s future implementation activity

• Contribute to internal and external reporting, and annual & semi-annual project performance reviews and workshops

• Document and share case studies, success stories, best practices and key lessons on access to finance and digitization.

• Review key and critical lessons learned to identify success factors for scaling program efficacy

Playing a key role in delivering the wider objectives of Farm Africa’s AGRA project including:

• Assisting with facilitating monitoring and communications visits from Donors and/or the wider Farm Africa team

• Undertaking any other duties as reasonably requested by the project coordinator Supporting the Business Development Officer to build the financial management capacity of SHFs engaged in the project.

Playing a Play an active role as a member of the Farm Africa Country team

• Contribute to the development and implementation of Farm Africa’s strategy Identify and explore opportunities to grow and expand the country project pipeline, both in relation to the current project or related to new project opportunities Work with the PM, CD and the UK Programme Funding Unit to prepare funding proposals where requested, ensuring that any lessons learned during implementation are documented and built into future project design

• Participate in country-level or Pan-Farm Africa programme meetings with other project coordinators, as reasonably requested

These essential functions are not to be interpreted as a complete statement of all duties performed. Employees will be required to perform other job-related duties as required. All work responsibilities are subject to having performance goals and/or targets established.