Nuru International's Fellows Program is an opportunity for talented and motivated professionals to use their skills to affect real social change by working directly with communities in rural Kenya to end extreme poverty. Flights, accommodation, travel insurance and a modest living allowance will be provided; as well as a 2-week intensive training at Stanford University prior to leaving, and flights for a 3-week vacation in the middle of the rotation. To view this information online and to check out the Fellows Program Overview at http://www.nuruinternational.org/takeaction/jobsvolunteer.html.
Position Overview: Nuru's Community Economic Development (CED) Fellow will be implementing and developing information systems to manage performance and operations of a rural microcredit and savings program serving one to two thousand clients in remote, agricultural communities. The fundamental role of the CED Fellow is to ensure that field operations preserve the integrity and efficacy of the program's microfinance model, including direct management of data, reporting, and CED staff, as well as supervision of the delivery of rural financial services and training. Fellows are expected to have formal analytical and quantitative skills and field experience in microfinance.
Specific Responsibilities:
Position Overview: Nuru's Community Economic Development (CED) Fellow will be implementing and developing information systems to manage performance and operations of a rural microcredit and savings program serving one to two thousand clients in remote, agricultural communities. The fundamental role of the CED Fellow is to ensure that field operations preserve the integrity and efficacy of the program's microfinance model, including direct management of data, reporting, and CED staff, as well as supervision of the delivery of rural financial services and training. Fellows are expected to have formal analytical and quantitative skills and field experience in microfinance.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Effectively manage microfinance operations in order to deliver high quality training and services to community members, while ensuring loan portfolio and all lending activities comply with Nuru CED microfinance model guidelines and performance expectations.
- Maintain and develop Nuru's information systems, including basic bookkeeping, Mifos MIS and reporting suite, and integration of reporting needs for operational and accounting systems.
- Ensure the CED Program is operationally and financially sustainable and scalable, including efficient management of program budget.
- Achieve pre-determined seasonal goals.
- Technical training of the CED Program team, empowering local leaders in the CED Program to continuously take more ownership of the program.
- Oversee and further develop financial trainings for individuals, groups, and staff.
- Improve implementation of CED interventions to meet the needs of Nuru's members.
- Assess and develop Nuru CED's mobile banking services.
- Implement monitoring tools and processes to evaluate impact of the CED Program.
- Refine existing program metrics to improve accuracy in its reflection of the community poverty level and operational effectiveness.
- Recruit new members and scale to new communities within the CED Program expansion framework.
Specific Skills and Attributes (in addition to the General Requirements for the Nuru Fellows Program):
- Bachelors degree in Business, Finance, or International Development; MBA preferred.
- Experience setting up and maintaining management information systems (experience with Mifos MIS strongly preferred).
- Formal data management experience, solid quantitative skills, and advanced level experience with Excel.
- At least 2 years operational field experience in microfinance organization (rural credit cooperatives or microsavings and microcredit institutions preferred). Masters degree in a related field or 2-3 years relevant experience in data management can be substituted for less microfinance field experience.
- Minimum 2 years of project management, preferably in an international setting.
- Prior experience living and/or working in the developing world strongly preferred.
- High commitment to organization's mission and theory of change.
- Strong leadership and team building experience.
- Effective crisis management and rapid, innovative problem solving in uncertain environments.
Application: In order to be considered for the program please submit the following immediately: resume, cover letter and three letters of recommendation (can be submitted after) to jobs@nuruinternational.org. Please check our Fellows Program overview for more information.
It is a rolling application process, so if you apply early, then you will be considered early and notified of the results sooner.
Unfortunately we cannot accept candidates who don't hold U.S. Citizenship or U.S. Work Authorization.
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