Overview
Coordinate and provide technical support for the implementation of an innovative financial mechanism pilot in Tanzania, focusing on operational delivery, oversight, and engagement with national financial institutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate day-to-day implementation of the pilot financial mechanism.
- Ensure alignment with approved workplan, budget and FVC requirements.
- Facilitate coordination between FAO, financial institutions, SACCOs and FFPOs.
- Organize and document technical and coordination meetings.
- Support operationalization of the financial instrument(s).
- Monitor disbursement processes and compliance.
- Track portfolio performance, repayment rates and leverage of additional resources.
- Identify implementation risks and propose mitigation measures.
- Identify and support leveraging of additional finance.
- Track key indicators including amount of additional finance mobilized, number of FFPOs and MSMEs accessing financial services, inclusion of women and youth, and portfolio quality and repayment performance.
- Prepare periodic technical progress updates.
- Contribute to FVC reporting requirements.
- Contribute to reporting requirements of AFR100 programme.
- Document lessons learned and implementation challenges.
- Contribute to preparation of technical briefs, case studies and knowledge notes.
- Support organization of dissemination and stakeholder events.
- Support assessment and engagement of national financial institutions.
- Contribute to preparation of investment briefs, concept notes and pipeline analyses.
- Support organization of blended finance working group meetings and matchmaking events.
- Track finance mobilization indicators related to restoration and enterprise development.
Required Experience
- Minimum five (5) years of relevant professional experience in green/development/rural or SME finance, with demonstrated relevance to forestry, agroforestry and producer organizations.
- Demonstrated experience in coordinating multi-stakeholder initiatives, including planning, implementation, day-to-day delivery, monitoring and reporting.
- Practical experience supporting the operationalization and oversight of financial instrument(s), including defining/aligning eligibility criteria, financial terms and risk-mitigation measures, and ensuring compliance with agreed procedures.
- Proven ability to monitor and assess portfolio performance, including disbursement processes, repayment trends and portfolio quality; to identify implementation risks; and to propose timely mitigation measures and corrective actions.
- Experience engaging and coordinating with financial institutions and relevant actors (DFIs, public banks, impact investors, MFIs, SACCOs), as well as forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOs) and smallholder associations.
- Experience contributing to investment-related documentation for development or environmental initiatives, including investment briefs, concept notes and pipeline analyses, and supporting related working group meetings, stakeholder consultations and matchmaking processes.
Qualifications
• Advanced university degree in economics, finance, development finance, environmental economics, business administration or a related field.
