Closing: Mar 3, 2023
This position has expiredPublished: Feb 17, 2023 (2 months ago)
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Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is currently seeking a talented finance professional for the role of a Manager - Housing Finance Systems. The purpose of this position is to support, manage and deliver Housing Finance Systems (HFS) related interventions by working with both private and public sector partners through a market systems approach.
Key Requirements:
- At least a bachelor’s degree and/or postgraduate degree in Finance, IT, or related field
- 5 years relevant experience in the financial sector particularly in the product design/roll out or similar field with progressively increasing responsibility
- 3 years’ experience in digital financial services including developing digital finance solutions
- Significant experience working with financial institutions, impact investors, venture capital firms in the region, with evidence of networks and relationships
- Experience in project management particularly scaling of products/solutions
- Entrepreneurial - Works well in dynamic environments with limited resources
- Persuasive - Demonstrates ability to influence others, to work with outside actors and create collaborative projects
- Agile - Prioritizes tasks and redirects work effort in response to new opportunities and changes in priorities
- Strong inter-personal skills - with the ability to develop and manage good relationships with internal staff, between the project, private sector, government and other stakeholders
- Quality and results oriented - Demonstrated attention to detail, highly organized and able to coordinate multiple activities simultaneously and within deadline
- Consultative and communication skills - with a proven ability to work with globally dispersed teams, and different private sector partners
- Strong project management skills - with demonstrated track record of leading initiatives from concept to completion
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Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is currently seeking a talented finance professional for the role of a Manager - Housing Finance Systems. The purpose of this position is to support, manage and deliver Housing Finance Systems (HFS) related interventions by working with both private and public sector partners through a market systems approach.
Key Requirements:
- At least a bachelor’s degree and/or postgraduate degree in Finance, IT, or related field
- 5 years relevant experience in the financial sector particularly in the product design/roll out or similar field with progressively increasing responsibility
- 3 years’ experience in digital financial services including developing digital finance solutions
- Significant experience working with financial institutions, impact investors, venture capital firms in the region, with evidence of networks and relationships
- Experience in project management particularly scaling of products/solutions
- Entrepreneurial - Works well in dynamic environments with limited resources
- Persuasive - Demonstrates ability to influence others, to work with outside actors and create collaborative projects
- Agile - Prioritizes tasks and redirects work effort in response to new opportunities and changes in priorities
- Strong inter-personal skills - with the ability to develop and manage good relationships with internal staff, between the project, private sector, government and other stakeholders
- Quality and results oriented - Demonstrated attention to detail, highly organized and able to coordinate multiple activities simultaneously and within deadline
- Consultative and communication skills - with a proven ability to work with globally dispersed teams, and different private sector partners
- Strong project management skills - with demonstrated track record of leading initiatives from concept to completion
National Offices Support (60%)
- Lead/Manage the HFS related interventions/programmes within the National Offices
- Support the National Directors in the regional National Offices in strengthening financial services in support of their intervention portfolios (co-creation)
- Support the National Offices with designing of HFS interventions and development of proposals linked to HFS
- Identify, develop, mentor and support staff members in HFS programming within the National Offices
- Lead the reporting and MEAL activities with regards to the HFS interventions within the National Offices
- Facilitate internal National Offices learning activities
Launching and Implementation of Africa Housing Finance Systems Program (30%)
- Support in research, strategy, planning (including budgeting) of HFS interventions in the region
- Identify and manage a credible network of partners including private sector, government, academia, public sector, industry associations, and other market actors
- Participate in design of innovative HFS solutions in the respective markets
- Participate in driving market understanding and body of knowledge to position HFS as a regional expert
- Support the HFS team in development of concepts and proposals aimed at soliciting funding from development partners
- Collaborate and work closely with global HFS colleagues to ensure alignment with global program strategy
- Work with the MEAL team to ensure monitoring and evaluation of the HFS and ensure data is periodically captured and analyzed and reported
- Represent Habitat for Humanity and TCIS in industry gatherings and conferences as required
- Collaborate with Habitat’s teams around the globe to share emerging good practices and foster organizational learning
Participation in SVL program (10%)
- Lead the development of concepts, proposals and interventions related to financial systems including consumer housing loans, impact insurance, SME financing etc. in support of the Shelter Venture Lab (SVL) goals
- Manage the Housing Finance projects within the SVL
- Represent and become an active member within the Shelter Venture Lab (SVL)
- Lead the report and MEAL activities within Shelter Venture Lab (SVL) for HFS related interventions .
- Manage a strong HFS portfolio in the region evidenced by active interventions and collaborations
- Participate in active strategic and strong regional and global partnerships along with provide support to the National Offices and other programmes including SVL
- Manage a strong pipeline of proposals for soliciting funding
- Maintain ongoing relationships and reports of interactions with key ecosystem partners
- Conduct timely reporting in compliance with all internal Habitat for Humanity and external donor requirements
- Participate in active internal learning and feedback
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