{"id":58027,"date":"2021-06-07T12:59:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T12:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=58027"},"modified":"2021-06-07T12:59:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T12:59:32","slug":"opportunity-international-edufinance-jobs-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/opportunity-international-edufinance-jobs-2021.html","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity International EduFinance Jobs 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title:\u00a0Student Financing \u2013 Technical Assistance Advisor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Department:\u00a0<\/strong>Opportunity EduFinance<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reports To:\u00a0<\/strong>Technical Assistance Manager<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opportunity EduFinance<\/strong>\u00a0supports an improvement in educational attainment by partnering with local financial institutions to increase investment into the education sector.<\/p>\n<p>EduFinance\u2019s Technical Assistance Facility team (ETAF) works with socially focused sustainable financial institutions andsupports these financial institutions to develop, launch or grow sustainable education lending portfolios through education lending products such as student loans. The ETAF team is made up of finance experts based in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>To date, the ETAF team works with 69 financial institutions in 25 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Financial institution partners have collectively disbursed over $390mn in loans and have over 121k parents and 14k schools currently borrowing worldwide.\u00a0Opportunity EduFinance estimates the Education Finance market as a<strong>\u00a0$36 billion global opportunity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Opportunity edufinance is currently exploring market opportunities for Student Financing in Ghana to develop new financing products for financial institutions. This might involve expertise into developing product\/programs around:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Student Tuitions Loans for TVET<\/li>\n<li>Loans for TVET Institutions<\/li>\n<li>Start Up Capital Loan for graduated entrepreneurs<\/li>\n<li>Loan Loss Guarantee mechanisms to support the launch of products<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE ROLE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Essential duties\u00a0include the following. Other duties may be assigned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Country Support to the Technical Assistance Advisors in Ghana:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lead market research on the economics of studies in specified vocations by comparing the payoff of study to the cost, investigate whether lending products can reduce barriers to access, and provide recommendations on the structure of loan products.<\/li>\n<li>Support with market research project management, and product development on an on-going basis with current financial institutions partners.<\/li>\n<li>Prepare partnership proposals of new financial institutions brought on board in\u00a0\u00a0Africa.<\/li>\n<li>Help and support the\u00a0\u00a0EduFinance Team to build a strong network of financial institution partners and industry stakeholders (TVET, mentoring partners, students) in Ghana markets through constant engagement with stake holders and kay partners and manage communication with key prospects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Implementation of Technical Assistance:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Working as part of a wider team to provide technical assistance to financial institutions and support them to build and grow education lending portfolios. This involves understanding the product development needs of microfinance institutions and banks. Typical products include market research reports, product design, staff training, credit scoring tools, business intelligence reporting and social performance management products. ( This will be done through a thorough needs analysis during the onboarding process to check for expectations)<\/li>\n<li>Monitor and report upon progress of technical assistance activities at partner-financial institutions.<\/li>\n<li>In the context of TVET\/Students financing, this involves understanding needs of TVET, students, job markets opportunities, startup business and sectors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The reports produced above will enable the team to develop New Technical Assistance Products thus help\u00a0<\/strong>Opportunity EduFinance improve its efficiency and value addition to its partners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EMPLOYMENT TYPE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Consultants are expected to work throughout the year and some projects may have several weeks of intensive intervention work. The work intensity in-between assignments is more flexible however time allocation on average will be 0.6-0.8 FTE. Given the strong growth in the EduFinance business, the consultant will be given a lot of responsibility to deliver significant projects in short periods of time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SKILLS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Excellent knowledge of students\/TVET financing in Ghana.<\/li>\n<li>Excellent knowledge of financial inclusion in Ghana.<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge Loan Loss Guarantee mechanism to support the launch of products<\/li>\n<li>Attention to detail, solid writing skills and critical thinking.<\/li>\n<li>Good consultancy experience with MFIs and commercial banks, with strong network of senior management engagement at these financial institutions.<\/li>\n<li>Solid experience of business development, building relationships, and implementing technical assistance projects in multiple countries across Ghana<\/li>\n<li>Passionate and ambitious about increasing access to education through financial services and being an integral driving part of ETAF\u2019s long-term strategy in Africa.<\/li>\n<li>Good project management and reporting skills.<\/li>\n<li>Enthusiastic about team-based approach to technical assistance and comfortable working with multiple consultants on one project.<\/li>\n<li>Good communication skills in English.<\/li>\n<li>Flexibility to work on multiple projects in parallel, adjusting priorities based on team need and capacity in pursuit of organizational goals<\/li>\n<li>Ability to present findings or translate data into a coherent visual representation<\/li>\n<li>Clear commitment to the values of the organization \u2013 commitment, humility, respect, integrity, stewardship, and transformation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>LOCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ghana<\/p>\n<p><strong>COMPENSATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Applicants will be assessed on the basis of value that they bring to the business, considering skills and ability. Compensation will be dependent on the quality of the candidate pool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0None<\/p>\n<p><strong>TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Must be able to travel nationally and regionally subject to partners location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job Description Job Title:\u00a0Student Financing \u2013 Technical Assistance Advisor Department:\u00a0Opportunity EduFinance Reports To:\u00a0Technical Assistance Manager Opportunity EduFinance\u00a0supports an improvement in educational attainment by partnering with local financial institutions to increase&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-f5V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}