Posted date | 13th September, 2024 | Last date to apply | 24th September, 2024 |
Country | Pakistan | Locations | Islamabad |
Category | Development Sector | ||
Type | Contractual | Position | 1 |
CARE is a leading global humanitarian and development organization. Since its establishment in 2005, CARE Pakistan (CP) has been responding to major disasters and undertaking an array of development projects. CP works through its local partners and a range of stakeholders for development, as well as emergency response-related interventions, which makes collaboration a key component of its work, across the country.
1 - Technical Support and Guidance: (70% of Time)
- Conduct mappings of the current market in Pakistan for financial products and services (credit, savings, insurance and other types) to understand the availability and usage of financial products and services and gaps in serving women entrepreneurs.
- Identify market entry points for financial products to better serve women-led micro and small enterprises (W-MSEs).
- Well aware of Women Centered Design methodology and can facilitate the workshops with FSPs.
- Collaborate with leading and innovative Financial Service Providers (FSPs) and explore partnerships options.
- Collaborate with FSPs to co-design (ideate, prototype and implement) tailored products and services specifically targeted at women entrepreneurs, considering digital solutions.
- Lead meetings and facilitate workshops with FSPs using a women-centered design approach to provide advisory services for FSPs to optimize their portfolio design to effectively serve the W-MSE segment and adapt or develop new financial services and products.
- Work closely with FSPs to monitor and analyze the delivery of new and adapted financial products and services, including their promotion.
- Run experimental trials of product innovations on childcare and green business and document insights and learnings.
- Engage in activities with FSPs and other stakeholders to create an enabling environment for the growth and success of W-MSEs.
- Stay updated with industry trends and best practices to continuously improve digital financial services for W-MSEs, including payment switching and mobile wallets. Communicate this information to a range of technical and non-technical audiences.
- Contribute insights to Strive Women Program team on behavior change campaigns to address barriers such as limited access to childcare, environmental insecurity, climate change, and restrictive formal or informal rules that hinder the autonomy of women leading MSEs.
- Work with communication team to develop a suite of resources, including media and marketing materials, to enable replication of successful models by FSPs, W-MSEs, and other stakeholders.
- Represent the project in key stakeholder events and platforms to enhance the visibility of project performance and evidence.
2 - Reporting and Resource Mobilization: (20% of Time)
- Work in close coordination and provide support to Senior Project Manager in maintaining updates on program implementation, in particular through updated and accurate monthly progress reports as required by CARE.
- Provide support to Senior Project Manager by writing technical reports according to government requirements and requirements of the donor.
- Contribute and provide insights into fundraising efforts related to the scope of economic empowerment.
- Regularly coordinate with partners, visit partner office and program sites on monthly basis (additional visits as essential) and conduct partners’ review meetings on quarterly basis.
3- Other responsibilities as assigned (5% of time)
- Any other tasks or responsibilities based on organizational and programming needs as assigned by the Line Manager.
A) Qualifications (Know How)
Required
5- Other responsibilities as assigned (5% of time)
- Any other tasks or responsibilities based on organizational and programming needs as assigned by the Line Manager.
A) Qualifications (Know How)
Required
- Degree in business management, Banking, Finance, Economics, International Development, or comparable academic qualification; Product development and design thinking training is strongly preferred.
B) Experience/ Technical Skills
- 8 years plus experience working with FSPs, MFBs and MFIs in the digital financial services and products departments.
- Diverse experience of designing solutions for social and financial inclusion for the underserved and unbanked segments of populations, especially women. Key areas include product development, innovation, experimentation, market-based research and policy recommendations.
- Passionate about entrepreneurship and market-based solutions to financial inclusion and entrepreneurship.
- Demonstrated experience championing gender equality.
- Understanding of donor financial management and compliance requirements.
- Strong management and communication skills: must be able to provide clear direction and feedback to team; must be able to establish realistic objectives, know how to measure them and set/corrective course as needed.
- Strong research, analysis, and presentation skills.
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
- Pro-active attitude with a proven ability to engage with multiple teams.
CARE participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we hereby request information from the candidate’s previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the candidate left employment. All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.
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