Duty Station: PCO, Surkhet with frequent visits to programme districts

General Scope of the position:

• The Rural Finance (RF) Expert is particularly responsible for the sub-component 1.3: Rural Financial Services for value chain development strengthening.
• The scope of works includes product innovation for value chain financing and loan risk management, capacity development of co-operatives, improving insurance uptake and facilitate credit access to the Programme beneficiaries. 
• The RF Expert needs to work closely with the formal financial institutions at the federal, state and municipal level as well as with the informal financial institutions from the Programme area particularly focusing on the linking the production groups and co-operatives with the formal financial institutions and insurance companies.
• The RF Expert works closely with all the Programme staff, service providers and related institutions in delivering the sub component activities as per the programme objectives.

Academic Qualifications and Work Experiences:

• Masters’ degree in economics, or business administration, or finance, or equivalent with professional working experience in banking/financing sectors for 5 years out of which at least 3 years in Agri banking and small farmer / Agri business credit;
• Good knowledge of the different national banking and financial institutions, insurance companies, concerned with agriculture finance and insurance;
• Experiences that demonstrate high quality attributes on leadership, facilitations and coaching and innovativeness;
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team and facilitate the working of other team members;
• Excellent communications skills - spoken and written, both in English and Nepali and possess good report writing skills;
• Good inter-personal skills and capacity to work effectively with a range of institutions.
• Creative and pragmatic approach to problem solving; well-organised and well oriented to details.

Age limit: The upper age limit for all the positions at the last date of submission of application will be 55 years (the applicant needs to submit a copy of certificate which certifies the date of birth)

Contract: For all positions there will be initial contract for one year with a probation period of six months. The annual contract will be extendable up to the programme period based on satisfactory performance in the preceding contract.

Salary and benefits will be as per the approved guidelines of the ASDP.

Preferences will be given to women candidate, candidate from disadvantaged groups (Dalit, Janjati/Indigenous, Madheshi, Muslim), candidates from backward/ASDP districts.         

Detail ToR (including salary and benefits) can be downloaded from ASDP website www.asdp.gov.np or www.kantipurjob.com. The applicants need to submit Cover Letter with a preferred duty station as mentioned above, Curriculum Vitae (CV) and self-attested copies of required testimonials (all Academic Certificate, Experience Letter, Copy of Citizenship, Training Certificates) compulsorily that verify the CVs. The application should be submitted within 15 days of the first date of publication of the Notice, by 16^th December, 2019 (2076/08/30) 04:00 PM by mentioning the applied job position in the subject line to the Email: asdp@kantipurjob.com or by post to the address mentioned below.

Kantipur Management Pvt. Ltd.

Panchayan Marga, Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal

Phone: +9771451572, 4251599

PO. Box No: 1672

Email: asdp@kantipurjob.com