Duty station: Hub/Corridor Offices (Salyan, Jajarkot and Jumla) and frequent field visit within the programme command area

General scope of the position:

• Rural Finance Officer is particularly responsible for implementation of sub-component 3: Rural Financial Services for value chain development strengthening within the Hub/Corridor.
• S/he is responsible for facilitating and uptake of financial products under value chain financing and loan risk management, capacity development of co-operatives, improving insurance uptake and facilitate credit access to the Programme beneficiaries. 
• S/he will work closely with the formal financial institutions at hub/corridor 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-operative with the formal financial institutions and insurance companies.

Qualification, Experience and Competencies:

• Masters’ degree in economics, business administration, finance, or equivalent with professional working experience of at least 3 years in banking in particular agri-banking/ micro finance and small farmer / Agri-business credit;
• Good working 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 the link below.

The applicant needs to submit cover letter, C.V. and self-attested copies of required testimonials compulsorily that verify the CVs. The application should be submitted within 15 days of the first date of publication of the notice i.e. 24^th March, 2019 (2075-12-10) 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