FSD Kenya (Financial Sector
Deepening)
Digital Financial Inclusion Technical Advisers
Call for Proposals
While Kenya has made impressive
strides in broadening the outreach of financial services, the cost of
transactions and access to finance still represent major constraints to
deepening financial inclusion and increasing the impacts of financial services
on poverty.
With the overall goal being to stimulate the development of digital finance in Kenya as a means to deepen and expand financial inclusion, FSD realises that success can only be achieved through appropriate specialist advice and technical expertise.
The aim is to stimulate the practical
development of business cases and solutions that accelerate financial inclusion
and uptake as well as establish and apply the knowledge base to underpin
realisable solutions to improving the financial capabilities of low-income
people.
FSD is therefore seeking to assemble
a team of specialist advisors as part of its execution team.
They will form a ‘virtual’ part of
the FSD team, joining FSD’s in-house country based specialists, broadening and
deepening strategic and technical capacity to work across a range of digital
financial projects on a demand-driven basis.
Proposals are sought from qualified experts in the following general areas:
- Financial solution design and development:-
Human centred design; Financial solution/product development.
- Business case research, analysis and
modelling:- Business modelling; Data analytics; Quantitative research;
Social network analysis; Data visualisation, databasing and dashboards.
- New approaches to microcredit:- Credit scoring
and analysis; Cognitive computing; Cash-flow based lending; Behavioural
analysis; Credit risk management.
- Insurance:- ƒ ƒStrategy; Financial
solution/product development; Actuarial analysis, costing and pricing;
Channel design.
How to Apply
Click here to download detailed
Terms of Reference and application criteria
Applications should thereafter be
submitted to tenders@fsdkenya.org.
Please put “Digital financial
inclusion: Techncial advisers” in the subject line.
Closing date: 4
pm Friday 3rd October, 2014.
Poverty Impact Virtual Team Consultant
Specialists
Call for Proposals
Despite the progress made in building
financial inclusion in Kenya in the last decade, 25% of the adult population
still remains totally financially excluded. This excluded population falls
largely within the poorer segments of the population.
Unlocking access by this lower
segment of the market is key to achievement of FSD’s financial inclusion goal
and is specifically targeted by a number of interventions. These initiatives
are managed under FSD’s direct poverty impact theme.
On-going work
encompasses client focused initiatives, especially looking at the needs of
households engaged in smallholder agriculture finance and community based forms
of finance encompassing, savings groups, financial services associations and
savings and credit co-operative societies (SACCOs).
While FSD maintains a core full-time
project management team, our approach is to supplement this technical capacity
through the use of technical specialists.
For this we are seeking to assemble a
small team of specialists to support us in the formulation, execution and
monitoring of financial inclusion initiatives with direct impact on the poor
and vulnerable.
The consultant specialists will form
a ‘virtual’ part of FSD’s poverty impact team which will encompass its core
full-time staff and a small number of specialist technical advisers.
Those selected will be pre-qualified
to undertake specific assignments as they arise in the course of FSD’s work.
Support is sought in the following areas of FSD’s work:
- SACCO reformsƒ ƒ
- Savings groupsƒ ƒ
- Financial graduationƒ ƒ
- Agricultural finance
Proposals are sought from qualified
consultants.
How to Apply
How to Apply
Click here to download detailed
Terms of Reference and application criteria
Applications should thereafter be
submitted to tenders@fsdkenya.org.
Please put “Poverty impact: technical
advisers” in the subject line.
Closing date: 4
pm Monday 6th October, 2014.
Retail Innovations Initiative
Investment Specialist, New Ventures
Investment Specialist, New Ventures
Following successes from innovations
such as M-PESA and M-Shwari, East Africa is considered a potential hub for
financial inclusion innovation.
A number of new gathering spots and
incubator / accelerator programs have sprung up, adding to the energy but not yet
demonstrably adding to success stories.
Despite a large
volume of ideas, these have rarely promised breakthrough success and teams
rarely have the mix of skills and experience necessary to prove the ideas and
take them to scale.
It is for this reason that FSD Kenya
and its ecosystem partner, Accion Venture Lab, have been in discussions about
where start-ups can fit and succeed in the financial services landscape and how
the two can support such innovation.
Ultimately, we believe that promising
early-stage start-ups are in need of support that extends beyond financial
investment to mentorship, business model advice, access to potential
partnerships among others.
We are now seeking to recruit an
investment specialist who shares our passion for innovation in the financial
inclusion space.
You will serve as a direct
communication link between FSD Kenya and Accion Venture Lab to formalise this
partnership.
You will work with Venture Lab to
engage ecosystem players to source financial inclusion related start-ups
including support on analyses, due diligence and deal execution
processes.
You will in addition spearhead FSD
Kenya’s direct engagement with the start-ups once they are selected.
You will be responsible for
delivering a demanding set of outputs and will therefore need to be self-driven
and able to deliver a range of tasks simultaneously.
At a minimum you will have:
- A first degree in a relevant field (masters
preferably)
- Practical hands-on experience in business
innovations
- First class business analysis skills
- Experience working in or with start-ups or
growth-stage enterprises in emerging markets
- Outstanding relationship management skills
- ƒAdvanced computer/web skills
- Excellent spoken and written English
Proposals are sought from qualified consultants.
How to Apply
Click here to download detailed
Terms of Reference and application criteria
Applications should thereafter be submitted
to info@fsdkenya.org.
Please put “Investment Specialist” in
the subject line.
Closing date: 4 pm Friday 10th October, 2014.
FSD Kenya operates as an independent Trust registered in Kenya under the supervision of professional trustees, with policy guidance from its programme investment committee. Finance is provided by a number of leading development agencies including the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation together with the Government of Kenya. Further information can be obtained from our website: www.fsdkenya.org
FSD Kenya operates as an independent Trust registered in Kenya under the supervision of professional trustees, with policy guidance from its programme investment committee. Finance is provided by a number of leading development agencies including the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation together with the Government of Kenya. Further information can be obtained from our website: www.fsdkenya.org