Investment Manager

1 month ago

Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya Mercy Corps Full time

Mercy Corps is a global humanitarian aid agency engaged in transitional environments that have experienced some sort of shock: natural disaster, economic collapse, or conflict.

About Job


Mercy Corps is currently seeking an Investment Manager for Regional Livestock Program (RLP) who will lead the management of Enterprise Investment, a matching grant facility that will support enterprises to address underlying key constraints, facilities access to finance to support the private engagement and promote investment.

The Investment Manager is responsible for the overall leadership and management co-investment interventions including developing privates sector engagement mechanisms/procedures and best practices for the promotions of investments in the livestock industry in the RLP targeted areas.

The Investment Manager will lead establishment of processes and implementation of the intervention as per investment Fund manual.

They are responsible to coordinate with the project team in designing call for proposals/Application, selection of the most viable investment ideas and its execution; and introduce innovative ideas and approaches to enhance financial inclusion for livestock related business.

Working closely with the Mercy Corps RLP program implementing country finance team and RLP program contracts and compliance Manager and other teams, the Investment manager will be responsible to ensure the co-investment interventions are following RLP Donor's regulations.

They will monitor performance and provide timely reports to ensure that financial resources are used effectively and efficiently.

The investment Manager will be guided by the principles of transparent and competitive allocation of funds, strict management guidelines, and support for public, private or community actors and organizations of all sizes.

S/He will coordinate closely with the Monitoring and Results Measurement Manager, contracts and Compliance Senior Manager, Country program managers, Sr.

Women Economic Empowerment Advisors and other RLP team in intervention designing, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning systems to demonstrate impact, while sharing learning across our team and partners.

Essential Job Responsibilities

Take the overall technical lead on management of the co-investment fund and private sector interventions to meet the intended project goal and catalyze investment in target areas.

Lead the design and development of process and guidelines for successful management of investment funds based on Mercy Corps global best practices and in compliance with RLP donor's regulations.

Understand the key elements of a successful investment and develop tactical and strategic plans to enhance the investment in the livestock industries in the program targeted area.

Ensure that the Investment fund supports activities across the key sectors that the project is targeting and does not crowd out financial markets and actors, rather helps them to flourish.

Specific Job Functions

Work closely with the project team to conduct research and assessment to identify potential private sector, public and community managed entities for partnership.

Organize and conduct multi-stakeholder platforms to disseminate Regional Livestock Program (RLP) Investment Fund opportunities to potential partners to stimulate changes.

Develop tracking systems to ensure all documentation is appropriately disseminated and managed.
Lead the process of the private sector engagement including leading carrying out of due diligence on companies/ business.

Liaison with the project and finance team to provide support on strengthening partner skills in financial management, program reporting and other administration process.

Ensure all components of the Investment fund are compliant with RLP donors and MC regulations.
Responsible for all administrative issues related to the investment fund including monitoring, tracking financial and program reports.

Propose strategies for building resilience and improving market system performance, including making business strategies more inclusive and beneficial to enterprise productivity through investment fund.

Support development of learning platform related to innovation and investment to be utilized throughout the life of program.

Security

Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.
Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.

Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders

Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work.

We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring, and evaluation of our field projects.


Supervisory Responsibility:
No direct reports but financially oversee private sector engagement officers.
Accountability

Reports Directly To:
Deputy Director/technical lead- Regional Livestock Program

Works Directly With:
Regional Livestock Program Managers (Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia),
Monitoring & Results Measurement Manager,
Reginal Livestock Program Contracts & Compliance Senior Manager,
Regional Livestock Program Women Economic Empowerment Advisor
Regional Livestock Program Senior Officers/specialists,
Mercy Corps Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia country offices grant and compliance coordinators/managers.
Mercy Corps Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia Financial Inclusion team members

Knowledge And Experience

Masters' degree or equivalent in Finance, Economics, or Business Administration, or Bachelors' degree with significant additional experience.
Minimum 7 years of experience in enterprise development; investment management; and working in partnership with private sector actors.

Good understanding on Markets Systems Development (Making Markets Work for the poor-M4P) approach and facilitation including coaching/mentorship, relationship building, communicating, open and willing to work on new initiatives.

Good understanding of private sector engagement and investment process is essential.
Demonstrated experience in the financial sector and in financial inclusion for the private sectors.
Proven skills in strategic planning, assessment, and business developments

Demonstrated experience and ability to represent the organization and negotiate with a diverse range of market actors professionally and appropriately.

Demonstrated understanding of complex developmental and transitional contexts, particularly in a resilience context, preferred.
Excellent verbal and written communication.

Demonstrated attention to detail and ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines and work both independently and cooperatively with team members.

Experience of working on different donor funded programs preferred.
Fluency in spoken and written English required.

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