Swisscontact
promotes economic, social and ecological development by supporting
people to successfully integrate into local commercial life.
Swisscontact creates opportunities for people to improve their living
conditions as a result of their own efforts. The focus of its systemic
intervention in the private sector is the strengthening of local and
global value chains. Through
its projects, Swisscontact works to enable access to professional
training, promotes local entrepreneurship, creates access to local
financial service providers and supports the efficient use of resources
with the goal of successfully promoting employment and
income generation.
Swisscontact is active in 29 countries and has some 750 employees. The organization is based in Zurich.
The
SCPP project is a large Public Private Partnership (“PPP”) in Indonesia
which was established in January 2012. The Project is financed by the
Swiss Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO, The Sustainable Trade
Initiative IDH, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and five
Private Sector Companies from the cocoa sector for the duration from
2012 – 2015. The Program works directly with 60,000 cocoa farming
households in six Indonesian Provinces to improve farm productivity and
livelihood conditions. The AFF component links those farmers with
financial institutions and value chain financiers.
For our Sustainable Cocoa Production Program (SCPP)
in Indonesia, we are looking for a:
Senior Manager Agribusiness Financing Facility
(AFF)
Tasks:
- Sr. Manager – AFF is responsible for the implementation for all aspects of the Agribusiness-Financing Facility (AFF) in all SCPP regions under the direction of Team Leader AFF;
- Responsible for managing training for farmers and staff of farmer organizations, financial institutions, Business Service Providers and the SCPP program, mainly on Financial literacy and financial management, product development and loan analysis;
- Manage Program Officer AFF and a small team of field staffs;
- Responsible for surveys, assessments and evaluations as needed;
- Develop training program for Field Facilitator/Field Coordinator for the AFF implementation in collaboration with Sr. Program Manager;
- Provide technical assistance to Program Officers AFF in assisting farmers and farmer organizations for improved access to finance;
- Work with financial service providers to provide sector specific financial products for the cocoa sector
- Work with Business Service Providers to provide sector specific services for the cocoa sector;
- Establish linkages to, approaches and coordinate with financial institutions /value chain financiers to provide relevant and feasible product/credit scheme for farmers/farmer groups;
- Liaise with other stakeholders as needed;
- Collect information and provide feedback for improving the results of our work, especially for our target group;
Knowledge/ skills
- Master Degree in Agriculture, Economics, Accounting, Micro Finance or similar;
- Experience in setting up cooperatives, developing SOP and delivering trainings to various stakeholders
- Strong analytically, organizational, planning and management skills;
- Demonstrated ability to deliver high quality outputs on time;
- Good interpersonal skills and commitment to working in a team.
Communication/Supervision, and Reporting
- Provide weekly/monthly activity plan and work related reports to the Team Leader AFF;
- Working in close cooperation and coordination with Financial Institutions, farmer organisations, government agencies and private sector partners.
Requirements
- Minimum three years of previous experiences in a Agri-Finance Project and managing staffs
Swisscontact-SCPP,
Human Resources Unit, The Vida Building, 5th floor, Jl. Raya Perjuangan
No. 8, Kebon Jeruk – Jakarta Barat 11530 , Telp. +62 21 2951 0200
E-mail:
hrd@scpp.swisscontact.or.id
