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Senior Specialist – Blended Finance Job Reference: SS/IMTF/04/2025
Senior Specialist – Blended Finance supports
governments and public institutions, including development banks, to play their
role of leadership in creating an enabling environment that motivates potential
funders (like DFIs/IFIs and financial services providers) to enter the food
systems/agricultural sector, which is perceived as risky with low returns. This
role influences governments and public institutions to make the agricultural
finance sector more attractive for financial sector players through effective
design and deployment of public sector instruments like input subsidy,
guarantee schemes, and other de-risking tools and policies.
The ideal candidate
will forge partnerships between Governments, public institutions, and financial
sector players in the development, funding, and deployment of blended finance
instruments that address the risks and gaps in financing the agricultural sector.
S/He will support the development of models and instruments that enable the
financial ecosystem to effectively fund the agricultural sector. The role
holder will actively co-develop innovative risk mitigating instruments
(including insurance) that unlock financing for Agribusinesses and farmers and
promote, where necessary, the use of digital channels for financial services
delivery to reduce risk and costs of financing the agricultural sector.
Head – Inclusive Finance Job Reference: IF/IMTF/04/2025
AGRA’s approach is to build an inclusive
agricultural finance system based on partnerships and opportunities that will
reduce the cost and risk of agricultural finance. The strategy focuses on three
critical integrated components that can make the agricultural finance system
work inclusively for food crops. These are: availability of concessional,
blended capital, capable providers of financial services, and finance-able SMEs
and farmers.
Head – Inclusive
Finance will be responsible for designing and implementing a strategy to
improve the availability of affordable financial services (credit, investment
capital, savings, insurance, etc.) to the actors across the agricultural value
chains, including smallholder farmers. The person should be committed to
delivering, be agile and responsive to different stakeholders and
opportunities. S/he should be entrepreneurial and open to innovative ideas and
able to draw and build on consultative input from other AGRA stakeholders where
needed.
Associate Program Officer – Post-Harvest Management and Delivery RE-GAIN Job Reference: APO/PHM/KE/04/2025
The Associate Program Officer – Postharvest
Management and Delivery will guide the implementation of extension services
interventions, training, and capacity building, and support farmers on the use
of climate-resilient Food Loss – Reduction Solutions (FL-RS) interventions of
the RE-GAIN program in Kenya. The Associate program officer will further ensure
the coordination of multiple actors in the harvest and postharvest management
phases of value chains.
The ideal candidate
will be responsible for leading the implementation of postharvest management
interventions under the RE-GAIN program in Kenya. The role will focus on
creating demand for post-harvest solutions by smallholder farmers, creating
local capacity for adoption and marketing of food loss reduction solutions that
would enable reducing food losses, improving food quality, and enhancing
climate resilience among smallholder farmers by promoting the adoption of Food
Loss-Reduction Solutions (FL-RS). The Program Officer will work closely with
in-country partners, farmer organizations, extension service providers,
government agencies, and the private sector to ensure effective and sustainable
implementation of postharvest technology.