Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund Portfolio Officer Jobs in South Sudan
Key Responsibilities
Contribute to establishing appropriate linkages with the relevant state/ government departments, donors, private sector bodies, potential project partners, and civil society.
Effectively onboard and manage the portfolio of approved investees to ensure delivery of set program objectives and development impact targets as well as Technical Assistance.
Lead in continuous learning and design of initiatives related to seed marketing, market intelligence, and seed business to address seed production and marketing challenges.
Design, execute, and oversee project outcome assessment frameworks to ensure compliance with AECF guidelines and donor requirements. Facilitate the monitoring and evaluation of investee performance, conducting data cleaning, analysis, and reporting.
Ensure investees’ performance are in line with grant agreements through effective relationship management.
Lead the planning and execution of investees’ performance monitoring activities, including data verification exercises to ensure the quality of program results.
Implementation of the financial policies, procedures, and systems guidelines for grant recipients.
Ensure all investee site visits are conducted on a periodic basis, as per the agreed site visit schedule.
Coordinate identification of investees who require technical assistance and arrange to deliver services based on the AECF TA and Learning service delivery framework.
Reviewing periodic narrative and financial reports, as well as disbursement requests from grant recipients.
Ensure legal review and opinion on grants that require the legal department’s review.
Provide periodic reports on the program, information trends, and other relevant information as requested.
Contribute to the development of periodic management and donor reports.
Contribute to proposal development for various potential program areas.
In close collaboration with the Impact and Knowledge team, generate monthly insight products on portfolio impact, contribute to story-telling and dissemination of analytical findings emerging from portfolio companies and ecosystem strengthening activities. Maintain a database of pipeline investees, while analyzing emerging financing opportunities to feed into funding proposals.
Regularly apply learning, emerging innovations, and best practices from project evaluations, field visit reports, and project reports across the program, and from other development organizations and donors to new proposals.
Ensure compliance with internal controls and risk management of the portfolio in accordance with the wider AECF LLC Risk and Compliance Management Framework.
Suitable Candidates
Hold a university degree in Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness, Business Management, Project management, or a related field.
Minimum five (5) years experience in portfolio or investment management, including experience with financial and operational due diligence of early or growth-stage agricultural businesses.
Have experience in private sector development, market systems, sustainable finance, and strengthening of agricultural value chains or economic diversification.
Holds a professional accounting qualification e.g., ACCA, CPA, will be an added advantage.
Have experience working with SMEs, and financial intermediaries working with micro and small businesses.
Experience with gender lens investing, will be a distinct added advantage.
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund Portfolio Officer Jobs in South Sudan
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