Broker Lead – Soil Values – Office of Programs

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Niamey

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ID: 20121524

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Full-Time/Regular

About IFDC

IFDC is a public international organization active in 27 countries in Africa, Asia, and America. IFDC uniquely approaches the global issues of food security and poverty by bridging the gap between research and impact, combining science-based innovations, holistic market systems development, an enabling policy environment, and strategic partnerships to assist farmers and countries to identify and scale sustainable agricultural solutions, including improved nutrient use efficiency. These approaches are needed to boost soil health and crop productivity while reducing the environmental impact of fertilizer use. IFDC translates research into action by using locally driven, environmentally sound, and impact-oriented solutions. With our partners, we seek to close the yield gap, eradicate global hunger, safeguard the soils on which our lives depend, and generate economic resilience for farming households and the countries in which they live.

Responsibilities

Lead Soil Values financial brokering activities, facilitate partners’ access to finance, promote financial inclusion, and conduct investment readiness analyses;

Collaborate with a wide range of partners including but not limited to agri-finance/value-chain specialists, consultants and/or interns to support and guide the Program’s sustainable investments in soil health management practices;

Initiate financial deals, execute transactions, and manage deal portfolios;

Develop and review financial models and conduct financial sensitivity analyses for the investment proposals while matching supply-side and demand-side of finances;

Evaluate investment proposals and risks; identify, measure, and mitigate new transactions risks and make recommendations on deal structuring and pricing;

Identify areas of exposure within the project activities with regard to brokering/inclusion, climate risk – develop mitigating factors, and investments monitoring tools;

Maintain relations by visiting project/client’s businesses, collecting data, and understanding the economies of the business for financial advisory services;

Provide capacity strengthening (training, coaching, and mentoring) to internal and external partners supporting soil health investment activities to boost revenue and enhance operational impact;

Work with the private sector to determine ways the program can facilitate investment in long-term, multi-facetted productivity improvements and implement chosen solutions;

Involve and create financial opportunities for women (e.g., farmer groups, service providers).

Requirements

A degree in agriculture, agribusiness, economics, business administration, finance, banking, or any discipline relevant to Agri-Finance and Investment Banking, a master’s degree is preferred;

At least 6 years of experience in agricultural finance, Agri-banking consulting/advisory of which 3-5 years of relevant experience in the Agri-Credit-Financing department/field for a bank;

Track record in investment plan preparation, Agri-value chains profitability analysis, access to finance brokering and indebt knowledge of Agri- financial products/instruments available in the financial market suitable for smallholder farmers, and Agri-SMEs in sub-Saharan Africa;

Proven capacity to collaborate with teams operating at a distance in a development work (NGO) environment for at least 3 years is a must;

Experience in working with FinTech and supply chain financial digital platforms is desirable;

Proven track record of successfully generating new revenue streams and improving financial results;

Ability to coach, lead, stimulate, and inspire professionals;

Fluency in speaking and writing English and French;

Ability and willingness to travel throughout the West African region.

Reporting and Work Relationships

The Broker Lead is supervised by and reports to the Deputy Program Director - Partnership. The individual will work in close collaboration with project colleagues, other IFDC staff and colleagues from other project consortium members.

Location

This is a national recruitment with a duty station based at one of the IFDC offices in Mali, Niger or Burkina Faso.

Benefits

IFDC's benefits include annual and sick leave, health, and group life insurance coverage, a 13th-month salary, social security, and pension contribution in compliance with local laws and end-of-contract benefits.

Salary Clause

The salary grade for this position is BG 9.

The determination of new employee salaries considers numerous factors. These include the salary range linked to the assigned job grade, the candidate's qualifications in relation to the job's responsibilities and prerequisites, internal fairness, the competitive state of the job market, as well as potential organizational and budgetary considerations.

Diversity Clause

IFDC is committed to fostering a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We believe in the value of bringing together people with a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. All employment decisions at IFDC are made on the basis of ability, performance, and organizational needs, in alignment with our values of fairness, respect, and opportunity for all.

About Project/Program

Soil Values is a 100 million 10-years program funded by The Netherlands Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS) to cover four focus countries i.e., Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Northern Nigeria.

The goal of Soil Values is to sustainably manage soil fertility towards increasing food production and improving resilience of small-scale food producers to climate change and shocks in the Sahel.

Soil Values will cover five intervention areas namely:

Bundling agro-technical and socio-economic interventions into packages adapted to farm conditions.

Optimizing landscape and watershed management through participatory planning for the integrated efficient use of soil, water, and biodiversity.

Brokering financial instruments to provide financial and other incentives for farmers to sustainably manage soil fertility.

Convening parties to collectively develop conducive policies on sustainable soil fertility management practices for stakeholders to co-opt.

Scoping potential solutions worldwide and learning from proven technologies and approaches to arrive at innovative agro-technical and socio-institutional interventions.

Through the above, Soil Values seeks to address soil fertility constraints and to achieve sustainable management of soil health and fertility in a way that contributes to ecologically sustainable improvements in food productivity and to increased resilience of small-scale food producers (arable and/or livestock farmers) in the Sahel.

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