Program Officer - Improving Access to Financial Services Job Opportunity at New York,United States

Post:Program Officer - Improving Access to Financial Services
Organization;Ford Foundation
Location:New York,United States
Opportunity Type: Job
 About the Organization:
Ford Foundation operates mainly by making grants and loans to build knowledge and strengthen organizations and networks through its headquarters in New York and regional offices in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and Russia. It has supported initiatives focused on encouraging financial institutions to provide fairly priced consumer financial products to low-income people, increasing access of poor rural households in developing countries to a range of financial products and business development services, research and policy analysis to develop public policies that encourage people to save, and building knowledge and best practices in the field of development finance.

About the Job:
Ford Foundation is seeking a Program Officer - Improving Access to Financial Services. S/he will be working under the direction of director of financial assets unit, and will be responsible for developing, monitoring, and coordinating grant making activities to increase the access of poor and very poor people in developing countries to affordable and responsible financial and non-financial services and public programs.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

•     Develop grant making and other activities to implement three strategies to achieve the goals of this work:
•         Promote the widespread adoption of the universal standards for social performance management (SPM) and SPM systems that improve the ability of financial institutions in developing countries to serve poor people;
•         Strengthen the capacity of financial institutions to implement the universal standards and SPM systems;
•         Identify, test, and promote new approaches, combining financial and non-financial services, that help very poor households to build assets and to move toward economic security.
•     Solicit, review, and respond to grant proposals and prepare recommendations for foundation's funding;
•     Provide intellectual leadership in the field of financial and public services;
•     Work closely with other program officers throughout the foundation whose work relates to the central mission of the portfolio;
•     Collaborate broadly with scholars and practitioners, government agencies, NGOs, and other donors on issues of common program concern.

Qualifications:

•     Significant experience analyzing, researching or working with financial institutions and a broad spectrum of public and private sector policies and programs, including social protection policies, that create opportunities for poor and low-income people in developing countries to create financial assets;
•     Demonstrated capacity for: policy analysis, developing effective working relationships with public sector agencies and for-profit and non-profit financial institutions, and development of innovative strategies to build financial assets for disadvantaged populations;
•     Excellent analytical, organizational, financial analysis, and oral and written communications skills are essential.

           
Posted: 31 Jul 2013
Closing Date: 13 Sep 2013

How to Apply:

http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m//template.rc/1.11.192263