Senior Associate, Nutritious Foods Financing at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

About the Role

The post holder will play a key role in identifying technical assessment needs of SME's, as well as being responsible for designing technical assistance support packages tailored to the individual SME's.

To be successful in this role the post holder will play a key role in the scaling up process in order to consolidate the chances of the project making a real impact and it's ability to grow and succeed.

The Senior Associate will work closely with the Programme Lead, other project colleagues and the other GAIN Country Offices.

Key Responsibilities Include:

•  Identify technical assessment needs of SMEs operating in the food value chain that are potential pipeline for the N3F Fund, working together with the investment officers at our partner asset manager Incofin Investment Management.
•  Design technical assistance support packages tailored to individual SMEs and group training according to common needs in the portfolio.
•  Perform matchmaking between TA requirements and service providers, manage engagements between GAIN, service providers, and our beneficiaries.
•  Oversee the implementation of project workplans and ensure that all assignments deliver maximum value for money.
•  Fine-tune documented procedures, monitoring mechanisms, and feedback forms for the provision of TA to SMEs.
•  Identify and perform due diligence on a roster of qualified service providers in N3F's scoping countries.
•  Manage the roster of GAIN's internal TA capabilities and service providers.

About You

• Candidates for the position will possess demonstrable professional experience and technical understanding at senior associate level, preferably related to impact investment and/or development finance, business development, due diligence, food supply chains and SMEs.
• You will have the ability to operate within the private and public sectors to effectively liaise diverse stakeholders and multi-cultural settings.
• Candidates for this role should also possess excellent coordination, communication, research, writing skills with a strong analytical ability.
• The ability to build key relationships will be of paramount importance in this role, as well as the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and written.
• The post holder will need to have excellent leadership skills as there will be the added responsibility of managing a small team of technical experts.