Community Economic Development (CED) Fellow

Overview: Nuru’s Community Economic Development (CED) Fellow will be using and maintaining information systems to manage performance and operations of a rural microcredit and savings program serving two to three thousand clients in remote, agricultural communities. The fundamental role of the CED Fellow is to ensure that field operations preserve the integrity and efficacy of the program’s microfinance model, including direct management of data, reporting, and CED staff, as well as supervision of the delivery of rural financial services and training. Fellows are expected to have formal analytical and quantitative skills and field experience in microfinance.

Specific Responsibilities: • Effectively manage microfinance operations in order to deliver high quality training and services to community members, while ensuring loan portfolio and all lending activities comply with Nuru CED microfinance model guidelines and performance expectations. • Maintain and develop Nuru’s information systems, including basic bookkeeping, Mifos MIS and reporting suite, and integration of reporting needs for operational and accounting systems. • Ensure the CED Program is operationally and financially sustainable and scalable, including efficient management of program budget. • Achieve pre-determined seasonal goals. • Technical training of the CED Program team, empowering local leaders in the CED Program to continuously take more ownership of the program. • Oversee and further develop financial trainings for individuals, groups, and staff. • Improve implementation of CED interventions to meet the needs of Nuru’s members. • Assess and develop Nuru CED’s mobile banking services. • Implement monitoring tools and processes to evaluate impact of the CED Program. • Refine existing program metrics to improve accuracy in its reflection of the community poverty level and operational effectiveness. • Recruit new members and scale to new communities within the CED Program expansion framework.

Specific Skills and Attributes (in addition to the General Requirements for the Nuru Fellows Program): • Bachelors degree in Business, Finance, or International Development; MBA preferred. • Experience working with management information systems (experience with Mifos MIS strongly preferred). • Formal data management experience, solid quantitative skills, and advanced level experience with Excel. • At least 2 years operational field experience in microfinance organization (rural credit cooperatives or microsavings and microcredit institutions preferred). Masters degree in a related field or 2-3 years relevant experience in data management can be substituted for less microfinance field experience. • Minimum 2 years of project management, preferably in an international setting. • Prior experience living and working in the developing world strongly preferred. • High commitment to organization’s mission and theory of change. • Strong leadership, management and team building experience • Ability to do crisis management and rapid, innovative problem solving • Effective crisis management and rapid, innovative problem solving in uncertain environments.

Application Process: If you are interested in this position, please submit your resume/CV and cover letter to jobs@nuruinternational.org. Please outline how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position, and include how you heard about this opportunity. Please check our Fellows Program Overview at http://www.nuruinternational.org/fellows for more information.

Application Deadline: Please submit your application as soon as possible; we hire on a rolling basis. Deadline for all applications is November 15, 2011.

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