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FrançaisThe Centenary Bank is a Commercial Bank in Uganda with an asset base of US$377 million. Centenary Bank provides financing to all sectors of the economy, but focuses on the micro- and small-scale enterprises.
It has an active portfolio of US$35 million that has been lent to the agricultural sector.
Centenary Bank is undertaking an agriculture finance capacity-building initiative in partnership with the World Bank under the Agriculture Finance Support Facility (AgriFin), supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As part of this initiative, Centenary Bank requests to serve as Technical Adviser on Agriculture Finance.
The consulting services ("the Services") include:
Undertaking a strategic and operational review of Centenary Bank's agriculture finance business;
Developing a draft operational manual for the business aligned with the bank's credit manual, but incorporating the unique features and needs of the agriculture finance business;
Developing a capacity-building framework for agriculture finance;
Delivering one set of training events for key stakeholder groups. The services are expected to be provided in three phases
Qualifications:
At least ten (10) years' experience in managing and/or providing technical assistance/capacity building to financial institutions providing financing for agriculture;
Skills in the development of agriculture finance product, targeting smallholder agricultural producers
Work experience in similar assignments in undertaking strategic business reviews, including diagnosis and re-engineering of agriculture finance technologies, procedures, and processes
Work experience in similar assignments in capacity building in agriculture finance
Work experience in a developing country, preferably in Sub-Saharan Africa, which is an added advantage.
Start / Duration:
open
If you are interested to cooperate with AFC Consultants, please send your most recent CV to
Barbara.Braun [at] afci.de
Thank you!