Role: Assistant Manager/Manager: Access to Credit, Lucknow
Experience: 5+ years
Salary: 8L onwards
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Organisation Overview
Samhita-CGF is an impact catalyst - we are pioneers and innovators in the social space, and are passionate about bringing together stakeholders from the private, public, philanthropy, social, and financial sectors, and collaborating to bring about unprecedented catalytic change. In alignment with UNSGDs, we are on a mission to positively impact 10 million lives by 2030, 50% of which will be women, by co-creating measurable, scalable and sustainable solutions that are CSR and FCRA compliant.
Over the past 14 years since our establishment, we have already impacted over 16 million lives, while partnering with 350+ social organizations, 250+ corporate and individual donors, and 30+ government foundations and international aid agencies. We aim to drive holistic social development for our participants by ensuring they are given access to multiple interventions ranging from livelihoods, skilling, social protection, digital empowerment, and financial inclusion.
Role Overview:
- The incumbent is expected to manage all strategic relationships and partners pertaining to access to credit through financial products.
- S/he is expected to build capacity of partners after identifying the right ones from the current pool of partners, based on ground intel and data, to achieve scale.
- S/he is expected to manage all aspects of the partner engagement including but not limited to partner onboarding, documentation, compliance checks, disbursement of funds (and collection where applicable), collection of data in a timely manner following due process, quality checks as and when needed etc. Infrequent field visits may be required.
- Perform other related duties as required.
- Work with Govt stakeholders such as State Urban livelihoods mission, Urban Local bodies and other govt agencies in Livelihoods space.
Responsibilities:
- Manage all partner relationships pertaining to access to credit through financial products
- Track each NGO/execution partner to ensure compliance and efficiency of operations
- Manage relationships with lending partners
- Spearhead disbursement and collection of returnable grants
- Build and maintain a structured process and objective check-list for partner onboarding and ongoing operations
- Manage partner costs and ensure adherence to Samhita's bottom line and margins
- Liaise with internal stakeholders across functional areas for smooth project operations
- Maintain a positive, constructive, and co-creative relationship with stakeholders and partners as well as contributing to growing such network.
- Recommending and Implementing process for improvements to programs.
- Identifying the key financial and non-financial risks, recommending actions for mitigation of those risks.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in the program management/Operations roles, should have handled large scale mandates.
- Experience of working with financial services products, especially credit products for the micro and nano enterprises segment.
- Post-Graduation degree in Business Management, Marketing or related field from a reputed college
- Strong hold on data, number crunching and data analysis is mandatory
- Ability to multitask and work with multiple stakeholders and diverse set of requirements
- Proven track record of building programs from scratch and executing and scaling it will be an added advantage.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- A flexible work style, someone that can work easily with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.
Why Samhita
- Make a big difference: Take, own and implement.
- Leadership: This is the perfect opportunity to go beyond traditional roles and lead cutting-edge management and research strategies. The candidate shall work alongside the brightest minds, in an environment that fosters growth and creativity
- Impact: Working with Samhita will provide you with an opportunity to bring about a positive change in the lives of millions - doing well by doing well
- Work Culture: Samhita has a team of young, hard-working, and dynamic individuals who strive for excellence while maintaining a humble outlook.
- Our work has been strengthened and supported by international and domestic donor agencies and foundations such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, Omidyar Network, Walmart Foundation, Microsoft India, Google India, Adidas India, Tata Motor Finance and many more.
- Learning: Increase your problem-solving capabilities by delving into complex challenges.
Hiring Note: Applications will be reviewed on rolling basis. This job is first posted on Oct 28, 2024 on GroundZeroJobs.com
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