Chief Executive Officer  Loans Officer  Develops markets for the Trust Funds and manages the operational tasks of the Trust, ensuring that the lending institutions adhere to the goals and overall objectives of the Funds and reports on the impact of the Funds in line with the objectives of the Trust 1. Identifies or proposes potential business deals by contacting potential partners; discovering and exploring opportunities.
2. Works directly with partner financial institutions and agribusinesses to promote the expansion of credit opportunities to support smallholder farmers.
3. Develops, grows and administers a sustainable revolving fund channeled towards providing direct and indirect support in the small holder farmer value chain.
4. Promotes the growth and preservation of the Trust funds by ensuring that all borrowed funds are repaid.
5. Reviews and processes fund requests from partner financial institutions.
6. Screens and recommends potential business deals by analyzing market strategies, deal requirements, potential, and financials; evaluating options; resolving internal priorities.
7. Develops negotiating strategies and positions by studying integration of new ventures with the Trust strategies and operations; examining risks and potentials; estimating partners' needs and goals.
8. Ensures fund quality and organizational stability through development and implementation of standards and controls, systems, procedures, and regular evaluation.
9. Establishes and maintains a fully functional tracking and reporting system to manage the day-to-day operations of the fund.
10. Works with partner financial institutions in creating awareness on the Trust Funds to value chain actors such as contracting companies, processors, traders, transporters, agro-dealers, distributors and service providers.
11. Develops a marketing strategy for the Trust funds.
12. Carries out due diligence on and maintains regular contact with clients of banks to ensure that the funds are used in compliance with objectives of the Trust funds;
13. Monitors the  use of borrowed funds by the clients of Financial institutions through regular visits to client premises; 
14. Recommends training courses on general business management skills to beneficiaries of the fund;
15. Liaises with Financial institutions to identify training needs of current and potential borrowers of the Funds;
16. Develops criteria for risk assessment and applies this to minimise risks to the Fund;
17. Receives and assesses periodic reports from the Financial Institutions in line with reporting criteria;
18. Compiles periodic reports about the state of the Fund.
19. Performs any other duties assigned by superiors. 
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  Client and project partner visits;
 Review of proposals submitted by financial institutions;
 Develops and review of proposals to donors/ partners;
 Report preperation and submission
   BSc Degree in Agriculture/ Agricultural Economics  A Master�s in Development Studies, Business Administration or equivalent is an added advantage 5 years  Must be have experience in credit management and financial analysis;
 Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and must be proficient in both oral and written English. Good command of English for report writing is critical;
 Must have a thorough understanding of market trends and related dynamics and be able to advice management accordingly;
 Must be able to formulate and implement viable business and market development strategies;
 Must have proven experience in carrying out negotiations at high levels, facilitating such meetings and preparing concise reports;
 Ability to analyse and deal with complex business and market development issues is needed;
 Must have proven budget formulation and budget control skills;
 Must have a proven track record and competence in project proposal formulation, management and implementation at a senior level;
 Must be an innovative and business oriented person with a thorough grounding in business management and dynamics;
 Must have proven team leadership skills;
 Must be highly organised and able to lead different work team simultaneously;
 Must be able to coach and mentor employees;
 Experience in business improvement or process implementation is required;
 Knowledge of HR and employee relations is a must;
 Conflict handling and negotiation skills are a must;
 Must be computer literate and must be familiar with the Microsoft Office Suite of Packages and should be able to effectively use databases
  Decides on how best to structure and implement the business and market development strategy;
 Decides on how best to manage client risk (makes proposals on the same to the CEO and Board);
 Screens and recommends potential business deals by analyzing market strategies;
 Ensures fund quality and organizational stability through development and implementation of standards and controls, systems, procedures, and regular evaluation;
  Ensuring sustainable business growth and market development for the Trust.
 Reviewing, processing of fund requests from partner financial institutions and monitoring of funded projects to ensure compliance with fund(s) objectives.
 Promoting and monitoring portfolio growth and preservation in line with laid down operational policies and procedures.
 Establishing sustainable relationship management with borrower financial institutional institutions and beneficiary agricultural value chain actors to ensure repeat business and that all borrowed funds are repaid


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