Job Description
The Business
Development Officer will be responsible for
recruiting, registering, and supporting small businesses to capture their daily
business transactions consistently, evaluate their business performance through
a Mobile App and provide the onboard to MIS for access to credit. The
Business Development Officers will work with MSMEs in a specific project
cluster within Kenya.
What You Will Do
- Facilitating the recruitment processes including collecting
baseline data of the MSMEs on the TENAKATA mobile app.
- Conducting mentoring to the MSMEs to ensure they receive
relevant and adequate advisory services to meet their business development
targets.
- Supporting your portfolio of MSMEs with various aspects of
access to finance including application processes and managing of funds
received for purposes of scaling their businesses.
- Contributing in conducting loan appraisals and monitoring
disbursed loans to ensure they are used for the intended purposes and
repayments are made on time.
- Perform other duties as directed by the branch manager.
- Know-Your-Customer and Due Diligence: As the first point of
contact of the business with the customer, conduct proper due diligence
and KYC to ensure that the customer is a viable customer in accordance
with laid down procedures.
- Relationship management: Work with partnered Collections
Officers to serve customers by a relationship management approach, gather
Intel and create and maintain relationships with market authorities.
- Repayment: In charge of pair%u2019s repayment rate through
consistent follow-up, maintaining accurate interactions on company
systems, negotiation of repayment schedules, and setting discretionary
limits on loan amounts. The Collection Officer uses %u2018soft%u2019
(non-intrusive) collection methods to get repayments from the customer.
- Performing such other tasks and duties as the Company may from
time to time designate as forming part of the Employee%u2019s job
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Qualifications
- University graduate degree /Diploma in Business
Administration, Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Project Management or
equivalent.
- A minimum of two (1) years% experience in the MSME field.
Hands on experience or knowledge in MSME businesses, including within
informal settings and micro enterprises development will be an added
advantage.
- Additional training or on-job training on financial management
and literacy in the MSME sector will be an added advantage.
- prior exprience in sales is an added advantage
How to Apply
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