Chief Executive Officer, VisionFund Senegal

VisionFund is World Vision’s microfinance provider serving vulnerable clients through loans, savings, and insurance. We enable families to grow their livelihoods in hard to reach, rural locations in 28 countries so that caregivers can create secure futures for their children.

We believe in brighter futures for children; empowering families to create incomes and jobs; unlocking economic potential for communities to thrive.

Join VisionFund as we seek to end intergenerational poverty through microfinance.

Here’s where you come in:

As the Chief Executive Officer, you will strategically lead VisionFund Senegal’s Microfinance Institution (MFU), building an organisation that honours Christian values positively to impact the lives of many families and children through the delivery of appropriate financial services and training with a focus on the rural areas of Senegal. Primarily, your role will be to create a self-sustaining business with strong foundations (people, process, systems) that is capable of growing while managing risks; and manage an effective and efficient operation, delivering to challenging financial and social performance targets. You will work closely with World Vision to develop integrated livelihoods programs and obtain funding from the partnership and donors and deal with regulatory issues to lead the organisation through the process of conversion into regulate deposit-taking MFI.

Requirements include:

• Minimum Master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Accounting, Management or some other related field
• Must have at least 10 years of working experience in senior management in a combination of the following: micro-enterprise lending organisation, banking institution, a progressive corporate environment, international business, agricultural economics/development, or economic and business development institution
• Must have a clear understanding of micro-finance industry and technology
• Must have working experience in regulatory environment and better with institution that intermediate savings
• Bilingual- Fluent in French and working knowledge of English
• Typical office based and frequent travel to fields (40% traveling and 60% office based) where domestic travel is 90% and international is 10%

How to apply

Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position and apply onlineby the closing date of 15 JULY 2024.

VisionFund is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.

For more information on World Vision International and VisionFund International, please visit our website: www.visionfund.org. Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.