Manager Risk Job Opportunity – Microfinance Support Centre Limited (MSC)

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Job Title:   Manager Risk
Organisation: Microfinance Support Centre Limited (MSC)
Duty Station:  MSC Head
Office, Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Chief Internal Auditor
About MSC:
The
Microfinance Support Centre Limited (MSC) is a linchpin of Government of Uganda
(GOU)
micro credit programmes under the Rural Financial Services Strategy. MSC
facilitates access to affordable, sustainable and convenient financial and
Business Development services to active and productive Ugandans. MSC Ltd
supports legally established entities engaged in the value chain namely;
production, value addition and marketing enterprises. MSC offers affordable
credit through its network of 13 regional offices spread throughout the
country. It has so far served clients in 110 districts in Uganda. It gives
priority financing to support the agricultural production value chain namely;
production, value addition and marketing. 
Besides credit, MSC provides capacity building to its clients including
SACCOs, Cooperative Unions, MFIs and SMEs to enable them manage their
organizations sustainably.
Job Summary: The Manager Risk will provide support MSC to effectively
manage the risk profile by developing and implementing risk management
frameworks based on recognized international risk management methodologies
which are aligned to MSC’s corporate goals and objectives and promoting a
culture of risk awareness and control to ensure sustainable growth of MSC.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
  • Define MSC’s risk profile and put in place
    frameworks (policies, procedures and systems) for identification,
    assessment, measurement, quantification, mitigation and reporting risk
    exposures to management and the Board.
  • Develop an integrated risk management plan in
    line with MSC’s strategic plan on an annual basis.
  • Assess risk exposure associated with
    credit/loan disbursement and recommend risk mitigation measures to
    management and Board.
  • Carry out a review of MSC’s operating environment
    and its corporate strategy to identify significant exposures and advise
    management and the Board.
  • Actively promote a culture of risk awareness
    and control across MSC through sensitization and training of staff.
  • Develop, test and maintain a MSC wide
    business continuity plan.
  • Provide leadership, management and
    development of the staff.
Key Result Areas: 
  • Planning and designing of the organization
    wide risk management strategy.
  • Coordinate the implementation of the risk
    management process/plan for the organization.
  • Company risk training, evaluation and
    reporting.
  • Management, performance and development of
    staff in the unit.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The applicant should preferably hold a Degree
    (Honours) in a quantitative discipline e.g. Accounting, Commerce, Business
    Administration, Science, and Quantitative Economics from a recognized
    University. Possession of a Master’s degree in a business-related field is
    an advantage
  • Full Professional accounting qualifications
    like CPA, ACCA with a risk management related qualifications.
  • A minimum of five years’ working experience
    in a financial services sector with a reputable institution.
  • Good IT/computer skills and a demonstrated
    ability to apply these skills in meeting the objectives of the risk
    management role.
  • Good managerial skills.
  • Excellent analytical skills
  • Good problem solving skills
  • High levels of integrity.
  • Ability to develop others.
  • Ability to work well in teams.
  • Customer care and interpersonal skills.
How to Apply:
All
suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their applications
with detailed Curriculum Vitae together with copies of certified academic
certificates with at least 3 referees in properly sealed envelopes to the
address given below clearly stating the job title applied for on the top right
corner. All applicants are required to fill a summary form upon submission of
the application, Click Here.
Address
to:
The
Chief Executive Officer/Executive Director,
The
Microfinance Support Centre Limited,
Plot
46, Windsor Crescent- off Acacia Avenue
P.O.
Box 33711 KAMPALA
Deadline: 20th June, 2016 by 5:00 pm
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