Consultancy Jobs – Digital Financial Services /Agricultural Value Chain Support at Strategic Impact Advisors, LLC (SIA)

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Organisation: Strategic Impact
Advisors, LLC (SIA)
Duty Station: Kampala and Northern Region, Uganda
Duration: May 2017 –
December 2017
About US:
Strategic Impact Advisors, LLC (SIA) is a woman-owned global consulting
firm launched in 2014 with a mission to spread the use of digital technology
for financial inclusion and use economic analysis to drive decision making for
community development, particularly in underserved areas of the world. SIA has
six full-time partners that have cross-disciplinary expertise including payment
systems specialists, financial inclusion practitioners, telecommunications
industry veterans and an economist specializing in data analysis and modeling.
Job Summary: The Consultant will
support two USAID Feed the Future activities to promote digital financial
service adoption amongst smallholder farmers and their value chain partners in
the Northern Region of Uganda on a part-time basis.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
The consultant will be responsible for supporting the implementation of
SIA’s project work plan. Some of the primary activities the consultant will
assist with are found below:
  • The Consultant will provide strategic and
    operational assistance to the SIA project team, to support data collection
    and analysis efforts on small holder farmers as well as DFS service
    provider agent infrastructure
  • The Consultant will support the Feed the
    Future projects and SIA in engaging value chain partners, particularly as
    it pertains to digitizing reporting activities in the field and
    establishing a clear cost of cash.
  • The Consultant will support the
    development of interventions including solar home system adoption, the
    digitization of village savings and loans associations, seeking options
    for digital school fee payments, and any other relevant digital payment
    interventions that may be relevant to smallholder farmers in the region.
Key Consultancy Activities: In
order to implement the broader activities mentioned above, the consultant will
be required to:
  • Participate in bi-weekly planning meetings
    with SIA
  • Participate in update meetings with the
    Feed the Future projects.
  • Coordinate logistics for field visits with
    Feed the Future projects, value chain partners, and other relevant
    stakeholders
  • Travel and work in the Northern Region on
    a regular basis
  • Support small holder farmer public awareness
    and training activities associated with leveraging DFS product
    capabilities and benefits
  • Support project reporting requirements as
    assigned.      
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:  
  • The
    applicant should have significant experience in mobile money in East
    Africa with direct experience with a service provider in Uganda a
    plus
  • Familiarity
    with DFS bulk payment products
  • Broad
    knowledge and understanding of Solar Home System pay as you go value
    proposition, business model, and product
  • Broad
    knowledge and understanding of agricultural value chains including coffee
    is a plus
  • Self-starter;
    able to work well without constant direction
  • Excellent
    communication skills and comfortable working virtually
  • Willingness
    to work remotely with intermittent in-person collaboration
  • Excellent
    technology skills, Microsoft Office skills
  • Demonstrated
    oral and written communication skills and very high attention to
    detail
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their expressions
of interest, daily rate and resume to info@siaedge.com. Tell us what excites
you about this opportunity.
Deadline: 5th May
2017

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