Senior Technical Advisor, Commercial Lending Partnerships

🔥 16 hours ago

🌐 Guatemala, El Salvador, +1 more countries – Remote

🇬🇹 Guatemala – Remote 🇸🇻 El Salvador – Remote 🇭🇳 Honduras – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💰 Account Manager

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Catholic Relief Services

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1943

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Logistics

Catholic Relief Services is a global humanitarian organization that eases the suffering of and provides development assistance to people in need in over 100 countries. As the official international relief organization of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, CRS focuses on emergency response, health, agriculture, education, and justice and peacebuilding. Their work is guided by Catholic values and the organization aims to serve the poor and vulnerable, regardless of race, religion, or nationality.

📋 Description

• Lead CRS strategy for strengthening commercial lending partnerships for inclusive SME financing and vulnerable populations • Develop and oversee relationships with commercial banks and financial institutions • Serve as technical lead on SME commercial lending solutions, including guarantees, first-loss structures, subordinated loans, and technical assistance • Develop and document adaptable approaches, tools, and guidance • Lead readiness and capacity-strengthening efforts for regional and country teams • Promote cross-regional learning and knowledge exchange • Support regional and country teams and initiatives such as Azure, Isidro Fund, and Blue Harvest in identifying partnership and local lending opportunities • Provide technical leadership in proposal development, project design, and program management related to commercial lending and blended finance • Contribute to knowledge management through practices, lessons learned, case studies, partnership models, and implementation evidence • Monitor trends in commercial banking, impact investing, blended finance, and SME financing • Advise CRS leadership and regional and country teams on financing partnerships and resource mobilization • Represent CRS at global and regional forums, networks, and partnerships

🎯 Requirements

• Master's degree in finance, economics, business administration or related field • Ten years of work experience with progressive responsibilities in blended finance or related fields • Five years of overseas experience in multiple regions as a technical advisor and/or program manager of a commercial lending partnerships program or multi-sectoral project with a lending institution component • Track record of working with donors, development banks, and funds to unlock local bank lending for SMEs • Deep understanding of commercial bank priorities, lending restrictions, incentives, and operations, and/or direct commercial banking experience executing SME lending • Extensive knowledge of finance structures and mechanisms used in development programming • Excellent relationship management, strategic, analytical, problem-solving, systems thinking, written communication, and oral communication skills • Fluency in written and spoken English and Spanish • Must be willing and able to travel up to 35% • Experience in agriculture and water sectors preferred • Experience working in multicultural teams and LACRO experience strongly preferred • Ability to legally work where the position is performed

🏖️ Benefits

• U.S.-based staff: medical, dental, life insurance, vision, and a generous retirement savings plan • Benefits packages for candidates employed outside the U.S. based on the country of employment/in-country office • Collaborative, mission-driven work culture • Equal opportunity employment • Safeguarding-focused organizational policies and Code of Conduct