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🇬🇭 Ghana – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Oxford Policy Management

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1979

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

Consulting • Healthcare • Food & Beverage

Oxford Policy Management is dedicated to improving lives through sustainable policy change. The organization partners with governments, funders, and key decision-makers to deliver evidence-based policy expertise and practical solutions aimed at strengthening resilience and advancing sustainable development in low- and middle-income countries. With a global network, Oxford Policy Management focuses on areas like climate, education, governance, health, and poverty, providing research and insights to facilitate informed decisions and impactful policies.

📋 Description

• Provide technical and advisory support for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of financial instruments and capacity-strengthening activities aimed at improving access to finance for MSMEs • Provide technical expertise on the Ghanaian financial sector and its capacity to support MSMEs • Assess the needs, capabilities and constraints of banks, non-bank financial institutions, development finance institutions and other relevant financial sector actors • Advise on approaches to improving access to finance for MSMEs, including those in underserved and climate-relevant sectors • Support engagement and coordination with financial institutions and stakeholders in Ghana • Support the design and development of climate-aligned credit guarantee products and risk-sharing mechanisms • Assess market demand, financial institution requirements and potential MSME beneficiary segments • Advise on alignment of guarantee products with Ghanaian regulations, climate priorities and market conditions • Support development of product structures, eligibility criteria, operational procedures and monitoring frameworks • Design, structure, implement and manage credit guarantee schemes and risk-sharing facilities for bank loan portfolios • Monitor, evaluate and manage risks for wholesale credit lines and guarantee portfolios • Provide expertise on Ghana's financial sector, regulatory environment and institutional landscape • Map and engage public- and private-sector stakeholders, including regulators, financial institutions, government agencies, business associations and development partners • Provide expertise on Ghanaian environmental and social legislation, regulations, standards and safeguards • Integrate environmental and social risk considerations into financial products, guarantee mechanisms and portfolio monitoring systems • Advise financial institutions on environmental and social safeguards and risk management procedures • Advise Ghanaian stakeholders on development finance, blended finance, guarantee instruments and capital markets • Identify financing sources and instruments through DFIs, IFIs, MDBs, climate finance mechanisms and other sources • Advise on mobilising capital and improving access to local and international financing • Support preparation of recommendations, financing strategies and stakeholder engagement approaches

🎯 Requirements

• Ghanaian national • Advanced university degree in Finance, Economics, Banking, Business Administration, Development Finance, Public Policy or another relevant field • At least 10 years of relevant professional experience in the financial sector, development finance, banking, MSME finance, credit, guarantees or related fields • Demonstrated experience working with financial institutions in Ghana, including banks, non-bank financial institutions, development finance institutions or other relevant financial sector entities • Proven experience supporting MSME access to finance and/or MSME lending programmes in Ghana • Demonstrated experience in the design, implementation, management or evaluation of credit guarantee schemes, risk-sharing facilities or similar financial instruments • Proven experience monitoring and evaluating credit and/or guarantee portfolios, preferably under projects financed or supported by IFIs, MDBs or other development finance partners • Demonstrated experience conducting training needs assessments and designing and delivering capacity-strengthening programmes for financial institutions • Strong knowledge of the Ghanaian financial sector, including relevant regulations, institutions, market dynamics and stakeholder landscape • Good knowledge of Ghanaian environmental and social legislation and safeguards applicable to investment, lending and financial sector activities • Excellent analytical, report-writing, stakeholder engagement and communication skills • Fluency in English is required • Experience in climate finance or climate-aligned financial product development is highly desirable • Experience advising on access to development finance, blended finance, guarantee instruments and/or capital markets is an advantage • Familiarity with the requirements, standards and operating practices of IFIs and MDBs is highly desirable • Knowledge of relevant Ghanaian languages is an advantage

🏖️ Benefits

• Fixed-term basis, contingent on the successful outcome of a bid for an upcoming Climate Finance project • Opportunity to work with an international development consultancy • Collaborative work environment • Environment that welcomes ambition, creativity and passion for positive change • Commitment to diversity and inclusion