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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 designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating financial instruments and capacity-strengthening activities to improve MSME access to finance • Provide technical expertise on Ghana's financial sector and its capacity to support MSMEs • Assess needs, capabilities and constraints of banks, non-bank financial institutions, development finance institutions and other financial-sector actors • Advise on approaches to improving MSME access to finance, including 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 • Support adoption and implementation of climate-aligned financial products • Design, structure, implement and manage credit guarantee schemes and risk-sharing facilities for bank loan portfolios • Monitor, evaluate and manage risks associated with wholesale credit lines and guarantee portfolios • Provide expertise on Ghana's financial-sector regulatory environment and institutional landscape • Advise on national regulations, policies, guidelines and market practices affecting financial institutions, MSME finance, guarantees and development finance • 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 opportunities, financing sources and instruments • Provide guidance on mobilising capital, improving access to local and international financing, and accessing Ghanaian and regional capital markets • Prepare 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 • Experience working with financial institutions in Ghana, including banks, non-bank financial institutions, development finance institutions or other relevant financial sector entities • Experience supporting MSME access to finance and/or MSME lending programmes in Ghana • Experience designing, implementing, managing or evaluating credit guarantee schemes, risk-sharing facilities or similar financial instruments • Experience monitoring and evaluating credit and/or guarantee portfolios, preferably under projects financed or supported by IFIs, MDBs or other development finance partners • 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 required • Knowledge of relevant Ghanaian languages is an advantage • Climate finance or climate-aligned financial product development experience highly desirable • Experience advising on access to development finance, blended finance, guarantee instruments and/or capital markets is an advantage • Familiarity with IFI and MDB requirements, standards and operating practices highly desirable

🏖️ Benefits

• Fixed-term engagement contingent on the successful outcome of a bid for an upcoming Climate Finance project • Opportunity to work with an international development consultancy • Work contributing to sustainable policy change and impactful public policy • Environment that welcomes ambition, creativity and passion for positive change • Commitment to diversity and inclusion • Rolling review and interviews