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JOB PURPOSE:
FSSI launched a solar financing initiative in January 2025 to provide tailored loan products for small-scale solar enterprises and community-based organizations, addressing key barriers through flexible terms, cash-flow-based appraisal, and initial risk-sharing mechanisms. While early uptake shows promise, adoption remains constrained by low awareness, capacity gaps, limited sector data, and collateral challenges. The follow-up project focuses on scaling these products by strengthening market awareness, capacity, and risk mitigation, while exploring expansion to support Productive Use of Renewable Energy (PURE) projects in agricultural communities.
The Project Officer develops and implements strategies on the delivery of financial and capacity building services to social enterprises with the purpose of addressing their needs and generating positive results on people, planet and profit bottom lines. This covers marketing of financial services, promotion of social entrepreneurship and 3BL approach, ensuring complete staff work on project appraisals, maintaining healthy relationship with partner SEs, monitoring performance of partner SEs with regards to specific projects supported, monitoring attainment of self-determined 3BL targets of partner SEs, and maintaining a healthy portfolio. The staff also ensures coordination with other staff with regards documentation of financing contracts, loan servicing, delivery of capacity building services, institutional monitoring and evaluation, knowledge management and communications.
The term of service for this position coincides with the project duration of twelve (12) months.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
A. Marketing and project development
1. Develop and implement marketing strategy for the delivery of financial and capacity building services.
2. Lead or assist in networking, linkaging, and marketing activities.
3. Assist partners in complying with financing application requirements.
B. Project Development
1. Receive and facilitate processing of applications for financial services.
2. Prepare complete project appraisal reports which should include analysis of the feasibility of the proposed projects in terms of market, technical, financial, management/organizational, socio-economic, and environmental aspects, as well as the analysis on how the projects align with FSSI's mission and goals.
3. Assist partners in developing or identifying their self-determined 3BL targets.
4. Gather additional information to address gaps or concerns that may arise from credit evaluation and the reviews by management and approving bodies.
5. Provide project appraisal feedback to partners, summarizing the strengths and weaknesses of the application and recommendation, subject to review by the Unit Manager.
C. Capacity building service
1. Facilitate orientation on 3BL and adoption of 3BL planning by partner SEs.
2. Conduct or assist in facilitating capacity needs assessment of partner SEs.
3. Assist in planning and implementation of capacity building activities
D. Relationship Management
1. Establish open communication lines and nurture good working relationships with partner SEs.
2. Conduct monthly check-ins via face-to-face meetings or phone or internet-based calls to update on the partner's project activities.
3. Facilitate complete documentation of financing contracts and compliance with the terms and conditions by partner SEs.
4. Facilitate processing of fund release requests and compliance with the terms and conditions by partner SEs.
E. Project monitoring and evaluation
1. Set-up and maintain the project monitoring file for each assigned SE. This covers monitoring of targets and indicators based on the objectives of the approved project, the self-determined 3BL targets, and quarterly monitoring of these targets.
2. Ensure submission of loan utilization reports by partner SEs as specified in the approved terms and conditions or not later than 3 months from fund release.
3. Prepare quarterly monitoring updates per partner SE.
4. Facilitate submission of 3BL data form by each partner SE.
5. Monitor credit performance of assigned accounts.
F. Risk management
1. Address operational and compliance risks in coordination with partner SEs.
2. Monitor performance of assigned accounts, identify potential concerns, and, as needed, submit recommendations for remedial measure/s.
3. Lead or assist in implementing remedial measures on assigned accounts.
G. Document and information management
1. Compile or assist in compiling relevant project documents, photos, other references and information gathered from assigned accounts and ensure that these are made accessible to other FSSI staff as needed.
2. Ensure that confidential documents, information and personal data gathered from partners are used exclusively for the purpose of their participation in FSSI programs and access to the Foundation's services.
H. Perform other related functions as may be assigned from time to time.
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