Zambia: Chief Executive Officer, FSD Zambia

Context of the work

Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) will be responsible for overall leadership and management of FSDZ including strategic and operational responsibility for FSDZ programmes, expansion, and execution of its mission. He/she will lead the team across all FSDZ thematic areas: SME Finance; Rural Finance; Digital Finance; Policy; Knowledge, as well as ensuring the smooth functioning of programme operations and administration, including HR.

Scope of work:

The Chief Executive Officer will be responsible for overall leadership and management of FSDZ. This is a non-voting director level management position, based in Lusaka. The Chief Executive Officer will fulfil the following tasks and responsibilities:

· maintain and support a strong Board of Directors: serve as non-voting member, seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for ongoing and future programming

· Actively engage FSDZ board members, staff, partnering organizations, and funders

· Present and account to the FSDZ Board for the delivery of strategic and logical framework objectives

· With substantial support from the Chief Finance Officer, ensure project financial practices are in compliance with DFID and FSDZ rules and regulations

· Oversee the work of FSDZ as a whole to identify potential, actual or perceived risks, vulnerabilities or conflicts of interest, and present to the FSDZ Board for discussion

· Ensure ongoing programmatic excellence, rigorous programme evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, communications, and systems

• Lead the strategic business planning process for programme expansion and project management
• Build and maintain partnerships, establish relationships with funders, the Government of Zambia, and community leaders
• With the support of the senior leadership team within FSDZ, build partnerships and manage relationships with international and local consultancy firms and other relevant partners to deliver FSDZ’s strategic objectives
• Lead, coach, develop, and retain the FSDZ high-performance senior management team, instilling a culture of learning to provide motivation to innovate and substantively increase financial inclusion in Zambia
• Ensure effective systems to track progress, and regularly evaluate programme components to monitor and measure outcomes and impact that can be effectively communicated to the board, the Programme Investment Committee, funders, and other stakeholders
• Ensure technical quality and provide drive and oversight in relation to the delivery of all programme activities and deliverables
• Manage subcontractors and consultants for the delivery of results
• Deepen and refine all aspects of communications—from web presence to external relations with the goal of creating a strong brand and as a means to further achieve impact
• Leverage external presence and relationships to identify new opportunities and partners
• Maintain and further develop FSDZ credibility in the market and effectively manage FSDZ reputational risk
• Ensure FSDZ health, safety and security arrangements of its individuals or property are in line with DFID’s Duty of Care Policy

· Oversee implementation of appropriate operating policies, systems and procedures to ensure FSDZ’s financial viability for the present and the long term future

• Monitor budget oversight, tracking and management
• Ensure effective systems are in place to identify and prevent fraud, both internally and in the utilisation of DFID and other donor funds
• Maintain and protect key financial records, data and confidential information
• Ensure that DFID and other donor audit requirements (or any relevant regulatory body) are fully met and complied with

The CEO will be responsible for ensuring the following deliverables:* Multi-year Strategic Plans

• Quarterly Progress Reports
• Annual Workplans
• Annual forecast of expenditures, disaggregated monthly
• Financial Reports
• Six-monthly comparisons of budget to expenditures
• Annual audited documents
• Annual Reports against FSDZ logframe objectives
• Any ad-hoc reports required by donors: including case studies, lessons learned, best practices identifiedConduct of the work

Conduct of the work:

FSDZ has a flat management structure where all team members are expected to be proactive in identifying areas of improvement and take the initiative to tackle these issues without expressly being told to do so. The CEO is expected to maintain and further encourage a culture where the responsibility for delivering on objectives starts with individual members of staff. This does not mean that team members operate independently. It is vital to be able to judge when and where to look across the team and to leadership for support, advice, ideas or simple validation of an approach.

Key relationships:

· FSDZ Shareholders (DFID and other funders)

· FSDZ Board of Directors

· FSDZ Programme Investment Committee

· FSDZ Senior Management Team

· FSDZ Senior Finance Manager

· Other FSDZ technical and operational staff

· Partners, service providers, consultants and consultancy firms

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will have:

• A minimum of a Master’s Degree in Economics, Business Administration, International Development, Finance, Public Administration or related discipline, from a reputable institution, with at least 15 years of senior management experience in the financial sector, ideally in Africa

Skills:

• Track record of effectively leading and scaling a performance- and outcomes-based organization; ability to point to specific examples of having developed and operationalized strategies that have taken an organization to the next stage of growth
• Excellence in organizational management with the ability to coach staff, manage, and develop high-performance teams, set and achieve strategic objectives, and manage a budget
• Successful track record in leadership and management of complex projects/organisations
• Strong public relations and experience dealing with funders with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders and cultures
• Proven ability to produce concise, well-structured and very high quality reports and presentations
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills
• Strong public speaking skills

Knowledge:

• Past success working with a Board of Directors with the ability to cultivate existing board member relationships
• Strong understanding of the operation, challenges, technical and political context of the Zambian financial system
• Diverse financial sector (banking/ management consultancy/ development/ research) knowledge

Behaviours:

• Unwavering commitment to quality programmes and data-driven evaluation and results measurement
• Action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and innovative approach to business planning
• Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people
• Passion, idealism, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed

· Demonstrated familiarity with the African, preferably Zambian, financial services sector.

· Fluency in English and ideally local languages.

· Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, outlining options, presenting strategic and technical position papers that articulate a well-supported point-of-view and point to concrete actions.

· Experience setting priorities in dynamic environments.

· Experience developing, managing and implementing multi-party projects with defined objectives, deliverables, monitoring and evaluation of results.

· Ability to work with flexibility, efficiency, enthusiasm, and diplomacy both individually and as part of a team effort.

Project location: Lusaka

Application deadline: 23rd November

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