Commercial Lending Specialists

Location:	throughout Iraq, Iraq, Middle East
Job Type:	Contract
Posted:	24th Sep 2007
Closing Date:	22nd Oct 2007
Posted By:	International Business & Technical Consultants Inc
Details:
Commercial Lending Specialists Seeking Commercial Lending Specialists (thru MFIs and Banks) for an upcoming proposal for full time and short term consulting to provide provincial economic growth. Candidates must speak Arabic, have international experience in conflict countries, and have experience in micro lending and SME. Activities may include: • Conduct or support training related to microfinance and commercial lending. • Develop existing or new private banking organizations to provide loan guarantees to businesses. • Work with organizations or universities to become training providers of new courses related to financial services in the first year. • Encourage financial and operational sustainability of microfinance institutions. • Facilitate linkages between and among microfinance institutions, banks, and other financial intermediaries. Consultants will assist with: Microfinance training: Best Practice training in the key areas of microfinance is on-going in Iraq and shall be built upon and expanded. All training activities shall be fee-based in order to promote future sustainability of microfinance and bank training courses. Training shall include and enable local service providers to implement future training and ensure that continued availability of training provision. Training in best practice standards: governance, delinquency management, financial analysis, cash-flow based lending and other topics is shall be provided by the Contractor. Working with the microfinance providers on industry standards in financial performance and conduct is encouraged. Training to banks, particularly the members of the in country Corporation for Bank Guarantees, shall focus on increasing their capacity for assessing the risks of small and medium businesses and providing a high quality range of commercial lending services required in this business environment. When appropriate, grants to existing microfinance institutions to allow them to conduct their own training in conjunction with the Contractor shall be considered. Technical Assistance: Training, especially classroom based training, is effective only up to a certain point. The Contractor shall provide a plan for providing short and long term technical assistance directly to the microfinance institutions, loan guarantee corporations, and banks on an appropriate basis. Interested candidates need to send 3 references, an up-to-date UDAID formatted CV, and a ½ page narrative description of your relevant experience to the skills and experience above. Please email, with “CLS” in subject line, to - apply below -

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