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Senior Program Officer, Credit Usage - Washington DC
Company: Disability Solutions Location: Washington, DC
Posted On: 05/18/2024
The FoundationWe are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we're committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.The TeamWe work to broaden the reach of low-cost digital financial services for the poor by supporting what we and our partners believe are the most catalytic approaches to financial inclusion. These include promoting the development of digital payment systems that can help spread use of digital financial services quickly, advancing gender equality to ensure that women share in the benefits of financial inclusion, and supporting the development of national and regional strategies that accelerate progress for the poor and can serve as models.Your RoleWe are seeking a Senior Program Officer, Credit Usage to lead this next phase of our work. In this role, you will work across the foundation and the industry to develop and lead a portfolio of investments that align to our new strategy, pushing the bounds of our thinking on how to solve seemingly intractable problems in this space. In addition, you will serve as the internal and external expert on productive credit, continuing to build the foundation's role as a leader with a point of view in the industry.This role reports to the Deputy Director, Usage, Gender, and Distribution. The role does not have people management responsibilities but does collaborate extensively with internal and external partners.This role is a full-time position based either in Washington, DC, or London, UK.What You'll Do - Continue to iterate and improve upon the existing credit strategy in a way that balances innovation, learning, and scaling.
- Develop a portfolio of investments that aligns to the strategy and that result in measurable financial inclusion impact, especially for women.
- Collaborate across Inclusive Financial Systems (IFS) and other teams - especially Gender Equality and AgDev - to co-design investments aligned to each team's strategies.
- Establish and manage an ambitious but achievable road map for all credit-related work.
- Set and meet or exceed clear, measurable critical metrics for the credit portfolio.
- Manage the portfolio of investments for on-time completion of targets and deliverables.
- Identify key portfolio risks, and develop, communicate, and implement mitigation strategies.
- Lead a process of systematic learning from successes and failures in the portfolio.
- Manage the annual budgets to avoid over/underspend while ensuring the highest impact return on investment.
- Continually hone your expertise in credit by monitoring emerging evidence, innovation, and trends
- Serve as a spokesperson and represent IFS' interests as they relate to credit to achieve financial inclusion both internally with other teams and externally with partners, peers, and other collaborators.
- Work with foundation leadership as requested to address cross-cutting issues and improve functions and performance.
- Lead the preparation of materials for the annual planning process, strategy reviews, learning sessions, briefings, and submissions to the Global Growth & Opportunity President, CEO, and Co-Chairs, and other deliverables as required.
- Ability to travel -30% domestically and internationally.Your Experience
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