Vacancy title:
Financial Services Development Officer

Jobs at:
Agricultural Business Initiative ( aBi )

Deadline of this Job:
Friday 1st December 2017 at 12:00pm

Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda

Job details:
The Agricultural Business Initiative ( aBi ),a group of registered companies namely aBi Trust and aBi Finance Ltd, is a multi-stakeholder entity co-founded in July 2010 by the Governments of Uganda and Denmark through DANIDA and the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development respectively, with the objective to promote “Private sector agribusiness development to enhance wealth creation".

The development objective of the aBi Trust is building a self-sustaining export-led economy in which the benefits are shared by all Ugandans, and its immediate obiective is to strengthen the competitiveness of Uganda’s agricultural and agro-processing sector. it does this through Value Chain Development (VCD) of six value chains (Coffee, Cereals, Pulses, Horticulture, Dairy and Oil Seeds) and Financial Services Development (FSD). aBi Finance Ltd is the investment arm of aBi that aims to enable the Trust to meet its programme activities in a sustainable manner by offering financing for agribusiness development through Lines of Credit, Agribusiness Loan Guarantees and the Construction Guarantees Fund. aBi is looking to recruit for the following position;
Post: Financial Services Development Officer

The role of the Financial Service Development Officer is to market aBi’s products to financial institutions, ensuring that capacity building and technical assistance budgets are effectively deployed to support is to improve their ability to otter relevant and affordable products to agribusinesses sustainably A detailed lob description can be downloaded from aBi’s website http://www.abi.co.ug/?pagegid=4892

Job application procedure
Please send your applications to vacancy@abi.co.ug 
Deadline for submissions is Friday 1st December 2017 at 12:00pm. Please note that only successful candidates will be contacted. Canvassing will lead to disqualification. Hardcopy applications will not be accepted.