Senior Specialist – Blended Finance Job Reference: SS/IMTF/04/2025

 Senior Specialist – Blended Finance supports governments and public institutions, including development banks, to play their role of leadership in creating an enabling environment that motivates potential funders (like DFIs/IFIs and financial services providers) to enter the food systems/agricultural sector, which is perceived as risky with low returns. This role influences governments and public institutions to make the agricultural finance sector more attractive for financial sector players through effective design and deployment of public sector instruments like input subsidy, guarantee schemes, and other de-risking tools and policies.

The ideal candidate will forge partnerships between Governments, public institutions, and financial sector players in the development, funding, and deployment of blended finance instruments that address the risks and gaps in financing the agricultural sector. S/He will support the development of models and instruments that enable the financial ecosystem to effectively fund the agricultural sector. The role holder will actively co-develop innovative risk mitigating instruments (including insurance) that unlock financing for Agribusinesses and farmers and promote, where necessary, the use of digital channels for financial services delivery to reduce risk and costs of financing the agricultural sector.

Head – Inclusive Finance Job Reference: IF/IMTF/04/2025

 AGRA’s approach is to build an inclusive agricultural finance system based on partnerships and opportunities that will reduce the cost and risk of agricultural finance. The strategy focuses on three critical integrated components that can make the agricultural finance system work inclusively for food crops. These are: availability of concessional, blended capital, capable providers of financial services, and finance-able SMEs and farmers.

Head – Inclusive Finance will be responsible for designing and implementing a strategy to improve the availability of affordable financial services (credit, investment capital, savings, insurance, etc.) to the actors across the agricultural value chains, including smallholder farmers. The person should be committed to delivering, be agile and responsive to different stakeholders and opportunities. S/he should be entrepreneurial and open to innovative ideas and able to draw and build on consultative input from other AGRA stakeholders where needed.

Associate Program Officer – Post-Harvest Management and Delivery RE-GAIN Job Reference: APO/PHM/KE/04/2025

 The Associate Program Officer – Postharvest Management and Delivery will guide the implementation of extension services interventions, training, and capacity building, and support farmers on the use of climate-resilient Food Loss – Reduction Solutions (FL-RS) interventions of the RE-GAIN program in Kenya. The Associate program officer will further ensure the coordination of multiple actors in the harvest and postharvest management phases of value chains.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading the implementation of postharvest management interventions under the RE-GAIN program in Kenya. The role will focus on creating demand for post-harvest solutions by smallholder farmers, creating local capacity for adoption and marketing of food loss reduction solutions that would enable reducing food losses, improving food quality, and enhancing climate resilience among smallholder farmers by promoting the adoption of Food Loss-Reduction Solutions (FL-RS). The Program Officer will work closely with in-country partners, farmer organizations, extension service providers, government agencies, and the private sector to ensure effective and sustainable implementation of postharvest technology.