Incentives are Aceli’s primary “product” offering and are used to unlock increased private sector lending to agricultural SMEs. The Product team plays a critical role within the organization and consists of two functions: a product design function, which is responsible for market research and incentive adjustment calibration; and a product operations function, which oversees loan reviews, incentive payments, and data. Across these two functions, the team: oversees information-gathering to help Aceli assess if its product is well calibrated to the market; provides input into the design of the incentive program, alongside other senior leaders within the organization; manages the rollout of adjustments to the program; ensures that loans submitted by lenders are aligned with Aceli’s guidelines; and manages incentive payouts to lenders.
The role holder will support the product design function. Specifically, the role holder will support the Manager, Product across various workstreams: our annual benchmarking exercise, which is an extensive, data-heavy market research piece conducted with Aceli’s lending partners and carried out by a consulting firm on our behalf; as well as our annual audit, incentive budget modeling, incentive adjustment design, roll-out, and monitoring. This individual will also be involved in developing web-based dashboards for internal and external use.
This role will require someone with strong critical thinking skills and strong data analysis and interpretation skills. This role will involve looking at market and internal data to make recommendations and decisions about how Aceli’s product should evolve and how we should engage with lenders. The role holder will need to be comfortable with cleaning and crunching data, but also with spotting and interrogating trends and with making proposals about the way forward. Over time, s/he will independently manage small data projects with our lenders – therefore, the ability to plan and stay on top of details is also key.
The role will report to the Manager, Product and is a full-time position with GDI Kenya, a non-profit entity registered under Kenyan law.
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The Global Development Incubator is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants based on merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
If you believe you can clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the relevant criteria for the role, please submit your application quoting in the subject line the Job Title "Associate - Product", and attach your detailed CV, cover letter stating your interest in and qualifications for the position, e-mail address and telephone contacts.
Applications that do not include a cover letter tailored to this position will not be considered.
The application deadline is Friday, February 09, 2024. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.