Monitoring Manager, BRAC Rwanda

Career with BRAC International

BRAC is a development success story, born in Bangladesh and expanding into 10 other developing countries in Asia and Africa. It spreads anti-poverty solutions making it a global leader in providing opportunities for the world’s poor.

BRAC was founded in Bangladesh in 1972 by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, and is today one of the top leaders in developing cost-effective, evidence-based poverty innovations in extremely poor, fragile and post-disaster settings. BRAC started its first programme outside of Bangladesh in Afghanistan in 2002 through its Dutch registered Stichting BRAC International. BRAC International is currently reaching over 19 million people beyond Bangladesh and creating opportunities to break the cycle of poverty.

With a holistic approach that uses a wide array of interventions including microfinance, education, healthcare, legal services and more, BRAC invests in communities’ own human and material resources, catalyzing lasting change and creating an ecosystem in which the poor have the chance to seize control of their own lives. Of the world’s top development and humanitarian relief organisations, BRAC is one of the few based in the global south. In February 2020, BRAC was ranked as the number one NGO in the world for the fifth consecutive year by the Geneva-based NGO Advisor, an independent media organisation committed to highlighting innovation, impact and governance in the non-profit sector.

BRAC International is seeking application from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individuals to fill the following position:

Position: Monitoring Manager, BRAC Rwanda

Job location: BRAC Rwanda Country Office

Salary Range: Negotiable

Major Duties and responsibilities:

• Conducts MF monitoring at the group, Branch and Area office levels to ensure MF staff follow the operational policy and procedures, according to approved monthly and quarterly work plans
• Ensure that loans are issued to relevant beneficiaries and repayments are properly recorded in their passbooks
• Ensures that all loans documents for micro loans and SEP are properly executed and maintained at branch level.
• Reconciles branch daily collections register and collection sheet against borrower’s passbook to ensure proper accounting for customer repayments.
• Checks group member’s savings and payments behavior from the system and carries out field visits to Micro-finance groups to verify transactions.
• Follows up monitors daily activities to provide support and take any corrective action to ensure work is done according to set standards.
• Validate monitors field visits reports and consolidate for submission to Country office on time.
• Identifies overdue borrowers from the system and checks borrowers physically to verify their existence and deal with repayments problems promptly.
• Investigates suspected misappropriation of customer repayments and reports to management per procedure.
• Maintains and preserves project wise, year wise monitoring reports as per manual
• Prepares special or ad-hoc reports for management

Knowledge, Skill & Competence

• Excellent presentation, communication and report writing skills in English
• Good knowledge of Ms Office ( Word, Excel)
• Self- motivated and pro-active
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadline.
• Team spirit and team building attitude
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment
• Demonstrates gender and cultural awareness.

Educational Qualifications: Master degree in social science, management, or related discipline.

Experience: Five years’ experience in Microfinance Operations.