Business Development Officer- Karatina at Tenakata

Tenakata is licensed by the Central Bank of Kenya as a Digital Credit Provider. Our platform is designed to empower small businesses in Africa by assisting with financial record-keeping and promoting financial literacy through business support coaching. We ensure the secure sharing of reliable financial information with financial institutions in order to ext...

 

Business Development Officer- Karatina

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND , Diploma
  • Experience1 year
  • LocationNyeri
  • Job FieldSales / Marketing / Retail / Business Development 

The Business Development Officer will be responsible for recruiting, registering, and supporting small businesses to capture their daily business transactions consistently, evaluate their business performance through a Mobile App and provide the onboard to MIS for access to credit. The Business Development Officers will work with MSMEs in a specific project cluster within Kenya.

What You Will Do

  • Facilitating the recruitment processes including collecting baseline data of the MSMEs on the TENAKATA mobile app.
  • Conducting mentoring to the MSMEs to ensure they receive relevant and adequate advisory services to meet their business development targets.
  • Supporting your portfolio of MSMEs with various aspects of access to finance including application processes and managing of funds received for purposes of scaling their businesses.
  • Contributing in conducting loan appraisals and monitoring disbursed loans to ensure they are used for the intended purposes and repayments are made on time.
  • Perform other duties as directed by the branch manager.
  • Know-Your-Customer and Due Diligence: As the first point of contact of the business with the customer, conduct proper due diligence and KYC to ensure that the customer is a viable customer in accordance with laid down procedures.
  • Relationship management: Work with partnered Collections Officers to serve customers by a relationship management approach, gather Intel and create and maintain relationships with market authorities.
  • Repayment: In charge of pair%u2019s repayment rate through consistent follow-up, maintaining accurate interactions on company systems, negotiation of repayment schedules, and setting discretionary limits on loan amounts. The Collection Officer uses %u2018soft%u2019 (non-intrusive) collection methods to get repayments from the customer.
  • Performing such other tasks and duties as the Company may from time to time designate as forming part of the Employee%u2019s job description

Qualifications

  • University graduate degree /Diploma in Business Administration, Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Project Management or equivalent.
  • A minimum of one (1) years% experience in the MSME field. Hands on experience or knowledge in MSME businesses, including within informal settings and micro enterprises development will be an added advantage.
  • Additional training or on-job training on financial management and literacy in the MSME sector will be an added advantage.
  • prior exprience in sales is an added advantage

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Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to Tenakata on jobsboard.site to apply

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