Business Development Officer- Nanyuki At Tenakata

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