Algeria: Project Manager Algeria

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Positive Planet’s mission is to help men and women across the world create the conditions for a better life for future generations. Positive Planet was created out of the growth and transformation of Planet

Finance, of which the initial mandate, since its creation in 1998, was to fight poverty through the development of microfinance. Over the last 20 years, financial inclusion has evolved considerably. From a series of small initiatives, it has become a large-scale movement offering financial and non-financial services, improving the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Today, the challenge facing us is not so much the pursuance of development as such but its qualitative nature and long-term orientation. It needs to be fair, to promote a healthy environment, to make water and abundant sustainable energy readily available, to ensure access to education and health for everyone, and to procure housing for all. When development achieves these objectives, it allows everyone, and particularly the poorest, to fulfil his/ her potential for the benefit of future generations, which is the very definition of the positive economy.

Missions and Functions

Our partner wishes to strategically accelerate the business development of its Mobile Financial Services in Algeria. It particularly aims at offering new products to the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) as well as the Low Income, Rural, Woman and Entrepreneurs segments. Positive Planet is looking for a Project Manager (Consultant) to lead its team in the field and advise our partner to adapt its services to the targeted market.

• Coordinate the work of Positive Planet staff on this project in Algeria to support the business development of our partner


• Conduct market research and local market assessment through the running of qualitative study (focus group, mystery shopping) and engagement with regulating authorities


• Work with various financial institutions


• Formulate an operational plan to effectively target the BoP and the Low Income, Rural, Woman and Entrepreneurs’ needs


• Provide other business advisory services that will enable our partner to develop a strategy and increase its product offer

Organization chart

You will be supervised by the Head of Operations of Positive Planet.

Requested profile

• University Degree


• Minimum 5 years of work experience in the mobile financial services (digital financial services) or banking in the MENA region, ideally in Algeria


• Knowledge of the players in the development sector in MENA


• Excellent managerial and leadership abilities


• Good economic and financial culture


• Arabic speaking mandatory, ideally Algerian dialect and very good writing abilities in English (French would be an asset)


• Analytical and logical abilities


• Autonomy, multitasks, rigor and reactivity


• Good interpersonal skills


• Ability to work in a multicultural and multidisciplinary organizationLocation

Conditions

• Location : Algiers (to be confirmed)


• 80-100% based in Algeria between November 2015 and March 2016


• Consultant expected to travel