FSD Africa

Location: Nairobi / Africa

Closing date: 5pm, Friday 6 August 2021.

FSD Africa is a specialist development agency which supports innovative ideas to build and strengthen financial markets across Africa. It focuses on reducing poverty by tackling the most intractable financial market challenges in Africa – its core areas include deepening domestic capital markets through addressing the lack of long-term finance, developing the capacity and pipeline for green finance and promoting financial innovation and FinTech, to support increased financial inclusion for vulnerable and excluded groups.

Based in Nairobi, FSD Africa was established in 2012 and is funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).

Our exciting new strategy, in which climate considerations feature prominently, is an opportunity for FSD Africa to continue using financial market development to support Africa’s recovery from Covid-19, leveraging its relationships and networks in over 30 countries, and increasing its work in green finance to help build a future for the continent that is greener, cleaner and fairer. Targeted, tactical and influential communication is a key tool for FSD Africa. It helps to drive the impact of our programmes, enabling policy and practice changes that help to fundamentally change the shape of Africa’s financial markets for the benefit of all.

FSD Africa is looking to appoint a Director of Communications and Engagement to drive an ambitious and impactful stakeholder engagement and communications strategy. Sitting on the executive committee and working through a range of key internal and external stakeholders including the FCDO, the postholder will use highly attuned advocacy and influencing skills to effect meaningful change in FSD Africa’s key markets. Responsible for driving a new strategy, leveraging a powerful repository of data and identifying opportunities for collaboration across the organisation, they will reposition and elevate the communications function within FSD Africa, developing and demonstrating a compelling value proposition for our development partners.

You will be a senior communications professional who can create practical and innovative responses to complex issues, with the ability to set creative and measurable strategies and campaigns in response to the changing requirements of our key stakeholders. You will bring a demonstrated network of external relationships with key players in financial sector development in Africa, and ideally of working with UK government. Creative, intelligent, and proactive, you will be committed to developing a high performing team, raising standards and implementing the most modern communication techniques to influence policy and behaviour change.

FSD Africa places immense value on diversity within its organisation and encourages applications from the broadest range of backgrounds.

Saxton Bampfylde Ltd is acting as an employment agency advisor to FSD Africa on this appointment. For further information about the role, including details about how to apply, please visit www.saxbam.com/appointments using reference HAJAAD. Alternatively, telephone +44 (0)20 7227 0880 (during office hours). Applications should be received by 5pm on Friday 6 August 2021.