Programme Manager – Support Facility WEEF

About the WEEF Support Facility

The WEEF is an innovative blended finance initiative designed to address persistent financial barriers faced by women entrepreneurs in Africa. WEEF will respond to market gaps by mobilizing both philanthropic and investment capital applying global innovations in risk management and financial technology and fostering local-to-local financing solutions for Impact-First Lenders (IFLs)such as microfinance institutions fintechs and cooperativesthat serve women-owned nano and micro-enterprises but often lack scale and access to advanced financial and technological solutions.

WEEFs structure combines an Investment Fund managed by Triple Jump and a dedicated Support Facility established as a separate legal entity. Together the two provide IFLs with a comprehensive package of financing (including result-based financing) risk management technology (such as credit risk scoring tools) and expert advisory support (technical assistance). The initiative also offer guarantees to local African banks and institutional investors with a view to activating domestic capital markets. The Support Facility is structured as a Dutch Foundation (Stichting) and has its own governance structure separate from the fund - including a Foundation board as well as a Support Facility Committee.

Towards the investees - the IFLs and the banks the offering of Fund and Support Facility comes together as a blended offering which combines a financial product from the fund with the elements funded by the support facility mentioned above.

Throughout these interventions the Support Facility works closely with three selected service providers each working on a specific aspect of the initiative: domestical capital markets the provision of risk management and risk management technology the provision of technical assistance. The Support Facility will also work closely with an evidence partner responsible for impact learning.

About the Role

The Programme Manager is a full-time employee of the WEEF foundation reporting to the Chairman of the Board of the Foundation.

While the programme manager is not an employee of Triple Jump (s)he will have day-to day interactions primarily with the ESG Impact and Knowledge team (responsible for the overall Impact Management of WEEF) and also with the FI Investment team (responsible for transaction execution) and the Investor Relations and Business Development team (responsible for the client and stakeholder relationship management of WEEF).

The principal tasks of the Program Manager are:

• Conduct the operational and budget management of the foundation including management of relationship with third party administrator (trustee) jointly with the Board Chairman approve individual transactions in respect of the contribution of the Support Facility to these transactions.

• Prepare the meetings of the Support Facility Committee and the Board manage day-to-day interactions with the Donors of the Support facility and conduct contractual reporting to the donors to the Support Facility.

• Manage the Result Based Financing (RBF) maintaining the RBF framework analyzing the effectiveness of the intervention and working together with the Investment team on confirming the specific KPIs for each transaction to ensure alignment with impact objectives and budget.

• Manage the guarantee and market building support for the local investor mobilization - maintaining the framework for the Guarantee support assess its need and effectiveness within individual transactions and execute budget control for the market building work from the service provider.

• Manage the engagement with service providers (budget relationship and performance coordination between service providers). Ensure that touchpoints between impact monitoring and the work of the service providers are well executed

• Act as learning coordinator of the foundation ensuring that lessons learned are continuously integrated into the workings of the WEEF as a this context coordinate with the evidence partner of the foundation.

The post is based in Amsterdam or in Nairobi subject to preference of the applicant but also to business needs and regulatory requirements currently still under investigation.

• University degree in Finance Economics Sustainability Social Sciences or related field.

• Minimum five to ten years of relevant professional experience related to financial inclusion in emerging markets preferably with exposure to Africa.

• Strong project management and financial controlling skills ideally having demonstrated end-to-end responsibility for budgets.

• Ability to manage multi-stakeholder environments at senior level maintaining ones own north star while being flexible and receptive to new ideas.

• Good understanding of technical assistance processes ideally with solid management experience.

• Familiarity with impact monitoring evaluation and learning preferably having managed such processes.

• Self-starter able to deliver outcomes with limited day-to-day guidance from senior management; excellent communication and presentation skills.

• Familiarity with Triple Jump and its current Financial Institution mandates preferred

Application procedure
Are you interested Send in your application before 31 December 2025 via. More information about the position can be obtained through Christophe Bochatay ().