About FMFB-A:

As a background, FMFB-A started its operation in 2004 and is part of the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance (AKAM), which has financial institutions operating in different countries throughout the world. It is affiliated with the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a group of development agencies working in health, education, culture and rural economic development.

Job Summary:

The system administrator will work on a wide variety of technologies. System Administrator will provide technical and engineering expertise in the areas of systems-related project planning, design, and engineering of systems, including system performance management, security audit and remediation, and performs other related duties as assigned.

Job Details:

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for secure design of systems and security baselines,
• Solves complex problems and takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions,
• Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations,
• Works with multiple platforms, conducting performance tuning, capacity planning, detailed monitoring and reporting - more engineering work and less day-to-day configuration work,
• Install, configure, and troubleshoot, new and existing servers, storages, application and firewalls,
• Maintain high availability (HA) vCenter Server, vSphere Operations Management, VMWare, vSphere clusters, VMware update manger, virtual distributed Switch,
• Identify potential virtual system configuration issues and proactively perform maintenance to resolve or improve system performance,
• Manage virtualized servers hosted by VMware and oracle Virtualization and deploy new VMS when required,
• Troubleshoot problems reported by users and analyze issues to prevent it in future,
• Regularly administer, monitor evaluate all the physical and logical program related systems and infrastructure,
• Maintain the integrity and availability of application, servers, storage infrastructure and devices,
• Perform daily system administration and monitoring tasks,
• Perform regular, period off, and on-site backup operations,
• Ensuring that all the required and critical systems, data are successfully backed-up and/or replicated to disaster recovery site,
• Regularly administer and monitor integrity of all relevant physical and logical program infrastructure,
• Ensure systems are protected against any potential breaches,
• Ensure timely installation of patches, upgrades and updates when required,
• Regularly research and perform hardware and software performance tuning, upgrades and resource optimization,
• Recommend timely improvements, upgrades inn all program related physical and logical infrastructure and system,
• Perform any other relevant tasks and responsibilities assigned by the supervisor,
• Perform security monitoring to identify possible security risks, take steps to mitigate the security risks,
• Manage and Maintain enterprise level servers and infrastructure,
• Manage system hardware, including routine maintenance and return materials Authorization (RMA)/replacement of failed hardware and
• Manage configure and trouble shoot CRM.

Job Specifications:

• Having a bachelor degree in computer science or related to IT from a recognized university,
• At least 5 years of experience in managing/ supporting the network infrastructure of a big organization with multiple branches, preferably in a banking environment,
• The experience be in Solaris / Linux-based VPN clients, firewalls, intrusion detection systems,
• In dept experience with VMware ESXI administration, Oracle Virtualization installation, and advanced troubleshooting,
• Having at least one of the following certifications would be a plus point: MCSA, RHCE,
• Having knowledge of data center infrastructure, system hardware and operating systems.

Submission Guideline:

If you meet the above requirements, we are encouraging you to apply for this position. Please send us your CV along with a cover letter via email (vacancies@fmfb.com.af).

Please make sure that your email includes the vacancy ID as the subject line.

Note that, only the candidates who meet the requirements of the position will be shortlisted.

About FMFB-A:

As a background, FMFB-A started its operation in 2004 and is part of the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance (AKAM), which has financial institutions operating in different countries throughout the world. It is affiliated with the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a group of development agencies working in health, education, culture and rural economic development.

Project Overview:

Afghan MSME Assistance and Development (AMAD) is implementing the MALA - MSME Access to Finance for Livelihoods in Afghanistan - project in cooperation with its Afghan PIs. The main objective of the project is to support the recovery of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs – including those led by vulnerable groups). Specifically, the program foresees disbursements of non-repayable Matching Grants (“MGs”) to MSMEs, thereby enhancing their access to finance and enabling businesses to overcome the current economic crisis. MGs are available for a period of almost three years and will be matched with new guaranteed loans provided by PIs to minimize market distortion and ensure an own contribution by the supported MSMEs. Grants, therefore, create additionality as they substitute borrower equity, enhance repayment capacity, and enable PIs to resume lending with conducive lending conditions, e.g. longer maturities. The Grant applications will be generated by AMAD’s PIs. The project supports PIs with financing for Capacity Building and Grant Officers at branch level to ensure adequate resources at PIs for processing of Grant applications and provision of capacity building to MSMEs.

Job Summary: 

The MF Grant Officer serves as a Grant and TA focal point at regional branch level and is responsible for the appropriate implementation of Technical Assistance and Grant activities at (regional) branch level. The officer ensures that loan officers appropriately assist grant applicants in designing a suitable financing project. The MF Grant Officer makes sure that grants criteria and process are known among all responsible financing staff, and that they are transparently communicated to the public, so that there are equal opportunities for all businesses. The MF Grant Officer Officer will ensure efficiency in the grant process by timely submission of the grants application documentation to PI HO and monitoring the appraisal and decision steps.

Job Details:

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Grant Structures:
• Ensures that the PI’s loan officers (LOs) have a good understanding of the Grant policies and procedures by organizing and implementing trainings;
• Ensures timely communication via Grants Specialist of any challenge or process adjustment required for Grants implementation;
• Identifies TA measures and other related support activities;
• Ensures proper PI communication of grant availability to potential beneficiaries as well as serving as a focal point for grant-related matters at PI branch/ regional level

Grant Process Implementation:

• Supports the PI’s loan officers (LOs) to develop together with the applicants consistent and complete financing applications; Supports the PI’s loan officers (LOs) in delivering technical assistance to applicants to collect information and translate it into basic financial statements, as well as supporting entrepreneurs in developing meaningful investment plans;
• Serves as the Grant Focal point at branch level, including regular coordination with Grants Specialist;
• Provides hands-on coaching of PI’s LOs at PI at their capacity of processing Grants;
• Verifies the completeness of the Grant Applications Forms prior to submission to PI’s HO;
• Obtains and shares additional information from the applicant as per the request of AMAD and/or PI Head office 
• Ensures that all disbursed cases are appropriately processed within the MIS and ensures storage and submission of relevant information to AMAD (grant agreement and disbursement slip)

Job Specifications:

• Academic background in business management, banking, accounting, economics or a related field (ACCA and BBA-Finance preferred);
• Credit experience of at least 2 years
• Good knowledge of the Afghan financial sector
• Business mindset and good insight into issues of MSME finance
• Excellent communication in local languages
• Ability to act on own initiative and work confidentially
• Ability and willingness to do field work outside of the office
• Fluent in Dari and Pashto; good command of English is desirable   
• Acceptable level of computer skills, especially in Word and Excel
• Must be responsive, accountable, and detail oriented with a problem-solving orientation;
• Proactive and self-starter attitude – ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment is a benefit.

Submission Guideline:

If you meet the above requirements, we are encouraging you to apply for this position. Please send us your CV along with a cover letter via email at (vacancies@fmfb.com.af).

Please make sure that your email includes the vacancy ID as the subject line.

Note that, only the candidates who are meeting the requirements of the position will be shortlisted.