Request for Proposal - Engagement of an associate consultant to operationalize Sombreiro Kapital

CLOSED:

To resource the institution’s plans in 2023, Sombreiro kapital Ltd/Gte plans to hire a consultant who would amongst other things, identify guarantee-worthy farmer groups for linkage to financial institutions, determine portfolio at risk,monitor guaranteed loans ,engage market actors towards refining existing smallholder financing guarantee products and promote the economic sustainability of the institution.

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SCOPE OF WORK

The associate consultant will be expected to:

1. Identify and recommend farmer groups comprising of 100 smallholder farmers farmers in the value chains of aquaculture, poultry, cocoa, oil palm, and cassava across the focal states of Delta, Edo, Bayelsa, Imo, and Ondo who would access loans worth N100,000,000

Collaborate with market actors in PIND’s market development project to identify credit-worthy farmer groups for loan support in line with existing pre-qualification criteria as contained in Sombreiro kapital’s credit manual.
Share loan application checklist with eligible credit-worthy farmer groups
Ensure all pre-disbursement criteria are met by eligible farmer groups.
Collate and submit received documents to partner commercial Banks for appraisal.

2. Grow the initial seed fund capital by N40,000,000

Identify potential fund donors with intersecting mandate.
Prepare and submit funding proposals to potential donors for consideration.
Plan and actively participate in follow-up meetings with potential donors.
Facilitate the signing of Memorandum of understanding between the institution’s directors and designated signatories of the donor.

QUALIFICATIONS

It is expected that the consultant to implement the assignment will have the following expertise:

At least five years of relevant professional experience with skills and competencies in financial and business development services, risk management ,financial product development, financial portfolio management, credit creation and administration, fund and investment management, trade and investment policy and research, and private sector development approaches in the international development community.
Requisite skills and experience in carrying out the economic analysis and supporting agricultural value chain financing.
Networking, financial products, and portfolio marketing
Strong analytical ability
Excellent report writing skills
Excellent communications and negotiation skills
Knowledge of market systems development approaches will be a strong advantage.

HOW TO APPLY

Interested persons should submit Expression of interest to procurement@pindfoundation.org. The proposal must address justification for participation, previous and current engagements/experience, organizational affiliation (if any), how skills gained will be used and any other information viewed by an applicant to be useful in helping PIND make a decision on participation. Please use “SK Consultancy__LastNameFirstName” as the subject of your email.

The proposal should outline the following:

Technical proposal – describing the method for completing each component of the assignment
Financial Proposal (Professional Daily/Monthly fees)
Proposed time frame required to complete each component of the assignment
Consultant’s profile
Capability statement including records of similar on-going and past similar assignments/projects, in Nigeria
Minimum lead time for mobilization
A work plan showing an indicative timeline for each part of the assignment in line with the assigned LoE.