Fund Manager: Strategic Funds at Land Bank Careers

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**Overview** Land Bank, as a responsible lender, is committed to sound environmental practices both internally and with its clients, ensuring agricultural practices add value and are sustainable. The Fund Manager: Strategic Funds plays a pivotal role in conceptualizing, structuring, developing, and managing innovative funding mechanisms and partnerships with government and private sector stakeholders. This is aimed at establishing new funds to support the Bank’s profitable growth, development, and transformation reach. **What you will do** * Conceptualize, structure, develop, and manage/implement innovative funding mechanisms, structures, and partnerships with external stakeholders (government and private sector) to establish new funds. * Support profitable growth of the Bank’s development and transformation reach. * Build and maintain effective relationships with fund partners and stakeholders. * Source grant and concessionary co-funding development funding lines to provide appropriate funding for development and transformation. * Implement funds and manage fund operations. * Report on Fund impact. * Regularly attend board/steering committee meetings and important related meetings, participating actively in committee work. * Stay informed about board or other steering committee matters. * Build and maintain collegial working relationships with partners, clients, and management teams. * Develop briefs and input technical criteria for bids for service provider panels. * Actively manage and monitor the portfolio to ensure adequate implementation and service delivery of fund services. * Manage the resolution of fund execution disputes and develop guiding principles. * Monitor and report on key outcomes and results of Third Party Fund programmes. * Oversee day-to-day fund operations, including execution queries and dispute resolution. * Review grant disbursement drawdown requests for Land Bank and other participating financial institutions. * Develop and review fund process flows, brochures, marketing material, and training material. * Develop and review structuring and funding frameworks to support fund execution. * Develop and review reporting templates and fund performance progress reports. * Prepare monthly, quarterly, and periodic DALRRD and stakeholder reports as agreed. * Manage internal fund reporting requirements (monthly, quarterly, annual, adhoc). * Manage reporting to National Treasury and Portfolio Committees of Parliament, and any other external reporting. * Manage client and stakeholder relationships in accordance with policies, procedures, and legal requirements. * Resolve client queries and issues promptly and professionally. * Manage internal engagements with funders/partners on funded transactions requiring restructures or business support. * Represent Land Bank and project/fund interests in events, managing the market image of the funds. * Facilitate meetings/steering committee engagements with funders and partners. * Participate on a non-executive director basis on Boards and committees of associated fund entities if nominated. * Provide training to relationship management and supporting business units on fund application. * Provide support to internal stakeholders in their utilization of different funds. * Engage with various internal divisions to create an enabling environment for fund utilization and promote it. * Collaborate with internal stakeholders to unlock and unblock fund utilization. * Assist relationship management teams with structuring deals utilizing fund facilities and provide guidance on fund-related criteria. * Manage and monitor that transaction execution aligns with fund mandate and criteria. * Participate in resolving internal fund disputes and provide guidance on fund rules. * Manage fund steering committees and specialist internal departmental inputs. * Provide oversight on adherence to fund criteria for front line’s transactions and submissions. * Manage and track submissions to committees. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * **Job Type:** Full Time * **Qualification:** Bachelors, Postgraduate Diploma * **Experience:** 7 years * **Location:** Gauteng * **Job Field:** Finance / Accounting / Audit * **Preferred Minimum Education and Experience:** * Honours Degree or Post-graduate Diploma in Financial Accounting / Agriculture / Financial Management/ Credit or Investment Management/ Engineering * 7 years Project Management * Post qualification experience including: * Business development and management of client and stakeholder relationships preferably in a financial and customer facing environment * Partnership development, structuring and knowledge of analysing a set of financial statements and do an assessment of financial/credit risks and operational risks * Knowledge of credit principles and practices and relevant legislation * Review of legal agreements to support the fund establishment and fund management operations * Knowledge of industry and business cycles * Knowledge of standard banking compliance requirements * Fund management experience * Developmental Finance and PPP (public private partnerships) experience * Financing of small, medium sized entities & cooperatives and large sized entities to support development impact projects and/or transformation. * **Critical Competencies:** * Microsoft Office * Knowledge / Experience of financial and business analytical principles, tools and systems * Knowledge of business environment * Credit Risk Principles * Economic Principles * Financial and Business Acumen * Customer Service Principles * Financial Modelling * Project and People Management * Structuring of fund partnerships * **Additional Requirements:** * Travel as and when required * Extended hours as and when required **Who should apply** An experienced professional with at least 7 years of project management and post-qualification experience in financial and customer-facing environments, specializing in fund management, business development, and stakeholder relationship management. The ideal candidate will possess an Honours Degree or Post-graduate Diploma in a relevant financial or engineering field, with a strong understanding of credit principles, financial analysis, and a proven track record in structuring and managing innovative funding mechanisms, particularly in developmental finance and public-private partnerships. They should be adept at managing fund operations, reporting, and building effective relationships with diverse internal and external stakeholders, with a commitment to sustainable practices and transformation. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/fund-manager-strategic-funds-land-bank-careers Source: myjobmag

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