Student Assistant (m/w/*) in Development Finance in Köln

What are you going to do:

• Supporting the Technical Assistance Department in the following functions:
  • Planning, design, implementation, and management of Technical Assistance projects, i.e., study tours, capacity building projects, and product development.
  • Monitoring of Technical Assistance projects
  • Preparation of presentations and meeting materials
  • Conducting research and analysis in connection with development finance related topics
  • Keeping track of relevant government policies and donor activities in the areas of agriculture, renewable energies, as well as women finance
• Providing administrative & office management support (around 40% of the workload)
  • Managing outgoing and incoming post
  • Maintaining stock lists and procurement of office supplies as needed
  • Physical and digital data storage as needed
• Providing ad-hoc support to other departments and ACGF Management as needed

What we offer:

• Insights into all business segments at ACGF
• Possibility to work with professionals both in Germany and Afghanistan (travels to Afghanistan are not required)
• Adequate salary
• Flexible working hours and possibility to partly work from home
• Increase of working hours during the semester break is – dependent on the available workload - possible

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Extra information

ACGF– Afghan Credit Guarantee Foundation is a charitable foundation based in Cologne, Germany and an office in Berlin. ACGF was founded in September 2014 by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (a member of the KFW Group). ACGF is further supported with funds provided by the World Bank via the Afghan Government and by KfW Development Bank.
ACGF's mission is to improve access to finance for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Afghanistan by providing credit guarantees and related technical assistance to Partner Institutions (PIs) – banks, micro-finance, and micro-deposit institutions. ACGF implements its mandate by providing partial credit guarantees to Afghan financial institutions for loans extended to Afghan SMEs. Likewise, ACGF provides comprehensive related technical assistance (TA) to its PIs to establish and develop best practice SME lending capacity, e.g., through the support of capacity building initiatives, the establishment of best-practice SME lending processes and procedures, and the introduction of new lending products. ACGF is also in the process of establishing matching grant and start-up facilities for businesses in Afghanistan.
ACGF is closely working with its Afghan subsidiary SME Client Support Afghanistan LLC (SCSA) based in Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif.
ACGF is part of the LANDT-Network, a group of aligned institutions with headquarters in Berlin. The group employs more than 60 people and focuses on the establishment and management of Credit Guarantee Funds for the promotion of SMEs in developing countries, as well as further consulting activities.

Further information can be found on our website. Please apply with a cover letter (in English), and up-to-date curriculum vitae and academic transcript (overview of grades) until February 28, 2021. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Status

Inaktiv

Education Level

Hochschule/Universität

Location

Köln

Working hours per week

20

Type of Contract

Werkstudentenstelle

Salary indication

12.00€ pro Stunde

Responsible for

Supporting the Technical Assistance Department, providing administrative & office management support and providing ad-hoc support to other departments and ACGF Management as needed

Profession type

Projektmanagement

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Cover Letter Required

Yes

Languages

Englisch, Deutsch