Vacancy title:
Business Development Officer- Waiyaki Way

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Financial Services, Category: Sales & Retail]

Jobs at:
Tenakata

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, October 31 2025

Duty Station:
Nairobi | Nairobi | Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, July 2 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

The Business Development Officer will be responsible for recruiting, registering, and supporting small businesses to capture their daily business transactions consistently, evaluate their business performance through a Mobile App and provide the onboard to MIS for access to credit. The Business Development Officers will work with MSMEs in a specific project cluster within Kenya.

What You Will Do

• Facilitating the recruitment processes including collecting baseline data of the MSMEs on the TENAKATA mobile app.
• Conducting mentoring to the MSMEs to ensure they receive relevant and adequate advisory services to meet their business development targets.
• Supporting your portfolio of MSMEs with various aspects of access to finance including application processes and managing of funds received for purposes of scaling their businesses.
• Contributing in conducting loan appraisals and monitoring disbursed loans to ensure they are used for the intended purposes and repayments are made on time.
• Perform other duties as directed by the branch manager.
• Know-Your-Customer and Due Diligence: As the first point of contact of the business with the customer, conduct proper due diligence and KYC to ensure that the customer is a viable customer in accordance with laid down procedures.
• Relationship management: Work with partnered Collections Officers to serve customers by a relationship management approach, gather Intel and create and maintain relationships with market authorities.
• Repayment: In charge of pair%u2019s repayment rate through consistent follow-up, maintaining accurate interactions on company systems, negotiation of repayment schedules, and setting discretionary limits on loan amounts. The Collection Officer uses %u2018soft%u2019 (non-intrusive) collection methods to get repayments from the customer.
• Performing such other tasks and duties as the Company may from time to time designate as forming part of the Employee%u2019s job description

Qualifications

• University graduate degree /Diploma in Business Administration, Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Project Management or equivalent.
• A minimum of one (1) years% experience in the MSME field. Hands on experience or knowledge in MSME businesses, including within informal settings and micro enterprises development will be an added advantage.
• Additional training or on-job training on financial management and literacy in the MSME sector will be an added advantage.
• prior exprience in sales is an added advantage

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: associate degree

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