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Enterprise Financing Credit & Risk Officer
Organization Near East FoundationLocation United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandType FULL TIMEPosted 18 May 2026Deadline 30 Jun 2026
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**Title:** Enterprise Financing Credit & Risk Officer
**Reports to:** Enterprise Financing Manager
**Location:** London, (UK), or Brussels, (Belgium)
**Type:** Full time
**Travel:** Up to 40%
**About Near East Foundation**
Since 1915, Near East Foundation (NEF) has worked across the Middle East, Africa, and the Caucasus to expand economic opportunity, strengthen resilience, and support recovery in underserved and crisis-affected markets. Working through local teams, country offices, and partners, NEF combines deep field presence with practical, broad network of long-term partners, scalable approaches that support enterprise growth, livelihoods, and locally led development.
For candidates coming from enterprise finance or investment backgrounds, NEF offers the opportunity to apply structuring, partnership, and financing skills in markets where well-designed capital can have outsized impact and where innovative models can influence how enterprise finance works in some of the world’s most challenging and dynamic environments.
**About the Position**
NEF is seeking an Enterprise Financing Credit & Risk Lead to help execute and scale a global, decentralized enterprise financing platform built on proven models in blended finance, outcome-based instruments, revolving and evergreen funds, guarantees, first-loss structures, insurance-linked mechanisms, and partnerships with regulated financial institutions. This is a hands-on execution role for someone comfortable moving from credit architecture into deployment: turning proven approaches into disciplined underwriting, approval, monitoring, restructuring, and partner-risk systems that can work repeatedly across markets.
NEF is seeking candidates from credit, underwriting, portfolio risk, or private credit background, with the role sitting at the intersection of product and fund structuring, credit policy, partner risk oversight, portfolio monitoring, and operational execution. The postholder will help turn proven approaches into repeatable credit frameworks, approval processes, partner risk models, recovery pathways, and risk analytics that are workable in complex and underserved markets, while maintaining strong financial logic and alignment with NEF’s design principles: deep reach and inclusion, designed concessionally, responsible financing, last-mile objectives, and work through decentralized and localized partner relationships.
This position may be based within one of NEF's headquarters offices in London or Brussels. This position is supported by HQ’s finance, program and operation teams and decentralized country credit and servicing teams. It also involves travel to the countries of operation.
**About the Enterprise Financing Platform**
NEF’s global Enterprise Financing Platform pioneers and champions financing that reaches the last mile in fragile, crisis-affected, displacement-impacted as well as stable emerging but underserved markets. It shifts power and decision-making closer to entrepreneurs, communities and local institutions and enables capital to be reused, recirculated and governed over time rather than being spent once and depleted. This builds on NEF’s proven and emerging models including blended
finance for SME growth in Syria, a development impact bond in Jordan, decentralized climate finance in Mali, decentralized cooperative financing funds in Sudan and South Sudan, enterprise climate incubation and financing in Morocco, social enterprise financing in Armenia and other facilities under implementation, fundraising or adaptation in markets like Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia and others.
NEF’s global Enterprise Financing Platform is designed to support NEF’s programs rather than operate as a parallel structure. It should deliver value for money through consolidation, shared capacity, and economies of scale, while enabling country-specific investments and localized execution through partner networks, including small last-mile actors and financial institutions of different forms and sizes. The platform is intended to build on approaches already tested by NEF and take them to greater scale, replicability, and operational maturity across countries and partners.
The Platform supports a highly diverse enterprise base across complex markets from missing-middle women entrepreneurs in Iraq, farmers in Sudan, displaced entrepreneurs in Syria, social enterprises in Armenia, youth-led start-ups in Morocco, climate-smart agribusinesses in Mali, and refugee entrepreneurs in Jordan with ticket sizes reaching up to USD 50,000. In Syria alone, over the past five years, NEF has supported more than 6,000 enterprises through technical and ecosystem support alongside accessible revolving finance totaling around USD 9 million.
**Key Responsibilities**
**1. Credit Strategy Execution and Platform Integration**
- Translate NEF strategy and Enterprise Financing Platform approach into effective and practical credit policy, risk appetite, approval authorities, and i
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