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Enterprise Financing Manager
Organization Near East FoundationLocation United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandType FULL TIMEPosted 18 May 2026Deadline 30 Jun 2026
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**Near East Foundation (NEF)**
**Title:** Enterprise Financing Manager
**Reports to:** Chief Program and Impact Officer
**Location:** London, (UK)
**Type:** Full time
**Travel:** Up to 30%
**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 Specialist to 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 build-and-scale role for someone comfortable moving from structuring into execution: translating proven models into operating platforms, strengthening how they work in practice, and helping deploy them repeatedly across markets through local partner networks.
NEF is seeking candidates from an enterprise financing background, with the role sitting at the intersection of platform execution, product and fund structuring, channel design, fundraising, investor engagement, and delivery discipline. The postholder will help turn proven approaches into repeatable structures, investor-ready propositions, scalable partner arrangements, and workable distribution models 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 is based in NEF’s London headquarters office. This position is supported by a credit and risk officer, 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. Strategy Execution and Program Integration**
- Translate NEF strategy into an operational global Enterprise Finance Platform model, workplan, and implementation approach.
- Ensure Enterprise Finance Platform delivery is aligned with NEF’s institutio
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