The CATALYZE Iraq A2F program is designed to increase access to finance for Iraqi SMEs and increase youth employment. The approach USAID CATALYZE is taking to achieve these objectives has two elements. First, it will support Iraqi Transaction Advisor Service Providers to identify small and medium enterprise (SME) financing opportunities and support those SMEs to obtain loans. A ‘Transaction Advisor Service Provider’ as we define it is a person or a business who can provide a bridge between… Show more The CATALYZE Iraq A2F program is designed to increase access to finance for Iraqi SMEs and increase youth employment. The approach USAID CATALYZE is taking to achieve these objectives has two elements. First, it will support Iraqi Transaction Advisor Service Providers to identify small and medium enterprise (SME) financing opportunities and support those SMEs to obtain loans. A ‘Transaction Advisor Service Provider’ as we define it is a person or a business who can provide a bridge between a business seeking a loan and a bank with sufficient capital with which to provide such a loan. The expectation is that ‘crowding in’ a pipeline of well-presented financing requests will result in more loans. Particular attention will be paid to supporting loans which will result in employment of youth. Second, to increase the appetite for these SME loans, CATALYZE will provide small incentive payments to participating Iraqi Financial Institutions (FIs) that provide SMEs with loans. The expectation is that these incentive payments will make these loans more attractive to those financial institutions by covering some of their expected risk of loss. Show less

- Put Policy and Procedure in place for different departments (Finance, Admin, Operation, Production, Stock, Procurement)-Manage monthly budget to meet deadlines-Assist in financial modeling scenarios, proposals and pitch applications to receive Grants, loans, investments

Coordinate between the IT external audit company and the IT department at IBDAA to maintain and assure the application of policies and procedures for IT information security within the company's head office and branches.