Senior Microfinance Manager

Salary: £49,100 per annum

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing date: 22/11/2026

Interview date: week commencing 30/11/2026

About CARE

CARE International is a global humanitarian organisation leading the fight to end poverty in the world's most challenging situations. Women and girls are at the centre of our work, because we cannot overcome poverty and inequality until all people have equal rights and opportunities. We know that when a crisis erupts, women are often the first to pick up the pieces, so we work alongside women, so they have the power to make change where it's needed most. Founded in 1945, CARE currently works in over 100 countries and last year alone reached 53.4 million people through nearly 1,500 projects.

Why work for CARE International UK?

Join CARE International UK at an exciting point in Lendwithcare's development and help shape a distinctive programme that combines financial inclusion, measurable social impact and public engagement. This senior manager role offers the successful candidate an opportunity to oversee a global microfinance portfolio, support innovation and strengthen responsible access to finance for entrepreneurs, particularly women and underserved communities. With exposure to programme strategy, partnership development, impact measurement, risk monitoring, fundraising and external representation, it is an excellent opportunity to broaden your leadership and technical experience while contributing directly to CARE's ambitions for women's economic justice and lasting routes out of poverty.

About the role

The Senior Microfinance Manager will provide senior technical and operational leadership across Lendwithcare's global portfolio of financial service provider partners. Working closely with the Head of Lendwithcare, the role will ensure strong programme quality, impact and financial stewardship through partner due diligence and monitoring, portfolio and repayment risk management, impact measurement, safeguarding and technical support. The postholder will also help deliver Lendwithcare's programme strategy and income ambitions, contribute to fundraising and supporter communications, and strengthen links with CARE's wider financial inclusion and Women's Economic Justice work.

The role requires strong financial and analytical skills, including the ability to interpret microfinance performance data, assess institutional and portfolio risk and make sound recommendations in complex situations. The successful candidate will be able to communicate technical information clearly and compellingly to specialist and non-specialist audiences, build trusted relationships across cultures and organisations, and influence, negotiate and facilitate learning effectively. They will also need the judgement and adaptability to balance social impact, responsible finance, operational delivery, reputational risk and supporter expectations.

About you

You will be an experienced financial inclusion or microfinance professional with a strong understanding of responsible finance, women's entrepreneurship and the realities of working with financial service providers in lower-income contexts. You will bring experience of partnership management, financial and social performance assessment, risk management and impact measurement, ideally including peer-to-peer lending, green inclusive finance or donor engagement. Collaborative, culturally sensitive and committed to equity and women's empowerment, you will be comfortable taking ownership, making evidence-based decisions and representing CARE with credibility.

Living our Values and Feminist Leadership Principles (FLPs)

At CARE International UK, living by our values and FLPs is an expectation for all staff and is central to how we achieve our goals and uphold our culture. To help us do this, we have developed a Behaviour Competency Framework. These competencies focus not on what we deliver, but on how we work to achieve impact. They define the behaviours, attitudes and ways of working that enable us to bring our values and FLPs to life every day. It is a shared language for how we make decisions, work inclusively, build trust, support one another, develop people and learn from experience.

Our framework is built around seven competencies and applies to all employees. We encourage candidates to review the attached Behaviour Competency Framework (BCF) Summary, which provides further information on the behaviours and expectations associated with each competency.

Right to Work in the UK

All applicants must have the legal right to work in the United Kingdom at the time of appointment. Proof of right to work will be required as part of the recruitment process. For more information, please visit the UK Government's guidance on right to work.

Where you do not have current right to work in the UK, then this will be discussed with you as part of the recruitment process. Please note that not all roles are eligible for sponsorship and further information (should you require sponsorship to work in the UK) on eligibility can be found here.

Safeguarding

CARE International UK has a zero-tolerance approach to any abuse or sexual harassment or exploitation of people in crisis by any of our staff, representatives or partners. CARE International UK expects all staff to share this commitment through our Safeguarding Policy and our Code of Conduct. They are responsible for ensuring they understand and work within the remit of these policies throughout their time at CARE International UK.

Safeguarding the communities we work with is our top priority in everything we do, including recruitment. All offers of employment at CARE International UK are subject to:

Satisfactory references. CARE International UK participates in theInter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (link here).In line with this Scheme, we willrequest information from successful applicants' previous employersabout any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment,or incidents under investigationwhen the applicant left employment.

Appropriate criminal record checks (including a Bridger check).

By submitting an application, the applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

We are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, respectful, and safe work environment where all persons are treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are a Disability Confident Employer and particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities. We guarantee interviews to applicants with disabilities who meet the essential criteria for the role (see person specification). If you require the candidate brief or need to submit your application in an alternative format, because of a disability, please do get in touch by sending an email to our HR team.

We also encourage people from minoritised communities to apply for roles at CARE International UK.

Please note that in compliance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, all job offers at Care International UK are conditional on eligibility to work in the UK.

CARE's EDI Vision Statement

We are guided by the communities we serve and grounded by our values which are: women-centred, inclusive, collaborative and quality. We share power responsibly and transparently, we earn trust and are accountable to each other, and we create supportive spaces for collaboration so that everyone is empowered to share ideas. Equity, diversity and inclusion are embedded in all we do - creating ways for everyone to be heard, respected and to thrive.