Women and Youth Banking Manager at Equity Bank Tanzania

EQUITY BANK IS HIRING

Job Title: Women and Youth Banking Manager Department: Commercial Job Grade: C1 Reports to: Head of Sustainability

Job Purpose The Women and Youth Banking Manager is responsible for leading the development and execution of the Bank's women and youth banking agenda by delivering innovative, inclusive, and sustainable financial solutions. The role aims to drive portfolio growth while advancing financial inclusion, entrepreneurship, and economic empowerment for women and youth-led individuals and enterprises. The Manager ensures strong risk governance, effective partnerships, and measurable social impact aligned with the Bank's Strategy.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

1. Strategy & Programme Development

• Support in the development and implement the Bank's women and youth banking strategy in line with business objectives and sustainability goals.
• Design tailored financial and non-financial solutions and products for women- and youth-led individuals, SMEs and enterprises.
• Integrate gender and youth considerations into product development, credit policies and delivery channels.

2. Growing Asset and Liability Portfolio

• Grow and manage the women and youth new and existing customers portfolio, including deposits, lending and transactional products.
• Support in the Assessment, analysis, and underwriting customers credit applications to ensure credit is granted in line with the credit policy.
• Identify opportunities to increase uptake of digital banking and alternative delivery channels among women and youth.

3. Monitoring, administration and Quality Management

• Act quickly and link/bridge with head office on complex customer's transactions, problems, or inquiries.
• Ensure Women and Youth credit facilities are timely disbursed as per approved disbursement schedule and pre-disbursement conditions are met.
• Preparation and timely submission of progressive reports and contribute to ESG, sustainability and regulatory reporting requirements related to financial inclusion.
• Identification of early warning default signals and take appropriate corrective measures such as full recovery, restructuring arrangement and recovery by refinancing.
• Track and report on key performance indicators related to women and youth inclusion.

4. Relationship management

• Managing and enhancing existing business relationships within the portfolio to ensure customer retention.
• Assist and support Relationship officers and BGDMs with specific client complaints and general feedback, particularly in relation to failed SLAs at Head Office Departments.
• Cross selling additional bank solutions to existing clients (Borrowers and non-Borrowers).

5. Partnerships & Stakeholder Engagement

• Build and manage partnerships with development finance institutions, NGOs, government agencies and ecosystem players supporting women and youth.
• Mobilise concessional funding, guarantees or technical assistance to support women and youth programmes.
• Liaising and building rapports with various stakeholders such as clients, government institutions, and other financial institutions to ensure that the Banks interests and Image are properly represented and safeguarded.

6. Capacity Building and Impact Delivery

• Coordinate and provide financial literacy, business development and entrepreneurship trainings for women and youth customers.
• Offer Advisor and Training to potential and existing customers to ensure that customers are empowered with knowledge to manage their businesses sustainably.
• Work closely with relationship managers and credit teams to strengthen understanding of women and youth market dynamics.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in business, Finance, Economics, Development Studies or a related field.
• Professional qualifications in banking, sustainability, Gender and Financial Literacy such as Certification Financial Education (CFE) is an added advantage.
• Minimum 8-10 years experience in banking, SME financing, financial inclusion or development finance.
• Experience working on women- or youth-focused financial programmes in Tanzania or the East African region is highly desirable.

How to Apply

• Submit your job application cover letter along with a detailed resume, copies of the relevant certificates and testimonials in a single PDF file format.
• Quote the respective Job title or Ref no. in the subject field.
• Email: [email protected].
• Application Deadline: Tuesday 24th February 2026.
• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.