Proximity Finance is a ground-breaking farm financing business launched in 2012 by Proximity Designs in Myanmar. It provides capital to smallholder farmers in Myanmar so they can invest in their farm enterprises and improve productivity and incomes. As one of the few financial service providers serving rural customers, the company has grown rapidly over the past five years and now serves nearly 100,000 borrowers across 1,800 villages. Most of its 350 staff operates out of sixteen branch offices located in rural townships.

Proximity Finance is looking for an exceptional individual who is motivated to grow a high performing financing business that directly serves farmers. Well-designed agricultural finance can accelerate financial inclusion and benefit smallholder farmers who have largely been neglected by the microfinance industry. The global demand for smallholder agricultural financing is staggering. Over 270 million smallholder farmers in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and South and Southeast Asia have an unmet financing need of over USD 200 billion to grow their businesses and improve their livelihoods. In Myanmar, there is vast, unmet demand among 6+ million smallholder farm households lacking sufficient capital every season. This is a unique position for a business leader who is inspired to reshape microfinance to make it more impactful. There will be significant opportunity for Proximity Finance to build on many of the successful elements of the microfinance model to create innovative and more impactful lending models and approaches. There will be opportunity to couple loan products with farm technologies and agronomic advisory services offered