HIAS
Overview
POSITION SUMMARY:
Reporting to the Lending Manager of the HIAS Economic Advancement Fund, the Loan Officer plays a critical role in empowering refugee entrepreneurs by providing them with tailored financing solutions, training and technical assistance to help launch, stabilize, and grow their businesses. This involves proactively identifying new clients, building trust-based relationships with refugee business owners, understanding their unique financial and operational challenges, and delivering personalized guidance throughout the lending process. The Loan Officer conducts in-depth assessments of applicants' financial needs, evaluates business viability, and structures loans that balance accessibility with sound risk management practices. Operating in a virtual capacity across multiple geographic markets, the Loan Officer ensures that refugee entrepreneurs, regardless of location, have equitable access to financial resources and guidance they need to succeed. ABOUT EAF:
HIAS Economic Advancement Fund (EAF) is a non-profit organization and emerging CDFI loan fund that provides refugees and other forcibly displaced entrepreneurs access to capital so they can launch and grow their businesses. EAF works alongside HIAS resettlement partners that are local Jewish and secular service agencies working on the ground in communities across the country to help refugees settle and integrate into their new communities. Our partners are the local presence in each community we serve, providing entrepreneurial refugees business technical assistance, financial education and assistance accessing capital to launch or grow their businesses through EAF. EAF was founded in 2022 by HIAS, the Jewish humanitarian organization that provides critical services to refugees, asylum seekers, and other forcibly displaced people around the world. What began as a microenterprise development program of HIAS in 2017 serving two geographic markets, has since developed into an emerging CDFI serving entrepreneurial refugees in 14 U.S. cities who would otherwise have difficulty obtaining loan capital from banks and other conventional lenders. While deeply affiliated with HIAS, EAF is a relatively new organization in a rapid growth trajectory, giving its staff members the opportunity to be part of the foundational development of EAF, including developing systems, processes, and new forms of support for refugee owned businesses. Note, this consultancy is anticipated to start in January 2026 and be completed by September 2026.
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POSITION SUMMARY:
Reporting to the Lending Manager of the HIAS Economic Advancement Fund, the Loan Officer plays a critical role in empowering refugee entrepreneurs by providing them with tailored financing solutions, training and technical assistance to help launch, stabilize, and grow their businesses. This involves proactively identifying new clients, building trust-based relationships with refugee business owners, understanding their unique financial and operational challenges, and delivering personalized guidance throughout the lending process. The Loan Officer conducts in-depth assessments of applicants' financial needs, evaluates business viability, and structures loans that balance accessibility with sound risk management practices. Operating in a virtual capacity across multiple geographic markets, the Loan Officer ensures that refugee entrepreneurs, regardless of location, have equitable access to financial resources and guidance they need to succeed. ABOUT EAF:
HIAS Economic Advancement Fund (EAF) is a non-profit organization and emerging CDFI loan fund that provides refugees and other forcibly displaced entrepreneurs access to capital so they can launch and grow their businesses. EAF works alongside HIAS resettlement partners that are local Jewish and secular service agencies working on the ground in communities across the country to help refugees settle and integrate into their new communities. Our partners are the local presence in each community we serve, providing entrepreneurial refugees business technical assistance, financial education and assistance accessing capital to launch or grow their businesses through EAF. EAF was founded in 2022 by HIAS, the Jewish humanitarian organization that provides critical services to refugees, asylum seekers, and other forcibly displaced people around the world. What began as a microenterprise development program of HIAS in 2017 serving two geographic markets, has since developed into an emerging CDFI serving entrepreneurial refugees in 14 U.S. cities who would otherwise have difficulty obtaining loan capital from banks and other conventional lenders. While deeply affiliated with HIAS, EAF is a relatively new organization in a rapid growth trajectory, giving its staff members the opportunity to be part of the foundational development of EAF, including developing systems, processes, and new forms of support for refugee owned businesses. Note, this consultancy is anticipated to start in January 2026 and be completed by September 2026.
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