Chief Credit & Lending Officer

Agri Bank is a wholesale bank that is primarily owned by and supports Farm Credit Associations that provide loans and financial services to farmers, ranchers, and rural businesses and homeowners. They are one of the largest banks in the Farm Credit System, a national network of borrower-owned lending institutions.

For more than 100 years, Farm Credit has been a reliable, consistent source of credit for the nation's farmers and ranchers. As customer-owned cooperatives, Farm Credit institutions are governed by the customers they serve and have a specific mission to support rural communities and agriculture – in good times and bad. Farm Credit loans help U.S. agricultural producers feed the world, rural businesses grow, and the rural economy thrive.

Combined, Farm Credit organizations provide $385 billion in loans, which is approximately 46 percent of U.S. agriculture's credit needs. This capital helps more than 600,000 customers.

• Supports more than 433,000 farmers, ranchers and other rural customers through locally based Farm Credit Associations
• Provides lending and financial solutions to our local association-owners, who support the farmers, ranchers and agribusinesses who own their local Farm Credit cooperative associations.
• Operates from a foundation of financial strength, backed by more than $176 billion in assets.

• Coverage of nearly 40 percent of all U.S. farmland and more than half of U.S. cropland
• Penetrates all agricultural crop and livestock sectors, accounting for more than half the total value of all U.S. agricultural exports.
• Through serving this vital region, Agri Bank and the Farm Credit Associations in our District have developed expertise in production agriculture. This expertise enables us to understand and meet the needs of those we serve.

The Chief Credit & Lending Officer ensures Agri Bank provides sound, constructive and profitable credit and financially related services, provides leadership and direction to the district’s lending activities including credit/appraisal policies, standards and practices and gives direction to achieve compliance with the Bank's obligations in the Contractual Interbank Performance Agreement (CIPA). CIPA reflects the overall health of the District and is calculated quarterly by the Funding Corporation.

• As a member of the executive leadership team, makes strategic decisions and sets the strategic direction for Agri Bank
• Initiates, identifies, analyzes, and develops key strategic initiatives
• Ensures Agri Bank's sustainability as a value-added partner to affiliated associations and its role in the Farm Credit System as a funding bank
• Facilitates strategic dialogue between Agri Bank senior leadership, Board of Directors and association senior leadership and boards of directors
• Leads, coordinates, and contributes to Agri Bank's strategic and business planning process
• Provides leadership for the Farm Credit System and Agri Bank District through participation in various System-wide boards, committees, and work groups
• Effectively selects, leads, develops and evaluates the performance of other leaders, teams and departmental functions
• Allocates resources effectively across functions and departments
• Sets and monitors performance standards to achieve Bank’s business strategies, goals and objectives
• Responsible for appropriately protecting the confidentiality, security and integrity of the Bank’s systems and data
• Performs additional responsibilities as needed to support the organization’s goals and objectives

• Makes decisions on commercial and wholesale loans and lending policies as Agri Bank for the credit officer and chair of the Agri Bank Loan Committee
• Leads the development and implementation of credit risk management tools throughout the district to enhance portfolio management and to optimize the allowance for loan loss process and economic capital modeling
• Leads the development and maintenance of appraisal standards, including…