Senior Enterprise Development Specialist- SAY WEE Project

at  Technoserve

JOB DESCRIPTION/REQUIREMENTS

Job Title: Senior Enterprise Development Specialist
Project: Skilling Adolescents and Young Women for Entrepreneurship and Employability (SAY-WEE)
Location: Kano
Reports to: Program Manager SAY WEE Project

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 5 years’ experience in Business Management, Agribusiness, Economics, or related field. Alternatively, Master’s Degree with 3 years’ experience will be considered.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience with enterprise development, entrepreneurship training etc with special focus on micro-businesses, youth development, incubation/innovation, value chain or entrepreneurship is desirable.
• Experience should include displays of gender sensitivity and promotion of gender equality in all aspects of work.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Additional qualifications that would make a candidate more desirable.

• Experience in a specific region/country or with a particular funder or donor
• INGO Sectoral experience.
• Professional experience with international donor projects in Nigeria would be an asset;

Required Languages Proficiency in English, Yoruba and Hausa
Travel moderate

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Sound knowledge of systems for gender mainstreaming and ability to apply to strategic and/or practical situation.
• Good leadership skills in commitment, excitement and ability to create new opportunities for the team.
• Good communication skills with ability to share ideas and positions.
• Ability to embrace complex challenges and opportunities for getting work done for timely delivery.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Good IT literacy, i.e., MS. Word, MS Powerpoint and MS Excel is required.

Supervisory Responsibilities – The successful candidate will supervise 5 Business Advisors.

• Identify entrepreneurs, lead identification and enrolment of qualified participants for the business acceleration track
• Coordinate a detailed market needs assessment that will identify the core areas, growth sectors, and components of the value chain with opportunities for entrepreneurship for women;
• Ensure quality delivery of entrepreneurship training and capacity building activities in the project, including adequacy and suitability of training modules, aftercare, and linkages;
• Work with consultant to develop the curriculum and includes a module on sustainable practices and ESG.
• Drive learning and knowledge training in the project;
• Supervise and support Business Advisors to ensure quality implementation of project activities;
• Ensure quality delivery of training of TVET instructors to achieve the objective of the project;
• Ensure that all project reports relevant to her/his area of focus are promptly produced and submitted to meet project targets;
• Ensure adequacy of the entrepreneurship school curriculum to be deployed by the project;
• Responsible for smooth implementation of the entrepreneurship activities and for providing the required relevant information to the monitoring and evaluation team for the effective compilation of results;
• Contribute to the programme team’s work on the timely and effective management and implementation of the project’s Enterprise Development activities