Senior Enterprise Development Specialist- SAY WEE Project
at Technoserve
Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 28 Nov, 2024 | Not Specified | 30 Aug, 2024 | 3 year(s) or above | New Opportunities,Youth Development,Leadership Skills,Yoruba,Hausa,Enterprise Development,English,Gender Mainstreaming,Economics,Agribusiness,Communication Skills,Entrepreneurship,Gender Equality,Employability | No | No |
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Description:
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.
Responsibilities:
- 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
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:3.0Max:8.0 year(s)
Information Technology/IT
IT Software - Other
Software Engineering
Graduate
Business management agribusiness economics or related field
Proficient
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Lagos, Nigeria