Summary
Date Posted: Friday, August 16 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
About the Job:
The Product and Service coordinator will focus on business health of all enterprises started in the region of operation. The Enterprise Development Coordinator is a driven, self-sufficient individual who excels at providing tailored support to struggling business and coordinating activities with the Field Associates (FAs) and Business Mentors (BMs), that focus on measurable results for increased businesses outcomes.
The Product and Service Coordinator will stir businesses success for Village Enterprise using data from the Village Enterprise Adaptive Management dashboards, additional research and partnerships that increase business owner’s potential to succeed.

Responsibilities
Organizational Business Saving Group Health:
• Use Savings Health Data from Village Enterprise Adaptive Management Systems to closely monitor the success of businesses and savings groups across the country and region of operations and communicate effectively across the teams on the usages and application.
• Understand and support team capacity to apply global standards on best practices for savings groups.
• Identify core challenges inhibiting the success of savings groups to thrive and communicate these with the implementing teams.
• Conduct regional targeted support visits to build team capacity in the application of best practices for the savings groups.
• In close collaboration with the Product and Service Lead or Senior Product and Service Lead, identify and support linkages to appropriate markets and financial services.

Organizational Business Health:
• Understand and support teams to apply best practices for micro-enterprises development for the extreme poor.
• Monitor grant investment by entrepreneurs, documenting the effectiveness of full grant utilization, and establishing practices to mitigate misuse and drivers for and against the grant investment and external factors that might affect it.
• Use business health data from Village Enterprise Adaptive Management Systems to closely monitor the success of businesses across the country and regions of operation. And communicate effectively across the teams on the usages and application.
• In close collaboration with the Product and Service team, identify the most profitable, climate smart and sustainable businesses that promote Gender Inclusion for their respective country, and lead with the field teams in their implementation.
• In collaboration with the Product and Service Lead or Senior Product and Service Lead, develop, and nurture relations with relevant government departments, Private Sector Actors and NGOs that support linkages to appropriate inputs, technologies, markets and solutions that will ensure the success of businesses.

Product Quality Management:
• Monitor performance and compliance to standard operating procedures from staff while recommending and coordinating the implementation of appropriate interventions.
• Identify gaps and coordinate updating of the Graduation product and procedures in collaboration with the programs team.

Organization and Coordination of Activities:
• Use bi-weekly meetings to collect, disseminate and provide targeted training and support to Field Associates and Business Mentors around best practices to achieve best results on business and savings health.
• Work closely with Field Associates in regions of operation to ensure high-quality program implementation that results in increased business outputs and outcomes.
• Document shared best practices, success and lessons learned around businesses' and savings health and coordinate exchange learning visits for replication.
• Provide support in targeted training and refresher workshops for FAs and BMs.
• Attend all country, regional, and team meetings including special project meetings as may be required.
• Support all programmatic adaptations and innovations in the region

Safeguarding: "Safeguarding at VE is everyone’s responsibility"
• Continuously sensitize program participants about possible risks of child abuse, sexual/financial exploitation, prevention, and response mechanisms.
• Ensure compliance with VE’s safeguarding policies and Code of Conduct in all programs, operations, and practices.
• Report any incident of child or adult safeguarding in program operations for appropriate action and follow-up.

Requirements
Required Competencies
• Communication and interpersonal skills.
• Analytical and conceptualization skills.
• Cultural sensitivity and demonstrated ability to work successfully with diverse communities are required.
• Ability to understand and interpret data to foster decision-making.
• Extensive knowledge of VSLA methodology and Knowledge of Micro Enterprise Development for the extreme poor.
• Computer literate and proficient in basic Microsoft packages, email, and other technology (including project management software, Salesforce, Cloud Storage, etc.)
• Understanding of quality improvement techniques in the development industry.

Qualifications:
• Relevant degree in International Development, Community Engagement/ Development, Businesses Administration or an equivalent
• 3-5 years’ experience in business development and financial linkages for rural entrepreneurial initiatives will also be considered.
• A proactive work ethic with a demonstrated interest in the vision and mission of Village Enterprise.
• Excellent management and organization skills, along with keen attention to details
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage a complex work plan with quick-moving parts
• Cultural sensitivity and demonstrated ability to work successfully with diverse communities required
• Ability to understand and interpret data to foster decision making.
• Ability to speak and read in local language (Luo and or Lango) is MUST



Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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