4 Fresher Business Mentor Jobs at Village Enterprise

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Job Title ⇒ Business Mentors 4 Fresher NGO Jobs
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Organization Village Enterprise
Duty Station Uganda
Reports to ⇒ Field Associate
About US ⇒
Village Enterprise’s mission is to end extreme poverty in East Africa through
entrepreneurship and innovation. Since its inception, Village Enterprise has
been developing and refining an innovative model of poverty reduction
combining training, seed capital grant or non-cash asset transfer, and ongoing
mentoring to create small, rural businesses. Village Enterprise’s economic
development model plays a unique role in the microfinance industry, providing
economic opportunities in rural, agricultural areas that other organizations
are not reaching, and gives people living in extreme poverty the opportunity
to transform a small grant into a new business, a better standard of living,
and hope for the future. Village Enterprise has started over 48,000 businesses
and trained over 185,000 East African people.
Job Summary ⇒ The Business Mentor is expected to work 40 hours per week.
The individual might be required to work on some weekends and occasionally on
holidays depending on the magnitude of work. A Village Enterprise Business
Mentor is passionate about alleviating poverty in their region and dedicated
to their roles as trainer, mentor and community leader.
Key Duties and Responsibilities ⇒
Micro Enterprise Development
⇗ Develop micro-enterprises according to the Village funding cycle, start
micro enterprises in your region.
⇗ Fill in forms both on soft and hard copies for each micro enterprise as
specified in the Business Mentor manual.
⇗ Mobilize qualified households to participate in Village Enterprise program
⇗ Responsible for quality Village Enterprise Program implementation in a
village level.
Training and disbursement
⇗ Properly train all new Village Enterprise business owners according to
training process detailed in the Business Mentor Manual
⇗ After pre-funding training sessions are complete, work with the office
staff to carry out grant disbursement for all business groups
⇗ Conduct supplemental training sessions and evaluate micro-enterprise
performance after grant disbursements
Mentoring
⇗ Provide mentoring on choosing and running a business using methods outlined
in Mentoring Manual. Mentoring will require at least one visit to each
business per month
⇗ Provide advice and support in designing business-mentoring methodologies
that are the most appropriate for the type pf enterprises supported.
⇗ Prepare a monthly report detailing progress of business groups including
successes and challenges, general observations and changes to business groups
industry, composition
⇗ Help Business owners in producing credible business and marketing plan
including how to balance positive cash flow and maintain accounts.
⇗ Connect enterprises up and down the value chain by identifying relevant
stakeholders, suppliers etc. and creating sustainable commercial relationships
between the parties.
Business Savings Groups BSGs
⇗ Organize Business Savings Groups for each set of 10 businesses funded
during a cycle
⇗ Train business groups on BSG formation for self-directed savings and loans
⇗ Attend Monthly Savings Group Meetings for the first nine months providing
assistance as needed.
⇗ Provide information and material, which may be of used by the business
owners for marketing, value addition, business development, motivation and
value chain maintenance.
Regional Exposure and Analysis
⇗ Assist Field Associate and Regional Manager to introduce Village’s program
to local government agencies
⇗ Work with Regional Manager to help identify most viable businesses in your
region
⇗ Consult with other Business Mentors to determine best practices and share
information
⇗ Attend Business Mentor Training and participate in regional Business Mentor
meetings, usually on bi-weekly basis
⇗ Organize business visits as requested by the Country Office.
⇗ Train and show business owners how to conduct engaging presentations to
visitors.
⇗ Organize and facilitate peer to peer and lesson learning exchange events
between the different enterprises supported in the program.
Reporting
⇗ Submit a Monthly report according to the Village Enterprise form in the BM
training manual
⇗ Submit Business Profiles once a quarter.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience ⇒
⇗ The applicant must hold a diploma in the fields of Social work, development
studies, Agriculture, animal husbandry, education, project planning and
Management, Entrepreneurship, business management or any other related field.
⇗ Experience of 2 years in adult teaching, community training, business
mentoring and/or community service.
⇗ Competent adult trainer and change agent
⇗ Should be able to deliver content to adult/ semi illiterate learners in
Local languages. Local language competency is a must and shall be tested.
⇗ Ability to coach beneficiaries to be able to identify, start and manage
viable and sustainable businesses within the domain of VE policy and relevant
Government regulations.
⇗ Attention to details including detailed and timely feedback on program
progress as and when required
⇗ Should respect community/beneficiary values and belief systems and be able
to strike a balance between those values and VE policies and program
expectations.
⇗ Strong communication skills
⇗ Strong information technology skills in the use of digital data collection
tools, internet application, google documents and Microsoft office
applications.
How to Apply ⇒
All interested candidates who meet the required qualifications coupled with a
passion for changing lives of the extreme poor in line with SDG 1 are invited
to submit their CV and application to ugandajobs@villageenterprise.org
Please do not contact Village Enterprise to inquire the status of your
application, we do not charge any fees from all potential applicants. only
shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Village Enterprise is an equal
opportunity employer.
Deadline 9 th January 2021

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