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Job Title ⇒ Enterprise and Savings Lead
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Organisation ⇒ Village Enterprise
Duty Station ⇒ Soroti or Gulu, Uganda
Reports to ⇒ Vice President of Programs

About US ⇒
Village Enterprise’s mission is to end extreme poverty in rural Africa through
entrepreneurship and innovation. Village Enterprise targets the poor, provides
business training, seed capital/startup funds and on-going mentoring to over
10,000 new entrepreneurs to start 3,000 enterprises each year. Since its
inception in 1987, Village Enterprise has started over 40,000 micro-
enterprises.
Job Summary ⇒ Village Enterprise is looking for an Enterprise and Savings
Lead Uganda to support the success of our microenterprise development
program. This individual will have a focus on ensuring that enterprises and
savings groups launched through the program provide to desired outcomes and
impact being set out to achieve. They will bring the necessary skills to
understand and implement key activities and programs which put our
entrepreneurs on a pathway to success.
⇗ Business and Business Savings Group Impact – The Enterprise and Savings
Lead will primarily be focused on designing, leading, and facilitating
activities which lead to increased success of business and business savings
group. This will include using quantitative and qualitative data for
evaluation and decision making, supporting field implementation staff, and
working with management teams to ensure our entrepreneurs are on the best path
possible.
⇗ Market Analysis and Intelligence – The Enterprise and Savings Lead will be
responsible for keeping up with latest market trends and opportunities
relevant for our business owners. This will include designing and or accessing
tools to keep our team informed of market dynamics and how their selection of
enterprises plays into the larger eco-system of actors. It will also include
using that market analysis directly to support good business choices for our
entrepreneurs.
⇗ Innovations and Partnerships – The Enterprise and Savings Lead will
continually work to identify and implement innovations which lead to greater
success for businesses and business savings groups. They will also design or
support the creation of technical partnerships which will be beneficial to the
organizations overall goals and targets around business and business savings
group success.
Key Duties and Responsibilities ⇒
Lead a team of direct reports and matrixed indirect reports in focusing on
increasing business and business savings group value for the participants of
the village Enterprise 50%
⇗ Identify core areas of success needed for businesses to thrive at Village
Enterprise.
⇗ Support entrepreneurs to protect their local environment identifying and
promoting climate smart and environmentally friendly enterprises and
practices.
⇗ Analyze the business owner’s needs based on their geographical region,
trends and suggest common approach to success and growth of their businesses.
⇗ Support recruitment and supervise a team of direct reports that will focus
on increased business success of our participants. This include market
linkages, financial inclusion and adoption of relevant technologies.
Additionally, support recruitment of key field positions that have a direct
impact on business success.
⇗ Design matrix style model to engage critical positions at Village
Enterprise in maximizing what their role can bring to assuring business
success.
⇗ Develop strategies of identifying, evaluating and appraising businesses for
grant allocation in collaboration with the field team.
⇗ Build staff capacity to identify and support impact at the business group
level and business savings group level.
⇗ On case by basis, participate in project working group to share ideas, and
well thought out plans to achieve success and overall impact.
Design, Lead, support, and/or Facilitate the adoption of partnerships,
activities and innovations that lead to increased business and business
savings groups success 30%.
⇗ Research and identify both current and new activities that will lead our
businesses to being more profitable.
⇗ Assure adoption of successful current and new activities with field staff.
This will include necessary piloting and activities.
⇗ Support decision making on appropriate new innovations and ideas that will
be implemented by the program.
⇗ Identify organizations that offer products and services which will prove
valuable to our business owners being successful. Manage partnerships and
linkages that create increased business performance and success.
⇗ Engage private sector actors in the graduation model on sustainability and
business success and developing business success and developing Village
Enterprise differentiated advantage on business success.
⇗ Organize and represent Village Enterprise in forums that are relevant to
the position including savings group approaches, microenterprise support,
Market Linkages etc.
Gather, analyze and act on quantitative and qualitative market and
business performance data at Village Enterprise 20%
⇗ Assist field team lead to develop performance indicators around business
success for Business Mentor and Field Associates.
⇗ Working with CD’s/RM’s/FC’s/BM’s to develop and manage an up to date
understanding of the microeconomic environment in Uganda.
⇗ Undertake key research to understand the BO’s business ventures and project
drivers of sectors, customers and potential opportunities for linkages.
⇗ Responsible for assuring data flows to the appropriate decision makers
connected directly to our business owner’s success primarily field agents
such as Field Associates and Business Mentors.
⇗ Analyze and act on business performance data through creating feedback
loops and interventions that ensure our businesses are being fully supported
to being successful.
⇗ Support on an as needed basis high value proposals and or projects at
Village Enterprise.
Safeguarding
⇗ Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility at VE, and it begins with me
⇗ Continuously sensitize program participants on safeguarding.
⇗ Ensure compliance with VE’s safeguarding policies
⇗ Report any incident of safeguarding in program operations for appropriate
action/follow up.
Key Performance Indicators
⇗ Business Success Country Average Business Progress Survey
⇗ Business Savings Group Country Average
⇗ Market and Financial Linkages Created and Successful

Qualifications, Skills and Experience ⇒
⇗ The applicant must hold a University degree or an equivalent in Business
development, program management, international development or other relevant
field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
⇗ At least five years of experience in the management of development programs
for an international organization.
⇗ Experience working with multiple countries in sub-sahara Africa is
desirable
⇗ Deep experience with supporting those in extreme poverty through
microenterprise, savings Groups and familiarity with Poverty Graduation
approach
⇗ Ability to work in challenging and changing environments, and to see
through challenges to find solutions
⇗ Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to exercise diplomacy
and tact as demonstrated in previous roles that required communication with a
broad and diverse set of partners.
⇗ Outstanding communication skills, both in writing, in person, and via other
forms of communication.
⇗ Computer literate and proficient in basic Microsoft packages and email and
other technology including project management software, salesforce, cloud
storage etc.
⇗ Ability to use and interpret data for decision making and enhancing overall
organizational performance and business success.
⇗ Fluency in English is a must.
How to Apply ⇒
All interested and qualified candidates who meet the set criteria are invited
to send their Cover Letter and CV Maximum 3 pages including 3 referees,
salary history and expectation online. Please log into
https//hrmis.villageenterprise.org/UgandaCareers
Please register and create a profile, attach your applications and detailed CV
as single file then follow the prompts to submit your applications.
Applications should be addressed to The Human Resources Coordinator.

Deadline 5 th February 2021

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