Millennium Promise Business/ EnterpriseTechnical Facilitator Job in Kenya

Program Description: 

Millennium Promise (MP) is the leading international non-profit organization solely committed to supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to halve extreme poverty by 2015. Its flagship initiative is the Millennium Villages Project In collaboration with the Earth Institute at Columbia University; Millennium Promise has the administrative and operations responsibility of the Millennium Villages Project, which supports integrated social and business development services for more than 500,000 people in rural communities across 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. (Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda)The organization engages partners from the private and public sectors, national governments, and individuals
 

We are looking to recruit dynamic, self-driven individual to fill the following position in our team
 

Technical Facilitator – Business/ Enterprise

Staff Responsible To: To Team Leader through Enterprise Coordinator

Duty Station - Yala

Roles & Responsibilities

• Provide timely technical advice and coordinate with the MVP cooperative sector to develop fundable business plans and ensure timely execution of plans;
• Carry out continuous assessment of the status of the existing cooperatives across the Sauri MVP cluster and identify appropriate areas of intervention for capacity building, investment to ensure functionality and growth of the cooperatives;
• Develop, promote, and manage relationships with business partners, including with financial institutions to support the extension of credit to smallholder farmers and functional cooperatives;
• Train common interest groups, cooperatives and other organized groups prudent financial management systems not limited to bookkeeping, membership maintenance, service provision, business planning;
• Nurture and oversee maintenance of a Checks and balances, proper record keeping, including books of accounts and compilation of monthly financial reports.
• Ensure societies adopt best practices in terms of disbursement and payments, banking, reconciliations, and inventory of society assets.
• Prepare M&E frameworks, systems, tools, to monitor the operation of the enterprises.
• Provide liaison with stakeholders starting with contact farmers/entrepreneurs, Government, Business Development Service (BDS) providers and Microfinance Institutions (MFI)/partners the project hence acting as the contact person for the BDS providers and MFI’s operating in the project area and creating linkages with other players/partners who are outside the project area but whose services are required.
• Building the capacity of business and other project committee’s on business management.

Required Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Agri-Business, Business Management or equivalent.
• At least three (3) years field experience in the successful design and implementation of innovative small-scale business enterprises in rural areas; community agri-business related work/ extension approach in a rural setting, particularly in Western Kenya. Experience in food processing desirable
• Experience in rural enterprise micro-finance, input delivery systems, and agricultural processing and marketing.
• Experience in development of business plans and feasibility studies for rural enterprises;
• Rider licence.

How To Apply

Applicants should indicate the position title on their application letters and send to the Team Leader/Cluster Manager-Millennium Villages Project through email: mvpsauri@millenniumpromise.org

Applications should include the following:

• A cover letter illustrating your suitability for the position, and your salary expectations.
• Detailed and up-to-date curriculum vitae.
• The names and addresses of three referees, including telephone numbers and email addresses

Application Deadline

Applications are due not later than 30th June 2013

MVP/mp is an equal opportunity employer and does not charge any fee at any stage of its recruitment process

Including application, interview and processing of offer letter.

We invite you to learn more about as at; www.millenniumpromise.org www.unmillenniumproject.org www.mdgcenter.org

Only short listed applicants will be contacted