Scope of Work (SoW) for a Business Intern to Conduct a Case Study (Re - Advertisement)
Location: Kenya
Duration: 6
Months
Subject: SoW for intern conducting case studies
TechnoServe, Inc. is an international
nonprofit development organization founded in 1968. Its mission is to work with
enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms,
businesses and industries.
Primary Project Purpose and
Background Information: TechnoServe has
forged a partnership with Partners in Food Solutions (PFS) to improve the
capacity of African based food processing companies.
PFS is an umbrella organization that
represents General Mills, Cargill, DSM and BÜhler, some of the world’s leading
food processing companies and utilizes volunteers and facilities from those
organizations to transfer capacity building knowledge and technology to African
food processors.
The goal of the program is to help
African based food companies become competitive suppliers of finished food
products that meet local and regional quality standards, including products needed
by vulnerable populations via food aid markets.
A key component of strengthening
local competitiveness is learning from successes and failures that are
encountered in the process of project implementation.
The internship will focus on
particular projects/business case and collect detailed information on their
implementation and results and at the end come up with a case study with
details on why the project/business case succeeded or failed.
This case study will be used in
future design and implementation of such projects and will ensure that
successes are adopted and issues that could contribute to failure are avoided.
Scope: The intern will work in partnership with program
staff (and in collaboration with remote support / input from PFS in the US) on
an ongoing project on full time basis to enable him/her capture the finer
details of the project’s implementation.
The internship will take approximately 6 months and at the end of the internship, the intern is expected to have gathered enough data and information to:
- Document the entire project implementation
- Document key success factors
- Point out issues that would lead to failure
- Prepare a comprehensive case study that can be
used for future learning purposes
Deliverables
- A documented case study on the selected
project
- A power point presentation of the case study
- Presentation of the study to stakeholders
Skills Required
- Ongoing MBA/MSC Finance/Entrepreneurship
- Proficiency in English
- Computer literacy
- Good presentation skills and report writing skills
- Excellent analytical skills
Fees & Expenses: TechnoServe will provide a subsistence allowance
for the intern and will also provide internship related transport for visits to
and from the project site.
Other Information: The scope of work is subject to change.
Send your application letter and CV to: ke-recruit@tns.org by 22nd August 2014.
www.technoserve.org
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Annex 1: Business Case Study
Topic: “Raising Business Finance by Small Growing Businesses (SGBs) processing
food in Kenya: A case study of Mwailu Ltd”
Introduction: This
case study should provide an analysis and evaluation on accessibility of
finance by food processors. This will be done by assessing the current and
prospective profitability, liquidity and financial stability and any other
factors that affects the A2F of Mwailu Ltd. Methods of analysis should include
trend, horizontal and vertical analyses as well as ratios such as Debt, Current
and Quick ratios.
Other calculations should be rates of
return on any potential shareholders’ Equity and Total Assets and earnings per
share to name a few.
Mwailu Ltd. was established in 1981. Currently has 15 employees, and supports 2000 small holder farmers by leveraging on USAID support for grain aggregation. Their main business has been aggregation and sale of whole grain to processors.
The business has been working on
initiating a grain processing unit. In the process they have engaged different
financiers including Equity bank and Root Capital with no much success in the
funding for the processing unit.
The company has accessed funding by
Equity bank for farm machinery purchase.
The case study is designed to be carried out as a MBA/MSC (Finance) project by the selected student.
The student will work out the modalities
of approval and any suggested modification by their supervisors retaining the
area of interests for the SAFE program.
The findings of the case study will
be co-owned by the student and the SAFE program for the purpose of use for any
purpose the program will deem right.
Timelines