Job Advert: Entrepreneurship Manager
CAP Youth Empowerment Institute Kenya, supported by MasterCard Foundation, is established to provide Basic Employability Skills Training (BEST) for disadvantaged youth with particular focus on women to get equitable, qualitative learning and access to promising labour market oriented opportunities, savings and credit that support their pathways to safe and positive futures.
About the Position: Entrepreneurship Manager will coordinate the
entrepreneurship and financial components of the employability project.
Entrepreneurship components provide young people with knowledge and skills
required to start, run and manage their own businesses.
Duties and Responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
- Reviewing and supporting the implementation of
Entrepreneurship and financial literacy curriculums.
- Ensuring efficient delivery of
entrepreneurship module.
- Coaching and mentoring young entrepreneurs.
- Conduct training need assessments, identify
areas that require strengthening, develop a capacity building strategy,
and assist in its implementation to address the identified gaps.
- Network with financial institutions to assist
youth obtain funding for their businesses.
- Assessing the business plans prepared by the
youth and recommending necessary changes that make the business plans
competitive.
- Help youth establish growth oriented business
and micro franchises.
- Monitoring the delivery of Entrepreneurship
Training.
- Monitor the training of youth in the
implementation of group savings, loans and business development skills.
- Monitoring and reviewing the progress of
youth.
- Facilitate market linkages and business
networks for the micro and small enterprises.
- Organizing entrepreneurship events in liaison
with center coordinators, Centre coordinators and regional coordinators
- Help youth access credit facilities from
credible financial institutions e.g. banks, MFIs.
- Mobilizing and supporting the youths to form
groups, start businesses and link them to financial institutions.
- Monitoring the entrepreneurship activities
across all centers.
- Working with facilitators to support trainees
to set up Enterprises.
- Document best practices of financial literacy
and entrepreneurship to help in developing and improving the existing
material on financial literacy.
- Identify and pursue opportunities to bring
financial literacy initiatives into the program.
Requirements
- Experience working in an entrepreneurial
environment
- 3 years’ relevant experience.
- Experience in working with a financial
institution will be an added advantage.
- Ability to forge partnerships.
- Degree in Entrepreneurship/Education or
related field.
- Excellent networking & presentation
skills.
- Resourcefulness, strategic thinking, creative
problem solving and basic financial management skills.
- Proven ability to follow through on objectives
and produce timely results with little supervision.
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and
written.
- Basic computer skills and the ability to
communicate effectively by email.
How to Apply
To express interest in this
opportunity, send your CV to recruitment.capyei@gmail.com by 20th September
2014.
Cover letter should be pasted on the
body of the email and not as an attachment.
Applicants are required to quote
their current and expected salary in the cover letter.
Only short listed candidates will be
contacted.