Assistant Branch Manager
Western Region, Kenya
Up To 6 Positions Available
If you are a natural entrepreneur who loves working with people, creating an impact in health and selling life-saving products, you could be Living Goods’ next Assistant Branch Manager!
Living Goods supports a network of over 900 micro-entrepreneurs in Uganda and
Kenya who teach families in their communities how to improve health and well-being
while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified
foods, water filters, clean cook-stoves, and solar lights. If you are a natural entrepreneur who loves working with people, creating an impact in health and selling life-saving products, you could be Living Goods’ next Assistant Branch Manager!
As part of the Branch Team, you will
play a key role in supporting Community Health Promoters (CHPs) to deliver high
quality health care to their communities and generate sales of critical
products.
To be successful in this role you must be able to motivate others, have strong business skills, and want to be part of a cutting edge team that is setting the bar for how a social enterprise can improve health impacts in a sustainable way.
Responsibilities
To be successful in this role you must be able to motivate others, have strong business skills, and want to be part of a cutting edge team that is setting the bar for how a social enterprise can improve health impacts in a sustainable way.
Responsibilities
- Recruit, train and manage Community Health
Promoters.
- Motivate Community Health Promoters to meet
health and sales targets.
- Ensure all Community Health Promoters know and
follow health protocols (esp. diagnosis and treatment).
- Support Community Health Promoters in learning
and using correctly their smartphones and the health-centered Android apps
- Implement marketing and promotional efforts to
support agent sales.
- Contribute to Branch operations.
- Achieve sales targets and health impact goals.
- Manage inventory: Ensure no stock-outs and
ensure management on First In/First Out basis.
- Manage the financial operations, ensuring the
books balance; cash matches sales daily.
- Manage credit: deposit, timely repayments,
rigorous reporting.
- Build strong community relations.
Qualifications
- Diploma in Health related areas welcome.
- Minimum 1 year experience in health/community
related work.
- Team player with drive for results.
- Ability to provide guidance to Community
Health Promoters.
- Ability and willingness to work extensively in
the field.
- Ability to interact with community elders,
Community Health Promoters and clients.
- Ability to work under minimum supervision.
- Ability to test new innovations and learn
fast.
- Proficiency with Ms-Word and Excel and general
computer proficiency.
- Excellent oral communication skills in
English.
- Experienced in handling microcredit a plus
- Luhya, Luo, Kiswahili speaking added
advantage.
Compensation: A competitive salary and benefits package
commensurate with experience including health insurance, vacation, and a bonus
opportunity. The opportunity to enter an exciting career path within a fast and
growing mission driven team.
Life at Living Goods
Living Goods is aiming to make disruptive changes, dramatically improving the lives of underserved communities. We think big, but we operate small and nimble. At Living Goods, you will have the chance to use your creativity and work with your teammates to conceive and test new ideas every day.
Life at Living Goods
Living Goods is aiming to make disruptive changes, dramatically improving the lives of underserved communities. We think big, but we operate small and nimble. At Living Goods, you will have the chance to use your creativity and work with your teammates to conceive and test new ideas every day.
If you work well in a dynamic, highly
collaborative culture, if you set high standards for yourself and your
colleagues, if you know how to fail fast and learn fast, if you meet challenges
with calm determination and a sense of humor, you willthrive at Living Goods.
See www.livinggoods.org/principles.
How to Apply
CLICK HERE to apply for this position online on our applicant tracking system.
How to Apply
CLICK HERE to apply for this position online on our applicant tracking system.
Successful candidates will be
contacted for an interview.
For more information about Living Goods, please visit: www.livinggoods.org
follow us @Living_Goods
For more information about Living Goods, please visit: www.livinggoods.org
follow us @Living_Goods