Key Responsibilities of the Youth Enterprise Development and Employment Advisor are:

• Facilitate active participation and trust-building with communities and other stakeholders.
• Continuously identify business opportunities for new youth-led MSEs and wage employment in the target regions and respective project areas.
• Facilitate the provision of basic life, business and technical skills training to young women and men job seekers based on the requirements of potential employers in partnership with training service providers and employers.
• Proactively identify enterprises and other actors for apprenticeship and on-the job training.
• Facilitate the provision of tailored business skills trainings to young women and men led MSEs (including soft, financial literacy and digital skills).
• Facilitate the provision of business development services.
• Link youth led MSEs with a selected financial institution.
• Engage in the identification of potential business development service providers.
• Facilitate to support business start-up.
• Capacitate youth-led MSEs.
• Facilitate brokering and professionalization of market linkages.
• Accomplish related activities to ensure the jobs created are dignified and fulfilling.
• Ensure the regular project data collection and reporting timely.
• Contribute to the documentation of project lessons.
• Minimum Requirement:

  Qualification:

  • A bachelor’s degree preferably M.SC in the field (s) such as: Business, Business Administration, economics, marketing, Agri business, Agriculture, Entrepreneurship, Community development and adult education, Finance, Rural development, and/or related courses.

  Experience

  • Minimum five years and above years’ experience in enterprise development, agri business development, youth employment and livelihoods, marketing, microenterprise development, community based financial service, microfinance.
  • Good facilitation skill
  • Experiences of working in NGOs; and communities at grass root level are advantageous.

  Language Requirements:

  • Speaks the local language fluently.
  • Good written and spoken English.