Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Development & Business Advisory

• Support business diagnostics and assessments for MSMEs, farmer organizations, cooperatives, and startups.
  
• Assist entrepreneurs in identifying business growth opportunities and operational improvements.
  
• Support the development of business growth plans and enterprise action plans.
  
• Conduct basic financial and operational assessments to identify business constraints.
  

Venture Incubation & Acceleration

• Support the identification and profiling of high-potential entrepreneurs and enterprises.
  
• Assist in delivering business incubation and acceleration activities.
  
• Support entrepreneurs in validating business ideas, refining business models, and developing market-driven solutions.
  
• Monitor enterprise progress and document key milestones and lessons learned.
  

Market Research & Commercial Intelligence

• Conduct market research to identify emerging business opportunities, market trends, and investment opportunities.
  
• Support value chain analyses and market assessments.
  
• Collect and analyze market intelligence to inform enterprise development interventions.
  
• Prepare market briefs and opportunity reports.
  

Investment Readiness & Enterprise Growth

• Support entrepreneurs in developing investment-ready business plans.
  
• Assist in preparing financial projections, costing models, and business cases.
  
• Support enterprises to improve access to finance by preparing documentation for investors, SACCOs, financial institutions, and development partners.
  
• Contribute to investor profiling and enterprise matchmaking activities.
  

Business Development & Partnerships

• Support the organization of entrepreneurship forums, business networking events, investor engagements, and enterprise development workshops.
  
• Assist in building relationships with ecosystem partners including incubators, accelerators, financial institutions, buyers, and technical experts.
  
• Support market linkage initiatives between enterprises and commercial partners.
  

Monitoring, Learning & Knowledge Management

• Collect enterprise performance data and track key business indicators.
  
• Support preparation of case studies, success stories, and learning briefs.
  
• Document enterprise innovations, lessons learned, and emerging best practices.
  
• Contribute to programme reporting and knowledge products.
  

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with programme teams to support enterprise development activities across different value chains.
  
• Contribute to proposal development, research assignments, and strategic initiatives where required.
  
• Perform other venture development and business support assignments as assigned.