Lead the delivery and quality assurance of the approved NYOTA BDS curriculum across assigned locations, ensuring consistent application of the approved training methodology, standards, delivery schedules and MSEA requirements.
Facilitate practical, experiential and participant-centred BDS sessions, adapting examples, case studies and exercises to local market realities, refugee and host-community contexts, and participants’ literacy, language, ability and learning needs.
Deliver and reinforce core business skills, including financial literacy, record keeping, marketing, customer relations, business planning, digital tools and market access, alongside entrepreneurial mindset and socio-emotional skills such as initiative, resilience, communication, teamwork, goal setting and problem solving.
Connect classroom learning to participants’ existing businesses, business ideas and market opportunities, providing technical guidance on enterprise development, market identification, business challenges and relevant market, value-chain, financial and business-network linkages.
Lead or co-facilitate approved Training of Trainers (ToT) programmes, assess trainer readiness, conduct trainer observations and provide ongoing coaching and structured feedback to address identified training delivery gaps.
Work closely with mentors to ensure mentorship reinforces the BDS curriculum and responds to participants’ business needs, including providing technical guidance, supporting referrals and contributing to structured post-training follow-up.
Conduct routine quality assurance of BDS training sessions, materials, attendance, trainer deployment and participant engagement, and follow up on identified gaps to ensure consistent delivery across assigned locations.
Collect and analyse participant and trainer feedback and use findings, together with implementation experience, to recommend adaptations and improvements to BDS delivery.
Maintain accurate training records, attendance documentation and required programme data, and ensure training and progress reports are submitted within agreed timelines.
Document lessons learned, good practices, implementation challenges and recommendations to support programme learning, adaptation and reporting.
Ensure gender-responsive, disability-inclusive, culturally appropriate and safe learning approaches are applied throughout NYOTA BDS delivery, including appropriate confidential feedback and referral mechanisms.
Coordinate closely with the NYOTA Team Lead/Manager, BDS Officers, trainers, mentors and other programme teams, and engage with MSEA and relevant government, UN, NGO, private-sector and community stakeholders as required.
Support the delivery of business information, networking and market-linkage activities as assigned.
Any other tasks as delegated by the line manager.
What you will bring
professional competencies
Bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship, business management, business administration, economics, development studies, livelihoods or a related field.
Minimum three (3) years of specific experience and demonstrated technical capacity in implementing BDS and/or entrepreneurship programmes, including business/entrepreneurship training.
Proficiency in written and spoken English and Kiswahili.
Knowledge of Swahili, Arabic, French or other languages commonly used in Kenyan refugee settings is an advantage.
Experience working in Kakuma/Kalobeyei and/or Dadaab is highly desirable.
Demonstrated experience working with youth and vulnerable populations, preferably in refugee or displacement-affected settings.
Demonstrated experience delivering Training of Trainers and coaching or supervising trainers.
Practical experience supporting early-stage businesses in the micro and small enterprise sector.
Understanding of gender-responsive and disability-inclusive programming.
Strong facilitation, communication, coaching and interpersonal skills.