CASHA Business Coaches- Laikipia

Minimum Qualification and Required Competencies

- Degree in Business, Commerce, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Agriculture, Livestock,

- 3-5 year experience working with young men and women, SMEs and their markets and especially along the livestock and agri-related value chain

-. Proven experience in delivering business development services (BDS) and fostering business growth and social inclusion in the ASAL regions.

- Strong mentorship and coaching skills.

- Understanding of market trends and strategies for market entry especially for micro-enterprise startups

- Experience in data collection, entry, analysis and ability to draw data insights for decision making.

-. Have a valid motorcycle license A1/A2 and has experience on how to ride a motorcycle

- Possess excellent soft skills - interpersonal skills; communication, empathy, problem solving, conflict resolution, collaboration,

-. Have basic experience in mobile data collection, Microsoft office, self-driven, and able to work with minimum supervision. Salesforces experience is an added advantage

-. MUST be a resident of respective Counties in which CASHA will be implemented.

Tasks and Responsibilities

- Participate in participant selection and onboarding to CASHA program through established selection criteria.

-. Provide training and mentorship through the REAP graduation model components by layering and integrating gender responsive strategies to build strong enterprises in the livestock and agri-related value chains

-. Organize enrolled participants to establish community-based structures including business groups, livestock aggregation groups, cooperatives, value chain aggregation groups, Village, Savings and Loaning Associations (VSLAs) as per the program design.

- Support participants to identify, establish and run viable and profitable businesses in the livestock and agri-related value chains

- Collaborate with County Government, Research Institutions, TVETs, Private Sectors to leverage on their skills, networks, markets to unlock opportunities for participants to thrive in business and employment opportunities

-. Conduct monthly business groups mentorship activities, market and financial linkages with other system actors as per the program design.

- Conduct monthly savings groups capacity building activities including facilitating savings and lending sessions, life skills, financial literacy trainings, registration of VSLAs, linkages to markets and other government opportunities

- Guide participants to develop strong business plans and apply for the Challenge Fund grant to grow their businesses.

-. Follow-up on the utilization of the Challenge Fund grant in the business

-. Conducting monthly micro-training sessions as per the project training schedule

-. Collaborate with other departments and consortium partners to strengthen program activity integration for better outcomes

- Collect data in a structured process as per M&E plan to track the progress of business groups and savings groups towards graduation.

-. Data integrity: Adherence to data quality as outlined in data quality SoP.

- Maintain monthly business group and VSLA key performance indicators as outlined in M&E plan.

- Utilize all assigned monitoring tools and data collection tools as guided by Cluster Lead, M&E and IT departments.

-. Maintain all working tools, tablets and motorcycles in good working condition at all times, fuel logs and other repairs are submitted on time.

- Participate in weekly, monthly and quarterly review and reflection meetings, planning meetings as planned.

- Document monthly reports including success stories, lessons learned, adaptations required and data insights for decision making

-. Any other assignments as guided by your supervisor.