Project Coordinator (NYOTA) Kenya Kakuma

Specific responsibilities:

• 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.