Business Support Officer

Requirements

Core Competencies

The ideal candidate must:

• Have strong background in agriculture or agribusiness, with an entrepreneurial mind-set and the ability to identify and evaluate community-based business opportunities.
  
• Have basic financial literacy with the capacity to support youth and women in record keeping, business planning, and enterprise development.
  
• Have excellent communication, problem-solving, and innovative thinking skills, with the ability to work collaboratively in diverse teams and meet targets under pressure.
  
• Be detail-oriented, with the ability to work in varying weather conditions and undertake regular in-country travel.
  

• Conduct assessment on community business opportunities tailored for youth, women, and vulnerable groups.
  
• Conduct market assessments to evaluate the financial viability of proposed agricultural enterprises.
  
• Conduct skills gap assessments for onboarded youth and women groups.
  
• Support program partners in organizing entrepreneurial and business training for youths at the nurseries and demonstration fields.
  
• Collaborate with program partners in the creation of youth and women led businesses in targeted rural communities.
  
• Provide field updates to assist in preparing project progress reports and strategic planning for agricultural initiatives.
  
• Guide young entrepreneurs in drafting basic agribusiness plans and value chain models.
  
• Conduct enterprise verification exercises to evaluate program compliance and impact.
  
• Perform any other job-related task as may be assigned by the Supervisor.