Vacancy title:
Program Coordinator- Innovations

Jobs at:
Village Enterprise

Deadline of this Job:
31st October 2018

Duty Station:
Nairobi, Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: 12th October 2018 , Base Salary: Nof Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Company

JOB DETAILS:

Function: Innovations Coordinator, support the Innovations Team in Innovation, Research and Development within the graduation out of poverty space.
Job Title: Innovations Coordinator
Job Location: Kitale, Kenya
Contract: Full time, 2 years with opportunity to extend.
Reports to: Senior Innovations Manager

About the Job:
Village Enterprise is seeking a candidate who is innovative, solution oriented and creative to support the Innovations Team activities and Village Enterprise mission on ending extreme poverty.
The position holder involvement areas include; developing creative and innovative ideas around our Graduation Program; help in development of pilots by applying the key stages of Human Centered Design (Ideation, Piloting and Implementation); capacity training for Business Mentors and Field Coordinators and research and development of tools and strategies that ensure the organizations meets its goals.

Job Description:
Core Program Support Responsibilities: 60%

• Participate in designing, adaptation; coordinate implementation, and appraise pilot projects by employing human centered design thinking approaches.
  
• Work with the field team to coordinate and periodically develop materials, plan and execute Business Mentor workshops.
  
• Coordinate with the help of the field team to guide Bi-weekly meetings within the offices of mandate, by introducing creative materials and making them more effective.
  
• Support new projects, ongoing projects and calendar activities like the Innovations Summit; on theme selection, planning and overall execution.
  
• Participate in developing materials, inviting external resource persons that would be used to transfer knowledge and bridge capacities of Business Mentors and Field coordinators.
  
• Participate in gathering of information and indentifying sustainable partnerships on Financial Inclusion, Value Chain Development, Market Intelligence and linkages.
  
•  Write reports and develop presentations on ongoing projects, keep the whole team informed and update the documents on the various storage platforms like Google drive, and Box e.t.c.
  
•  Occasionally contribute to proposal development by keeping track of funding opportunities for the innovations teamwork and pass such opportunities to direct supervisor.
  
• Assist in the development, assessment of standard operating tools like the Training Manual, Mentoring Guides and any other that may be introduced.
  
• Participate in the development of training support materials like picture codes, charts and any other visual or audio aids.
  
• Any other innovations work or program support work that may be assigned to you.
  Innovations and Cross-functionality Responsibilities: 40%
  
• Be an ardent ambassador and advocate on Innovations Teams work internally and externally if and when given the opportunity.
  
• Ensure synchronization of activities between the ACDs/RMs work plans and the Innovations teams work by communicating work plans and planned activities.
  Communication and coordination of work
  
• Weekly check-ins with supervisor (Plan and structure effective One-on-one’s)
  
• Provide information on work plan on Google Work Plan sheet on a weekly basis.
  
• Participate and contribute effectively during the weekly Innovations Team meetings
  
• Prompt response to email communications/ report deadlines and any follow-ups as may be requested
  

Team Work and Interpersonal skills:

• Leverage on his/her interpersonal skills to ensure cohesiveness and teamwork.
  
• Coordinator will take the time to understand other Coordinator’s, Manager’s and Director’s projects and actively provide insightful input.
  
• Coordinator thinks of how to improve synergies on the team and improve workflow as a team
  Management and Leadership:
  
• The Coordinator manages competing tasks and deadlines with openness and efficiency
  
• The Coordinator manages his/her own projects, including tracking their own deadlines and deliverables and executing next steps without needing to be reminded or prompted.
  
• Provides desired leadership and guidance, has personal initiative and is self-driven towards achieving organizations goals.
  

Innovations Coordinator desired skills

• Be a creative thinker with a natural knack towards developing projects and works that address the goals of the organization.
  
• Be a solution oriented individual, who is able to asses, analyze situations and come up with well thought out solutions.
  
• Detail oriented person, who strives to get in-depth understanding of pilots and projects through application of Human Centered Design Thinking methods.
  
• The educational background that has created a base of understanding to be applied in the role.

This will be a combination of university level degree preferably in Project Management/Agribusiness/Entrepreneurship, Micro-Finance or Business Administration and Management.

• At least 3 years experience working in the Livelihoods development field, Value chains development, Market systems analysis, Market intelligence and linkages or rural micro-finance is a plus.
  Please send your Resume and motivation letter as single file attachment, specifying how your experience and qualifications are well suited for this role to kenyajobs@villageenterprise.org
  Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
  and qualifications are well suited for this role to kenyajobs@villageenterprise.org