Summary
Date Posted: Friday, July 19, 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The Enterprise Development Manager position contributes to the organization’s strategic priority of scaling up the impact of our work through the development of strong and sustainable farmer business organizations. Reporting to the Country Director the Enterprise Development Manager will be responsible for ensuring that project staff, farmer groups, cooperatives, and associations have the knowledge and skills to develop and run successful enterprises and cooperatives. In close collaboration and coordination with the Project Coordinators and cooperatives committees, He/she will ensure successful, innovative, efficient, and effective functioning of all enterprise hubs and cooperatives in the Kenya Country Program through effective business planning, business training and developing private sector linkages in collaboration with other departments towards achieving the common goal. .

Job Responsibilities:
• Review the Cooperative Business Development work and within the first 6 months develop the strategic goals and outputs for the Business Development in the cooperatives.
• Annually update and track the progress towards the business goals and plans for the Cooperatives
• Coordinate and document all the economic analysis and value chain studies for the various projects allocated and cooperatives.
• Develop and ensure an appropriate training package for business training for the Cooperatives and Agriculture Project that includes 4 modules in business planning, business skills, strategic planning and entrepreneurship training modules for use in training farmer groups.
• Undertake with the support of the Project coordinators a biannual review of the training materials and delivery processes to ensure the effectiveness of the Cooperative business model.
• Develop and annually update a list of partnerships with business organizations, academic institutions and experts and trainers to be employed in the capacity building of partners, cooperatives and farmers.
• Support in the growth and sustainability of the Cooperative model for business implementation and contribute to the establishment of functional market structures for all projects (Collection Centers, Processing Units, and Bulking Centers) as appropriate to the commodities the projects promote.
• Support the operationalization and tracking of business and marketing plans for cooperatives through joint planning, monitoring, and collaboration with the Project Coordinators.

Job Skills: Not Specified

Job Qualifications:
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management with at least (5) years proven experience in setting up and running an Agribusiness Enterprise(s), specifically, livestock enterprises and cooperative developments.
• At least five (5) years’ experience in fields related to agro-enterprise development (specifically livestock enterprises) and cooperative development.
• Significant experience in building public/private partnerships..
• Demonstrated experience in conducting business, investment analyses, and capital budgeting and sufficient evidence on how the results were used to develop potentially viable business ideas and subsequently tangible businesses.
• Demonstrated experience in project management including in donor project budgets management, proposal development and monitoring and evaluation.
• Demonstrated project reporting and donor reporting experience.

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

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Job application procedure
Qualified candidates should forward their CV’s and written applications to aurumconsultantsltd@gmail.com Candidates should be willing to work in a remote area in Nyanza.

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