Business Acceleration Expert Employment Opportunity – Interchurch Organisation for Development Co-operation (ICCO)

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Organization: Interchurch Organisation for Development
Co-operation (ICCO)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Interchurch
Organisation for Development Co-operation (ICCO) was established in 1964 and
became a cooperation in 2012. The founding members of the ICCO Cooperation are
Edukans, the Protestant Church of the Netherlands (Kerk in Actie) and the
association Prisma. Within a coherent programmatic framework, the ICCO
Cooperation offers worldwide financial support, brokerage and capacity building
to local non-governmental organizations, the private sector, churches and
networks that work on sustainable economic development, democracy and peace,
access to basic services (health and education), food security and climate
mitigation.
Job Summary: The ICCO Business Acceleration Expert works with
SME (agri-) businesses to grow them stronger to economic sustainability for
social impact. ICCO AbB as a participant in the venture assigns the Business
Acceleration Expert to the business for providing and organizing agreed
packages of support in the areas of business planning, marketing, systems,
financing, coaching, and which are structured as investments in the company. The
business acceleration experts works closely with the entrepreneur and the
company’s management team, as well as with hired external service providers in
the realization of the support packages agreed. The Business Acceleration
Expert will be tasked to grow businesses to economic sustainability for social
impact by organizing and providing a tailor-made package of support to these
companies.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
1. Identification: In charge
of scouting of potential SME (agri-) businesses for business acceleration &
investment in the relevant (sub-)sectors set by ICCO
2, Business Incubation/
Acceleration:
  • Support the entrepreneur/ businesses in
    turning ideas into viable businesses by developing the concept, the
    business case, identifying the impact, the market, and finding partners
  • Support to validation and proof of concept of
    starting businesses
  • Provide business development services to
    entrepreneurs/ businesses as mutually agreed
  • Organize outsourced parts of the package,
    manage and follow up on the results
  • With the entrepreneur, develop business plans
    looking at different scenarios of growth, quantitative achievements, and
    short, medium, and long term financing needs
  • Identify investors and financing
    institutions, and raise optimum financing mix of debt and equity for the
    businesses
  • Significantly contribute to the regular
    reporting to stakeholders and investors on improvements in the business
    and help company management to plan the next steps
3. Other:
  • Build networks of coaches and mentors as well
    as service providers for supporting the entrepreneurs/ businesses
  • Identify legal and regulatory issues and
    address them
  • Actively contribute to the development and
    branding of the ICCO AbB and raise funds as per requirement of the
    organization and the enterprises
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The applicant should hold a Business Degree
    from an accredited University strongly preferred to be completed in
    English; an advanced degree in sustainability, ethical business or similar
    area is considered an asset.
  • Working knowledge of regional or global
    sustainability topics, trends and opportunities is important.
  • Significant eroven expertise in Agri-business
    development from investor/program pitches, proposal writing, ongoing
    relationship building, and contract signing.
  • The ideal candidates would have at least five
    years’ experience working in Agri-business development or related
    function, with a preference for more years, or be equipped with an
    impressive substitute.
  • Previous work or substantial knowledge in
    Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) value chain development in agriculture,
    Inclusive Business and Sustainable Development Dynamics fields will
    considered as strong assets.
  • Background in private sector, entrepreneurial
    mind-set, risk-taker and strong business acumen
  • Creative, curious, pro-active
  • Impact-driven, strong set of ownership for
    every deliverable
  • Ability to attract investors and partners and
    have strong network capabilities
  • Can work in a team as well as individually,
    ability to work under minimum supervision
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Familiarity with agriculture, agribusiness
    and SMEs
  • Proven expertise with SME admin, finance,
    management and systems
How to Apply: 
All
suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their updated CVs of not
more than 3 pages and a motivational letter of not more than 1 page to: David.Kamukama@icco-cooperation.org
via E-mail only. All applications should be clearly marked: “ICCO Cooperation –
Business Acceleration Expert” and no email should exceed 2MB.
Deadline: 4th April 2016 by 5:00PM
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