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Job Title:  Urban Small Business
Development Officer

Organization: Finnish
Refugee Council (FRC)

Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda

Reports to: Livelihood
and Business Training Team Leader

About US:

Finnish Refugee
Council (FRC) is an INGO promoting adult education and community development
among refugees since 1997 as an operational partner to UNHCR and OPM.

           

Job Summary:  The Urban Small Business Development Officer
will mainly develop and hands on implement among urban refugees, mostly in
Kampala, the Business Skill training activities including guidance to their
small urban enterprises, business planning and budgeting. The incumbent will
ensure regular visits to monitor activities and conduct timely reporting.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

Technical advice
and skill development (40%)

·        
Identify
technical capacity and challenges for beneficiaries, skills and knowledge they
have in small entrepreneurship, business skills, income generation and
livelihood activities in urban context, including saving and loans.

·        
Identify
and train volunteer Business Facilitators at community level to teach and
mentor business learners, and monitor the teaching.

·        
Provide
advisory and mentoring support to existing / established enterprises of the
business skill learners on business planning, budgeting and record keeping.

·        
Train
beneficiaries on governance and leadership, rapid appraisal of income
generating activities and other capacity building trainings in order to enhance
knowledge and skills to manage themselves independently.

Monitoring,
Evaluation, Learning and Reporting (30%)

·        
Conduct
regular follow up visits to Business Skill learning groups, and learners’ enterprises,
to see if they are applying the practises, and provide technical advice and
mentoring.

·        
Track
progress of the Business learning groups, and learners’ enterprises, and keep
records.

·        
Facilitate
data collection, and manage the information flow to the Team Leader and Program
Manager.

·        
Support
the preparation of business skill learners’ enterprises own monitoring plans.

·        
Consolidate
and compile monthly, quarterly and annual reports, inclusive of success stories
and lessons learnt.

Facilitate planning
and organising of Business Training Course and development of learners’
entrepreneurship skills (20%)

·        
Conduct
awareness on Small Business Skill Training course and entrepreneurship skill
development among refugees and Ugandans in Kampala.

·        
Develop
work plans to ensure effective implementation of Business Skill Training.

·        
Facilitate
establishment of Business Skill learning groups.

·        
Keep
up-to-date with development issues and trends with regard to income generation
and small businesses in urban context in Uganda.

Other (10 %)

·        
Facilitate
and link Business skill learners and entrepreneurs to trainings on life skills
such as basic literacy and numeracy, VSLA, household financial affairs, risk
management and planning.

·        
Facilitate
and link Business Skill learners’ enterprises to economic development
activities provided by other actors.

·        
Make
sure there is balanced gender representation amongst beneficiaries, and women,
youth and disabled are included.

·        
Liaise
with the Livelihood and Business Training Team Leader for all decisions related
to Business Skill learning groups, entrepreneurship activities, VSLAs and
livelihoods, and carry out other duties as may be assigned.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

·        
The
ideal candidate for the Finnish Refugee Council (FRC) Urban Small Business
Development Officer job must hold a Bachelor’s degree
in Entrepreneurship, Business management, Economics, Urban Development or
similar with strong experience on small scale urban business.

·        
Experience
in VSLA methodology, livelihoods, microfinance and IGA methodology.

·        
Knowledge
and hands-on-experience on running small urban enterprise is a must.

·        
Experienced
facilitator and trainer, with training material development skills.

·        
Three
years of professional work experience in small urban business and enterprise
promotion.

·        
Working
experience in resilience initiatives is highly preferred. 

·        
Ability
to work with minimal supervision and achieve results.

·        
Experience
working with non-governmental organisations, local communities, authorities.

·        
Ability
to use standard computing packages.

·        
Knowledge
of some of the languages spoken by major refugee groups in Kampala; Somali,
Kiswahili, Kinyarwanda.

How to Apply:

All candidates
should send their Email applications to
frcugandaadmin@refugeecouncil.fi  

Please include in
your application letter:

• Gross salary request,
• Maximum 4-page long CV
• Contact details (email and telephone) of
  3 professional reference persons.

Deadline: 24^th July 2019

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