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Job Title:    Business Mentor (20 No Experience Job Vacancies)

Organisation: Village Enterprise

Duty Station:   Uganda

About US:

Village Enterprise’s mission is to end extreme poverty in rural Africa through entrepreneurship and innovation. Village Enterprise targets the poor, provides business training, seed capital/startup funds and on-going mentoring to over 10,000 new entrepreneurs to start 3,000 enterprises each year. Since its inception in 1987, Village Enterprise has started over 40,000 micro-enterprises.

About DREAMS Project:

Delivering Resilient Enterprises and Market Systems (DREAMS) for refugees provides an innovative solution that will drive refugee self-reliance. Working in Uganda and Ethiopia–home to 10% of the world’s refugee population–DREAMS will provide 150,000 of the most vulnerable refugees with the security and dignity that comes from providing for one’s family. The program will integrate two proven models –poverty graduation and Market Systems Development –layering these approaches in a new way that will ensure that the poorest refugee households are able to improve their income and well-being significantly. Graduation will provide the capital and skills to support refugees as they establish their businesses, and Market Systems Development will help build market access pathways to ensure those businesses can be successful. Through rigorous evaluation, we will generate evidence that DREAMS’ approach to self-reliance is not only possible, but also more cost effective than long-term food assistance.

Job Summary:  A Village Enterprise Business Mentor is passionate about alleviating poverty in their region and dedicated to their roles as trainer, mentor and community leader.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:  

• Micro Enterprise Development
• Training and Disbursement
• Business Saving groups formation
• Business and Business Saving Groups Mentoring
• Regional Exposure and analysis
• Program Reporting
• Safeguarding

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Minimum qualification of diploma in the fields of Social work, development studies, Agriculture, animal husbandry, education, project planning and Management, Entrepreneurship, business management or any other related field.
• At least two years of experience in adult teaching, community training, business mentoring and/or community service.
• Competent adult trainer and change agent
• Ability to deliver content to adult/ semi illiterate learners in Local languages. Fluency in Lugbara and/or Arabic is a MUST.
• Ability to coach beneficiaries to be able to identify, start and manage viable and sustainable businesses within the domain of VE policy and relevant Government regulations.
• Attention to details including detailed and timely feedback on program progress as of when required
• Should respect community/beneficiary values and belief systems and be able to strike a balance between those values and VE policies and program expectations.
• Strong communication skills
• Strong information technology skills in the use of digital data collection tools, internet application, google documents and Microsoft office applications.

How to Apply:

All candidates should please send your application and CV in single attachment to ugandajobs@villageenterprise.org addressed to the Human Resource Coordinator, P.O BOX 274, Soroti-Uganda. Email subject should read “DREAMS PROJECT BUSINESS MENTOR.”

Your cover letter should explain why your experience and background make you the ideal candidate for this position, and should be no more than one page.

Note: Please do not contact Village Enterprise to enquire as to the status of your application. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Deadline: 17^th December 2021.

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