Senior Business Growth Adviser at Ongoza

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About the role

You will also contribute to strategy and innovative partnerships. You will report directly to the program manager, with 3-4 direct reports under you.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Ensure growth of the youth enterprises in your team’s portfolio through timely delivery of advisory services by your team of advisors.
• Draw on internal successes and failures as well as field wide lessons to be a key mentor and guide for Ongoza’s Business Growth Advisors.
• Facilitate learning and best practice sharing on a regular basis. Develop and implement a standardized and replicable approach for the delivery of our advisory services.
• You will work with your own small portfolio of young entrepreneurs (up to 5) and support them towards growing their businesses.
• Provide practical strategic advisory and assistance to help clients harness opportunities, structure their business more effectively, and drive growth.
• Advise clients on investment needs and connect them to financial services, including via our exclusive partnership with Key Partners Ltd.
• Identify and tap into market opportunities that would be beneficial for Ongoza’s clients, when time allows.
• Strategic Program Management (10%)
• Ensure that innovations, tools, and strategies are communicated and fully implemented within your team.
• General Administration (10%)
  • Ensure that all client files are updated appropriately and the Business Growth Advisory team is collecting relevant and quality data for Ongoza’s learning department.
  • You are a natural leader and are great at mentoring others. You demonstrate a natural ability to connect with, motivate, and support others to grow.
  • You thrive in an entrepreneurial environment. You are an independent self-starter who flourishes in a changing environment and can manage yourself. You have excellent collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills.
  • You make things happen. You have a proven track record of meeting targets on time and within budget. You are creative, solution-oriented, and willing to put in the time it takes to do a great job. You follow through.
• Most of all, you believe in our vision and mission – the power of youth-led social businesses to transform Kenya.

Required experience and skillset

• Direct work experience with entrepreneurs and small businesses highly preferred.
• Demonstrated excellent understanding of strategies for how to help businesses grow, with expertise in one or more of the following areas: business finance, business planning, and strategy, sales, and marketing, product development, or human resource management.
• An in-depth understanding of the Kenyan informal sector is essential.
• Must have a learning and change-oriented mindset - willing to take calculated risks, think outside the box and try new ideas.
• Demonstrated ability to build structures and processes that optimize a team’s efficiency and accountability.
• Experience in curriculum development and training is an added advantage.
• An excellent relationship builder and communicator, both verbally and written, who enjoys being an active member of a team.