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  • Posted: Oct 19, 2018
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    Village Enterprise is a 501 non-profit organization that equips rural Africans living in extreme poverty with the resources to create sustainable businesses.
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    Village Enterprise Innovations Coordinator

    Job Description

    Job Location: Kitale, Kenya

    Contract: Full time, 2 years with opportunity to extend.

    Reports to: Senior Innovations Manager

    ABOUT THE JOB:

    Village Enterprise is seeking a candidate who is innovative, solution oriented and creative to support the Innovations Team activities and Village Enterprise mission on ending extreme poverty.

    The position holder involvement areas include; developing creative and innovative ideas around our Graduation Program; help in development of pilots by applying the key stages of Human Centered Design (Ideation, Piloting and Implementation); capacity training for Business Mentors and Field Coordinators and research and development of tools and strategies that ensure the organizations meets its goals.

    JOB DESCRIPTION:

    Core Program Support Responsibilities: 60%
    • Participate in designing, adaptation; coordinate implementation, and appraise pilot projects by employing human centered design thinking approaches.
    • Work with the field team to coordinate and periodically develop materials, plan and execute Business Mentor workshops.
    • Coordinate with the help of the field team to guide Bi-weekly meetings within the offices of mandate, by introducing creative materials and making them more effective.
    • Support new projects, ongoing projects and calendar activities like the Innovations Summit; on theme selection, planning and overall execution.
    • Participate in developing materials, inviting external resource persons that would be used to transfer knowledge and bridge capacities of Business Mentors and Field coordinators.
    • Participate in gathering of information and identifying sustainable partnerships on Financial Inclusion, Value Chain Development, Market Intelligence and linkages.
    • Write reports and develop presentations on ongoing projects, keep the whole team informed and update the documents on the various storage platforms like Google drive, and Box e.t.c.
    • Occasionally contribute to proposal development by keeping track of funding opportunities for the innovations teamwork and pass such opportunities to direct supervisor.
    • Assist in the development, assessment of standard operating tools like the Training Manual, Mentoring Guides and any other that may be introduced.
    • Participate in the development of training support materials like picture codes, charts and any other visual or audio aids.
    • Any other innovations work or program support work that may be assigned to you.
    Innovations and Cross-functionality Responsibilities: 40%
    • Be an ardent ambassador and advocate on Innovations Teams work internally and externally if and when given the opportunity.
    • Ensure synchronization of activities between the ACDs/RMs work plans and the Innovations teams work by communicating work plans and planned activities. 
    Communication and coordination of work
    • Weekly check-ins with supervisor (Plan and structure effective One-on-one’s)
    • Provide information on work plan on Google Work Plan sheet on a weekly basis.
    • Participate and contribute effectively during the weekly Innovations Team meetings
    • Prompt response to email communications/ report deadlines and any follow-ups as may be requested 
    Team Work and Interpersonal skills:
    • Leverage on his/her interpersonal skills to ensure cohesiveness and teamwork.
    • Coordinator will take the time to understand other Coordinator’s, Manager’s and Director’s projects and actively provide insightful input.
    • Coordinator thinks of how to improve synergies on the team and improve workflow as a team 
    Management and Leadership:
    • The Coordinator manages competing tasks and deadlines with openness and efficiency
    • The Coordinator manages his/her own projects, including tracking their own deadlines and deliverables and executing next steps without needing to be reminded or prompted.
    • Provides desired leadership and guidance, has personal initiative and is self-drive towards achieving organizations goals.

    INNOVATIONS COORDINATOR DESIRED SKILLS

    • Be a creative thinker with a natural knack towards developing projects and works that address the goals of the organization.
    • Be a solution oriented individual, who is able to asses, analyze situations and come up with well thought out solutions.
    • Detail oriented person, who strives to get in-depth understanding of pilots and projects through application of Human Centered Design Thinking methods.
    • The educational background that has created a base of understanding to be applied in the role. This will be a combination of university level degree preferably in Project Management/Agribusiness/Entrepreneurship, Micro-Finance or Business Administration and Management.
    • At least 3 years’ experience working in the Livelihoods development field, Value chains development, Market systems analysis, Market intelligence and linkages or rural micro-finance is a plus.

    Method of Application

    Please send your Resume and motivation letter as single file attachment, specifying how your experience and qualifications are well suited for this role to kenyajobs@villageenterprise.org.

    Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

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