Investing in Young Businesses in Africa - Supporting Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Development (TEI IYBA-SEED)
Task description:
Overall responsibility for the implementation of the advisory packages of the contractor.
Provide technical inputs, advisory, and support in the implementation of activities.
Ensuring the coherence and complementarity of the contractor’s services with other services delivered by the project at local and national level.
Design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of capacity development measures for local partners.
Responsibility for taking cross-cutting themes into consideration (for example, gender equality and green transformation).
Staff management, in particular identifying the need for short-term assignments within the available budget, planning and managing the assignments and supporting all experts.
Ensuring that monitoring procedures are carried out.
Regular reporting in accordance with deadlines.
Responsibility for checking the use of funds and financial planning in consultation with the officer responsible for the commission at GIZ.
Supporting the officer responsible for the commission in updating and/or adapting the project strategy, in evaluations and in preparing a follow-on phase.
Qualifications:
Education/training: University degree (master’s) in economics, business administration, banking and finance or another related relevant field.
Language: Knowledge of English C1-level
General professional experience: 10 years of professional experience in managing multistakeholder programmes in the private sector development field.
Specific professional experience:
10 years of professional experience as a practitioner in MSME promotion thereof 5 years working with business development services programmes 5 years working on access to finance to MSMEs, women economic empowerment and conduction of 2 gaps/needs analysis
Leadership/management experience: 10 years of management experience in projects, companies or other organizations with disciplinary leadership responsibility for 10 people and with annual budget responsibility of 1,000,000 EUR.
International professional experience outside the country/region of assignment : 2 years of professional working experience outside Kenya.
Professional experience in the country: 10 years of professional experience in Kenya
Experience in the field of development cooperation: 5 years of experience in development cooperation projects.
