Program Innovations Coordinator Non-profit Careers – Village Enterprise
Job Title: Program Innovations Coordinator
Organization: Village Enterprise
Reports to: Director of Innovations
Duty Station: Uganda
About US:
Village Enterprise is an International non-governmental organization whose mission is to equip people living in extreme poverty with the resources to create sustainable businesses. Village Enterprise has made a strategic decision to direct its poverty alleviation efforts on people living in extreme poverty in rural, sub-Saharan Africa. 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 years. Since its inception in 1987, Village Enterprise has started over 33,000 micro enterprises.
Job Summary: Village Enterprise is seeking a candidate who is innovative, solution oriented and creative to support the Innovations Team activities and objectives. The position holder areas of involvement include: developing creative and innovative ideas around our Graduation Program; help in development of pilots by applying the key stages of human centered design Thinking (Ideation, Piloting and Implementation); capacity training for Business Mentors and Field Coordinators and research and development of tools and strategies to ensure that the organizations meets its goals.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Core Program Support Responsibilities: 60%
- Actively participate in designing, adaptation; coordinate implementation, and appraise pilot projects by employing human centered design thinking approaches
- Work closely 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
- Actively 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 Business Development Kit, 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. o 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 withsupervisor (Plan and structure effective One-on-one’s) o Provide information on work plan on Google Work Plan sheet on a weekly basis. o Participate and contribute effectively during the weekly Innovations T eam meetings o 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, Manager’s and Director’s projects and actively provide insightful input.
- The 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-driven towards achieving organizations goals.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant should hold a university level degree preferably in Project Management/Agronomy/Community Development or Business Administration and Management
- Previous experience working in the Livelihoods development field, Value chains development, Market systems analysis, Market intelligence and linkages or rural micro-finance is a plus.
- The Innovations Coordinator should 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.
How to Apply:
Please send your resume and motivation letter as single file attachment, specifying how your experience and qualifications are well suited for this role to ugandajobs@villageenterprise.org
Deadline: 31st July 2018
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