Business Mentor at Empower Rwanda (ER): (Deadline 19 October 2023)

Business Mentor at Empower Rwanda (ER): (Deadline 19 October 2023)

JOB ADVERT 

Job Title: Business mentor

Reports to: Project Manager

Unit: Programmes

Duty Station:  Empower Rwanda (Head office, Kigali)

Relationships: Works Directly Internally with Programme team, and externally with Mercy Corps Energy4Impact team,

Applications closing date:  19^th October 2023.

About Empower Rwanda

Empower Rwanda (ER) is a Women-led local Non-Governmental Organization whose vision is to have empowered women and youth with knowledge and skills to impact their lives and communities and a mission to empower the most vulnerable women and youth in Rwanda for their academic and socio-economic development through enhancing access to quality education and health; social and economic empowerment and advocacy interventions.

Empower Rwanda looking for a qualified and highly motivated candidate of high moral character and professional integrity to fulfill the position of a business mentor.

The Program

Empower Rwanda is an in-country partner for Mercy Corps Energy 4 Impact implementing a three-year program called Financial Inclusion for Clean Cooking Access in Rwanda and Sierra Leone (FICCARS). The program seeks to address the challenge of access to finance among women living in cities, particularly in urban informal settlements and slums in these two countries.

The Position

The business mentors will work closely with FICCARS programme team to ensure quality delivery of the program output in alignment with programme plan. The primary role of the business mentor is to provide training and capacity building to women groups and women led businesses on financial literacy, income generating opportunities, business skills, clean cooking technologies, and community mobilization, awareness raising on financial inclusion and clean cooking technologies as well as support on stakeholder engagement.

Key Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Project manager the business mentor is responsible to undertake the following specific tasks;

• Identification and mobilization of the key stakeholders, particularly the women who will benefit from the programme through capacity building training sessions on financial inclusion, clean cooking and Income generating activities.
• Lead on the mobilization and recruitment of women-led micro-enterprises in target communities.
• Provide advice and support in designing business mentoring methodologies that are the most appropriate for the women-led micro-enterprises.
• Mentor, coach, and train women-led micro-enterprises on all aspects of business management on a regular basis.
• Introduce and link women-led micro-enterprises to appropriate financial institutions when required and support them at all stages of the access to finance process.
• Provide Business Development Support (BDS) Coordination in market development activities. Prepare and organize market development activities and events as required.
• organize and facilitate peer-to-peer and lesson learning exchange events between the different women-led micro-enterprises supported in the programme.
• Support the program community accountability and reporting mechanism (CARM) focal person in sensitizing community members on the feedback channels available to them, including understanding how all feedback received is addressed.
• Collaborate with the CARM focal person and the Ethics team in investigating and closing CARM feedback loops.
• Collect M&E data on a regular basis as required by the Project Manager and M&E Team to measure women-led micro-enterprises performances and for project reporting purposes –feedback from this data will be used to advise entrepreneurs on how to further improve their businesses.
• Documenting compelling stories and case studies from the project beneficiaries / women-led micro-enterprises

Minimum Qualification & Transferable Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in business management, marketing, entrepreneurship, and rural development
• At least 2 years of relevant experience in successfully providing practical support and training to- women led small and micro enterprises (including informal very early-stage enterprises) in all business management aspects and at all stages of business development.
• Proven experience in providing capacity building trainings to women group and women led enterprise on clean cooking, financial Inclusion and income generating activities,
• Experience implementing programs in urban areas.
• Knowledge and experience in implementing gender and social inclusion in development programs.
• Experience working with local and national authorities, the private sector, and non-government organizations.
• Ability to effectively represent Empower Rwanda and its interests to key stakeholders.
• Effective verbal and written communication, multi-tasking, organizational and prioritization skills.
• Demonstrated flexibility and creativity in planning and problem solving.
• Fluency in English and Kinyarwanda language 

HOW TO APPLY:

Application documents (soft copies) addressed to the Country Director of Empower Rwanda should be sent via careers@empowerrwanda.org Please indicate the title as ‘’Business mentor’’ in the subject line attach, the following documents and all documents should be one PDF document.

• Degree and ID.
• Cover letter
• CV (maximum 2 pages)

NB: All documents should be one PDF document.   Deadline for submission is 19^th October 2023.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply. 

Olivia Promise KABATESI

Founder and Country Director

Empower Rwanda