Business Services Director – Rwanda Employment and Entrepreneurship Activity at Winrock International: (Deadline Ongoing)

POSITION TITLE:                            Business Service Director

POSITION LOCATION:                   Kigali Rwanda

REPORTS TO:                                 Chief of Party

POSITION SUMMARY:

Winrock International works with people around the world to increase economic opportunity, sustain natural resources, and protect the environment. Winrock is seeking a Business Service Director for an anticipated USAID-funded project that will strengthen the capacity of Rwandans—women, youth, and persons with disabilities—to activity participate in the workforce. The Director will provide strategic, results-based leadership to facilitating small and medium enterprise (SME) access to business services and market information they require to grow their businesses and generate revenue. The Director will provide primary direction to the expansion of a geographically robust and segmented entrepreneur and skills development system, ensuring that solutions are demand driven and responsive to the growth trajectories of businesses, and grounded in the aspirations and needs of women, youth, and persons with disabilities. The position is contingent upon receipt of donor funding.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Build and foster a dynamic and market-driven network of skills development and business development service providers;
• Identify potential opportunities offered by end markets and the private sector buyers and align skills development and private strengthening activities to those opportunities;
• Cultivate shared value partnerships that leverage the interconnections between lead firms and SMEs, training and skills development institutions and business development service providers;
• Analyze and enable relationships among market actors that translate into shared benefits to incentivize new investment in market systems;
• Segment skills development and business strengthening activities to the specific needs faced by women, youth and persons with disabilities, and to demonstrate the business case for social inclusion;
• Provide technical and managerial oversight to staff and partners; and collaborate with the DCOP to lead and coach staff in creative problem solving, refining and adapting approaches or activities based on iterative learning.

Education:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in finance, agricultural economics, agribusiness, and/or business development, or a similar relevant field

Work Experience:

• At least 7 years of experience working in enterprise development and strengthening, preferably in the agribusiness sector;
• Proven ability to foster and maintain partnerships, particularly with private sector actors;
• Demonstrated experience in business strengthening and value chains, and expert-level knowledge of the SME sector in Rwanda, legal and regulatory frameworks for investment, and financing institutions;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Kinyarwanda.

Winrock is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and value diversity and inclusiveness. Winrock recruits, employs, trains, promotes and compensates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.

At Winrock we have a clear mission: Empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity and sustain natural resources through unwavering dedication to accountability, equity, innovation, integrity and transformation.

Winrock knows that its success comes from the hard work and steadfast dedication of its diverse workforce. Winrock remains committed to maintaining diversity, inclusion and equity across the entire organization

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