Job Description:
Business Mentor Activities:
- Manage all Business Mentors (BMs) in your
region, ensuring high-quality Core Program implementation
- Regular field visits (3-4 days a week) to assess
training and mentoring by the Business Mentors and overall performance of
businesses and carry out at least 6 business spot-checks per week.
- Spearhead the Village opening process in all the
sub-counties
- Guide Business mentor on SBs and PRs grant
applications for viable businesses and approve prior to submitting them to
the County Lead for review.
- Ensure BMs work plans are developed, followed
and timely shared through a google sheet
- Bi-weekly meetings and Induction Training for
BMs
- Prepare bi-weekly meeting and agendas, and
ensure they are timely update and sharing through a goggle sheet.
- Train BMs on new forms that need to be
collected, constantly reinforcing the importance and value of the data we
collect and helping BMs troubleshoot issues as needed.
- Work with Monitoring and Evaluation during each
biweekly meeting to confirm that the BMs have collected the proper forms
and confirm their upload to the database.
- Lead and conduct Induction Training/onboarding
for new BMs. This includes working closely with departments to prepare
agenda, schedule Field Visits, prepare materials
- Work with Finance & Admin to ensure that
all, induction and bi-weekly materials are printed or made available in a
timely manner
Reporting Program Reporting
- Work with the County Lead to Collect, Develop,
validate, consolidate, revise and submit BM work plans in a timely
fashion.
- Monitor the collection of Mentoring logs and
activity reports on behalf of the organization.
- Submit reports and minutes of any meeting
attended on behalf of Village Enterprise.
- Ensure updated reports on attendance is tracked.
Managing Partnerships
- Help establish a relationship with Local
Government officials, community leaders and other stakeholders.
- The Field Associate represents the organization
at district and sub county level including general meetings with Local
government leadership, humanitarian actors, partners, protocol meetings,
security meetings, as well as sector program meetings in consultation with
the County Lead.
- Provide Management with reports and feedback
from government and partnership meetings as needed within three days after
the meeting.
- Support the BMs to register all Business Savings
Groups with relevant government authorities at various levels.
- Develop and implement County and sub county
entry and Facilitate expansion strategy to new areas of operation in
collaboration with the County Lead.
- The Field Associate provides general support,
guidance, and serves as focal point during program planning and reporting.
- Internal activity coordination
- Participate in Innovation Team meetings,
actively participating and bring a positive field perspective to the team
- Support BMs in the implementation of pilots,
studies and data collection as needed
- Provide feedback and support to overall program,
pilots and strategic expansion
- Work with the innovations team to train other
partners or organizations
- Act as focal persons for capturing ideas,
learnings from the Business mentors and communities and submit to the
innovations team.
- Work with M&E to deliver quality BM
refresher activities
- Support BMs in phone/Tablet troubleshooting and
in guiding BMs through quality data collection protocols
- Vision trip and Donor Visits
- Represent Village Enterprises’ values and
program to donors, Guests and visiting staff
- Work with Management to arrange field scheduling
for visitors, donors and guests
- Coordinate all preparations at the field level
- In some cases, work on the weekends to
accommodate donor and staff visits
- Business Mentor performance appraisal and
Professional development.
- Submit quarterly reports to the County Lead,
People and Culture Coordinator on Business mentor performance.
- Work with the County Lead and People and Culture
Coordinator to identify professional development opportunities for BMs and
implement them.
- Work with the People and Culture Coordinator to
conduct performance reviews for BMs
- Assist with the improvement and development of
monitoring activities and materials for business mentors.
Management and Administration:
- The Field Associate ensures that Village
Enterprise procedures and donor regulations applicable to a project
implemented in the area of operation concerning program, logistics, fraud
control, protection of vulnerable groups and special interest groups in
collaboration with the People and Culture Coordinator and County Lead.
- The Field Associate is responsible for
overseeing the management of day-to-day field operations including
monitoring and reporting on staff attendance, staff leave and
authorization of minor emergency field expenses in consultation with the
People and Culture Coordinator and County Lead.
Logistics:
- Field Associate is in charge of overseeing and
reporting on the logistics the field team including enforcement of field
safety guidelines and adherence.
- Responsible for monitoring and reporting
equipment usage and storage, planning, and maintenance of equipment and
the functioning of the means of communication appropriate for the
respective field staff.
- Assist in Computation of Field stipends for
Field Staff
Communication
- Communicate field challenges, opportunities and
constraints
- Provide feedback to supervisors and other line
managers through Email, phone,
- Participate in Monday Morning Meetings (MMMs)
and Partnership meetings by providing field updates and responses to field
questions
- Participate and provide content to Field
Associates calls.
- Ensure BMs Collect and submit success Stories
with photos as needed
Requirements
- Safeguarding
- Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility at
Village Enterprise, and it begins with me
- Continuously sensitize program participants on
safeguarding.
- Ensure compliance with Village Enterprise’s
safeguarding policies
- Report any incident of safeguarding in program
operations for appropriate action/follow up.
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