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About the role
You will also contribute to strategy and innovative partnerships. You will report directly to the program manager, with 3-4 direct reports under you.
Roles and Responsibilities
Ensure growth of the youth enterprises in your team’s portfolio through timely delivery of advisory services by your team of advisors.
Draw on internal successes and failures as well as field wide lessons to be a key mentor and guide for Ongoza’s Business Growth Advisors.
Facilitate learning and best practice sharing on a regular basis. Develop and implement a standardized and replicable approach for the delivery of our advisory services.
You will work with your own small portfolio of young entrepreneurs (up to 5) and support them towards growing their businesses.
Provide practical strategic advisory and assistance to help clients harness opportunities, structure their business more effectively, and drive growth.
Advise clients on investment needs and connect them to financial services, including via our exclusive partnership with Key Partners Ltd.
Identify and tap into market opportunities that would be beneficial for Ongoza’s clients, when time allows.
Strategic Program Management (10%)
Ensure that innovations, tools, and strategies are communicated and fully implemented within your team.
General Administration (10%)
Ensure that all client files are updated appropriately and the Business Growth Advisory team is collecting relevant and quality data for Ongoza’s learning department.
You are a natural leader and are great at mentoring others. You demonstrate a natural ability to connect with, motivate, and support others to grow.
You thrive in an entrepreneurial environment. You are an independent self-starter who flourishes in a changing environment and can manage yourself. You have excellent collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills.
You make things happen. You have a proven track record of meeting targets on time and within budget. You are creative, solution-oriented, and willing to put in the time it takes to do a great job. You follow through.
Most of all, you believe in our vision and mission – the power of youth-led social businesses to transform Kenya.
Required experience and skillset
Direct work experience with entrepreneurs and small businesses highly preferred.
Demonstrated excellent understanding of strategies for how to help businesses grow, with expertise in one or more of the following areas: business finance, business planning, and strategy, sales, and marketing, product development, or human resource management.
An in-depth understanding of the Kenyan informal sector is essential.
Must have a learning and change-oriented mindset – willing to take calculated risks, think outside the box and try new ideas.
Demonstrated ability to build structures and processes that optimize a team’s efficiency and accountability.
Experience in curriculum development and training is an added advantage.
An excellent relationship builder and communicator, both verbally and written, who enjoys being an active member of a team.
