The Action Africa Help International (AAH-I) Kenya Programme is part of the SPARK project, a consortium of 5 international NGOS. These include Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) – lead Agency, FilmAid International, Danish Refugee Council, Handicap International and Action Africa help International (AAH-I) in Kenya.
AAH-I Kenya is looking an Entrepreneurship Officer who will be seconded to NRC, based in Kakuma.
The purpose of the Role: The entrepreneurship Officer will support entrepreneurs, targeted vendors, groups involved in livelihood and organizations within the SPARK Livelihoods consortium to access markets through managing an online marketing platform. The entrepreneurship Officer will achieve this through running day to day operational functions of mobilizing the above mentioned targeted persons/stakeholders and coordinating all entrepreneurship activities for SPARK.
Duties & Responsibilities
Conducting training needs assessment for capacity building of organizations staffs and committees on business skills including online marketing strategies.
Provide technical support and quality assurance oversight to livelihood producer groups, vendors and implementers involved in livelihood activities.
Support entrepreneurs in the community and livelihood groups in product development, manufacture and marketing
Provide online day to day support to customers and vendors through relationship management as they access the online marketing platform
Logistical planning, stock movement and Inventory management of products supplied by vendors for sale.
Mobilization and organization of livelihood groups, entrepreneurs, staffs and vendors for the development of unified market penetration strategies.
Monitoring and reporting on progress of the online marketing platform (Kilimall) including other complementary marketing strategies employed.
Coordinate activities at the Entrepreneurship Hub (E-Hub), while linking all capacity building initiatives (KUZA, UNTU, UoN) with the trainees
The full job description is available here.
HOW TO APPLY:
Interested candidates should email application letters and CVs (with 3 referees) addressed to recruitke@actionafricahelp.org to be received by 31st July, 2017. The email Subject Line must show the job title of the position applied for. AAH-I is an equal-opportunity employer. We thank candidates for their high interest in the opportunities we publish on our website. Due to the high number of applications we receive, we will only get back to shortlisted candidates. Shortlisting will be done on a rolling basis.