Indepth Research Services is a capacity development and research services firm in Africa.
Our programs are aimed at strengthening data management, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and performance management capacity of development actors across the continent to achieve their development objectives.
We provide managers and practitioners with the tools they need to manage and evaluate programs, and projects at the local, county, national, regional, and global levels.
We are currently interested in a young dynamic and results driven candidate who is passionate about developing his/her research skills and experience as a Training/Business Development Officer.
This position is based in Nairobi, but with occasional travels to the field within and outside the country.
Salary Range: 40K – 50K gross, depending on qualification and experience.
Key Roles / Responsibilities
Managing the delivery of training and development programmes and devising a training strategy for the organisation’s training programmes;
Evaluate the effectiveness of training programmes using surveys, questionnaires, interviews and by observation, in order to plan future courses or to amend existing ones
Identifying and inducting new trainers and conducting ToT refreshers for all trainers.
Monitoring and reviewing the progress of trainees through questionnaires and discussions
Developing action plans together with the participants, Post training evaluations and follow-up of action plans.
Coordinate sales and marketing, pricing and operations.
BDO work including Managing the business development team, Developing and identifying new business opportunities, Building strategies for Business Development.
Driving increased revenue and profit to achieve the company’s ambitious growth.
Managing and grow key customer relationships with existing accounts whilst working and building relationships with contacts to identify new business opportunities.
Managing the entire sales process, from initial introduction, development of the solution and closing the deal.
Providing management with reports.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in International development, Marketing or business management.
Prior experience in a CSO, NGO’s and corporate training environment.
Facilitating learning-oriented analysis sessions.
Knowledge of e-learning techniques, creation and/or delivery of e-learning content.
Working knowledge of M&E, statistics and GIS is highly preferred.
Ability to develop good relationships and strong interpersonal skills.
Self-motivated, ambitious and is used to working to targets.
Sales experience with a view a proven and documented successful record.
Strong administration and organizational skills.
Articulate and professional communication skills.
Application Procedure
Female Candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted.
Interested candidates should send their CVs (with 3 referees) and a cover letter to hr@indepthresearch.org before July 30th 2015. (SOFT COPIES ONLY).
The subject line should be clearly marked ‘Training/Business Development Officer.