Small Business Trainer/Advisor

About the program:

Sustain Micro Enterprise works with women who run small businesses every day. Through our microfinance and women empowerment program, the women receive small loans and business skills to further their small businesses. The small businesses include retail shops, grocery, bakery, farming, second hand clothes, barber shops, fresh foods, brick making among others.

The Small Business Trainer/Advisor for women plays a very instrumental role in this program to ensure the sustainability of the women small businesses, implement the microfinance model, business appraisals and business knowledge sharing. The volunteer therefore works with the women on their businesses by offering business mentorship and support.

Some of the tasks the Volunteer will accomplish:

• Work with the women to design cash flow for their businesses: This involves supporting each woman with a small business and on the microfinance program to have a cash flow sheet.
• Provide finance, business and entrepreneurship training to the vulnerable women: offer your time and experience to provide business training and skills to the women. Here you will be meeting with groups of women and individuals, and teach them basic business skills that support them in the management of their small businesses.
• Business assessments for women business: This involves carrying out assessing the small businesses owned by the women before they receive any small loans.
• Business visits: this involves carrying out visits to business locations and premises. When a business is visited, you check out on issues such as how merchandise is arranged, the business records, observe how customers move in and all in all support the woman who runs the business.
• One on One Mentorship: the women running small businesses need more than just telling them what to do but someone they can rely on for more information. One on One Mentorship involves providing time to each individual woman, listen to them and provide advice much of which is business knowledge, saving knowledge, family planning, education, health among others. During the 1O1 mentorship, it is an opportunity for the women to learn and acquire knowledge in diverse field though business and livelihood is given priority.
• Women Needs Assessment: Here you will be required to participate in identifying and recruiting new women to benefit from the micro loans and business training. It involves visiting communities and sharing the program with the women while freely interacting with the community. Here you are able learn about the needs of the community and particularly the women.
• Award Finance and Business Certificates: After spending time sharing finance and business skills, the volunteer will award certificates of completion to the women.
• Community Business outreach: The volunteer will be in charge of leading the community Business outreach to interact and provide support to the business community of women entrepreneurs.

Requirements:

• Language Skills-Ability to speak English (Basic level)
• Health Declaration-Required
• Required Documents-CV
• Criminal Record form