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SME Business Development Services Officer
Demonstrated experience with Business Development services.
Demonstrated experience with Strategic Management & Leadership.
Demonstrated experience with Human Resource Management.
Demonstrated experience with Youth to Adult Capacity Building.
Demonstrated experience with Cooperative Management.
SME Business Development Services Officer open to new opportunities
Participate in various project activities / implementation, learning from the WB project.. Participate in project planning.. Identification of potential synergies and opportunities that the project can leverage with respires to result 2 on entrepreneurship and capacity building.. Organizing and coordinating the Start and Improve your Business (SIYB) Trainings to over 600 Entrepreneurs around Kigoma region.. Engaged in the establishment of incubation hubs (At SIDO Kigoma and MATI Mubondo).. Engaged in facilitating financing options for entrepreneurs.. Partly engaged in the establishment of innovation hubs focusing more on sustainability of the hubs and income generating activities.. Fully engaged in business advisory, coaching and follow-up for trained entrepreneurs.. Partly engaged in Project operations planning.
Currently coordinating business management training to 83 Farmer Service Centers (FSC) (Categories includes Agrodealers, AMCOS, SMEs, VBAA, SACCOS and Farmer groups) being conducted in three regions (Morogoro, Manyara and Singida. Pre training activities involved, Terms of Reference development for tendering for the trainer, review of submitted proposals, reviewing the curriculum, other training materials and ensuring that the training is delivered in accordance to the Terms of Reference shared to the trainer and contract signed. The other task is also to ensure training quality providing extra coaching and mentoring to FSCs.. Business Advisory/Coaching/training to 73 Farmer Service Centers (FSCs) who provide services to the farmers at the lastmile. The FSCs were supporting farmers, with focus on Sunflower, Maize, and Paddy Value chains. The FSCs were from the following categories: Agrodealers, Village Agricultural Advisers, SMEs/Processors and Agricultural Marketing cooperatives (AMCOS). The area of operation were Manyara, Singida and Morogoro regions.. Provided support in organizing the business management training to the above FSCs, reviewing the curriculum and ensuring that the training is delivered in accordance to the Terms of Reference shared to the trainer and contract signed. Ensuring that the training quality is adhered and supervise the post training support provided by the trainer, (Match Maker Associates). Providing extra coaching and mentoring to FSCs on demand and with respect to the observation or needs obtained during 1 on 1 coaching with FSCs in the field.
Delivering, Expertise, Capacity, and Investment to Developing Enterprise (DECIDE) project funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD). The project supported ranges from conducting a gap analysis of targeted MSMEs; business coaching and mentorship; capacity building to the MSMEs.. Business Advisory/Coaching to 30 SMEs in Horticulture Value chains.. Providing Financial Management Training to all the above SMEs.. Quick Books setups training to 15 SMES.. General BDS support to all 30 SMEs and SME Financing.
Provide Business Development services to 33 SMEs in Agribusiness (In various Value chains such as Sunflower, Maize, Horticulture, etc.).. Provide advisory and coaching on various issues and advise SMEs on how to sort various challenges for the businesses.. Supporting the SMEs during the training in collaboration with Farm Africa partner – African Management Institute (AMI).
Provide direct services to clients through facilitation of group trainings and one-on-one advisory.. Work as a Project Lead for MEDA SSBVC Project to provide training followed by consulting to 20 Cooperative Alliances in Tanga, Kilimanjaro, Arusha and Manyara, with team of 4 staff in 2018/2019.. Provided Training to both Senior (Higher Level) and Junior Staff of Natural Extract Industries (NEI) in Moshi with a team of 3 staff from Anza Entrepreneurs in 2019/2020.. Connect clients to other services such as the Anza Growth Fund Ltd in addition to external funding sources, advising on how further investment impacts their business growth.. Connect clients to market opportunities and help them develop their marketing strategies.. Maintain consistent and accurate use of all work planning tracking tools and ensure work is done with minimum cost and or within the budget.. Collect frequent monitoring data for Anza’s evaluation purposes.. Business Plan, HR Policy, Finance Policy and strategic plan development for high profile clients.. Developing Marketing Strategy and Branding Advisory.. Developing initial accounting framework for clients both manually and also using accounting software and online platforms.. Business Assessment and Recommendation including SWOT and PESTLE analysis.. Financial Projections, Budgeting and Cash Flow Projections.. In 2019 also engaged in CARE TOT Project for trainers of Village Saving and Lending Associations (VSLA – Cooperatives), Agakhan Program - Curriculum Development, Climate Launch Pad Pitch development and consulting.
ATM Machine Custodian and Branch Accounts.. Maintaining the Fixed Asset Register for the branch records.. Control Printed and unprinted stationery Stock.. Processing payment for office Utilities, Municipal development levy, etc.. Reconciliation Suspense Accounts and Branch expenses account.. Clearing activities (regarding Inward and outward cheque processing).. Managing the maintenance and repair schedules for fixed assets such as Air Conditioning systems, chairs and tables, Generator, door locks; health and safety issues.