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Vacancy: Project Manager – Youth Entrepreneurship

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Emerging Leaders is a growing charity that works to release the leadership and entrepreneurial potential of young people living in poverty (www.emerging-leaders.net). Our aim is to transform mindsets by running innovative training programmes in Kenya and empower people with financial literacy, entrepreneurship & transferable life leadership skills, helping people start transformational community and business projects.  We specifically work with vulnerable youth as well as local supplier companies in international supply chains. We have worked in 16 countries over the past 10+ years, training over 75,000 people using a Train the Trainer model. 

We are looking to fill an exciting new role to help us implement, alongside our current team, a new 4-year project in Kenya focused on Nairobi and Naivasha  – reaching youth at scale – 18,000 youth’s lives impacted by 2024. 

 Project Manager – Youth Entrepreneurship

Are you an experienced project manager in the international development sector? Do you have the capacity to manage multiple tasks whilst keeping an eye on detail and bring out the best of those around you? Are you able to engage partners and sponsors to grow to scale.   If you’re ambitious, entrepreneurial, and excited for transforming the lives of vulnerable youth in Kenya – then, we would like to invite you to apply.

Your Responsibilities

Project Management

• Implement project plan, meeting ambitious milestones every January and August Implementing monthly “growth sessions” with the team to serve vulnerable youth
  
  
  
  • Requiring a high degree of attention to detail, coordinating many people, many schedules, and ensuring trainers have the resources and plans needed to serve our clients well
  
  
  
  




• Twice-annual project reporting


• Implementing safeguarding and protection guidelines


• Oversight of MOU-process with local partners


• Regular review of M&E Impact Indicators


• Regular review of Finance/Budget Indicators

Team Management

• Direct line management of four project staff


• Provide leadership to the entire team involved in the project, including 6 associate trainers, 40 community trainers, and 8 phone supporters


• Help each member of the team to reach their own potential

Communication

• Liaise weekly with UK team to keep on track


• Monthly reporting on project progress following a reporting template

Authority

• Direct line management of 4 project staff


• Budget management

Who are you?

• You are ENTREPRENEURIAL in nature


• You are ENERGETIC and AMBITIOUS


• You are RESPONSIBLE, dependable, and reliable


• You value INTEGRITY


• You are a LEARNER who likes to constantly improve


• You are a TEAM PLAYER

Education, Skills and Experience Nice‐to‐Haves:

• A bachelors in Development, Project Management, Livelihoods, Business Administration, etc would be an asset.


• Previous experience working in international aid and development is preferred


• Budget management experience


• Demonstrated, excellent communication and report writing skills


• Highly self motivated, self directed and quick to respond to rapidly changing demands


• Experience with Sales and Business Management would be valuable

Salary, Hours & Start Date

This role is full-time, 37 hours per week. 

Our office is in Dandora, Nairobi with % travel required to Naivahsa, but we are a flexible team that works from home and the office, with weekly local team meetings and a weekly international team meeting (Our international Emerging Leaders hub is based in the UK.  We also have colleagues in India and South Africa.)

Annual salary is 1.58million KES with potential to grow with the organisation

Start date for the role is mid to end March 2021

How to Apply:

Please email your CV and a cover letter to our Head of Operations, Janna Rous at recruit@emerging-leaders.net  using the Subject: Apply Project Manager Youth

NOTE:

Closing date for applications: 31st January 2021. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted

IMPORTANT: Because this position is working with vulnerable youth and adults, you will be requested to submit a criminal reference check to be offered this position.  Please see Equal Opportunities Statement below.

Project Summary:

Emerging Leaders’ project in Kenya will work in urban poor areas in Nairobi and Naivasha regions amongst vulnerable, unemployed youth.  The challenges of their daily reality and being caught in inter-generational cycles of poverty, has taught them that “trying” is hopeless.  These youth often “hustle” for minimal amounts of money on a daily basis to survive.  They have been disenfranchised with business-skills training that require too much capital to invest in a start-up – capital they do not have.  They don’t have successful, local role-model entrepreneurs who can inspire or guide them.  Bored and restless, many are drawn to petty crime and alcohol.

In order to break this cycle, we focus first on changing mindsets, unlocking their potential. Then we build on this with financial literacy & entrepreneurship skills, typically seeing upwards of 70-80% of participants start a small income-generating business. One they identify, plan and deliver and which more than doubles their monthly income.

The project logical framework breaks the goals of this programme into two key objectives:

• Objective 1 is to liberate the entrepreneurial potential of vulnerable youth in Kenya’s urban slums to start their own businesses and generate a sustainable income – using the DIRECT TRAINING APPROACH.


• Objective 2 is to scale impact by empowering local youth entrepreneurs to become Community Trainers, enabling them to help other vulnerable youth to start and grow their own businesses – using the TRAIN-THE-TRAINER APPROACH.

*You can see a copy of the project proposal if you advance beyond an initial interview.

Equal Opportunities Statement:

• Emerging Leaders is an organisation committed to social justice and resolutely opposed to discrimination in society.  We are committed to providing services on a fair and equitable basis, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, life-style, sex, sexuality, physical/mental disability, offending background or any other factor.  No person requiring services from Emerging Leaders will be treated less favourably than any other person on any grounds.


• In employment we actively seek to recruit with the right mix of talent, skills and potential, promoting equality for all, and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates.  We select all candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications, experience and commitment to the values and purposes of the organisation.


• As an organisation using the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure Service to assess applicants’ suitability for positions of trust, Emerging Leaders undertakes to comply fully with the DBS Code of Practice and to treat all applicants for positions fairly.  It undertakes not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of disclosure on the basis of conviction or other information revealed.


• A Disclosure is only requested after a thorough risk assessment has indicated that one is both proportionate and relevant to the position concerned.  For those positions where a Disclosure is required, all application forms, job adverts and recruitment briefs will contain a statement that a Disclosure will be requested in the event of the individual being offered a position.


• Where a Disclosure is to form part of a recruitment process, we encourage all applicants called for interview to provide details of any criminal record at an early stage in the application process.  We request that this information is sent under separate, confidential cover to the recruiter within the organisation and we guarantee that this information will only be seen by those who need to see it as part of a recruitment process.


• Unless the nature of the position allows Emerging Leaders to ask questions about your entire criminal record, we only ask about “unspent” convictions as defined in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.


• We ensure that all those in the organisation who are involved in the recruitment process have been suitably trained to identify and assess the relevance of circumstances of offences.  We will also ensure that they have received appropriate guidance and training in the relevant legislation relating to the employment of ex-offenders e.g. the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.


• At interview, or in separate discussion, we ensure that an open and measured discussion takes place on the subject of any offences or other matter that might be relevant to the position.  Failure to reveal information that is relevant to the position sought could lead to withdrawal of an offer of employment or voluntary work.


• We make every subject of a DBS Disclosure aware of the existence of the Code of Practice and make a copy available on request.


• We undertake to discuss any matter revealed in a disclosure with the person seeking a position before withdrawing a conditional offer of employment.


• Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working with us. It will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of your offences.

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