Helping Women Graduate from Extreme Poverty

The BOMA Project is a U.S. nonprofit and Kenyan NGO with a proven track record, measurable results and a transformative approach to alleviating poverty and building resiliency in the drylands of Africa. Our Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP) replaces aid with sustainable income and helps women to gradua...

JOB SUMMARY

The Business Coach will be responsible for delivering hands-on enterprise development support to young women and men participants engaged in livestock and agri-related value chains. Using both the REAP Graduation Model and a Market Systems Development approach, the Business Coach will lead in participant targeting and selection, training, business mentorship and coaching, grant management, group savings and loaning linkages to markets and financial institutions to enable participants build viable, scalable, and resilient enterprises. He/She will work closely with consortium partners and technical experts for participants to access technical skills and support required in growing their businesses.

This role is highly field-based and requires strong technical understanding of livestock/agri-business, financial inclusion, value chain development, private sector engagement, and youth-focused coaching.

The Business Coach will ensure participants acquire the practical knowledge, resources, and linkages needed to access markets, increase incomes, and sustainably grow their enterprises.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

Minimum Academic Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Livestock Production, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Rural Development, or related fields.

Experience

• Prior 3-5 years of work experience in the Livestock and agri-related value chain development within ASALs.
• Business coaching, MSME support, or Business Development Services (BDS).
• Market Systems Development (MSD/M4P).
• Working with youth, women, refugees, pastoralist and agro-pastoral communities.
• Building market and financial linkages with private sector actors.

• Delivering hands-on enterprise development support to young women and men participants engaged in livestock and agri-related value chains.
• Leading in participant targeting and selection, training, business mentorship and coaching, grant management, group savings and loaning linkages to markets and financial institutions.
• Working closely with consortium partners and technical experts for participants to access technical skills and support required in growing their businesses.
• Ensuring participants acquire the practical knowledge, resources, and linkages needed to access markets, increase incomes, and sustainably grow their enterprises.

• Strong technical understanding of livestock/agri-business.
• Financial inclusion.
• Value chain development.
• Private sector engagement.
• Youth-focused coaching.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Livestock Production, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Rural Development, or related fields.
• Prior 3-5 years of work experience in the Livestock and agri-related value chain development within ASALs.
• Experience in Business coaching, MSME support, or Business Development Services (BDS).
• Experience in Market Systems Development (MSD/M4P).
• Experience working with youth, women, refugees, pastoralist and agro-pastoral communities.
• Experience building market and financial linkages with private sector actors.