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Entrepreneurship Assistant
Country Afghanistan Province Herat,
Categories Program, Type Full Time
Post Date 2022-08-04 Close Date 2022-08-07
Vacancy No IRW-211-2022 Gender male female
No Of Jobs 1 Contract Duration 2 Months
Education 14 grade in Business Administration and other relevant fields.Bachelor’s Degree in economics, preferably Business Administration, Commerce Experience 2-3 Years overall experience in program/project implementation, out of which at least one year proven experience in community Mobilization, Entrepreneurship development
Organization Opportunities for you Salary As Per Organization Salary Scale

About Company

About Islamic Releif world wide Afghanistan: Founded: 1992 Islamic Relief Worldwide – Afghanistan Country Office (IRW) is an international non-profitable Non-governmental humanitarian relief organization with its headquarter in UK-Birmingham. It enjoys consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. It is a signatory to the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Moments and NGOs in Disaster Relief. IRA started its humanitarian activities for Afghan Refugees in Pakistan and Afghan people inside since then; IRA continued assisting in emergency relief, food security, women empowerment, girl education, orphan sponsorship, health, emergency education, shelter, Ramadan, and Qurbani programs.

Job Description

Job Summary:

The entrepreneurship Assistant is responsible to select women entrepreneurs in related province and to be responsible as per the below details: effectively and efficiently the incumbent undertakes the following duties:.

Duties & Responsibilities:

 Assist project team in the selection of women entrepreneurs through a technical assessment based on the pre-set criteria of the project.

  • Assist Entrepreneurship officers in Carrying out capacity assessment of women entrepreneurs and provide facilitation support to them for forming and strengthening women entrepreneur groups
  • Facilitate the process of providing business development services through hands-on and mentoring support to Women entrepreneurs.
  • Support women entrepreneurs to establish joint women-lead enterprises.
  • Assist targeted women-entrepreneurs to develop their business plans, to improve their products’ quality and diversity, employ new techniques, increase number of employees, and expand the market coverage of their products. To implement the business-plan, need based materials, equipment, seed capital will be provided to each women-enterprises, and technical instructions, mentoring and monitoring support will be performed in a regular and ad hock basis.
  • Select women entrepreneurs through a Promote business linkage support for the women entrepreneurs through Afghanistan Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AWCCI) and Private Sector)
  • assessment in three provinces.
  • Conduct household survey to Carry out capacity and need assessment of selected women entrepreneurs, Promote business linkage support for the women entrepreneurs through Afghanistan Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AWCCI) and Private Sector) women-led enterprises
  • Facilitate the process of Forming and strengthening women entrepreneurs’ groups by working closely with the targeted households.
  • Facilitate the process of need-based skill training for business development for the women entrepreneurs' groups.
  • Facilitate the process of Arranging training on production improvement and business management for the women entrepreneurs.
  • Provide need-based materials, equipment and capital to the selected women entrepreneurs for business promotion.
  • Perform any other tasks as requested by Line supervisor

Job Requirement

  • 14 grade in Business Administration and other relevant fields.Bachelor’s Degree in economics, preferably Business Administration, Commerce
  • 2-3 Years overall experience in program/project implementation, out of which at least one year proven experience in community Mobilization, Entrepreneurship development.

Submission Guideline

Interested and qualified national candidates should submit a cover letter explaining their motivation and updated CV to the following link:

https://www.jobs.af/jobs/entrepreneurship-assistant

The closing date for accepting applications is 07 August 2022.

Please clearly state the Vacancy Announcement number and title of the position you are applying for in the subject line. 

Please note that applications received after the closing date will not be considered and only short-listed candidates will be called for an interview.

Note: The interview will be on rolling basis due to the urgent need of the position the interview may take place before the closing date of the post/s.

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