Title: Entrepreneurship & Marketing Officer job at Agency For Accelerated Regional Development (AFARD)
Entrepreneurship & Marketing Officer
2025-05-08T04:13:11+00:00
Agency For Accelerated Regional Development (AFARD)
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https://afard.net/
FULL_TIME
Nebbi
Kampala
00256
Uganda
Nonprofit, and NGO
Advertising & Marketing
2025-05-23T17:00:00+00:00
Uganda
8
Job Summary
Responsible for driving young women enterprise business growth and maintaining strong customer relationships by coordinating private sector engagement, and entrepreneurship development among participating young people.
Roles & Responsibilities
Capacity Building
- Participate in livelihood and market assessment including enterprise viability and barrier analysis to inform market-relevant skilling for young women.
- Support POs and peer trainers to facilitate YSLA members to prepare business plans to anchor business with a purpose drive.
- Conduct business diagnosis and customized trainings in key areas of need for young women’s business growth.
- Support Skilling Officers and peer trainers to provide tailored cohort-based training and mentorship on business development, including market analysis, business planning, financial management, and marketing.
- Identify market needs and skills gaps and provide relevant needs-based capacity development.
- Identify potential growth sectors, opportunities, business relationships and partnerships.
- Develop a comprehensive business development strategy which aligns with SIYEP skilling focus in AFARD.
- Offer customized business development services to young women businesses, including guidance on product development, registration, and marketing.
- Ensures gender and safeguarding and disability inclusion are mainstreamed in the program activities.
Access to markets
- Provide market linkages with traders, large-scale buyers or processors and other existing marketing platforms and networks and enroll participants on AFARD FAMIS digital marketing platform.
- Organize Seasonal markets for young women in agribusiness.
- Support, train and coach young women on market standards to improve on agronomic practices
- Develop and maintain a database of key market actors and operators to strengthen and expand market opportunities
- Facilitate linkages between young women entrepreneurs and inputs and output market actors
- Coach POs, peer trainers, marketing committees and young women in agribusiness in collective marketing.
Access to Finance
- Provide financial literacy education for the rural young women.
- Facilitate linkage banking, youth SACCO formation, strengthening & linkages to government programs
Partnership and Networking:
- Liaise with local businesses, employers, and industries to create job placement opportunities, internships, and apprenticeships for trained young people.
- Leverage networks to connect youth-led businesses with potential customers, investors, and collaborators.
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Monitor and analyze market trends, customer behavior, and industry developments.
- Report on business growth and marketing performance
Person specifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Economics, Business Administration, or related field.
- A minimum of 3 year’s experience in Youth Entrepreneurship, marketing, youth business development
- Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing business development programs for young people in rural settings.
- Strong understanding of market analysis, business planning, financial management, and value chain development.
- Proven experience in providing training and technical assistance to startups and Micro Small and Medium scale Enterprises.
- Excellent networking, negotiation, and partnership-building skills.
- Familiarity with financial inclusion and access to finance initiatives.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal.
- High level of honesty, integrity, and accountability.
- Strong business acumen and ability to achieve results with minimum supervision.
- Ability to work in teams and build collaborative relationships.
- Familiar with digital marketing tools and platforms.
- Willingness to travel to remote districts of Uganda as and when required.
Roles & Responsibilities Capacity Building Participate in livelihood and market assessment including enterprise viability and barrier analysis to inform market-relevant skilling for young women. Support POs and peer trainers to facilitate YSLA members to prepare business plans to anchor business with a purpose drive. Conduct business diagnosis and customized trainings in key areas of need for young women’s business growth. Support Skilling Officers and peer trainers to provide tailored cohort-based training and mentorship on business development, including market analysis, business planning, financial management, and marketing. Identify market needs and skills gaps and provide relevant needs-based capacity development. Identify potential growth sectors, opportunities, business relationships and partnerships. Develop a comprehensive business development strategy which aligns with SIYEP skilling focus in AFARD. Offer customized business development services to young women businesses, including guidance on product development, registration, and marketing. Ensures gender and safeguarding and disability inclusion are mainstreamed in the program activities. Access to markets Provide market linkages with traders, large-scale buyers or processors and other existing marketing platforms and networks and enroll participants on AFARD FAMIS digital marketing platform. Organize Seasonal markets for young women in agribusiness. Support, train and coach young women on market standards to improve on agronomic practices Develop and maintain a database of key market actors and operators to strengthen and expand market opportunities Facilitate linkages between young women entrepreneurs and inputs and output market actors Coach POs, peer trainers, marketing committees and young women in agribusiness in collective marketing. Access to Finance Provide financial literacy education for the rural young women. Facilitate linkage banking, youth SACCO formation, strengthening & linkages to government programs Partnership and Networking: Liaise with local businesses, employers, and industries to create job placement opportunities, internships, and apprenticeships for trained young people. Leverage networks to connect youth-led businesses with potential customers, investors, and collaborators. Monitoring and Evaluation Monitor and analyze market trends, customer behavior, and industry developments. Report on business growth and marketing performance
Person specifications: Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Economics, Business Administration, or related field. A minimum of 3 year’s experience in Youth Entrepreneurship, marketing, youth business development Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing business development programs for young people in rural settings. Strong understanding of market analysis, business planning, financial management, and value chain development. Proven experience in providing training and technical assistance to startups and Micro Small and Medium scale Enterprises. Excellent networking, negotiation, and partnership-building skills. Familiarity with financial inclusion and access to finance initiatives. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal. High level of honesty, integrity, and accountability. Strong business acumen and ability to achieve results with minimum supervision. Ability to work in teams and build collaborative relationships. Familiar with digital marketing tools and platforms. Willingness to travel to remote districts of Uganda as and when required.
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Vacancy title:
Entrepreneurship & Marketing Officer
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO, Category: Advertising & Marketing]
Jobs at:
Agency For Accelerated Regional Development (AFARD)
Deadline of this Job:
Friday, May 23 2025
Duty Station:
Nebbi | Kampala | Uganda
Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, May 8 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
Job Summary
Responsible for driving young women enterprise business growth and maintaining strong customer relationships by coordinating private sector engagement, and entrepreneurship development among participating young people.
Roles & Responsibilities
Capacity Building
- Participate in livelihood and market assessment including enterprise viability and barrier analysis to inform market-relevant skilling for young women.
- Support POs and peer trainers to facilitate YSLA members to prepare business plans to anchor business with a purpose drive.
- Conduct business diagnosis and customized trainings in key areas of need for young women’s business growth.
- Support Skilling Officers and peer trainers to provide tailored cohort-based training and mentorship on business development, including market analysis, business planning, financial management, and marketing.
- Identify market needs and skills gaps and provide relevant needs-based capacity development.
- Identify potential growth sectors, opportunities, business relationships and partnerships.
- Develop a comprehensive business development strategy which aligns with SIYEP skilling focus in AFARD.
- Offer customized business development services to young women businesses, including guidance on product development, registration, and marketing.
- Ensures gender and safeguarding and disability inclusion are mainstreamed in the program activities.
Access to markets
- Provide market linkages with traders, large-scale buyers or processors and other existing marketing platforms and networks and enroll participants on AFARD FAMIS digital marketing platform.
- Organize Seasonal markets for young women in agribusiness.
- Support, train and coach young women on market standards to improve on agronomic practices
- Develop and maintain a database of key market actors and operators to strengthen and expand market opportunities
- Facilitate linkages between young women entrepreneurs and inputs and output market actors
- Coach POs, peer trainers, marketing committees and young women in agribusiness in collective marketing.
Access to Finance
- Provide financial literacy education for the rural young women.
- Facilitate linkage banking, youth SACCO formation, strengthening & linkages to government programs
Partnership and Networking:
- Liaise with local businesses, employers, and industries to create job placement opportunities, internships, and apprenticeships for trained young people.
- Leverage networks to connect youth-led businesses with potential customers, investors, and collaborators.
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Monitor and analyze market trends, customer behavior, and industry developments.
- Report on business growth and marketing performance
Person specifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Economics, Business Administration, or related field.
- A minimum of 3 year’s experience in Youth Entrepreneurship, marketing, youth business development
- Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing business development programs for young people in rural settings.
- Strong understanding of market analysis, business planning, financial management, and value chain development.
- Proven experience in providing training and technical assistance to startups and Micro Small and Medium scale Enterprises.
- Excellent networking, negotiation, and partnership-building skills.
- Familiarity with financial inclusion and access to finance initiatives.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal.
- High level of honesty, integrity, and accountability.
- Strong business acumen and ability to achieve results with minimum supervision.
- Ability to work in teams and build collaborative relationships.
- Familiar with digital marketing tools and platforms.
- Willingness to travel to remote districts of Uganda as and when required.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 36
Level of Education: bachelor degree
Job application procedure:
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