Team Leader and SME Training & Coaching Expert

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Project objectives

 

Scaling up agribusiness enterprises in underserved areas of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, enhancing income generation, job creation, and social cohesion among displaced, marginalized and host communities. The project involves:

 

    1.        Capacity building of local BDS providers and familiarization with SME Loop for ToT

    2.        Strengthen the technical and financial capacities of agribusinesses in selected underserved areas.

    3.        Facilitate cross-governorate peer learning and exchange to spread best practices and innovations.

    4.        Create new employment opportunities by linking agribusinesses with youth and agri-graduates.

    5.        Contribute to social cohesion by fostering collaboration between host communities, IDPs, refugees, returnees, women, and PWDs.

 

The project is envisaged to start in June 2026 with expected duration ca. 8 months . The project is funded through the GIZ.

Qualifications:

• M.Sc. in Business Administration, Economics or Agronomy
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in SME promotion
• 6 years in training and coaching of SMEs, with 3 years experience using the SME Loop methodology
• 3 years of leadership experience as project team leader of at least 2 team members
• 5 years of professional experience in projects outside the Middle East.
• 3 years of professional experience in projects in the Middle East, of which 2 years in projects in Iraq
• 6 years of professional experience in Development Cooperation projects
• C1 level language proficiency in English

Tasks:

·         Overall responsibility for the advisory packages of the contractor

·         Ensuring the coherence and complementarity of the contractor’s services with other services delivered by the project at local and national level

·         Design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of capacity development measures for local partners in the following areas: ToT, Curricula adaptation and implementation, measuring impact of trainings, M&E.

·         Responsibility for taking cross-cutting themes into consideration (for example, gender equality)

·         Staff management, in particular identifying the need for short-term assignments within the available budget, planning and managing the assignments and supporting experts

·         Regular reporting in accordance with deadlines

·         Conduct need analysis regarding knowledge gaps of local Business Development Service Providers, and local requirements for business development support to SME’s.

·         Conduct stakeholder consultations

·         Develop/ Adapt training material, user guides and guidelines according to the SME Loop methodology

·         Develop M&E capability for capturing activities and relevant indicators based on provided timeline and framework, and lead in regular collection of data, analysis and preparation of reports

·         Provide technical assistance and back-stopping to the trainers/coaches on the implementation of the SME Loop

·         Carry out training of ToTs and coaches from the local training institutions and refresher training for the existing ones based on need

·         Review the implementation of the training and coaching stages of the SME Loop and provide recommendations for the implementation of further training and coaching stages

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