Business Acceleration Expert Employment Opportunity - Interchurch Organisation for Development Co-operation (ICCO)

Organization: Interchurch Organisation for Development

Co-operation (ICCO)

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Interchurch

Organisation for Development Co-operation (ICCO) was established in 1964 and

became a cooperation in 2012. The founding members of the ICCO Cooperation are

Edukans, the Protestant Church of the Netherlands (Kerk in Actie) and the

association Prisma. Within a coherent programmatic framework, the ICCO

Cooperation offers worldwide financial support, brokerage and capacity building

to local non-governmental organizations, the private sector, churches and

networks that work on sustainable economic development, democracy and peace,

access to basic services (health and education), food security and climate

mitigation.

Job Summary: The ICCO Business Acceleration Expert works with

SME (agri-) businesses to grow them stronger to economic sustainability for

social impact. ICCO AbB as a participant in the venture assigns the Business

Acceleration Expert to the business for providing and organizing agreed

packages of support in the areas of business planning, marketing, systems,

financing, coaching, and which are structured as investments in the company. The

business acceleration experts works closely with the entrepreneur and the

company’s management team, as well as with hired external service providers in

the realization of the support packages agreed. The Business Acceleration

Expert will be tasked to grow businesses to economic sustainability for social

impact by organizing and providing a tailor-made package of support to these

companies.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

1. Identification: In charge

of scouting of potential SME (agri-) businesses for business acceleration &

investment in the relevant (sub-)sectors set by ICCO

2, Business Incubation/

Acceleration:

• Support the entrepreneur/ businesses in
  
  turning ideas into viable businesses by developing the concept, the
  
  business case, identifying the impact, the market, and finding partners


• Support to validation and proof of concept of
  
  starting businesses


• Provide business development services to
  
  entrepreneurs/ businesses as mutually agreed


• Organize outsourced parts of the package,
  
  manage and follow up on the results


• With the entrepreneur, develop business plans
  
  looking at different scenarios of growth, quantitative achievements, and
  
  short, medium, and long term financing needs


• Identify investors and financing
  
  institutions, and raise optimum financing mix of debt and equity for the
  
  businesses


• Significantly contribute to the regular
  
  reporting to stakeholders and investors on improvements in the business
  
  and help company management to plan the next steps

• Build networks of coaches and mentors as well
  
  as service providers for supporting the entrepreneurs/ businesses


• Identify legal and regulatory issues and
  
  address them


• Actively contribute to the development and
  
  branding of the ICCO AbB and raise funds as per requirement of the
  
  organization and the enterprises

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The applicant should hold a Business Degree
  
  from an accredited University strongly preferred to be completed in
  
  English; an advanced degree in sustainability, ethical business or similar
  
  area is considered an asset.


• Working knowledge of regional or global
  
  sustainability topics, trends and opportunities is important.


• Significant eroven expertise in Agri-business
  
  development from investor/program pitches, proposal writing, ongoing
  
  relationship building, and contract signing.


• The ideal candidates would have at least five
  
  years’ experience working in Agri-business development or related
  
  function, with a preference for more years, or be equipped with an
  
  impressive substitute.


• Previous work or substantial knowledge in
  
  Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) value chain development in agriculture,
  
  Inclusive Business and Sustainable Development Dynamics fields will
  
  considered as strong assets.


• Background in private sector, entrepreneurial
  
  mind-set, risk-taker and strong business acumen


• Creative, curious, pro-active


• Impact-driven, strong set of ownership for
  
  every deliverable


• Ability to attract investors and partners and
  
  have strong network capabilities


• Can work in a team as well as individually,
  
  ability to work under minimum supervision


• Excellent communication skills


• Familiarity with agriculture, agribusiness
  
  and SMEs


• Proven expertise with SME admin, finance,
  
  management and systems

All

suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their updated CVs of not

more than 3 pages and a motivational letter of not more than 1 page to: David.Kamukama@icco-cooperation.org

via E-mail only. All applications should be clearly marked: “ICCO Cooperation –

Business Acceleration Expert” and no email should exceed 2MB.

Deadline: 4^th April 2016 by 5:00PM