Grow Movement ,Volunteer Consultant in Uganda | - 2015

Volunteer Opportunity description

Grow Movement empowers African entrepreneurs with business skills vital for increasing profitability and creating jobs through knowledge transfer over Skype, phone and email. Our movement is crucial to help support and sustain new businesses and their owners which in turn enables them to build a brighter future. We help our entrpreneurs unlock their pote
ntial through a unique partnership with a volunteer consultant, which is where you come in.
Why should I volunteer? Because I want too…
-Make a direct, tangible and sustainable impact.
-Create employment, enhance the business skills of an entrepreneur and increase profitability
-Improve my skills. Develop and enhance consulting, cross cultural communication and coaching skills
-Gain new knowledge. Learn about different business sectors in an emerging market
-Be challenged. Consulting via technology to Uganda is not for everyone. The business landscape is very different, data is limited and the usual tools available for business are not readily accessible
-Experience a fulfilling opportunity that inspires, motivates and refreshes me
-Connect with likeminded business professionals. Grow has a vast global network of over 500 volunteer consultants
-Support through skills development rather than aid and hand outs
Grow Movement is working with London Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business to do an impact evaluation of virtual consultancy on entrepreneur performance in Uganda.
For July 2015, we will recruit 600 new consultants to join our existing global network of business professionals to support this academic research. This is an incredible opportunity to have our work externally validated, enabling Grow to work with policymakers and expand our services rapidly across Africa. For this we need a driven and talented team. Be part of #uganda600.
Qualifications/Experience
What skills do I need?
Finance: Analyse financial performance and teach concepts of operating costs, pricing and cash flow
Strategy: Review business plans and be confident enough to help expand or improve the business model
Marketing: Assess marketing strategies and teach concepts of customer care, loyalty and competition analysis
Probing: Find out information without overwhelming clients and check their understanding without asking ‘do you understand?’
Language: Speak in an easy simple fashion rather than using ‘consultanese’
Creative problem solving: Be confident in dealing with entrepreneurs that do not have complete data, or sometimes no data at all
Flexibility: Flexible between different styles including consulting, teaching and coaching in one session
Experience:
-Minimum of five years commercial experience post-graduation.
-Mentoring, coaching and/or teaching experience.
-Experience with improving business performance; gained during running your own business, as a management consultant, mentoring with small businesses, or working in a corporate environment.
-MBA/Business Undergrad or equivalent business/education experience or professional qualification including accountant, lawyer, etc.
How to applyhttp://www.growmovement.org/volunteer-consultant