Country Trainer

Heifer International

Country Trainer – Enterprise Facilitation  

23.10.2017

Job Title: Country Trainer – Enterprise Facilitation 

Position Number:

New or Refill: New

Core position:Yes (As defined in the Global Recruitment and Hiring Policy)

Salary Grade: 7

Division/Dept.: Asia/ Nepal

Dept. #/Subproject WO: Heifer Nepal Branch

Reports to: Director of Programs 

Supervisor POSNO:

Supervisor RESNO/Name:……… 

Supervision: Employees Yes| Volunteers: Yes  

Location: Kathmandu 

Travel Required: Up to 80% Annually

Heifer International is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identify, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

FUNCTION

The role of the Country Trainer is to shadow on the job and learn from the Sirolli Institute on best practices of enterprise facilitation. S/he will adopt the Sirolli model of enterprises facilitation and support the enterprise facilitators in the field to help potential entrepreneurs to establish successful enterprises. The incumbent will support to set-up project management team and volunteer network team.S/he will be Master Trainer and advocate for the ‘Enterprise Facilitation’ Model to expand projects/coverage in Nepal. 

ESSENTIAL CHARACTER TRAITS:  

• Good listener, Good behavior, Respectful, Accessible, Visible, Good teacher, Good Communicator.
• Ability to works alone and must be trusted to be well organized and self-motivated.
• An excellent communicator able to reach a wide cross-section of the community.
• Friendly but professional approach.

Minimum Requirements:

• Educated to master degreelevel in an appropriate business subject such as, marketing, finance, administration, personnel or communications or able to demonstrate competence through experience of client based engagement and progression methods with hard to reach groups in deprived communities to enable a business to establish and grow 
• Have to have practical, personal business experience.
• Training, teaching or facilitating experience of 5 years. 
• Knowledge and experience developing best business practices.
• Knowledge and experience in Solidarity Economy and small entrepreneurship.
• Good English language skill

Preferred Requirements:

• Knowledge of the Sirolli Institute Model

Most Critical Proficiencies:

• Ability to understand and promote network building capacities
• Ability to learn a new management coaching system
• Ability to coach and support Enterprise Facilitators on Trinity of Management (TOM) and Enterprise Facilitation methodology
• Ability to show empathy toward clients and their proposal/problems
• The Country Trainer must be able to discuss matters with clients in simple and practical terms. Look for a commonsense approach to problem solving and be resourceful.
• Ability to win friends and supporters both within the community and the media.
• An excellent communicator able to reach a wide cross-section of the community (from successful business people to unemployed young people
• Ability to empathize with client without patronizing them
• Respect for the client’ “speed” and “pace”
• Ability to communicate in simple language
• Enthusiasm for client’s success.

Essential Job Functions and Physical Demands:

• A Country Trainer works alone and with community volunteers and must be trusted to be well organized and self-motivated
• Ability to allow people to make decisions for themselves.  The Country Trainer must be a person who can wait for clients to decide when they wish to proceed with their business ideas.  In effect, this means accepting that the relationship is client directed not “expert” directed
• The Country Trainersare disciplined, and they never call their clients; they call them back. They don’t create dependency, they empower their clients
• A “people to person,” that is, someone who enjoys mixing with people and helping them achieve their dreams.
• A self-motivated, mature person who needs no supervision and who is performance motivated more than task motivated