Enterprise Development Officer at Borno Women Development Initiative (BOWDI)

Job Description: 

The Enterprise Development Officer (EDO) is responsible to facilitating the members of the communities to become Self-reliant in pursuit of their common interests. Major role of EDO would be to promote optimal utilization of available resources. EDO will Identify, Plan & Manage project activities, including monitoring and evaluation of enterprise program components; prepare and submit reports and other deliverables, conduct market research and assessments to match producer capabilities to market demands.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Facilitating partner communities and organization to Identifying the target business & population for program interventions.
• Facilitate communities to enhance the alternate sources of income.
• To develop Training Material.
• Support the training of communities on Business cycle, Marketing and business skills.
• Preparation of daily/weekly and monthly work plan and reports, and submission to Project Manager.
• Ensure women participation, focusing primarily on the poor and destitute, at all levels of decision making including identification, planning/ designing, implementation, maintenance, monitoring and evaluating of project activities.
• Ensuring that communities are actively and inclusively involved in making micro Investment Plan at individual, group and village level for economic self-reliance.
• Identifying new businesses in the selected union councils of the project area and preparing value chains, Business Plans and feasibility reports for each business.
• Will be responsible to complete any other assignment given by Organization management.
• Any other tasks assigned by line manager or BOWDI.

Reporting

• Report on project activities.
• Collects human interest stories with photos on project beneficiaries during project implementation
• Any other task, assigned by supervisor.
• Follow up on the beneficiaries to ensure we address issues related to their businesses.

Requirement

• Minimum of Bsc and HND or equivalent. 
• Minimum of 2 -3 years' experience working
• Women are encouraged to apply.