Business Mentoring / Monitoring Practitioner
الوصف الوظيفي
SRD Center is seeking qualified Business Mentoring / Monitoring Practitioner to join a short-term consultancy assignment supporting agricultural micro and small enterprises, rural entrepreneurs, community-based organizations, and local communities in Jordan.
The assignment aims to strengthen beneficiaries' capacities to establish, manage, expand and sustain viable agricultural and agri-business enterprises through practical business development support, training, coaching and follow-up.
Tasks
The Business Mentoring and Monitoring Practitioner will provide individualized advisory support and follow-up to beneficiaries during the establishment, development or expansion of their enterprises.
Key responsibilities include:
- Provide structured individual and/or small-group business mentoring.
- Review beneficiaries' business plans, implementation progress and business challenges.
- Support beneficiaries during the start-up or expansion of their businesses.
- Identify business-management, operational, marketing and financial gaps.
- Develop practical recommendations and corrective actions together with beneficiaries.
- Assist beneficiaries in establishing realistic business milestones and action plans.
- Monitor implementation of agreed business plans and recommendations.
- Conduct regular field visits and follow-up sessions.
- Track the progress and performance of supported enterprises.
- Develop and use appropriate monitoring and follow-up tools.
- Assess progress against agreed business milestones and performance indicators.
- Identify enterprises requiring additional or specialized support.
- Coordinate referrals to business development, packaging or marketing specialists when required.
- Monitor challenges affecting business sustainability.
- Document beneficiary progress, achievements, challenges and lessons learned.
- Identify and document potential success stories and good practices.
- Contribute to mentoring progress reports.
- Contribute to the final assessment of supported businesses.
- Participate in training evaluation and acquired-skills assessment where required.
- Contribute to the final consultancy report and recommendations.
- University degree, preferably an advanced degree, in Business Administration, Business Development, Agribusiness, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Rural Development or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated professional experience in business mentoring, coaching and SME advisory services.
- Experience supporting micro and small enterprises during start-up and/or business expansion.
- Experience conducting business performance monitoring and structured follow-up.
- Experience developing or applying business monitoring tools and indicators.
- Strong understanding of business planning, financial management, marketing and operational management.
- Experience working with agricultural SMEs, smallholder farmers, rural entrepreneurs, CBOs or cooperatives is highly desirable.
- Experience supporting vulnerable populations, refugee/host communities or community-based livelihood programmes is an advantage.
- Strong interpersonal, coaching and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work directly with entrepreneurs and translate identified challenges into practical actions.
- Strong documentation and reporting skills.
- Ability and willingness to conduct regular field visits in Balqa, Ajloun and Jerash.
- Fluency in Arabic is required for beneficiary-facing activities.
- Good English skills are desirable.
The ToR specifically calls for individualized mentoring, business advisory support, identification of operational gaps, regular field visits and written monitoring reports.
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