Facilitator and Trainer at Skills Outside School Foundation

Details:
Headstart-into-Entrepreneurship is a program to enhance the capacity of entrepreneurs to develop, incubate and scale-up sustainable businesses that can support Nigeria’s growth and development.

The Headstart-into-Entrepreneurship facilitator/trainer is responsible for delivering the curriculum and coordinating the training session.
 
Duties

• Coordinating and administering the SOS headstart into entrepreneurship workshop to meet the desired learning objectives
• Preparing assignments and activities for participants
• Leading follow†up and evaluation of the learning, collecting feedback and tracking learning, during and after the workshop
• The trainers are required to relay their personal experiences in running businesses (if any) and skills for success in business to extend/entrench participants learning. The trainers are allowed to make adjustments to the workshop design-structure and learning activities as required for the situation.

Areas of facilitation/training:

• Business idea generation and incubation
• Business skills (negotiation, pitching, communication, leadership, teamwork)

Branding

• Unlocking Funding Opportunities
• Technology and Operation Management
• Human Resource Management
• Financial literacy and Management
• Business Law and Corporate governance

TIME COMMITMENT

• 1 day induction training
• Attending feedback and evaluation meeting once after each training cycle
• 1 training day  to deliver a module per cycle
• 7 HOURS A WEEK (MINIMUM) [A cycle lasts for 8 sessions (delivered over 3 weeks or 4 weeks) and runs all through the year]
• Flexible (either a weekday / weekend)

Other Requirements
Submitting  performance reports / monitoring & evaluation forms after administering a module
                                                                                                                                     
ASSIGNMENT
Facilitators/Trainers will be assigned based on proximity to the location.

SKILLS REQUIREMENTS

• Presentation - communicating ideas, using visual and other aids, giving feedback, listening skills.
• Facilitation - managing activities, eliciting contributions and learning, creative and innovative thinker, ability to create an atmosphere of confidence among participants.
• One-to-one - coaching, counseling, mentoring, advising, assessing
• Consultancy - investigating, advising, evaluating
• Design - designing activities, e-literate, knowledge of group development, including the ability to sense a group’s mood and change methods or adjust the program on the spot.
• Interpersonal - building relationships, ability to handle conflict, trust in other people and their capacities, respect for the opinions of others, does not impose ideas on others, adaptable.
• Assertiveness - confidence, challenging and supporting.
• Expertise and Interest - knowledgeable, insightful, up to date, enthusiastic about being a trainer.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
• IT proficient.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• A university degree in any field
• Masters’ or PhD in business field or certification(s) in business courses will be desirable
• Previous training experience in any of the roles listed above or similar business module
• 2 years running a successful business will be desirable

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