Job Description
Rank: Supervisor/Facilitator/Assistant
Grade: SH2
Section: Member/ Client Services
Department: Sustainable Livelihoods
Location / Work station: Makueni and Kirinyaga
Working Hours: Monday – Friday | 8.00 AM – 5.00PM
Reports to: Regional Coordinator
Direct reports: N/A
Job Purpose:
To be responsible for training and equipping beneficiaries with Employability and Entrepreneurship skills through facilitation of job market oriented employability skill training and business management trainings and to be responsible for sourcing of appropriate placements for Employability students.
Key Responsibilities and Job Dimensions
Responsibilities
- Mobilize and sensitize community members for Entrepreneurship training and employability training.
- Sensitize members on importance of entrepreneurship training and benefits of the training for their businesses.
- Train members on IGAs that are market oriented and youth in Employability.
- Train the requisite number of members on the comprehensive entrepreneurship module.
- Conduct business mentorship on members to achieve sustainability of businesses.
- Link members to SHOFCO Sacco for microloans to improve business.
- Track the progress of each mentee through personalized visits and surveys.
- Research the market on viable ideas for IGAs, learn and prepare for training.
- Mobilize and recruit members for IGA training.
- Ensure great collaboration with SUN to grow Livelihoods programs
- Network in and out of operating area and obtain job/intern/artisan opportunities for employability graduates.
- Conduct interview preparation and work ethics interactive activities.
- Assist trainees prepare good CVs and cover letters
- Conduct business assessment for SHOFCO beneficiaries
- Review the Employability, Entrepreneurship training modules and constantly improve on them.
- Develop supplementary material for Employability training
- Mobilize, sensitize and recruitment of refugees.
- Registration and placement of youth in vocational schools for training
- Follow up on the youth placed in vocational Skills Training Institutions.
- Formation and training of the Urban Savings and loaning Associations /VSLA/GSLAs
- Training young people in Job readiness skills
- Support young people in internship/Apprenticeship placement
- Support young people in placing young people in gainful employment
- Support young people in Vocational skills training
- Organize innovation challenge for youths.
- To support youth SMEs through incubation
- Train young people in Entrepreneurship skills
- To provide business Mentorship to young people
- Support young people with grants to start up and expand businesses and refer others to SHOFCO SACCO to access loans
- Initiate partnerships and collaborations that will expand SHOFCO work
- An applicant must be a SHOFCO SUN member of affiliated to SUN
Job Competencies (Knowledge, Experience and Attributes / Skills).
Academic Qualifications
- At least a Diploma in any relevant field/ Discipline
Professional Qualifications
- N/A
Other required qualifications (unique/job specific)
- At least 2 years’ experience in economic empowerment or a related task
Functional Skills:
- Meeting timescales
- Examining information
- Articulating information
- Exploring possibilities
Behavioral Competencies/Attributes:
- Convincing people
- Directing people
- Producing output
- Thinking positively
How to apply
All interested applicants should send their CV and detailed cover letter to recruitment@shininghopeforcommunities.org with the job position “SL Facilitator – (Location Applying for)” in the subject line.Applications due by March 23, 2026.
SHOFCO Recruitment and Hiring Notes:
Please note that SHOFCO does not charge any fee in the recruitment process, as the entire hiring process is free and fair.
SHOFCO is committed to upholding Gender Equality, Diversity and Social inclusion, and seeks to reflect the communities that we serve. Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply. Additionally, SHOFCO seeks safety for the people that we serve, and employment with SHOFCO is conditional upon successful background and reference checks and other verification as needed. SHOFCO has a zero-tolerance policy on gross misconduct, including sexual exploitation, harassment, and abuse. SHOFCO will request a certificate of good conduct and information from the job applicant’s previous employers about any findings of sexual misconduct, fraud, or abuse. By submitting an application to SHOFCO, the applicant confirms her/his/their understanding of these recruitment procedures.