About the role
To design and deliver practical entrepreneurship and agricultural training, and to provide structured enterprise-development support. This enables UBORA beneficiaries and trainees to move from learning → business development → enterprise establishment → growth and sustainable income generation.
Reports to: Business & Internship Hub Manager
Overall accountability: The Entrepreneurship & Business Lead is accountable for the quality, relevance, delivery and measurable outcomes of UBORA’s entrepreneurship, business and agricultural training and enterprise-development activities.
Accountability question: Are UBORA’s business and agricultural training participants developing the skills, networks and support they need to establish, strengthen and grow sustainable enterprises?
Key responsibilities
Business Start-up Training
- Design structured Business Start-up Training programmes covering business ideation, opportunity identification, business planning, marketing, financial management, customer development and operations.
- Deliver training according to approved annual and quarterly plans.
- Track participant attendance, completion and learning outcomes for every cohort.
Agricultural Training
- Plan and coordinate practical agricultural training aligned with market opportunities and local economic realities.
- Integrate technical agricultural knowledge with business, financial and market-development skills.
- Track how participants apply the training after completion.
Business Incubation
- Business incubation means giving structured, ongoing support to help an emerging business move from an idea or early-stage operation to a viable and sustainable enterprise. The Lead will:
- Identify participants with viable business ideas or early-stage businesses.
- Develop individual or cohort-based business-development support plans.
- Provide or coordinate business coaching, technical support, mentorship, market linkages and business-networking opportunities.
- Monitor business milestones such as registration, product or service development, customers, revenue, profitability and job creation.
- Graduate businesses from incubation when they reach defined levels of sustainability and independence.
Business Mentorship & Coaching
- Identify and engage experienced entrepreneurs and business professionals as coaches, trainers and mentors.
- Match entrepreneurs with suitable business mentors where needed.
- Monitor mentoring and coaching engagement and outcomes.
Business Networking
- Connect UBORA trainees and emerging entrepreneurs with successful business owners, markets, service providers, financial institutions and other relevant networks.
- Build relationships that can generate business opportunities, partnerships and market access.
Enterprise Follow-up
- Maintain a database of participants who complete business and agricultural training.
- Conduct structured follow-up at defined intervals after training.
- Track business establishment, survival, growth, revenue and income, employment creation and major challenges.
Business Impact Assessment
- Conduct periodic assessments of businesses supported through UBORA programmes.
- Document measurable outcomes and lessons learned.
- Recommend improvements to future training and incubation programmes.
Business Success Stories
- Identify and document high-quality business success stories.
- Provide verified stories, photographs, data and other relevant information for UBORA communications and donor reporting.
Entrepreneurship Pathways
- Identify entrepreneurship opportunities for UBORA graduates who may not immediately enter formal employment.
- Develop pathways involving business incubation, coaching, networking, agricultural enterprise and other suitable income-generating opportunities.
- 10. Link Entrepreneurship to Employment & Internships
- Identify businesses with potential to provide internships, field attachments, employment or practical learning opportunities.
- Share relevant opportunities with the Hub Manager and the Internship & Ambassador Lead.
- Help build a wider ecosystem in which successful businesses become UBORA partners.
Minimum qualifications
- Education: Bachelor's Degree in Entrepreneurship, Business Administration, Economics, Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics or a related field
- Experience: 3+ years
- Languages: English, Kiswahili
- At least 3 years’ experience in enterprise development, business training or agribusiness
- Fluent written and spoken English and Kiswahili
- Added advantage: Experience working in a cross-cultural setting
- Added advantage: At least 3 years’ experience working with a donor-funded organisation
- Added advantage: A professional qualification or certificate in Entrepreneurship, Business Development, Agribusiness or Enterprise Development
- Added advantage: Training or certification in Business Coaching, Mentoring, Project Management or Training of Trainers (ToT)
Core competencies & skills
Entrepreneurship & Enterprise DevelopmentBusiness Coaching, Mentoring & IncubationTraining Facilitation & Adult LearningBusiness Networking & Market DevelopmentBusiness Analysis, Monitoring & Impact Assessment
What we offer
- 2-year fixed-term contract, including a 3–6 month probation period
- Start date: January 2027
- Competitive remuneration set by UBORA’s Board-approved Compensation Schedule
- A clear career pathway with defined grades, Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and promotion based on merit
- Starting grade depends on verified qualifications and experience, in line with UBORA’s Scheme of Service