Felix K. Rotich

Oversee day to day implementation of Jiinue Growth Program (JGP) activities across five counties in South Rift region (Baringo, Nakuru, Kericho, Bomet and Narok), ensuring adherence to the program’s guidelines in provision of business management training and mentorship/business advisory services to young women in business, youth women in business living with disabilities, and young women in marginalized areas. Supervise the provision of Technical Assistance services (Investor readiness business management training & individualized mentorships) of MSMEs, and a team of Technical team of Jiinue Enterprise Trainers towards program’s measurable regional targets and Key Performance Indicators across five counties, ensuring attainment of program targets, and value for money in resource utilization. Co-facilitate regular coordination meetings, with the program implementation partners (The Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (County Chapters Managers), Kenya Private Sector Alliance, Groots Kenya, 4G Capital, Powered By People, and other important stakeholders including County Governments.

Deputy Regional Coordinator, Jiinue Growth Program (JGP) - Grassroots Business Fund - South Rift Region

(2024-07 - 2026-06)

• Oversee day to day implementation of Jiinue Growth Program (JGP) activities across five counties in South Rift region (Baringo, Nakuru, Kericho, Bomet and Narok), ensuring adherence to the program’s guidelines in provision of business management training and mentorship/business advisory services to young women in business, youth women in business living with disabilities, and young women in marginalized areas.
• Supervise the provision of Technical Assistance services (Investor readiness business management training & individualized mentorships) of MSMEs, and a team of Technical team of Jiinue Enterprise Trainers towards program’s measurable regional targets and Key Performance Indicators across five counties, ensuring attainment of program targets, and value for money in resource utilization.
• Co-facilitate regular coordination meetings, with the program implementation partners (The Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (County Chapters Managers), Kenya Private Sector Alliance, Groots Kenya, 4G Capital, Powered By People, and other important stakeholders including County Governments.
• Review and approve Bi-weekly Jiinue Enterprise Trainers’ work plans and fieldwork facilitation budgets for regional technical assistance team, taking into consideration program’s implementation guidelines, quarterly regional targets, timelines, and budget allocations.
• Ensure compliance and adherence to MasterCard Foundation’s procurement and vendor sourcing procedures, financial management and reporting requirements, and public engagement protocols which ensures safeguarding in all processes.
• Ensuring that all the regional teams not only understand the safeguarding principles, but that all program participants are adequately informed of the safeguards meant to protect them from any harm, abuse, exploitation, or harassment before, during and after the implementation of the program.
• Consolidate county reports into regional fieldwork reports, participants’ impact stories to be shared with the program’s National Coordinator and consortia partners on program achievements, program implementation challenges and adaptations.
• Support the Monitoring and Evaluation activities in the region, including conducting survey data collection from program participants across counties in the region, in order to gain insights into the socioeconomic impact of the program’s interventions on participants.
• Organizing and facilitating quarterly physical regional meetings for performance review and realignment, and important strategic discussions on the way forward by the technical team and program’s partners.
• Start and Improve Your Business (ILO Certified Trainer), business coach and mentor to SME owners/managers across five counties in the South Rift region.

Senior Vocational Technical Trainer - State Department of TVET - The Rift Valley National Polytechnic

(2019-05 - 2024-06)

• Served as a point of contact between the state department of TVET, young people seeking vocational education and training, community and other stakeholders, through my direct involvement in internal and external activities of the institution.
• 5 years’ experience preparing training materials, conducting training, and guiding students towards their respective competencies and qualifications in subjects including Agricultural Economics, Development Economics, Farm Business Management, Agricultural Trade and Marketing, Entrepreneurship Development, among others.
• Acting as advisor, mentor, and coach to students pursuing varying career paths as a member of the department's counselling and mentorship team.
• Experience preparing training materials, manuals, training programs, lesson & session planning, for students in the department of Agriculture and Environmental Studies.
• Served as chairman of the department staff welfare linking all their actionable requests and concerns to the management team, organizing and coordinating staff welfare events and farewells.
• Participated in the planning and organization of the institution’s annual trade fair (RVIST Agribusiness Expo) as a member of the department of agriculture and environmental studies.

Field Manager - TNS-RMS East Africa

(2014-05 - 2016-07)

• Planned, coordinated and managed timely execution of data collection operations for multiple market research survey projects in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.
• Organized and conducted training and capacity building for data enumerators and regional coordinators concerning the requirements and expectations of the assigned research projects in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda.
• Compiled fieldwork progress reports, quarterly market intelligence reports and communicated effectively with project stakeholders concerning fieldwork operations.
• Managed fieldwork budget for the assigned research projects, recruitment and induction of field teams, and ensuring compliance to data collection protocols and research ethics.
• Supported other departments; Quality Control department to ensure integrity of the research process; Data Processing department in data cleaning and coding process; Client Service department to serve the interests of the clients; and Project Management to fulfil the projects’ requirements and stakeholders’ expectations.

Master - Research and Public Policy - Egerton University, Nakuru, Kenya (2023)

MBA - International Development Economics - Troy University, Alabama, USA (2010 - 2012)

Bachelor of Science - Agricultural Economics - The University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya (2004 - 2008)

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education - Olkejuado High School (1998 - 2002)