Business Development Services Mentor at Equity Group Foundation (2024-06 – 2025-12)
- Mobilized and enrolled 79 MSMEs under the Young Africa Works program for the BDS mentorship
- Conducted demand driven individual and group mentorships to 79 MSMEs
- Ensured that the MSMEs under the BDS support accessed financial services
- Facilitated market linkages and business networks for the MSMEs
- Participated in the development, review, and update of the BDS materials
- Documented and disseminated success stories & lessons learn in BDS
- Supported the MSMEs budget for their finances and manage their debts
- Supported the Credit department in loan recoveries and business appraisals
- Supported the branch onboard new accounts and mobilized new deposits
- Onboarded new merchants to the bank
- Mobilized for new loans and deposits
- Business digitization: Electronic payments, use of technology to market business products
Enterprise Development Officer (Entrepreneurship Education Trainer and Mentor) at Equity Group Foundation (2019-07 – 2024-05)
Specific tasks included the following, among others.
- Capacity building- Training the micro small and medium enterprise business owners on Entrepreneurship education and financial literacy education
- Coaching and mentoring the MSMEs on Business start-ups and Project proposals
- Providing the relevant market linkages to the MSMEs
- Facilitate the MSMEs access credit from the Bank
- Participate in program development and redesigning
- Partnership management- Engage with various Partners such as; County and National Governments, Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI), Center for Strategic Development (CSD), Tea factories, NGOs and private companies that share similar interest with the YAWK program
Business mentor, KCEP CRAAL Program at Equity Group Foundation (2021-01 – 2021-12)
- Visited 21 agrodealers' enterprises for both individual and group mentorship
- Guided the Agrodealers MSMEs to identify business gaps in their business and helped them to close on them
- Organized for business clinics where the agrodealers visited the biggest cereal aggregator in Uasin Gishu-Ziwa
- Documented success stories featuring the transformation of the agrodealers enterprises
- Trained 45 agrodealers on entrepreneurship module
- Trained and coached 600 cereal farmers on Business management and budgeting
Business Counsellor and M&E support at Technoserve Kenya (2018-08 – 2019-02)
Specific task included the following, among others.
- Profiling participants for the program
- Support partners (vocational training centres) to transition and use the MIS platform
- Document case studies for different counties and evaluation on the success and uptake of the STRYDE program
- Link the partners with potential financiers and donors for sustainability
- Coordinate program training between the county governments and partners
- Support the partners to access the soft copies of training materials in the google drive
- In charge of all M&E activities
- Conducting refresher trainings
- Monitor and assess the quality of training and give feedback
Training Consultant at Technoserve Kenya (2018-02 – 2018-08)
Stryde Program
Associate Business Advisor at Technoserve Kenya (2017-09 – 2017-12)
Stryde Program
Partnership Business Counsellor at Technoserve Kenya (2016-03 – 2017-08)
Stryde Program. Specific task among other roles.
- Training trainers on Stryde curriculum
- Mobilizing new participants for the training
- Sourcing for Business mentors to oversee start-ups businesses
- Organizing for financial clinics and skills training activities
- Collecting relevant data as required by MasterCard
- Training observation and assessment
- Documenting case studies
- Coordinating 11 Vocational Training Centres in Elgeyo Marakwet County
- Organizing training meetings and coordinating Stryde events in the county
- Mobilizing the youths for the programme
Credit Officer at Uasin Gishu County Youth Bunge Sacco Ltd (2015-09 – 2016-02)
Specific tasks among others.
- Recovering of default loan
- Training members on entrepreneurship and effective management of credit
- Accessed the members' small enterprises and advised the credit committee
- Mobilized the members in the county and register new members to the Sacco
Intern at Uasin Gishu County Government (2015-01 – 2015-12)
Specific tasks included.
- Prepared board's final accounts, bank reconciliation and updated clients ledger
- Prepared accounts reports
- Carried out training on the effective management of small and medium enterprises in various groups
