Employer: Village Enterprise Kenya.

Industry: Nonprofit/International Development/Social Entrepreneurship.

Function: Develop Micro- Enterprises and provide Mentoring activities to Nourish Participants.

Job Title: Business Mentor.

Position Type: Full time.

Reports to: Field Associate.

Location: West Pokot County (Pokot North Sub County)

About Village Enterprise: 

Village Enterprise’s mission is to end extreme poverty in rural Africa through entrepreneurship, innovation, and collective action. By empowering women, refugees, and youth to launch small businesses and savings groups, our cost- effective model provides dignified and sustainable pathways for individuals to lift themselves and their families out of extreme poverty for good.

To date, Village Enterprise has trained 396,872 first-time entrepreneurs, 80% of whom are women, and supported the launch of 120,609 businesses and 9,309 Business Savings Groups (BSGs). These efforts have positively impacted 2,478,065 lives across Africa. With operations in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda, and partnerships in other sub–Saharan African countries, Village Enterprise continues to expand its reach. As we scale our impact, our aim remains ambitious yet achievable: to lift 20 million people out of extreme poverty by 2035.

About NOURISH RCT.

The NOURISH RCT in West Pokot County aims to generate rigorous evidence on the effectiveness of integrating nutrition-sensitive interventions into the traditional UPG program to improve both household economic and nutrition outcomes. By combining proven economic strengthening approaches with targeted health and nutrition sensitization and support, the RCT evaluates whether addressing economic and nutritional constraints simultaneously can lead to sustained improvements in household economic resilience, maternal well-being, and child nutrition.

Position Overview: Full-time staff member, 40 hours per week. The individual might be required to work on some weekends and occasionally holidays depending on the magnitude of work. A Village Enterprise Business Mentor is passionate about alleviating poverty in their region and dedicated to their roles as trainer, mentor and community leader