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

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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

Additional Experience:

• 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
• At least 3 years’ experience working with a donor-funded organisation
• A professional qualification or certificate in Entrepreneurship, Business Development, Agribusiness or Enterprise Development
• Training or certification in Business Coaching, Mentoring, Project Management or Training of Trainers (ToT)

Core competencies & skills

• Entrepreneurship & Enterprise Development
• Business Coaching, Mentoring & Incubation
• Training Facilitation & Adult Learning
• Business Networking & Market Development
• Business 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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Conduct periodic assessments of businesses supported through UBORA programmes.
• Document measurable outcomes and lessons learned.
• Recommend improvements to future training and incubation programmes.
• Identify and document high-quality business success stories.
• Provide verified stories, photographs, data and other relevant information for UBORA communications and donor reporting.
• 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.
• 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.

• Entrepreneurship & Enterprise Development
• Business Coaching, Mentoring & Incubation
• Training Facilitation & Adult Learning
• Business Networking & Market Development
• Business Analysis, Monitoring & Impact Assessment
• Fluent written and spoken English and Kiswahili

• Bachelor's Degree in Entrepreneurship, Business Administration, Economics, Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics or a related field
• At least 3 years’ experience in enterprise development, business training or agribusiness
• Fluent written and spoken English and Kiswahili
• Experience working in a cross-cultural setting
• At least 3 years’ experience working with a donor-funded organisation
• A professional qualification or certificate in Entrepreneurship, Business Development, Agribusiness or Enterprise Development
• Training or certification in Business Coaching, Mentoring, Project Management or Training of Trainers (ToT)