Business Coach

This role is highly field-based and requires strong technical understanding of livestock/agri-business, financial inclusion, value chain development, private sector engagement, and youth-focused coaching. The Business Coach will ensure participants acquire the practical knowledge, resources, and linkages needed to access markets, increase incomes, and sustainably grow their enterprises.

1. Lead in participant identification and onboarding using the program selection criteria.
2. Collaborate with training and curriculum development staff to customize training content to align with market demand, context relevance and participants’ needs
3. Deliver structured business training and coaching using the REAP model, integrating climate action and gender-responsive approaches.
4. Conduct enterprise assessments and develop tailored coaching plans for individual entrepreneurs, groups, and MSMEs.
5. Provide coaching support to participants to identify, establish, grow and manage viable livestock and agri-enterprises.
6. Provide participants with technical skills to adopt of climate-smart livestock and agri-business practices.
7. Conduct value chain and market systems analyses to identify constraints and opportunities.
8. Identify and conduct linkages with off-takers, processors, traders, aggregators, financial institutions, input providers, and other ecosystem actors.
9. Promote inclusive, youth- and women-friendly business models within livestock and agri-markets.
10. Identify and establish aggregation initiatives with cooperatives, market and producer groups, private sector, county government and business networks to strengthen market access.
11. Guide participants to develop business models, financial planning, cost analysis, and cashflow management for their businesses
12. Strengthen participants access to savings, loans, digital finance, insurance, and other formal and informal financial services including grant funds and government affirmative action funds
13. Take lead in the formation, strengthening, and training of VSLAs, including registration, financial literacy, life skills , mental health and psychosocial skills
14. Guide participants to develop viable business plans and apply for the Challenge Fund grant.
15. Monitor effective utilization of Challenge Fund grants.
16. Ensure quality delivery of the program outcomes with accountability in time, on budget and within the scope
17. Deliver training on entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, livestock and agri-enterprise management, and business growth strategies.
18. Facilitate monthly mentorship sessions with business groups and savings groups.
19. Collaborate with county governments, TVETs, research institutions, and private sector actors to unlock technical skills, markets, and employment opportunities.
20. Collect high-quality data in line with M&E protocols and maintain business/VSLA KPIs.
21. Utilize assigned digital tools for data capture (tablets, digital forms, Salesforce).
22. Participate in weekly/monthly/quarterly review meetings and contribute data insights.
23. Document success stories, lessons learned, adaptations, and emerging market insights.
24. Maintain all assigned tools, including motorcycles and tablets.

1. Bachelor’s degree in Business, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Livestock Production, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Rural Development, or related fields.
2. Prior 3-5 years of work experience in the Livestock and agri-related value chain development within ASALs.
3. Business coaching, MSME support, or Business Development Services (BDS).
4. Market Systems Development (MSD/M4P).
5. Working with youth, women, refugees, pastoralist and agro-pastoral communities.
6. Building market and financial linkages with private sector actors.