Business Coach – Marsabit at BOMA
JOB SUMMARY
The Business Coach will be responsible for delivering
hands-on enterprise development support to young women and men
participants engaged in livestock and agri-related value chains. Using
both the REAP Graduation Model and a Market Systems Development approach, the
Business Coach will lead in participant targeting and selection,
training, business mentorship and coaching, grant management, group
savings and loaning linkages to markets and financial institutions to enable
participants build viable, scalable, and resilient enterprises. He/She will
work closely with consortium partners and technical experts for participants to
access technical skills and support required in growing their businesses.
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.
Key Responsibilities
Participant Selection, Training & Enterprise Coaching
- Lead
participant identification and onboarding using program selection criteria
- Collaborate
with training teams to customize curriculum based on market demand and
participant needs
- Deliver
structured business training using the REAP model, integrating climate
action and gender-responsive approaches
- Conduct
enterprise assessments and develop tailored coaching plans
- Support
participants to establish, grow, and manage livestock and agri-enterprises
- Promote
adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices
Market Systems & Value Chain Development
- Conduct
value chain and market systems analyses
- Build
linkages with:
- Off-takers
- Processors
- Traders
- Aggregators
- Financial
institutions
- Input
providers
- Promote inclusive,
youth- and women-friendly business models
- Establish
aggregation initiatives with cooperatives, producer groups, private
sector, and county governments
Business Development Services & Financial Inclusion
- Support
participants in:
- Business
modeling
- Financial
planning
- Costing
and cashflow management
- Strengthen
access to:
- Savings
and loans
- Digital
finance
- Insurance
- Grants
and government funds
- Lead
formation and strengthening of VSLAs (Village Savings and Loan
Associations)
- Guide
participants in developing business plans and applying for Challenge
Fund grants
- Monitor
effective utilization of grant funds
Technical Assistance & Capacity Building
- Ensure
quality program delivery within scope, time, and budget
- Deliver
training on:
- Entrepreneurship
- Marketing
and sales
- Livestock
and agri-enterprise management
- Business
growth strategies
- Facilitate
monthly mentorship sessions
- Collaborate
with:
- County
governments
- TVET
institutions
- Research
institutions
- Private
sector actors
Monitoring, Learning & Reporting
- Collect
high-quality data aligned with M&E protocols
- Maintain
business and VSLA KPIs
- Use
digital tools (tablets, digital forms, Salesforce) for data capture
- Participate
in review meetings and provide insights
- Document
success stories, lessons learned, and market insights
- Maintain
assigned tools (motorcycles, tablets, etc.)
Qualifications & Experience
Minimum Academic Requirements
- Bachelor’s
degree in:
- Business
- Agribusiness
- Agriculture
- Livestock
Production
- Economics
- Entrepreneurship
- Rural
Development
- Or a
related field
Experience
- 3–5
years’ experience in:
- Livestock
and agri-value chain development (preferably in ASALs)
- Business
coaching / MSME support / BDS
- Market
Systems Development (MSD/M4P)
- Experience
working with:
- Youth
and women
- Refugees
- Pastoralist
and agro-pastoral communities
- Proven
ability to build market and financial linkages
Additional Competencies
- Strong
coaching and mentorship skills
- Understanding
of:
- Market
dynamics
- Enterprise
growth strategies
- Financial
literacy
- Experience
in data collection and analysis
- Excellent
communication and interpersonal skills
- Conflict
resolution ability
- Valid A1/A2
motorcycle riding license
- Basic
digital literacy (MS Office, mobile data tools; Salesforce is an
advantage)
- Ability
to work independently in remote field environments
- Must
be a resident of the selected county and speak a local
language
Cluster Office Administrator at BOMA
JOB SUMMARY:
The Office Administrator in the Cluster Office is
responsible for supporting the Administration and People Function within BOMA’s
programmes and operations. The holder of the position is also in charge of all
procurement matters within the Cluster Office.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Procurement Responsibilities
- Responsible
for procurement matters within the assigned office cluster collaborating
closely with the Procurement and Logistics Manager
- Maintain
supplier’s database, contracts, contacts at the Cluster Office Level
- Assist
the Head Office procurement team during prequalification of service
providers.
- Occasionally
review procurement opportunities available at the Cluster level and advice
the Procurement and Logistics Manager to ensure value for money.
- Assist
in compiling bid analysis for the procurement committee.
- Responsible
for submission of procurement documents for payment from the Cluster
Office.
- Maintain
records and file Requisition and Local Purchase Order.
Administration Responsibilities
- Responsible
for the safety, look and feel of the office including office
maintenance/repairs.
- Manages
all office supplies and stationery at the Cluster Office.
- Manages
all front office services at the Cluster Office.
- Assign/allocate
office sitting and working spaces to staff at Cluster Office.
- Responsible
for allocation of vehicles to program teams for field travel and follow
ups.
- Manages
all logistics for the programs including drivers’ schedules, vehicle
repairs and services
- Maintain
car fuel logs, maintenance and service schedules for all vehicles and
motorbikes for the Cluster Office.
- Responsible
for ensuring that BOMA cars allocated at the Cluster Office are parked by
stipulated time.
- Ensure
safety and security of BOMA assets in the Cluster Office and the field.
- Manages
and controls petty cash at the Cluster Office.
- Responsible
for cash reconciliation and replenishment at the Cluster Office.
- Support
budgeting procedures at the Cluster office level.
- Organize
travel arrangements for staff within the Cluster office and visiting teams
by making necessary bookings.
- Receive
and review payment documents submitted at the Cluster office for
transmission to Head Office for payment.
People
(HR) Responsibilities
- Responsible
for regularly processing of leave applications and updating the leave
register for your Cluster office and forwarding the same to the People and
Culture Manager for filing
- Receives
documentation for new staff/joiners in your Cluster office and ensure it
is processed within the set timelines. The same documentation to be sent
to the People Operations Assistant.
- Ensure
the new staff in your office are onboarded properly by ensuring the staff
are properly set up in terms of work tools, e-mails etc.
- Maintaining
and updating employee records on soft copies for the staff in your cluster
office while maintaining an accurate and updated employee register.
- Support
in conducting exit interviews when called upon and assist in managing the
exit process/offboarding including employee clearance.
- Assists
in the overall recruitment process as guided by the People Operations
Coordinator e.g. contacting candidates when recruiting staff at the
Cluster office.
- Assists
in the co-ordination of staff welfare initiatives e.g. staff trainings in
the Cluster office
- Be
the first point of contact when solving employee grievances at the Cluster
office.
- Conduct
performance reviews for your direct reports as per the performance review
calendar.
- Identify
development and training needs of your direct reports and provide
recommendations to the relevant parties.
Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:
- At
least a Bachelor’s degree in International Development, Business
Administration/Management or a related field required from a recognized
institution.
- Minimum
at least three (3) years in administration experience in a busy
organization in Northern Kenya preferably Turkana.
- Excellence
interpersonal, oral and written communication and negotiation skills,
including expert command of English grammar and AP style.
- Strong
planning and organizational skills.
- Excellent
computer skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, internet, remote conferencing
applications.
Mentor – Turkana – 2 Posts at Boma
JOB SUMMARY
Nawiri Program goal is to sustainably reduce persistent
acute malnutrition in Turkana and Samburu counties. Mercy Corps, consortium
lead, BOMA, Save the Children Internation and other LIP is implementing Nawiri
program that ends in September 2027. The program integrates both
nutrition specific and sensitive interventions that address drivers of acute
malnutrition at the individual, household, community and systems level. Rural
Entrepreneurship Access Project (REAP) for Nutrition (R4N), a poverty graduation
model for nutrition outcomes, is one of the interventions under Nawiri that
targets nutritional vulnerable and ultra poor households and sequence, layer
and integrate core graduation and complimentary interventions to enable
targeted households graduate out of extreme poverty and under nutrition.
Under the supervision of Field Officer directly and
indirectly by Program Coordinator, the mentor will be responsible for providing
time bound 18th months adapted coaching, mentorship and
monitoring of ultra poor and nutritional vulnerable households towards their
journey out of extreme poverty and under nutrition. As a system actor in the
reduction of PAM at scale, R4N mentor prepares participants, their businesses
and savings groups provides information, services and products including
nutritious food, income, access to markets etc to non R4N participants in last
mile communities.
Responsibilities
TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Participate
in participant selection and enrollment of individuals and their
households in R4N program through established and agreed criteria.
- Provide
time bound (18th months) coaching, mentorship and monitoring of ultra poor
and nutritional vulnerable households towards their journey out of extreme
poverty and under nutrition.
- Organize
enrolled participants to establish and nurture various groups; umbrella
business groups, livestock aggregation groups or other value chain
aggregation groups, savings groups as per the program design.
- Support
targeted ultra poor households identify, establish and run viable and
profitable businesses that delivers products, goods, services and
information to last mile communities aligned to program goal.
- Build
strong relationships with program participants and local leaders at
village level that creates a sense of self-motivation and agency to
sustain a journey out of poverty and under nutrition
- Collaborate
with CHPs and CHAs to conduct monthly nutritional screening of children
under five years and women of reproductive age under R4N, facilitating
referrals and treatment of all SAM and MAM cases.
- Conducting
monthly group coaching at savings group level and follow at household
level on quarterly basis through a structured process – Household
Visioning and Action Plan concept.
- Conduct
monthly business groups mentorship activities, market and financial
linkages with other system actors as per the program design.
- Conduct
monthly savings groups capacity building activities including facilitating
savings and lending sessions, financial literacy trainings, registration
of savings groups and linkages with PSPs and financial system actors
- Conducting
monthly nutritional education and counselling, WASH, SSBC and Livelihood
diversification on monthly basis as per the program design.
- Coordinate
with USAID Nawiri and community frontline workers including GIRL H
mentors, BOY Group mentors, Male champions, CHPs, CHA, AM2MSG lead
mothers, Producer group lead farmers at location level to drive one Nawiri
approach in addressing Persistent Acute Malnutrition.
- Participate
in health facility monthly data review meetings
PROGRAM MONITORING AND REPORTING
- Collect
data in a structured process as per M&E plan to track the progress of
individuals, households, business groups and savings groups towards
graduation.
- Data
integrity: Adherence to data quality as outlined in data quality
SoP.
- Maintain
monthly HH, BGs and SGs mentor performance key performance indicators as
outlined in M&E plan.
- Utilize
all assigned monitoring tools and data collection tools as guided by Field
Officer, M&E and IT departments.
- Maintain
all working tools, tablets and motorcycles in good working condition at
all times, fuel logs and other repairs are submitted on time.
- Prepare
participants for BHA and other important visits at the community level.
- Participate
in weekly, monthly and quarterly review and reflection meetings, planning
meetings as planned.
- Any
other assignments as guided by your supervisor.
Requirements
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION AND REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
- Diploma
in community health and nutrition, public health, community development,
social work, or another related discipline.
- At
least two years’ experience in similar community work; with proven
experience in data collection
- Have
a valid motorcycle license A1/A2 and has experience on how to ride a
motorcycle
- Possess
excellent soft skills – interpersonal skills; communication, empathy,
problem solving, conflict resolution, collaboration,
- Have
basic experience in mobile data collection, Microsoft office, self-driven,
and able to work with minimum supervision
- Ability
to utilize data to make informed decisions
- MUST
be a resident of respective village in which R4N interventions will be
implemented.
Application Administrator – PI at Boma
Application Administrator
Overall Purpose:
The Application Administrator will work as part of the IT
team dedicated to ensuring that BOMA is maximizing efficiency and capitalizing
on the full features and benefits of program management system based on the
various user and organizational needs. This role will serve as the lead
application administrator and developer of Salesforce Program Management System
(Performance Insight) and Taroworks, promoting system adoption, keeping current
on new releases and AppExchange solutions, leading training, and custom system
development projects.
Responsibilities
Requirements analysis for the Program Management
Information System – Salesforce
- Proactively
seek out and identify needed system changes.
- Proactively
gather feedback from users.
- Manage
system changes without interruption to the user.
- Communicate
system changes to the users in advance so they understand the change and
how to use it prior to implementation.
- Plan
and undertake modifications of the system to increase benefits and
usability.
- Manage
all processes that impact / relate to Salesforce.
Develop and implement changes to the Program Management
Information System (Salesforce)
- Manage
new releases of SF and efficiently roll out new features
- Read
the release notes for any third-party application or plug-in connected to
Salesforce.com. Typically, changes and upgrade cycles will be harmless,
but occasionally several configuration and operational changes will be
required because of external changes.
- Create
and maintain fields, views, reports, dashboards, campaigns and other
Salesforce objects and functions.
- Create
custom objects when necessary.
- Handle
on-going customization/ alteration of Salesforce.
- Maintain,
enhance, and create workflows, functions and configurations within the
Salesforce environment.
- Create
new reporting capabilities and respond to ad hoc reporting requests as
needed.
- Provide
support functions as needed.
Maintenance of the SF System Based on Recommended Best
Practices
- Undertake
recommended periodic application maintenance procedures to ensure that the
system is operating as required
- Undertake
periodic maintenance of any third party integration and capacity of
various tables ensuring that Salesforce operates optimally for BOMA.
- Provide
subject matter expertise for solution architecture that will include
configuration, development, integration, and customization of complex
solutions within our salesforce.
Maintain
System, Security and Integrity
- Map
Salesforce hierarchy and territories in response to personnel changes.
- Reassign
Accounts, Contacts, and Opportunities in response to personnel changes.
- Grant/
remove and maintain user licenses.
- Maintain
security including sharing rules and security levels.
- Design,
Create and maintain user roles, profiles and hierarchies.
- Monitor
application storage usage and archive data as needed.
User
Assistance, Training, Adoption and Satisfaction
- Lead
administration of training to existing or new users/groups.
- Expand
use of Salesforce – attend planning meetings, assist with determining if
/how Salesforce can be used in new ways.
- Communicate
regularly with user base regarding new features, enhancements, and changes
to the system.
- Continually
seek ways to further enhance the end-user experience.
Process
Creation, Documentation and Maintenance
- Document
company processes and workflows.
- Develop
process documentation and field maps.
- Create
new processes and associated reporting.
Data Quality, Migration and Maintenance
- Assist
with migration from older systems/processes into Salesforce.
- Import
data as appropriate.
- Monitor
and manage exception logs for back-end system integration with SFDC.
- Manage
duplicate records.
- Monitor
and improve data quality
- Taking
up any other additional duties and responsibilities that are assigned from
time to time.
Personality
Attributes for the Job
- A
belief in BOMA Mission – Working with the ultra poor to end poverty in
ASAL regions of Africa
- Excellent
communication and relationship management skills
- Analytical,
solution-oriented mindset and a willingness to explore, discover and learn
new things
- Willingness
to step up when needed with delayed gratification
- Self-awareness,
self-drive (personal initiative) and leading by example
Requirements
Required Qualifications:
- Relevant
Tertiary Qualification/recognition of prior learning.
- At
least 3 Years of working experience in Applications administration,
Application development Application support in a busy technology intensive
environment
- At
least 3 year’s experience with Salesforce and Taroworks and similar
systems as a developer and/or functional consultant
- At
least 2 year’s experience with Microsoft applications including
SharePoint, MS Business Central and Office productivity and
- Demonstration
of understanding and experience with at least 2 software development
languages -C#, Java or PHP.
- Working
knowledge of Financial & Project Management.