Posted Mar 07, 2025 4188 views
The Training and Business Growth Assistant will support activities related to Women’s Economic Empowerment and the Off-Season Poverty Reduction Program. This role involves assisting in training sessions, capacity-building activities, market linkages, and supporting activities of the skill centers developed by SCF. The position requires close coordination with stakeholders, including women learners, businesses, and women groups.
Key Responsibilities:
Training & Capacity Building:
- Assist in planning, organizing, and conducting training for women entrepreneurs and small business owners.
- Support the development of training materials, modules, and presentations.
- Facilitate workshops on financial literacy, business management, marketing, and product development.
Business Growth & Market Linkages:
- Provide support to women entrepreneurs in improving their business models and strategies.
- Monitor and document success stories, challenges, and impact of business growth activities.
Program Implementation & Support:
- Assist in the implementation of economic empowerment activities under the Off-Season Poverty Reduction Program.
- Conduct field visits to assess program progress and provide on-ground support.
- Engage with community members and stakeholders to ensure active participation.
Data Collection & Reporting:
- Maintain records of training sessions, participants, and program outputs.
- Assist in preparing reports, case studies, and presentations for internal and external stakeholders.
- Contribute to monitoring and evaluation activities by collecting relevant data.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Social Sciences, Development Studies, or a related field.
- 1-3 years of experience in training, business development, or women’s economic empowerment programs.
- Experience working with communities, particularly women-led businesses, is an advantage.
Technical Skills:
- Knowledge of business development, market systems, and financial literacy.
- Strong facilitation and training delivery skills.
- Basic understanding of microfinance, entrepreneurship, and market linkages.
- Familiarity with monitoring and evaluation processes.
Soft Skills:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders.
- Strong organizational and coordination abilities.
- Proactive, self-motivated, and results-driven.
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team.
Digital Skills:
- Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Knowledge of digital marketing and e-commerce platforms is a plus.
Other Requirements:
- Willingness to travel within project locations when required.
- Fluency in Sindhi, Urdu, and English is preferred.
Job Details
Sindh Community Foundation
Sindh Community Foundation (SCF) was formed by some young and committed human rights and social workers of Hala and Hyderabad in January 2001 for improving the socio-economic conditions of rural communities and neglected segments of society, specially youth and women. It started working with small level charity actions, including holding free blood grouping and medical camps and slowly shifted to strategic interventions towards sustainable development. For that purpose it mobilized local communities on various issues at village level, formed Community- Based Groups and then transferred the same into Community-based Organizations. SCF mobilized internal and external physical, financial and human resource to become an active and efficient development organization. SCF through its inception period, striving for poverty alleviation, restoration of social activities in the rural areas through mobilizing human and physical resources, adopting community participation approach and gender development cross cutting theme. SCF is registered in Societies act XX1, 1860 under the registration number 5104. It devised comprehensive strategy ranging from social mobilization, training and capacity building, linkages building with resource providers /government line agencies, in collaboration with other CSOs and like-minded NGOs to boost advocacy campaign on various social issues of Sindh province of Pakistan. It is doing advocacy for the rights of people and social justice for the neglected segments of society including women, girls, youth and rural communities. SCF has strengthened its networking with local and national humanitarian and rights-based organizations. SCF has increased it area of operation in 14 districts of Sindh from one in 2 years and undertaking advocacy, capacity building and model building service delivery projects to its advocacy programs. SCF has track record of implementing programs of disaster management, humanitarian response, youth development, women and girls’ empowerment, campaigning, training and action research on environment and climate change and gender based violence, good governance and human rights. It has respond to the humanitarian crises in Sindh province of Pakistan Floods 2010 and 2011.
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