Libya: BST Trainer Libya
Country: Libya
Closing date: 30 Sep 2013
Position: BST Trainer Libya SPARK Office (to start up): Benghazi Entrepreneurship CentreLocation: LibyaApplication Deadline: 30th September 2013Type/Duration of Appointment: 24 days in total
SPARK is a growing, young, dynamic development NGO with 100 staff members in offices in Amsterdam, Belgrade, Bujumbura, Juba, Kigali, Monrovia, Mitrovica, Pristina and Ramallah. SPARK develops higher education and entrepreneurship, so that young ambitious people are empowered to lead their post-conflict society into prosperity.
SPARK is achieving its mission by organizing business plan competitions, business skills training, SME coaching & mentoring, business incubation, SME financing, intensive higher vocational summer courses, curriculum development and quality assurance at universities and higher vocational education institutions.
Terms of Reference – ToT Business Growth Training, Libya
Background & Purpose
In December 2012, DFID awarded a 14-month grant for the Benghazi Entrepreneurship Centre to support both young aspiring entrepreneurs and existing businesses with a view to creating employment opportunities for youth in Eastern Libya.
Through four business plan competitions (BPCs), the BEC will select promising business concepts and support their creators with Business Skills Training, coaching and mentoring services, with the aim to help them establish or grow their businesses. Finalists in the growth BPC receive targeted training modules that fit their specific needs. Training will be delivered to beneficiaries by both staff of the BEC and local external trainers.
Development of training material targeting existing entrepreneurs shall be based on SPARK’s own approach. The focus of this training is on existing entrepreneurs who want to develop and grow their business and enable them to expand their operations and create jobs for young Libyans. The entrepreneurs that we are targeting with this training are literate, have been operating their own business for a couple of years and are motivated in expanding and growing their activities. They have experience in running businesses. The training is supposed to help them identify their business’ strengths and weaknesses, identify the market’s opportunities for them to grow in and the threats and challenges that they will be facing. In addition, this training aims at giving them a more comprehensive view of what is growth, how it can be accomplished and managed. The trainees are expected to come up, at the end of the training, with a SWOT analysis, and / or a balance scorecard to support them, in a more practical way, develop their business.
In general, the training will consist of the following topics covered in +/- 3 days and including very practical and hands-on exercises: 1. What is growth;2. How to accomplish growth;3. How to manage growth;4. SWOT/Balance scorecard;5. Personalized business expansion roadmap.
At the end of this training period, the trainer should be able to identify the weaknesses of the trainees in the different business management areas (i.e. marketing, human resources, finance, etc...) in order to provide an additional 1 to 2 days in depth specific training sessions.
Scope:
The current assignment is to:• Contribute to the development of SPARK’s Business Growth training materials (power point and trainers manual) including practical group and individual exercises that will help trainees in identifying their strengths and weaknesses and develop a sound expansion plan;• Familiarize the core staff of the BEC (Project Director, Training Coordinator, Project Coordinator and Controller) and local external trainers with the training modules and instruct them to the effective use for ToT of local experts and delivery to project beneficiaries;• To make necessary contextual adaptations to the training material (powerpoints and trainers’ manual); fine tuning of Arabic language versions of training material; development or adaptation of examples, exercises or cases studies fitting with the local context.
The assignment deliverables are to be provided as following:• Contribution to development of Business Growth training materials during a 10 day workday period;• BEC staff and project beneficiaries training session during a ten days workday mission of the contracted consultant to Libya, to take place in October 2013.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
Develop SPARK Business Growth training materials (trainer’s manual, trainees’ handouts and powerpoints) in line with SPARK Quality Assurance procedure in English and Arabic• Develop a trainer’s guideline to identify trainees’ business management weaknesses based on SPARK approach;• Provide targeted and tailored ToT-training to BEC core staff and SPARK local trainers in Benghazi;• Provide the Business Growth training to growth oriented entrepreneurs;• Cover both content and didactical principles;• Adapt training materials to Libyan context and deliver these in ready to use form to BEC staff;• Provide a final assignment report.
Debriefing & Reporting:
Reporting takes place during the mission through daily debriefing by email to SPARK (Karen Blanken and Mazen Al Kassem). Within 10 days of completion of the mission, a concise report, including key observations and recommendations is to be submitted.
Results:
• Business Growth training for existing entrepreneurs developed and fine-tuned in Arabic and English;• Business Growth training materials contextualized for Libya, including relevant business cases and examples;• Business Growth training conducted in Libya to BEC staff, SPARK local experts and business growth oriented entrepreneurs.
Time Frame:
Deadline for application: September 30th 2013Start of assignment: beginning of October 2013Training has to be conducted from 7 – 17th October 2013
Remuneration:
The contractor does not enter the SPARK employment scheme. The contractor is responsible for all additional expenses related to the remuneration, e.g. taxes, pension fees etc.
Remuneration for the assignment is € 400 euro/day (gross). The assignment covers a ten days curriculum development, ten day mission, three days for preparation and one day for reporting / debriefing (total 24 days).
The following work related will be covered:• Accommodation in Benghazi;• Per diem during the mission;• Visa cost;• International travel costs will be reimbursed to a maximum of the regular economy class air fare between the consultant’s permanent residence and Benghazi upon submission of an original invoice.
How to apply:
To apply, email your CV and letter of motivation in English to vacancy[at]spark-online.org with Reference: BST Trainer Libya.For further information about the vacancy, contact Karen Blanken at tel. +31 (0)20 7530277.
