Business Development services (BDS) and individual governance and Management Training Consultants

Mada association in collaboration with ARCS as Project Leader, currently has funding from the Italian Agency for International Cooperation to implement a 30 month project entitled “Promoting Vulnerable Women’s Economic and Social Empowerment in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt” 

The project aims at supporting vulnerable women of hos communities and refugees, in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt, in setting off on the path towards social and economic empowerment assisting them with the creation of real opportunity for job and income generation initiatives (IGA). This will be realized through specific trainings intended to strengthen/launch their own business.

Job Brief

Mada is seeking two local consultants to provide 5 groups of women, in their start-up businesses or business ideas in agriculture, agro food and environmental sectors, located in Akkar (3 groups), North Lebanon (2 groups) with the following training topics:

1. Business development services trainings, BDS (i.e. business planning, marketing and commercial development, financial management, human resources management, adoption of mitigation measures in times of crisis, etc…)
2. Business launching and management.
3. Support the beneficiaries in developing Business Concept Paper (i.e. Focus on sustainability, business plan, growth potential, potential of job creation, matching between market needs and supply, environmental and social impact, etc…)

The consultants are needed to support the intervention by providing business continuity and business resilience training, coaching and advisory services, and respond to a range of other business development needs in order to strengthen their sales and product / service development skills for better placement of their business in the market in addition to building the capacity of the women on launching principles and management. Adding to the development of Business concept paper for each beneficiary.

Each one of The selected consultants will provide one of the mentioned training topics based on his/her area of expertise and work closely with the beneficiaries, mainly women in order to create a healthy training environment while using interactive training approaches and provide support where necessary. Furthermore, Mada project team will work in close cooperation with the selected consultants in order to ensure that trainings are adequately delivered.

Main responsibilities

• Develop a clear outline of sessions based on the needs assessment developed by Mada, and a clear schedule and timeline of trainings.
• Provision of front lessons, organized over a span of time of about 4 to 6 weeks, for a total of 54 training hours.
• The consultant has to share the training curriculum that will be used to deliver the training sessions.
• Agree with Mada on the training approach and training curriculum.
• Develop pre and post-tests to assess the capabilities of the beneficiaries and to monitor their progress during training sessions.
• Consultant has to monitor attendance of beneficiaries and to report any issues to Mada’s focal point.
• Provide weekly reports to the Mada’s Project Manager on the progress of the beneficiaries, attendance, pending issues and planned activities for the upcoming week.
• At the end of the first training cycle, provide Mada’s project Manager with a final report that includes the remaining areas of support needed and specific areas of focus required for the skills development of the group of beneficiaries.

 Minimum Qualification and experience

• 3 to 4 years of experience in delivering similar trainings.
• Demonstrated experience in resolving cooperative and MSME specific challenges and successful development approaches
•  Strong interpersonal and facilitation skills

Time Frame/Duration

The total period of the consultancy is 8 weeks. The training consultant is expected to start delivering training sessions to beneficiaries by first June 2021.