The Womens Entrepreneurship (WE) Support Officer

About the role

The Women’s Entrepreneurship (WE) Support Officer plays an important role in ensuring the successful implementation of the Strive Women initiative, a global program aimed at enhancing the financial health of women-led micro and small enterprises (W-MSEs). Working closely with the Project Lead, financial service providers, and other key partners, the Officer will provide essential support to equip women entrepreneurs with the resources, trainings, and guidance needed to build successful and sustainable businesses.

Key responsibilities

1. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION (50% of time): Assist the technical preparation and implementation of project activities, take lead on selected assignments in coordination with the Project Lead, including:

• Support capacity-building trainings for women entrepreneurs, handling tasks such as training needs assessment, pre/post-test facilitation, participant management, and stakeholders coordination.

• Oversee seed funding implementation under the supervision of Project Lead.

• Collaborate with the Communications team to manage the project’s social media platforms, including but not limited to Zalo groups, landing page, and Facebook page.

• Actively participate in meetings with partners, CARE Lead Member, and donors, contributing ideas and insights as required.

• Support in organizing events/campaigns and project activities both in the field and online.

2. PROJECT ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE (30% of time)

• Provide admin support for project implementation, including logistics for events, travel arrangements, minute taking, etc.

• Manage project’s financial procedures, including payment, advance request and related tasks, ensuring alignment with the project budget and timeline.

• Assist in procurement tasks, including purchase requests, bidding analysis, and vendor management.

• Perform additional support tasks as needed.

3. MONITORING, EVALUATION AND LEARNING (15% of time)

• Master project indicators and participate in relevant MEL meetings.

• Assist in data collection, documentation regarding progress tracking, learning capture, evaluation, research, and case studies.

• Join field visits to support, gather insights and monitor partners’ activities.

• Propose necessary adjustments to project implementation based on findings and insights.

4. OTHER COMMON ACCOUNTABILITIES FOR CVN STAFF (5% of time)

- Experience working in/with projects related to women's entrepreneurship and/or financial inclusion.

- Demonstrated good interpersonal skills, sound judgment, planning, problem-solving, and team-building skills.

- Demonstrated organizational and time management skills, ability to work under pressure, and to organize and manage workload to meet deadlines.

Why you should apply:

• Ongoing professional and personal development

• A dynamic and innovative environment

• Supportive teams

Application Deadline: 5:00 PM, 22 August 2024.

Interested candidates are kindly asked to combine their CV and cover letter into a single file when submitting their application.