The Capacity Building Coordinator is responsible for designing, coordinating, delivering, and continuously improving FIYMA’s capacity development interventions targeting youth- and women-led agri-enterprises, MSMEs, farmer groups, and FIYMA partner financial institutions. The overall objective of the Micro-Enterprises Support Programme Trust (MESPT) is to promote economic growth, employment creation and poverty alleviation through support to enterprises. MESPT works with intermediaries that provide financial or business development services to improve the performance of enterprises.
Key Responsibilities
Capacity Building Coordination & Planning
- Lead the design and implementation of the FIYMA Capacity Development Strategy and Delivery Plan aligned to programme outcomes and donor requirements.
- Provide technical guidance on capacity building.
- Develop annual and quarterly capacity building workplans (targets, counties, cohorts, training cycles, budgets).
- Facilitate/conduct capacity needs assessments for programme participants and translate gaps into structured learning pathways.
- Ensure training activities integrate young people, financial skills and inclusive principles.
Curriculum Development, Training Products, Tools & Learning Systems
- Facilitate and coordinate development/adaptation of training FIYMA Training Curriculums and Training Manuals/Modules.
- Ensure all learning materials meet: adult learning best practice; accessibility (youth-friendly, gender-responsive, inclusive for PWDs) and local context relevance.
- Support and facilitate the roll-out of blended learning systems (in-person + digital).
Partner Financial Institution (FI) Capacity Building Support
- Coordinate capacity strengthening initiatives for partner FIs to improve SME/agri credit appraisal, gender lens / youth lens credit processes, risk mitigation approaches and product suitability and monitoring.
- Support FI training in areas tied to FIYMA objectives (SME finance and risk practices), consistent with models where partner financial institutions receive capacity strengthening to improve SME lending outcomes.
Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement
- Establish and manage a quality assurance framework (i.e., trainer performance standards; session evaluation tools; participant feedback loops and training effectiveness reviews among others).
- Conduct periodic learning reviews and recommend module improvements.
- Maintain a pool of vetted facilitators and service providers.
Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning & Reporting (Capacity Building Workstream)
- Work closely with the MEAL function to define training indicators (output/outcome); ensure data integrity and completeness and report on progress and results.
- Track the effectiveness of the trainings such as: trained, disaggregated (sex, age, disability); knowledge gain (pre/post); businesses formalized; investment-ready enterprises; successfully accessing finance etc.
- Document lessons learned, success stories, and case studies from capacity building activities.
- Prepare timely reporting to the PMU, consistent with strong M&E and structured reporting expectations.
- Provide technical input to programme reports, donor updates, and stakeholder forums.
Budget Management & Compliance
- Prepare costed capacity building budgets and procurement requests.
- Ensure value-for-money in training costs.
- Coordinate with Finance/Procurement to ensure compliant contracting and payments.
- Support audit readiness through proper documentation: attendance registers; training reports; contracts; deliverables and evidence photos/materials.
Other Duties
- Any other duties assigned by the Programme Director.
Key Deliverables
- Annual Capacity Development Plan (costed).
- Quarterly training calendars and schedules.
- Training toolkit (curriculum + facilitator manuals + participant materials).
- Capacity Needs assessment tools and reports.
- Training completion reports, session evaluation summaries.
- Quarterly learning brief (what worked / what didn’t / adjustments).
- Database of beneficiaries trained + coaching follow-up tracker.
- Documented case studies of impact.
Knowledge, Experience & Skills
- Minimum 7 years’ experience in capacity building, organizational development, or enterprise development, with at least 3 years in a leadership/coordination role.
- Strong knowledge of SACCOs, cooperatives, and MSME ecosystems in Kenya.
- Experience in adult learning methodologies, training curriculum development, and facilitation.
- Demonstrated skills in coaching, mentorship, and enterprise development.
- Strong project management, planning, and reporting skills.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to integrate gender and inclusion principles into program design and delivery.
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