Consultant – Business Development Services

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🇲🇼 Malawi – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💰 Business Development (BDR)

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World University Service of Canada (WUSC - EUMC)

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1963

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Education • Social Impact

World University Service of Canada (WUSC - EUMC) is a Canadian non-profit organization dedicated to improving education, economic, and empowerment opportunities for young people across the globe. By collaborating with a diverse network of students, volunteers, schools, governments, and businesses, WUSC seeks to address inequality and exclusion in over 15 countries worldwide, including regions in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Their initiatives focus on enhancing access to quality education, particularly among girls and refugees, increasing access to training and employment services, and empowering youth to contribute to a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable world. In Canada, WUSC is involved in the resettlement of refugees through its Student Refugee Program and engages Canadians to foster a better understanding of global development issues.

📋 Description

• Conduct a market systems analysis and diagnosis of structural constraints affecting RDP youth enterprises • Identify legal, policy, input, market, finance, skills and information barriers, including barriers affecting young women and youth with disabilities • Identify viable sectors and value chains for youth enterprises in and around Dzaleka, including host community partnerships and digital or remote work • Map financial service providers and establish practical pathways linking youth enterprises to financial services • Review RLO entrepreneurship curricula and incubation or hub models, including pitch competitions and start-up kits • Recommend changes and draft revised, inclusive and practical curriculum and enterprise-support materials • Train RLO staff to map and engage local market actors and sustain enterprise support after the assignment • Co-design work with RLO staff so skills remain within the RLOs • Produce inception, market diagnosis, enterprise growth and finance linkage, curriculum review, revised materials, training/orientation and final reports • Report to the RLO Opportunity Fund Manager, WUSC Kenya, and work with focal points at partner RLOs • Participate in stakeholder engagement, data collection, workshops and delivery of a ToT session/orientation

🎯 Requirements

• Based in Malawi, ideally in Dzaleka • Good working knowledge of refugee and displacement issues • A degree in economics, business, development studies, or a related field, or any other equivalent • At least 3 years' experience in economic development or inclusion, preferably with refugees and displaced persons • Experience designing business development support and incubation models, including pitch competitions and start-up kits or seed grant schemes • Demonstrated experience in market systems or value chain analysis • Experience linking micro-enterprises to financial services, including MFIs, SACCOs, VSLAs and mobile money • Fluency in English • Refugee-led firms with relevant experience working with or through refugee-led or community-based organizations preferred • Experience applying gender and disability inclusion in enterprise programming preferred • Reasonable use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), with AI usage referenced/cited • Strong analytical skills and ability to write clearly for non-specialists • Participatory facilitation and adult learning skills • Respectful, trauma-informed engagement with refugee and host community youth • Record of meeting deadlines and working well in intercultural teams • Must sign and comply with WUSC's Safeguarding, Code of Conduct and Anti-Fraud policies • Must ensure informed consent, anonymization, secure storage and proper handling of personal data • Must avoid exposing participants to legal, protection or reputational risk • Deliverables must be in English and editable Word format

🏖️ Benefits

• WUSC will cover accommodation and communication costs while the consultant is in transit