Micro-Enterprise Sustainability Specialist

Location:	Johannesburg, Saxonwold
Type:	Permanent
Reference:	#24083
Company:	Datafin Recruitment

Drive and enable appropriate sustainability-at-scale for existing and potential early learning micro-enterprises and/or practitioners amid informality as the next micro-enterprise sustainability specialist sought by community upliftment programme in Joburg. You will collaborate with stakeholders to develop, realise, and manage a strategically coherent sustainability agenda while doing appropriate "market" segmentation as well as articulating registration pathways that unlock state funding. You must operate with an asset-based orientation to informality in general and the informal economy in particular - as opposed to either eradicating or formalising informality. Applicants must possess a degree in economics/informality/business/entrepreneurship or related field with five years' professional experience in informal economic contexts and three years' relevant experience in realising (Micro-)enterprise development across informal contexts.

Duties:

Drive and enable appropriate sustainability-at-scale for existing and potential early learning micro-enterprises and/or practitioners -

• Collaboratively define, learn about, prioritise, and realise appropriate practitioner and/or micro-enterprise sustainability-at-scale for the diverse current and future/potential network, including but not limited to:
  
  
  • Understanding early learning micro-enterprise and/or practitioner operating dynamics, income, and expenditure by segment, including diverse income streams and cost structures and/or drivers.
  • Proposing, securing agreement on, and realising key sustainability initiatives and/or interventions.
  • Empowering early learning practitioners in their contexts across segments to access and/or leverage resources that contribute towards their sustainability.

• Managing relevant collaborative and/or (team)work for appropriate sustainability-at-scale amid informality.

Build productive collaborations in service of appropriate sustainability-at-scale amid informality -

• Identifying, cultivating, and maintaining productive collaborative relationships with and/or networks of Hub teams, network partners, investors, governments, and other stakeholders in service of appropriate sustainability-at-scale.

• Framing coherence-building and problem-solving conversations enabling learning as well as sensemaking, decision-making, and action-taking regarding appropriate sustainability-at-scale.

• Collaboratively developing, deepening, and realising a strategically coherent agenda for sustainability-at-scale amid informality.

• Guiding and managing collaborations in service of realising appropriate sustainability-at-scale.

Learn about, understanding, and tracking sustainability dynamics, situations, and interventions -

• Building and/or integrating systems for early learning practitioners to make informed judgements about and track:
  
  
  • Their own sustainability over time.
  • The effects of sustainability initiatives and/or interventions over time.

• Building a database of sustainability-enhancing opportunities across the state and other relevant actors (potentially) available to early learning micro-enterprises and/or practitioners as well as any associated Compliance requirements - especially regarding: Growth, income and costs.

• Co-conceptualising and framing appropriate learning questions and/or research (e.g., terms of reference) about sustainability factors and (potential) interventions.

• Scoping, understanding, analysing and/or estimating the impacts and/or other effects in context(s) as well as the suitability at scale of potential interventions including but not limited to:
  
  
  
  • Previous and/or existing initiatives.
  • Compliance support.
  • Financial literacy support.
  • Micro-enterprise management.

• Understanding key sustainability risks and potential mitigating actions.

Requirements:

Qualifications -

• Minimum degree in economics, informality, business, entrepreneurship, or related field or equivalent evidence of learning and capabilities.

Experience/Skills -

• Minimum five years professional experience in informal economic contexts.
• Minimum three years relevant experience in realising (Micro-)enterprise Development across informal contexts.
• An asset-based orientation to informality in general and the informal economy in particular (as opposed to either

Posted on 11 Aug 15:35, Closing date 10 Sep