Positive Planet
Positive Planet International (PPI) is a non-profit organisation with a mission to help men and women across the world to create the conditions for a better life for future generations. Positive Planet was created out of the growth and transformation of PlaNet Finance, which had a mandate to fight poverty through the development of an inclusive financial sector. Having developed our experience in microfinance, which remains an important component of our activities, Positive Planet has expanded to also run projects centred on entrepreneurship, financial education and value chains. The headquarters of Positive Planet are in Paris, France.
Scope of Work
PPI seeks to contract an individual consultant to conduct a training for a number of 50 young entrepreneurs on marketing and sales of trainers. The consultant will report to Youth Education to Promote Entrepreneurship and Employment (YEEPE) project manager, and will work closely with the partner NGO staff and the rest of the project team.
Geographical Scope
Implementation of this consultancy activity will take place in at 2 governorates of the following four (based on the number of attendees in each governorate); Assiut, Sohag, Minya, and Luxor.
Tasks
The consultant will be responsible for providing two rounds of training for a number 25 youth beneficiaries each for a period of 3 days. It is expected that minimally the following topics will be covered :
- Marketing
- Definition of marketing
- What are the benefits of marketing
- How to develop a marketing plan
- Target market
- Market segmentation and its benefits
B. Sales & Promotion
- Training on personal selling
- Advertising
- Sales promotion
- Direct marketing
- Publicity
- Social Media as a promotion tool
Training Outcomes
The following outcomes are expected to be achieved from the training delivered by the consultant where the learner must be able to:
- Formulate their own marketing strategies
- Prepare formal marketing plan
- Identify and define their target market
- Understand the difference between various promotional tools and should be able to implement it on their own
- Understand and utilize the power of social media for promoting their products
- Know what content to use when attending fairs
Deliverables
- Delivery of a 2 rounds of training 3 days each
- Satisfactory submission of training materials and handouts in Arabic that includes: training content, exercises, session plans (including PowerPoint slides and relevant handouts).
- Satisfactory submission of training attendance report, final report, evaluation, pre and post results in English.
Note: All training materials must be developed in Arabic. However, training reports, pre and post results and final training evaluation should be submitted in English for PPI management
Assignment Timing:
This consultancy is expected to take place during the period from July-August 2018 for approximately 10-15 days.
Qualifications
Essential
- 5+ years of experience designing experiential adult education materials, marketing and sales expertise is essential
- At least 5 years experience of working in Marketing and Promotion.
- Well versed in participant-centered, experiential facilitation methodologies
- Experience working in multicultural teams
- Experience facilitating workshops and direct youth training
- Ability to travel to Upper Egypt for up to 6 days (non-consecutive)
Desirable
- Masters in any discipline (MBA preferred).
- Very good and friendly personality, ability to maintain liaison with the team and mostly with the trainees
- Excellent communications skills
How to Apply
Interested candidates should send the following:
- An updated CV highlighting relevant marketing and sales expertise and previous training experience
- Consultant’s daily rate where the consultant must ensure that his daily rate includes taxes and any other associated assignment costs (travel, accommodation, meals, handouts printing and photocopying, training tools and games,..etc). PPI won’t cover any of the training associated costs as it should be included in the consultant’s rate.
To [email protected] no later than 21st of June 2018 with “PPI Training” in the subject line.
PLEASE NOTE:
- Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
More Information
- Job City Egypt