Africa Regional Training Coordinator

Partners Worldwide (PW) is a global network of businesspeople working together to end poverty through entrepreneurship and job creation. We believe that all people are image-bearers of God and have the right to live an abundant life. Through locally-rooted, globally-connected partnerships we work to grow and sustain redemptive businesses and flourishing economic ecosystems for maximum impact. Every team member plays a significant role in making this vision a reality.  

As an employee of Partners Worldwide, you will be part of a global team that values the unique contributions and service of each person as a true partner. You will join us in celebrating each entrepreneur who is able to fully live out their calling to business, provide for their family, create life-giving employment opportunities, and invest in the community around them.  

The PW goal for 2030 is for our partners in 30+ countries, to serve over one million businesses who are creating and sustaining 3 million jobs in communities of high poverty and unemployment.    

As Part-Time Regional Training Coordinator, on the Global Operations team, you will support the training and partnership teams in each region, ensuring they are equipped and empowered to deliver business training, mentoring, and coaching with excellence. You will serve our network by providing support, assistance, and guidelines for excellent implementation of our business training, business toolkits, metrics, and certification programs in each region. You will also support the development of new training initiatives and tools to equip our network with business training resources. 

• Organize and schedule training, TTT, and Master training sessions, workshops, seminars, and other learning activities across the region, languages, and locations.
• Coordinate logistics, such as venue selection, travel arrangements, materials preparation, and technical requirements.
• Oversee the administration of the region's learning in SAP Litmos or other training platforms. Ensure accurate user creation and data entry, user management, and provide updates to content updates.
• Implement other business training/support curricula and pilots (i.e., grit pilots) training initiatives. Create quarterly schedules for training, and updates to employees, managers, and regional team on training initiatives.
• Conduct Yearly assessments to identify skill gaps and training requirements within the regions. Analyze training needs data to determine priorities and develop targeted training plans.
• Coordinate and facilitate a portion of Training Taskforce quarterly team meetings for maximum impact.
• Support and assist Regional Training Partners in coordinating training logistics and collecting metrics.
• Collect regional training metrics, feedback, learnings, and statistics to inform our business training future initiatives.
• Work alongside trainers to guide them through our business training toolkit, certification programs, and on-going education opportunities.
• Follow-up on administrative tasks after TTT (payments, feedback, and continued support).
• Participate in business training to provide support, feedback, and input to improve the quality and methodology of our training programs.
• Other duties as assigned.

• A degree in business, finance, economic development, agribusiness/agriculture development 
• or a related field from a reputable, accredited university. 
• 5 years professional experience with at least 3 years working in business in the private or non-profit sector. 
• Permanent residency in Ethiopia, Uganda, South Africa, Malawi, Ghana, Cote D’Ivoire, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, Liberia, Nigeria, Kenya, and Mozambique. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English and French. 
• Project management skills and experience. 
• Experience building and maintaining cross-cultural relationships. 
• Not required but helpful: 
  • Proficiency in Office365, Salesforce, Power BI 
  • Experience in concise and compelling business writing and project reporting 
  • Prior exposure or experience with agrobusiness and production initiatives that would facilitate interaction and communication with agriculture-based partnerships. 

• Mature Christian faith that is lived out in your life, work, and interactions. 
• Strong ability to build relationships, create traction and mobilize resources. 
• Curiosity to learn new skills, solve new problems and seek expertise from others. 
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively.  
• Organized with the ability to plan to reach goals. 
• An entrepreneurial spirit that leads to creative thinking, new ideas to put into action, and innovative solutions to diverse challenges. 

• Meaningful, redemptive, and purpose-filled work 
• Connection to a talented, dedicated, and joyful team of global staff and partners 
• A comprehensive compensation and benefits package (insurance, retirement, paid parental leave and more)    
• Flexible paid time off (vacation, sick, holiday) and a culture that prioritizes healthy work-life balance 
• Annual allowance for professional development/continuing education  

• Partners Worldwide is an equal opportunity employer. 
• Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. 
• This position requires the ability to travel locally and internationally. 
• This position is based in Africa, where Partners Worldwide already has a staff presence.