Entrepreneurship & Employability Advisor

PROGRAM: ‘Diasporas for Development Initiative’ (DfD) PARTNER NAME: Municipalidad de San Juan de Miraflores LOCATION: Lima, Peru LENGTH OF PLACEMENT: 3 months in-country followed by 2-3 months distance support ASSESSMENT & TRAINING: Must be available for full day assessment in Chicago and for 5-day training in Washington (see below for travel support offered) FUNDING ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: Must be an American Citizen, Permanent Resident or valid work permit holder LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS: Fluency in Spanish, intermediate English

*This placement is conditional upon availability of funds from our donors.

THE VOLUNTEER’S ROLE:

Overall placement purpose:

To support our local partner Municipalidad de San Juan de Miraflores and its beneficiaries – small business owners (women and youth) – with the development of marketing strategies, online marketing tools, and entrepreneurship & business start-up workshops.

Specific Objectives:

• Provide training and coaching to staff of the local partner organization, youth and women entrepreneurs on design and implementation of marketing strategies, including IT tools such as webpages, social network, etc. • Provide training and support in planning and developing small businesses and entrepreneurship skills, including financial/accounting issues. • Mentoring and coaching on various topics of organizational development and livelihoods programming as required by the local partner organization. • Assist in collecting and promoting information resources on entrepreneurship. • According to technical guidelines, develop 2 separate e-volunteer Scopes of Work that allow remote e-volunteers to support the local partner in their livelihoods’ programming. • Provide approximately 7hrs per week of technical support or coaching to staff of the local partner organization after completion of the overseas placement remotely through e-volunteering (from home) for between 2 and 3 months following return to the US.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

Essential requirements

• Degree in Business Administration, Marketing or related field • Experience working in a business or entrepreneurial environment • IT skills and ability to develop websites and use social media • Familiarity with training, teaching or mentoring • Experience in management, marketing, market research and sales • Resourcefulness, strategic thinking, creative problem solving and basic financial management skill

Desirable

• Previous experience in working with youth and small businesses • Ability to lead organizational development activities • Experience in working and living in developing countries • Significant personal or professional ties to the country or region of the placement. **

**Significant personal ties include persons having immediate or extended family relations or ancestry in the country of the placement. Significant professional ties include persons who have lived and worked in the specific country of the placement preferably for a period of 2 or more years.

TRAINING AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT:

Our training and support package covers the costs of being an overseas volunteer, allowing you to enjoy a modest but healthy lifestyle while you volunteer abroad. This includes:

• Attendance at a Cuso International assessment day (candidates must cover the first $150 of the most cost-effective travel expenses and accommodation costs). • Travel and accommodation costs associated with pre-departure training. • Return airfare and visa/permit (this includes a return flight in the case of a family emergency). • Coverage for required vaccinations, medications and comprehensive health insurance. • Accommodation while overseas. • A modest living allowance during the overseas placement, which varies depending on the country where you are placed. • Support payment made at end of placement.

ABOUT THE INITIATIVE

The ‘Diasporas for Development Initiative’ is a public private partnership generously supported by USAID and Accenture, implemented by Cuso International.

The ‘Diasporas for Development Initiative’ is a two year pilot project designed to address the challenge of human resource gaps in developing countries, often due to ‘brain drain,’ by engaging US-based volunteers to share their skills with Cuso’s local program partners.

The program takes a two pronged approach to promoting diaspora engagement in countries of ancestry:

1. Developing partnerships with Diaspora Partner Organizations (DPO’s) in the U.S. through reciprocal exchange of support; and,
2. Recruiting US-based professionals from the diaspora to share their skills in support of projects that build employability and entrepreneurship skills in their countries of ancestry (focus on Secure Livelihoods).

ABOUT USAID

The U.S. Agency for International Development provides economic, development and humanitarian assistance around the world in support of the foreign policy goals of the United States. Spending less than one-half of 1 percent of the federal budget, USAID works in over 100 countries to promote broad-scale human progress at the same time it expands stable, free societies, creates markets and trade partners for the United States, and fosters good will abroad. For more information, visit www.usaid.gov.

ABOUT ACCENTURE

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with 259,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. Through its Skills to Succeed corporate citizenship focus, Accenture is committed to equipping 500,000 people around the world by 2015 with the skills to get a job or build a business. The company generated net revenues of US$27.9 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2012. Its home page iswww.accenture.com.

ABOUT CUSO INTERNATIONAL

Cuso International is a non-profit development organization that works through volunteers. Each year, we send hundreds of global citizens to work on collaborative development projects in more than 20 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. We are one of North America’s leading international development organizations that works through volunteers.

How to apply:

Please apply online here http://www.cusointernational.org/volunteer/apply-online, quoting referral code PER0019/0001/0001 and the name of the placement.