Senior Business Advisor

Job Title: Senior Business Advisor

Number of Positions: 2

Location: Gauteng & Mpumalanga

Grade: 8

Reports to: Implementation Manager

About Techno Serve

Everyone deserves the opportunity to build a better future. This simple idea has been at the heart of work around the world for over 50 years. Techno Serve is a pioneer in leveraging the power of businesses and markets to create sustainable pathways out of poverty.

The low-income communities in which we work are full of enterprising people. Their small-scale farms and businesses are the keys to economic development. But they face many challenges: low literacy, lack of access to jobs and markets, unpredictable political dynamics, and increasingly, the effects of climate change. Working with Techno Serve staff, people around the world are lifting themselves out of poverty.

When incomes increase and living conditions for families get better, they can access healthcare and education previously out of reach. Communities and even whole countries are better off.

Program Overview

Techno Serve is collaborating with the Anglo American Foundation to enhance the livelihoods of vulnerable workers while creating new quality opportunities for youth in South Africa’s recycling sector. The program provides target beneficiaries with access to more, better quality, and higher-paying jobs in the circular economy. Our ambition is to develop a center of excellence that demonstrates the viability of an integrated approach to enterprise development along the circular economy value chain.

Program Timeline:

Phase B aims to recruit additional Buy Back centres to promote connections among market participants in targeted recycling routes. This includes training, advisory, mentorship, and aftercare (access to waste, finance and markets), while gathering market intelligence to monitor performance.

Job Summary

Working closely with the Implementation Manager, the Senior Business Advisor will play a critical role in providing customized capacity building to medium-sized growing recovery businesses (Buy-Back Centres) and conduct all program activities for beneficiaries. Techno Serve seeks a seasoned and tested professional who understands and has documented evidence of working within the waste management sector
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The Senior Business Advisor will

Primary Functions & Responsibilities

Project Implementation

Advisory & Capacity Building

Monitoring, Evaluation & Team Leadership