Partners Worldwide
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.
The Role
The Africa Regional Training Coordinator supports our training and partnership teams in the Africa region, ensuring they are equipped and empowered to deliver business training, mentoring, and coaching with excellence. This position 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. This position will also support the development of new training initiatives and tools to equip our network with business training resources.
The Work
- Training Logistics Management: Organize and schedule training, Train the Trainer, 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.
- Learning Management System (LMS) Administration: Oversee the administration of the region's online training platforms. Ensure accurate user creation and data entry, user management, and provide updates to content updates.
- Implement other business training/support curricula and pilot training initiatives. Create quarterly schedules for training, and updates to employees, managers, and regional team on training initiatives.
- Training Needs Assessment: 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 the Training Taskforce quarterly team meetings for maximum impact.
- Support and assist Global and 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.
- Organize and manage global training resources on Salesforce and SharePoint for regional network access.
- Work alongside trainers to guide them through our business training toolkit, certification programs, and on-going education opportunities.
- Follow-up on administrative tasks after Train the Trainer sessions (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.
- 1:1 Meetings with the Access to Knowledge Accelerator and the Regional Training Specialist.
Your Qualifications
- A degree in business, finance, economic development, agribusiness/agriculture development or a related field from a reputable, accredited university.
- Two years minimum of experience in project management, education programs management, business training, and related areas.
- Permanent residency in Guatemala, Honduras or Nicaragua
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Spanish.
- Ability to travel, including valid/current passport to allow for international travel.
- Computer skills that will enable communications.
- Project management skills and experience.
- Experience building and maintaining cross-cultural relationships.
- Not required but helpful:
- Proficiency in Office365, Salesforce, Power BI and Learning Management Systems
- 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 partnership.
Your Character
- Mature Christian faith that is lived out in your life, work, and interactions.
- Strong ability to build relationships, create traction and mobilize resources.
- Ongoing curiosity to learn, develop skills and lead by example in the organization.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
- Organized, attention to details, and able to build processes and follow through
- An entrepreneurial spirit that leads to creative thinking, new ideas to put into action, and innovative solutions to diverse challenges.
Required Competencies:
- Strategic thinking
- Communication (cross-cultural, written & oral)
- Planning
- Decision making (data-driven)
- Digital (computer) literacy
- PW Ambassadorship – demonstrate the organization’s values through actions and decision making.
What we provide
- Meaningful, redemptive, and purpose-filled work
- Connection to a talented, dedicated, and joyful team of global staff and partners.
- A comprehensive compensation package and a culture that prioritizes healthy work-life balance.
- Annual allowance for professional development/continuing education
Additional information
- This is a full-time position
- Partners Worldwide is an equal opportunity employer.
- This position may require occasional work on nights and weekends for meetings and/or events.
- This position requires the ability to travel locally and internationally.
- This position is Africa with a preference for one of the countries where Partners Worldwide has active partnerships and training initiatives. See website for more information on where we’re located: www.partnersworldwide.org
