Jijali Mentors

About Yusudi

We are a sales enablement community that nurtures lifelong partnerships with highpotential talent and businesses to enable and accelerate their growth. We have three business lines:

• We offer recruitment services to help commercial teams find and hire exceptional talent.
  

• We run a sales academy with the goal of getting more graduates to flourish in sales careers
  

• We have a sales development service that works with organizations to help them build systems processes and habits to achieve predictable revenue.
  

Overarching all the services is the Africa Sales Community where we bring salespeople together offering them a platform to network and share experiences.

Yusudi was launched in 2016 and to date we have worked with 500 companies and engaged with thousands of professionals looking to build their sales careers. We are excited about sales and have a profound belief that selling should be an exciting positive and fulfilling experience for both parties.

Jijali Learning is a virtual training program providing entrepreneurship career readiness and sales training to youth aged 1835 years. The program combines online learning content field tasks and virtual mentorship support to provide a unique practical and customised learning journey to each learner.

The Mentor engagement is on a consultancy basis. The Mentors primary role is to support learners in either the career track entrepreneurship track or sales track by providing feedback advice and motivation based on the field tasks submissions and trainees individual career/business/sales goals. This is an opportunity to help young Kenyans accelerate their professional growth and achieve their career/business goals.

Parttime Mentors:

• Number of trainees mentored each week 20 30 depending on the mentor s availability
  

• Time commitment per week 1 hour per trainee and one additional hour per month for group coaching
  

• The mentors will be required to attend a virtual training before the program starts. The mentors will work remotely from any preferred location with strong internet and phone network access.
  

• Yusudi will offer a stipend to the mentors based on the number of trainees allocated to them.
  

• The stipend is 500 Kenya shillings per trainee per month.
  

• Yusudi will provide airtime based on the number of trainees per month
  

• The mentor will have access to virtual conferencing capabilities for group meetings in collaboration with the Jijali administration
  

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Support the allocated number of learners with their learning journey through weekly coaching calls & monthly group coaching calls.
   

2. Analyze learners progress and assist learners in developing action steps to improve the gaps in their learning
   

3. Provide feedback to the submitted field tasks career goals business and/or sales activities for every learner
   

4. Support learners with challenges faced during the learning period by assisting them to identify the cause of the challenge and create possible solutions
   

5. Provide weekly reports on learners progress challenges and learning outcomes using a predefined template and provided CRM (customer relationship management) system
   

6. Assist learners in developing a problemsolving approach when faced with challenges during field tasks
   

7. Attend required mentor training sessions and monthly mentor meetings
   

8. Fill out a mentor survey giving recommendations for program improvement based on learners feedback challenges and learning progress
   

9. Deliver actionbased advice and inspiration through the application of coaching methods
   

Requirements

The mentors should:

• Have a proven deep interest in personal development and a passion for helping other people realise their potential
  

• Be able to connect with different personalities and understand how to ask the right questions to encourage people to open up. They are people persons .
  

• Have fluent verbal communication skills
  

• Have excellent reporting skills
  

• Articulate themselves clearly and adapt their communication styles based on their audience
  

• Be able to develop reflective questions for their mentees
  

• Be able to give clear actionable and honest feedback
  

• Demonstrate patience flexibility and problemsolving skills
  

• Have previous mentorship experience (preferred)
  

• Should have an Inspirational approach to coaching
  

• Having worked with vulnerable and atrisk youth is an added advantage
  

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Required education: Bachelors degree in any related field
  

• Required relevant work experience: 2 years
  

• For those interested in entrepreneurship mentorship having a business working with startups and having sales experience is an added advantage
  

• Required languages: English and Swahili (Spoken: fluent Written: fluent)