Business Growth Strategist Needed For Guatemalan Small Businesses

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Match your skills with a Guatemalan business that needs your insight. We brief you on the pre-selected business owner we are assisting, and what you can accomplish by working with them at their place of business.

Make an impact. Help talented business owners in Guatemala strengthen and grow
their business to provide more jobs for troubled communities.

Volunteer. Provide your skills as a volunteer mentor and pro-bono consultant.

Leave the logistics to us. Bpeace HQ in New York and our staff in Central America facilitate your volunteer engagement from start to finish.

Share What You Know with Others, and Make a Difference! Put your business strategy experience to work changing lives.

The award-winning non-profit Bpeace seeks an experienced business strategist to TRAVEL to Guatemala to work with a group of small and growing businesses. The firms are participants in Bpeace’s 18-month enterprise development program during which time they access business consulting services from volunteer experts who help tackle their barriers to growth, strengthen ongoing operations, or meet a growth opportunity. During a half day session with each firm the strategist will work with the firm’s leaders and Bpeace staff to help shape a 12-month, post-Bpeace Growth Blueprint..

Bpeace’s 18-month Enterprise Development Program Stages

Fast Runner Selected - Fast Runners Participate in Business Growth Workshops - Growth Project I executed-Growth Project II executed-Growth Blueprint Defined

What You Will Be Doing

Discovery. Prior to trip, review background information on each Fast Runner firm.

Travel to Guatemala for one week to work with ten Fast Runner firms.

Consult. In Guatemala, meet for two to three hours with the leaders of each Fast Runner firm to distill lessons learned from their 18-month program with Bpeace, to synthesize all that the Fast Runner learned in the past year, and re-sets the clock with new goals and a 12-month plan.

About The Businesses

The small and growing businesses in the Bpeace program have been in operation for two to 20 years, with 10+ employees, with annual revenue between US$100,000 and $2 million, and operating in diverse industries including manufacturing, food processing, technology and other services. Each firm was selected through a competitive process to participate in the Bpeace program based on their appetite and capacity for growth and job creation.

Where and When

• Start working virtually by phone, email, Skype or GotoMeeting.
• Travel to Guatemala for one week in Q2 2017 to work one-on-one with ten firms.
• Estimated work time: three days prep, six days in Guatemala.

• 8 years experience in business strategy consulting.
• Experience with small and medium businesses preferred.
• Proven level of cultural competence; experience working in the developing world preferred.
• Ability to work independently.
• Excellent communication skills. Sense of humor.
• Flexibility; able to work where there is market ambiguity and uncertainty.

If you are interested in this position or would like additional information, please contact Alexandra Salas at asalas@bpeace.org