Skills

  • Financial and Entrepreneurship Training
    10
  • Credit analysis and customer service representati
    9

Experience

Isabella Mwasaru

Work experience
  • December, 2020 - December, 2021
  • Fulltime
  • Livelihoods project management and implementation
  • Provision of technical support and evidence based strategies and livelihoods interventions.
  • Schedule business and life skills training cohorts, ensuring all vocational training, apprenticeship and literacy beneficiaries receive introductory training sessions before starting other activities.
  • Deliver training material to clients as the main trainer/facilitator, and schedule other trainers as necessary for specific cohorts or sessions.
  • Train Livelihoods Center Resource staff in delivering business and life skills sessions.
  • Managing relationships with private sector partners and stakeholders.
  • Working with center staff and ERD management to recommend clients for placement in apprenticeships and provide recommendations on matching them with employers.
  • Conducts weekly visit to apprenticeship sites to verify work conditions, verify the presence of beneficiary as well as troubleshooting as necessary on the working relationship
  • Conducts bi-weekly meetings with beneficiaries in the form of calls, interviews or focus group discussion as appropriate. Helps ensure that payment of beneficiaries is accurately processed;
  • conduct individual business development sessions with clients and coach them through the development of a business plan and grant application.
  • Help conduct outreach to community and local leaders, private sector partners and other stakeholders .
  • Assist in the design, collection and analysis of data on local labor market, trends, livelihoods profiles of specific urban areas (informal settlements, refugee centric areas), market opportunities and skills gaps, in order to identify demand-driven opportunities for job creation
  • Support business training officers in developing work plans and taking leadership for Business and Life Skills trainings, supervision of Urban Savings and Loaning Associations for the Livelihood Resource center and oversee the direct implementation and monitoring of activities along with incentive workers.
  • Build the capacity of staff by delivering staff trainings and providing guidance on technical approaches.
  • Coordinate closely with IRC logistics, finance, and grant staff to ensure timely and compliant program activities and expenditures
  • Grant disbursement to clients follow up to ensure clients have received cash grant
  • Conducting mentorship activities to clients to ensure they operate profit making businesses
  • Monitoring clients businesses and apprentices
  • Generating reports and identifying action items and escalating the same to supervisors.
  • Linking beneficiaries or clients to Financial Institutions for business continuity.
  • Working closely with Monitoring and Evaluation teams for quality data and donor reporting.

Isabella Mwasaru

Work experience
  • October, 2017 - November, 2020
  • Fulltime
  •  Mobilizing target groups for training – Program -Young Africa Works Kenya.(Equity Group Foundation and Master card Foundation)
  •  Identifying the major challenges to financial self-sufficiency, determining effective solutions to the challenges, and creating programs that offer solutions to eligible customers.
  •  Training VSLA groups on Budgeting, Savings, Debt management, Financial services, Entrepreneurship Education, Business development and mentorship Programs.
  •  Training people living with HIV, disabilities and refugees on business skills, money management to improve livelihoods and create employment.
  •  Mentoring and training people living in slum areas on financial literacy and being financially independent.
  •  Assist in receiving application forms from potential candidates, sorting and selection of Wings to Fly Scholars.
  •  Collection of relevant data pertaining different programs to ensure the right outcome.
  •  Training and mentorship program for target groups
  •  Preparation of weekly ,monthly and quarterly reports
  •  Monitoring and evaluation of program progress.
  •  Motivating customers to take control of their financial well-being
  •  Providing direct service to eligible customers as prescribed in the foundation’s work plan
  •  Administering the client progress tracking system to ensure customers receive the support they need.

Isabella Mwasaru

Work experience
  • November, 2010 - September, 2017
  • Fulltime
  •  Coordinate work of the SME teams in the branch
  •  Client acquisition - develop new client relationships to enhance segment sales and market share
  •  Client relationship management- actively manage business client portfolio by segmenting the SME market and prioritize the optimum contribution of both time and resource.
  •  Providing financial literacy to customers
  •  Developing customer relations
  •  Appraising customers -Ensuring that customers demonstrate to the satisfaction of the bank that they have ability to repay the facility
  •  Assisting customers fill the loan forms appropriately
  •  Conducting customer visits both home and business premises
  •  Presenting loan applications to the credit committee
  •  Drafting offer letters
  •  Documentation of credit documents
  •  Security perfection
  •  Drawing loan repayment schedule
  •  Disbursement