Call for coaches

The coaching support will focus on developing organizational capabilities to equip the beneficiaries with the necessary skills to ensure commercial growth. The role of the business coaches is to provide business coaching and leadership development support to SMEs. A range of competencies will enable them to demonstrate their credibility to business. Some will have specific skills in certain areas.

Major Responsibilities:

- Establish the SME’s strategy, the hurdles preventing its development and together with the SME to prepare a business growth plan with milestones and outcomes which satisfies all parties.

- Agree a coaching work plan which addresses specific barriers to growth preventing the successful implementation of the SME.

- Deliver a programmed of structured face to face coaching to address barriers to growth and help implement the project and transform the SME.

- Deliver coaching on specific issues as necessary.

- Comply with contractual requirements including targets, outputs, and budgetary control.

- Report on the progress of the SMEs

Key Skills:

Empathy, integrity, credibility, diligence, independence, and patience; capable of operating comfortably at senior management level; a natural commercial acumen supported by strong research, interrogative, analytical and diagnostic skills; accustomed to taking the initiative; able to offer constructive challenge; coaches should demonstrate a good understanding of many of the following business areas:

• Strategic planning
• Product development and design
• Market development
• Innovation management
• Financial management and investor readiness
• Business improvement (processes and operational capability).