Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company (Kaizen) is an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally driven development and spur sustainable entrepreneurship and investments. We leverage existing knowledge, new technologies, local peer networks, and innovative business models to support local reforms that are sustained through market forces.
Since our inception, we have provided support to more than 300 government, private-sector, and non-profit organizations in emerging markets worldwide. We have created solutions that achieve outcomes across a broad range of sectors including education, health, finance, agriculture, governance, economic growth, energy and environment, and water.
Kaizen is seeking an Enterprise Development Specialist for the USAID/She Leads Pakistan Rises activity, (SLPRA). The SLPRA will increase women’s participation in Pakistan’s economy by supporting women-led businesses (WLBs), including start-ups and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME). The activity will achieve this through four mutually reinforcing objectives that aim to address underlying root causes obstructing WLBs from progressing.
The objectives of SLPRA are:
Objective 1: Strengthen business enabling environment for women-led businesses
Objective 2: Improved Access to Economic Resources
- Increased Access to Capital
- Improved business performance, climate resilience and adaptation, and supply chain linkages
- Increased access to markets and reduced gender digital divide
Objective 3: Strengthen startups ecosystem
Objective 4: Supporting Pakistan’s response to economic shocks and opportunities
ResponsibilitiesThe Enterprise Development Specialist shall be responsible for leading the business enabling
environment, access to economic resources, and start-up ecosystem efforts for the project.
USAID envisions a private sector-oriented Enterprise Development Specialist who can effectively partner with women led businesses and other market actors to implement solutions to increase women’s participation in Pakistan’s economy.
Minimum Qualifications- Minimum of 7 years enterprise development (preferable with women-led businesses) or similar experience.
- Masters degree in trade and investment, business, finance, public administration, international development, enterprise development or other related discipline
- Experience working with government partners to implement legal, policy, regulatory and procedural changes and recommendations that obstruct women-led business from gaining access to capital, markets, technology, and employment opportunities,
- Experience supporting and developing leadership capacity of women entrepreneurs in business networks for more effective advocacy and participation,
- Fluency in Urdu.
Position is dependent on award of activity.
For candidates applying for positions based in Kaizen's office in Washington, DC, we utilize career.place to mitigate bias in the recruitment process. Upon submitting an application, candidates will receive an email from career.place, prompting them to go through the anonymous screening. In order to be considered for a role, candidates must respond to career.place and proceed with the application. We do not currently use career.place for project positions outside of the United States.
At Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company, we find strength in our diversity. We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential. We know that we can only do development differently if we are open to and inclusive of new and unique perspectives. We encourage candidates of all abilities, ages, gender identities and expressions, national origins, races and ethnicities, religious beliefs, and sexual orientations to apply. Further, we urge parents and non-parents, married and unmarried, those from different or non-traditional educational backgrounds, and persons of all other diverse identities or experiences to apply. Kaizen is an equal opportunity employer.
