Mercy Corps is hiring a
Background:
MicroMentor is an initiative of Mercy Corps’ Innovations Team. MicroMentor connects entrepreneurs and business mentors on an easy-to-use social platform that strives to overcome geographical limitations and deliver business resources at scale to under-resourced communities around the globe. We are the world's largest network of free business mentoring. Entrepreneurs matched with a mentor have shown significant results in terms of improved job creation, business survival, and revenue growth. Since its inception, our community has grown to more than 270,000 entrepreneurs and 90,000 mentors across 180 countries. Our team is diverse, driven, hardworking, and highly committed to the mission of helping small businesses thrive through mentoring.
Purpose / Project Description: MicroMentor is looking for a consultant passionate about community engagement and management. Their role will contribute to the success of the MicroMentor for English and Spanish-speaking communities and for customer networks housing their mentoring initiatives on our platform. They will monitor, post, and engage users at MicroMentor Mentor Forum, Mentor What's app groups, and Mentor and Entrepreneurs Gatherings while connecting individually and on a user case base with entrepreneurs and mentors. The consultant will play a key role in achieving success for customers and channel partners by ensuring their communities are having a satisfactory user experience.
Consultant Activities
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Timeframe / Schedule:
June 1, 2023 - May 30, 2024
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**Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
**Achieving our mission begins with how we build our team and work together. Through our commitment to enriching our organization with people of different origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and ways of thinking, we are better able to leverage the collective power of our teams and solve the world’s most complex challenges. We strive for a culture of trust and respect, where everyone contributes their perspectives and authentic selves, reaches their potential as individuals and teams, and collaborates to do the best work of their lives.
We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a journey, and we are committed to learning, listening and evolving to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive than we are today.
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