YCAB FOUNDATION JOB VACANCIES 2025
Mother’s Economic Empowerment Specialist
About YCAB Foundation
Founded in 1999, YCAB Foundation is the founding and flagship organization of the YCAB Social Enterprise Group. With a vision to break the cycle of poverty, YCAB utilizes financial inclusion as a primary instrument to expand and strengthen education for youth from urban low-income families. To date, YCAB has positively impacted over five million young individuals and empowered more than 200,000 ultra-micro women entrepreneurs. In 2024, YCAB Foundation retained its #28 ranking on the TOP 100 SGO/NGO list by TheDotGood, a global nonprofit rating agency based in Geneva, Switzerland.
About Position
This specialist will transform the strategic objectives of the Mother Learn program into actionable training and mentorship interventions. The role requires a seasoned professional to manage the full program cycle—from design and technical assistance to monitoring and stakeholder engagement—focused on empowering entrepreneurial mothers through improved financial literacy, business management, and digital knowledge. This position is critical for achieving the desired outcome of Mother’s Small Business Revenue Growth and ultimately, liberating beneficiary families from generational poverty. The core mandate of this role is to design, manage, and implement high-impact capacity building and technical assistance programs that directly enhance the business knowledge, financial literacy, and digital skills of YCAB’s ultra-micro-entrepreneurial mothers (Mother Learn beneficiaries), thereby driving measurable revenue growth and family economic stability.
Responsibilities:
Program Development and Capacity Building
- Design and manage integrated training and technical assistance programs focusing on core business skills: financial literacy, small-scale business management, marketing, and digital technologies (e.g., social media, e-commerce).
- Lead the implementation of capacity building programs, ensuring the effective delivery of training modules and establishing peer-support groups for mother entrepreneurs.
- Provide direct technical guidance and advisory services to mothers to help them apply new financial and business knowledge, including business progress monitoring and mentorship.
- Continuously review and update training curricula to ensure relevance and alignment with best practices in micro-enterprise development and the digital economy.
- Actively build and manage relationships with key external stakeholders, including NGOs, government agencies, and the private sector, to secure support and enhance awareness of the Mother Learn program.
- Coordinate with the microfinance team to ensure mothers receive necessary resources, such as working capital and microfinance loans.
- Collaborate with the RME unit to assist in tracking program progress, measuring the impact of capacity improvements, and assessing the increase in Mother’s Small Business Revenue Growth.
- Utilize monitoring data to assess whether mothers are successfully applying new knowledge and use these insights for strategic program improvement.
- Contribute to strategic planning to address systemic barriers and ensure the long-term growth and quality of mother-owned businesses.
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Social Science, Gender Studies, Economics, Business Administration, Management, International Development, or a related field.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of professional experience in program management, technical assistance, or capacity building specifically related to mother’s economic empowerment or ultra micro-enterprise development.
- Demonstrated experience in providing direct training and advisory services to individuals or organizations on topics like financial literacy and business management.
- Proven experience in private sector engagement and/or working with government agencies and civil society organizations.
- Experience in a lead or supervisory role is highly preferred.
- Strong ability to analyze, interpret, and coach clients on multi-faceted business concepts and drive business progress monitoring.
- Deep awareness of the unique economic and social challenges faced by ultra-microentrepreneurial mother.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for training delivery, stakeholder reporting, and advocacy.
- Ability to influence, motivate, and lead program execution while effectively working with diverse internal teams (e.g., finance, field staff) and external partners.
- Creative and practical problem-solving skills to address on-the-ground business challenges faced by beneficiaries.
Report to: Program Manager (Core Programs)
Location: West Jakarta
Employement Type: PKWT
Applications close on November 28, 2025
Please submit your application by sending us a cover letter along with your latest CV to: recruitment@ycab.org
Please put in your email subject: Mother’s Economic Empowerment Specialist – Your Full Name
Apply now! Joining our team will provide you with the opportunity to make a difference everyday.
All applicants will betreated in confidential and only short-listed candidates will be notified