Financial Literacy Facilitator - Senior Facilitator

Role: Senior Facilitator – Financial Freedom (Financial Literacy Facilitator)

Location: Recruitment in Johannesburg and Cape Town

Date Posted: 01 April 2025

Deadline: 30 April 2025

Type of Role: Part-time – Independent Contractor

About Us

Lucha LunakoTM is a forward thinking youth development organisation, created by our co-founders out of years of lived experience in the youth development sector in South Africa. We observed across hundreds of youth over several years, that the theory of providing technical and workplace readiness skills to youth alone does not produce young people ready to take up the opportunities that come their way. We believed we needed to go deeper into the root cause issues of youth unemployment.

We also believe that our youth are talented and have the potential to be successful, but need those who will partner with them to unlock their talent and gain access to income generating opportunities. We aspire to substantially shift the needle on youth development in South Africa and beyond.

Our mission is to provide scaled solutions to youth development, which promote partnership, collaboration and innovative approaches to creating and measuring impact in the youth sector. By identifying and engaging with how young people are affected by poverty and inequality at their root causes, we provide a model for shifting youth mindsets from surviving to thriving; and build understanding around pathways to decent income.

We work with funders, youth development organisations, business and government to ensure that these best practices are implemented so that impact is amplified and youth unemployability can be substantially and sustainably reduced.

About the Role

We are looking for an individual from a financial services background who is possibly already FAIS accredited, to be trained up as a Financial Freedom facilitator who is able to use our course materials to guide our participants as they go on a journey to understand:

1. their background with money
2. their personal values and how this relates to how they spend money
3. their current spending habits
4. their current debt/savings status
5. their position on the Financial Freedom spectrum
6. how to navigate their way out of debt
7. how to develop a savings habit
8. how to track and manage their money every month
9. how to set and achieve financial goals for every 6 months

This involves facilitating 2-hour sessions every week for 8 weeks at Youth Development sites in Cape Town, specifically Khayelitsha, Cape Town CBD, Langa; and Johannesburg, specifically Randburg, Braamfontein, Berea and other sites as they become available.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate would have:

1. 5 years’ experience in the financial services industry
2. Be working towards being an independent financial advisor or being accredited for FAIS and understand what financial advice is and when it is possible to give it
3. Already be working independently and able to manage their own time or able to work flexibly
4. Interested in contributing to the Financial Freedom of others
5. Be able to relate to people who are in their 20’s and 30’s and therefore should be no older than early 40’s

Roles and Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities of the Facilitator are:

1. To attend the training sessions led by the Course Designer to learn how to facilitate the course:
   1. To attend the general facilitation training at Lucha Lunako that is run from time to time
   2. To attend the course specific training that is required for this particular course
   3. To be present, punctual and reliable at all training sessions
   4. To attend the one-on-one training sessions that the Course Designer runs
2. To sign up for a set of courses that will run for a minimum of 8 lessons:
   1. To commit to facilitating a full course implementation of 8 lessons of 2 hours each.
   2. To commit to the 5 hours of work that will be required for each lesson, which are:
   3. To prepare for one hour the day before the lesson
   4. To arrive 30 minutes before the lesson
   5. To give the 2 hour lesson
   6. To stay for 30 minutes afterwards to engage with participants
   7. To travel to and from the venue for a total of 1 hour
   8. To complete all the administration required for the lesson in the lesson including the registration, attendance course surveys and anything else that is required.
   9. To take to the lesson those items that are needed for the lesson which includes printed worksheets, chocolates, pens, magazines and anything else that is required.
   10. To have their own laptop which they can use to connect to the projector at the venue so that they can give the lesson
   11. To make their own way to the lesson using their own or public transport
3. To Coordinate and plan all aspects of the course with the venue:
   1. To ensure that the venue has the facilities needed for the course that is being implemented and communicate with Lucha Operations if there are any problems
   2. To liaise weekly with the Lucha Operations manager for the implementation to ensure the training venue, course materials, computers and timeslots have been confirmed
4. To give feedback to the Course Designer:
   1. To liaise with the Course Designer on a weekly basis when they are facilitating the course implementation and give the course facilitator feedback on what is happening in the courses
   2. To attend monthly meetings with the Course Designer
5. To attend meetings and events with Lucha Lunako:
   1. To attend monthly meetings with Lucha Lunako
   2. To attend Lucha Lunako Facilitators Network monthly meetings and events
6. To complete all reports that are needed by Lucha Lunako:
   1. To attend to all emails sent to the facilitator relating to the course implementation or the course improvement process
   2. To complete and provide on time all the reports that are needed on the courses that are being implemented

Duration

12 months – independent contractor agreement

Time Needed

8-15 hours a week in the beginning, possibly more over time

Hourly Rate Range

Hourly Range is R300 – R450 per hour for 5 hours for each lesson

Lesson Remuneration Range is therefore R1,500 – R2,250 per lesson

Course Remuneration Range is R12,000 – R18,000 per completed course

Training rates will be a percentage of this and will be communicated should the application be successful.

Qualifications

Applicants must have achieved a minimum of:

1. Matric pass
2. Tertiary Qualification
3. Degree in Commerce, Accounting, Business Administration, or other relevant degree
4. Experience in engaging with groups of people that are 15-20 in size
5. Examples are: leading a tutoring group during tertiary education, leading a medium-sized group in your community, engaging with groups to communicate information of any kind

How To Apply

Submit your CV to office@luchalunako.com. If you have certificates to support your application – please include them.

Contact Details

Email: office@luchalunako.com

Ts & Cs

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the deadline, please consider your application unsuccessful.