Description
Primary Functions & Responsibilities:
- Stakeholder Management and Representation
- Cultivates and maintains relationships with key stakeholders including donor, government, industry bodies and other development actors
- Builds trust and confidence in TechnoServe as a key player in food and nutrition system
- Program Strategy, Quality and Impact
- Develops, presents, and implements the strategic vision, annual goals, and objectives for the program in line with the overall strategy and objectives
- Strategically selects areas of work, partnerships, and methodologies that most effectively contribute to growth of the AINFP Zambia portfolio
- Takes ownership and accountability for improved quality, impact and effectiveness
- External and Internal Communication
- Ensures clear and effective communication of the program to all relevant parties
- Builds reputation of the program through sharing of evidence-based impact and participation in key stakeholder events
- Maintains good working relationship with all relevant TechnoServe departments and other programs
- Program Management and Coordination
- Overall responsible for high quality delivery of the program in Zambia
- Coordinates with Capacity Building Team, M&E Manager, Budget & Finance Analyst, A2F Manager and other country leads to ensure learning across the team
- Ensures compliance with TechnoServe and USAID regulations
Competencies:
Strategic and Innovative Thinker
- Identifies opportunities and builds strategic relationships with other organizations to help achieve business goals.
- Proactively takes advantage of opportunities to learn and actively applies new knowledge and skill.
- Analyses both successes and failures for clues to improvement.
- Innovative to try new ideas to find solutions
- Analytical, able to diagnose problems, identify the key issues, and think strategically to evaluate alternative courses of action and produce a logical, practical, and acceptable solution. Works persistently to overcome obstacles
- Asks questions and seeks out information from multiple sources, learns from mistakes, sees change as an opportunity.
Leadership
- Able to take ownership of decisions but show sound judgment in escalating issues where necessary.
- Works cooperatively and flexibly with other members of the team to achieve a common goal. Ability to build and maintain effective relationships and networks.
- Effectively plans, schedules, and prioritizes activities; effectively manages resources (people, material, information, budget, and time) to accomplish plans.
- Provides leadership and mentorship to the staff and clients to build their leadership and management capacities.
Effective Communicator
- Listens openly and effectively and ensures accurate understanding; able to adjust communication to the needs of the audience and work at multiple levels; facilitates the open exchange of ideas and information in individual and group situations.
- Transparent in dealings with others, admits mistakes, and is trusted. Inspires confidence in the team of honest intentions and fairness.
- Report writing; monitoring and data management
Program Management
- Understands and manages human, financial, and operational resource issues to improve overall organizational performance. Committed to compliance with organizational policies.
- Able to analyze and express themselves clearly in business writing.
- Sound understanding of market systems and inclusive business models, including a strong client focus. Able to understand the client’s concerns and priorities to provide appropriate business advisory solutions.
- Strong ability and commitment to team working and collaboration; staff management/coaching
Basic Qualifications:
These are the requirements that any qualified candidate must meet. Typically includes
- A Master’s degree in business, economics, agriculture or other relevant discipline with a minimum of 7 years of professional experience in a relevant field, including the development of agricultural value chains, private sector and/or entrepreneurship
- Good knowledge and understanding of the business and/or technical challenges of agro-processing in Zambia/Africa
Preferred Experience:
Experience that would make a candidate more desirable.
- Management consultancy, business advisory services or experience managing local consultants/BDS providers
- Managing multiple and complex stakeholder relationships
- Strategic planning and innovation
- Food Processing
- Either private sector experience in agribusiness or management of a donor-funded private sector development program
- Familiarity with USAID private sector engagement or Feed the Future
Required Languages
- Fluency to speak, read and write in English is essential
Travel
- Willingness and ability to travel within Zambia and occasionally in the region
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- It is envisaged that this position will be managing at least four staff and consultants
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Method of Application
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Closing Date : 30th August, 2023.