About US:
Swisscontact is the business-oriented independent foundation for international development cooperation. Represented in 32 countries with over 900 employees, it promotes – since 1959 – economic, social and environmental development. In Uganda, Swisscontact Uganda implements a programme in Northern Uganda. The aims of the programme is to increase the incomes and climate resilience of poor men and women in northern Uganda (NU) by (a) stimulating sustainable, pro-poor growth in selected agricultural markets and (b) improving the position of poor men and women within these market systems, to make them more inclusive for poor people.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
The jobholder will provide overall strategic direction for the market sector and all interventions within the sector; monitoring and quality assuring all intervention guides and resulting outputs Identify new markets with the aim of contributing to the overall programme strategy; liaise with programme senior management team on potential markets and design effective implementation strategies for approved market interventions ensuring that they meet all donor and programme requirements
Drive the stakeholder analysis of the selected market systems as well as identifying and contacting potential agents of change.
Initiate and manage all market related value chain analysis ensuring study designs, contracting and implementation are done in accordance to set standards; coordinate the development of final market opportunity reports as well as all other weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports within the market sector
Manage the implementation of all market intervention ensuring that initiative is taken within each intervention and setting work plans for the interventions
Build and strengthen strategic partnerships within the market and play a lead role in managing all established partnerships. Ensure sustained reporting on all intervention activities, progress reports, on and off field feedback and lessons learnt from each intervention.
Identify key policy areas for each intervention and establish appropriate partnerships and contacts aimed at driving the policy amendment process where applicable.
Coordinate all administrative aspects of market partnerships including but not limited to grants, MoUs and contracts
Manage the outputs of all members of the market section team
In charge of ensuring optimum performance of all members of the team
Establish and maintain processes and systems which ensure strong continued linkages between the programme’s Results Measurement team and the Market Section team ensuring all interventions are adequately and extensively researched, reported and monitored.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
The ideal candidate should hold a Master’s degree or similar qualification in Business. Economics or Development Studies;
At least three years’ experience in implementing and managing projects with at least one year spent on the field on market research community projects;
Two years’ experience leading a busy team and coordinating across teams;
Previous exposure and experience in business strategy development with focus on agricultural value chain analysis
Previous experience reviewing and writing reports
Prior experience in the development of surveys and data collection instruments for monitoring programmes;
Previous data analysis experience using Microsoft Excel or any other data analysis tool;
Previous experience using the market for the poor (M4P) approach would be of great advantage.
Working knowledge of the institutions and organizations and/or businesses that provide services to the agricultural sector in Nigeria and at the State level;
Previous supervisory/ managerial responsibilities within a busy team
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to send their applications and updated CVs to the address below:
Country Director Swisscontact Uganda,
Swiss Fondation for Technical Cooperation,
P.O. Box 21153, Kampala. Uganda
Plot 19/20 Off Martyr’s Way Ntinda, Kampala. Uganda
E-mail to: tania.haidara@swisscontact.om