Jobs at Agribusiness Lead

TechnoServe (TNS) is a non-profit international development organization founded in 1968. Its mission is to help entrepreneurial men and women break the cycle of poverty by building businesses that create jobs, income, and economic opportunities for their families, their communities, and their countries. TechnoServe undertakes targeted, catalytic technical assistance and other programming to increase the competitiveness of entrepreneurs, businesses and industries that in-turn provide sustainable employment, inclusion of the poor and increased incomes. A substantial portion of our work is in agriculture, enhancing farm productivity and commodity quality and addressing gaps in processing and other agribusiness capacities. Our programs increase smallholder access to new technologies, aggregation and storage mechanisms, markets, critical information and finance. TechnoServe also undertakes structured programs to identify and support high potential entrepreneurs in various sectors through leadership mentoring networks, formalization support, access to capital and development of sustainable business services such as accounting, finance, marketing and human resource management.

The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) is financing a new, four- year agriculture/ agribusiness program for Northern Uganda that seeks to improve the incomes of hundreds of thousands of Northern Ugandan farmers using a Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) approach. M4P aims to accelerate pro-poor growth by making markets function better and with greater fairness for poor men and women. It addresses the behavior of the private sector through a combination of changes to government policies and support to development of new business models that are more inclusive of the poor and seeks to reinforce and strengthen market systems. Climate smart agriculture and agribusiness and women will be prioritized.

Job Summary: The Agribusiness Lead will steer and manage the Programs relationship with multiple agribusinesses, mostly agri-processors, which are primarily but not only located in the North of the country. S/he will build and grow partnerships with these entities, help them analyze and address the opportunities and challenges they face in the market, strengthen market strategy and execute those strategies, with the aim of increasing growth and improving performance, while at the same time benefitting smallholder producers in the North. S/he will be working closely with the agribusinesses on a day-to-day basis and facilitating any additional support to be provided by third parties. The incumbent will be performing regular work planning and reporting will be required. S/he will also lead and supervise a team of colleagues. The jobholder will also coordinate project activities with our partners, manage technical inputs and identify strategies to effective execution of the project objectives.

If you are interested and you meet the aforementioned job requirements, please apply via E-mail to the HR and Administration Manager at; UG-jobs@tns.org with the position title placed in the subject line and on the application letter. Please strictly send only your application letter and resume with names and telephone contacts of three professional referees.