Summary
Date Posted: Monday, July 13, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Organizational profile In 2006, a group of 126 smallholders and 4 commercial farmers formed an interim committee to secure the right to extract water from the Kafue River. The group then approached InfraCo Africa seeking the financing and expertise needed to convert these rights into a bankable irrigation project: Chanyanya. The Chanyanya project established the Chanyanya Infrastructure Company (CIC) and the Chanyanya Smallholders Cooperative Society (CSCS). In 2008, CSCS entered into a partnership with CIC, leasing their land to establish a commercial farm. CIC installed the bulk water infrastructure required to support four pivots and provide infield irrigation to 148ha of farmland. In turn, CSCS receive regular lease payments, hold shares in the commercial enterprise and have access to individual irrigated market garden plots. The Chanyanya project is now expanding to irrigate a further 124ha of farmland and provide 15ha of additional market garden plots.
InfraCo Africa was established in 2004 as part of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), and is managed as a private company although funded by the governments of Switzerland (via SECO), the Netherlands (via DGIS) and the UK (via DFID).
InfraCo Africa continues to support CIC as it works towards ensuring CSCS has the skills and resources needed to successfully take responsibility for the management of the commercial farm. Jointly, CIC and InfraCo Africa are now seeking to hire a Project Director who will primarily be responsible for ensuring the eventual transfer of ownership to CSCS.
Vacancy/Position: Project Director .

Duties and Responsibilities:
Your primary focus will be to ensure a smooth handover of CIC to CSCS once it has repaid its debts, is profitable, and the cooperative has the skills and experience needed to successfully take responsibility for management of the commercial farm. As part of this, you will be jointly responsible for the expansion of the Chanyanya project and will lead its involvement in developing a new shared Sugar Mill to take produce both from CIC, the neighbouring Chiansi project and others in the immediate area. This could involve:
1. Leading the ongoing skills exchange, knowledge transfer and engagement with CSCS to support an eventual handover of ownership.
2. Joint responsibility for the expansion of the Chanyanya project, leading on its involvement in developing a new shared Sugar Mill to take produce both from CIC and others in the immediate area, which could involve:
• Leading development of effective business plans and budgets for both the Chanyanya project, its expansion and the new shared Sugar Mill; Accurately identifying, forecasting, managing and mitigating risks associated with either the core Chanyanya project, the expansion or the Sugar Mill;
• Leading Chanyanya's (and by extension InfraCo Africa's) involvement in the Sugar Mill:
• Completing the necessary due diligence, feasibility studies and design work needed to ensure the Sugar Mill is successful;
• Engaging with senior stakeholders and government officials as needed;
• Reviewing the commercial structure and negotiating the necessary terms for both Chanyanya's and InfraCo Africa's involvement with the Sugar Milland
• Raising the finance needed to ensure it can be constructed as planned.

Job Skills: Not Specified

Skills and qualifications: We expect you to:
• Have worked on multiple infrastructure projects at different stages of development across East Africa; • Have experience of developing either Greenfield renewable power, water or transport projects in sub-Saharan Africa;
• Be recognised by others as demonstrating integrity and professionalism;
• Demonstrate strong team working and communication skills both internally (to an investment committee) and externally;
• Have credibly engaged with multiple types of stakeholders within sub-Saharan Africa (private sector developers and investors, DFls, EPC contractors or other suppliers, governments and local communities; and
• Have a professional qualification in a relevant discipline.
Your Personal Qualities:
• Analytical precision: Able to dive into the detail of a financial model, accounts, contractual agreement, study or design to challenge its accuracy whilst balancing technical precision against achievement of the deliverable's overall objective.
• Perceptive: Able to understand business and project financials, processes, politics and navigate these to identify, filter and priorities the risks that could impact InfraCo Africa's investments or reputation.
• Collaborative: Able to build strong, lasting relationships with a diverse mix of individuals and businesses and to use these to share ideas and work collectively to resolve issues.
• Innovative: Able to find creative solutions to issues as they arise and to patiently persevere and refine their approach until a resolution is found.
• Integrity: Able to demonstrate professionalism in all that you do and act with integrity even when that means walking away from something that might be to your own advantage.

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
To Apply: Send applications to hquiltyconsulting@gmail.com  by 12:00 hours Monday 20th July 2020. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

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