Summary
Date Posted: Saturday, August 26 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
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

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 84

Level of Education: Associate Degree

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