Business Sustainability and Upgrading Manager (BSUM)
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- KAMPALA, Uganda
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Must have
- Degree qualifications in business-related studies are required
- Track record of building strong client and stakeholder relationships
- Strong project management and some financial analysis skills
- Minimum of 7 years’ field and technical experience with agribusiness development, agribusiness experience in Uganda, OR a Master’s Degree plus 5 years’ experience.
- Experience working with food aggregation and processing, supply chain development, out-grower networks, and knowledge of the Market Systems Development approach preferred
- Excellent interpersonal and oral, and written communication skills are a must
- Ability to develop well-written, cohesive analyses and reports
- Ability to generate innovative solutions in work situations
- Proven ability and experience working with teams will be an added advantage
- Fluency in English required
Full description
Everyone deserves the opportunity to build a better future. This simple idea has been at the heart of TechnoServe’s work around the world for over 50 years. TechnoServe is a pioneer in leveraging the power of business and markets to create sustainable pathways out of poverty.
The low-income communities in which we work are full of enterprising people. Their small-scale farms and businesses are the keys to economic development. But they face many challenges: low literacy, lack of access to jobs and markets, unpredictable political dynamics and, increasingly, the effects of climate change. For many women and young people, the challenges are even more daunting. Working with TechnoServe staff, people around the world are lifting themselves out of poverty. The results are amazing...when incomes increase and living conditions for families get better, they are able to access health care and education previously out of reach. Communities and even whole countries are better off.
Title: Business Sustainability and Upgrading Manager (BSUM)Program: VINES (CRS002N-01)Reports to: VINES Chief of Party (additional: TechnoServe Country Director)Location: KampalaTravel: Remote rural locationsGrade: 9Job Summary:
As the Manager and lead of TechnoServe’s contribution to the VINES consortium, the Business Sustainability and Upgrading Manager (BSUM) will oversee a team of 7 and be responsible for achieving activities and results under TechnoServe’s scope of work.
Program Overview:TechnoServe, CRS, and Frontier Co-op are implementing VINES, a five-year, $13 million, USDA Food for Progress program aimed at making Uganda the world’s next leading supplier of high-quality vanilla. This project has received a 2.5-year Extension to 2028. Led by CRS, VINES will leverage the expertise of CRS and its world class consortium of partners, associated experts and leading international buyers to provide technical assistance to enhance the production of safe, clean, pure vanilla, develop market links with US trade networks, and strengthen an enabling public policy network to reduce vanilla theft to transform the lives of 16,200 farmers, 356 self-employed service and input providers, 480 processors' employees; and generating 15,820 new on-farm seasonal and permanent processing jobs to reach 32,856 vanilla stakeholders.
In turn, this will provide international buyers with a new origin that will stabilize the extreme price volatility for this unique spice.
Within the consortium, TechnoServe will lead in market analysis, business planning, farmer business capacity building, agripreneur and youth training, input supply, and business relationship management.
Primary Functions & Responsibilities:Principal Responsibilities:
- Develop strategy for and oversee team focused on business viability, providing strategic advisory support as needed