The position is a senior management role and reports to the Deputy Chief of Party, USAID FTF Inclusive Agricultural Markets Activity and TechnoServe Uganda Country Director.

Program Overview:

TechnoServe Inc/Uganda, a subcontractor to DAI, is implementing the Feed the Future Uganda Inclusive Agricultural Markets Activity (FtF IAM). This market systems development Activity works with producer organizations, business development service providers, agro-industry/agribusiness firms, Government of Uganda institutions and agencies, and other market actors to create efficiencies in cross-market functions that enable systemic changes to sustainably increase incomes and improve the livelihoods of households through agriculture-led inclusive economic growth. The Activity will work throughout the Feed the Future Uganda Zone of Influence (ZOI), which covers 38 districts across four regions of Uganda.

Primary Functions & Responsibilities:

Provide senior technical leadership in on or more intervention areas: develop interventions and partnerships that enable the Activity to achieve its objectives and results by applying a facilitative market systems development approach that considers commercial viability, capacities and behavior changes needed to create transformative change in the wider agricultural market system.
Build linkages, broker deals, and provide tailored technical assistance focused on growing businesses in an inclusive manner to a portfolio of private sector partners, including but not limited to processors, traders, financial services, and business development services (BDS) providers, focusing on growing their businesses in an inclusive manner.
Supervise a team of PIMs, overseeing the development of partnership strategies, negotiation of pay-for-results partnerships, development of technical assistance packages and monitoring of learning and adaptation arising from these interventions; provide ongoing mentorship and technical guidance to the team.
Ensure quality control of partnership agreements and deliverables, monitoring and learning, reporting and planning documents.
Monitor the implementation in collaboration with the FtF IAM monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) team to facilitate collection of data, analysis and learning; contribute to learning briefs and monitoring report; facilitate events and present lessons from FtF IAM.
Basic Qualifications:

Master's degree in a relevant field of study, such as rural and agricultural development, agricultural economics, agribusiness and/or business development, business administration OR a bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study with at least 5 years of development experience relevant to the SOW.
At least 7 years of experience with private sector led agricultural development activities; focus on input supply and distribution preferred; demonstrated understanding of market systems development approaches and principles of facilitative development.
Strong knowledge of Uganda's agricultural market systems, constraints and opportunities to growth; experience in the private sector or building/managing investments or relationships with private sector partners preferred.