Manager Partnership Business Management Career Opportunity at Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM)

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Organisation: Regional
Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: Deputy Executive
Secretary
About ROFORUM:
Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture
(RUFORUM) to recruit qualified and competent staff for its Secretariat based in
Kampala, Uganda. RUFORUM was established in 2004 with vision to create a
vibrant agricultural sector linked to African universities, which can produce
high- performing graduates and high-quality research which is responsive to the
demands of Africa’s farmers for innovations; and able to generate sustainable
livelihoods and national economic development.
RUFORUM has established partnerships and operates with a consortium of
32 universities in eighteen countries in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa
to achieve its mission. The countries include Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique,
Ethiopia, Malawi, Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),
Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Sudan, South Sudan, South
Africa and Namibia.
Job Summary: The Manager,
Partnership and Business Management is to initiate and maintain relationships
with various stakeholder individuals, groups, and institutions through the
development of strategic partnerships for the purpose of facilitating,
supporting, and boosting RUFORUM operations in line with its mission and
strategic objectives.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities: 
  • Steer the identification, development/formation
    of networks and partnerships in support of the RUFORUM vision and mission
  • Evaluate periodically the performance of
    existing and new partnerships
  • Act as a focal point and coordinate the
    management of partnerships across all units within the RUFORUM Secretariat
  • Technically support the strengthening of
    networks including university-university and university- RUFORUM
    Secretariat as well as the wider RUFORUM network towards the realization
    of RUFORUM Secretariat goals
  • Manage the strategy and implementation of
    RUFORUM National Forums
  • Support the development of fundraising
    proposals for the RUFORUM Secretariat
  • Actively participate in regional and
    National Forums to further the goals and objectives on behalf of the
    RUFORUM Secretariat
  • Support the maintenance of a database on
    technical and other proposals, both funded and unfunded, for the RUFORUM
    Secretariat
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience: 
  • The applicant should possess a good MBA
    with options in marketing, business or related fields
  • Postgraduate diploma in project management
  • At least five years’ experience working in
    marketing roles preferably in private and public sector with at least three years spent in a senior management position.
  • Prior experience in fund raising/funds
    mobilization
  • Excellent understanding of University
    systems
  • Good skills in formulating partnership
    management policies and developing appropriate procedures and systems.
How to Apply: 
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their
applications with detailed curriculum vitae, copies of certificates,
transcripts, names of three professional referees and the applicant’s telephone
contact should be sent electronically on-line in pdf form to:
Dama Consultants Limited 10th Floor Uganda House P.O. Box 3967 Kampala
Uganda
Tel: +256-414-235 944; +256-70-4843380 Email:
damaconsultantsltd@gmail.com
Deadline: 2nd June 2014.

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