Job Title: Marketing Manager
Organisation: Swiss
Foundation for Technical Cooperation (Swisscontact)
Foundation for Technical Cooperation (Swisscontact)
Duty Station: Gulu, Uganda
Reports to: General Manager
About US:
Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation (Swisscontact) is the
business-oriented independent foundation for international development
cooperation and it is represented in 32 countries with over 900 employees.
Swisscontact was founded in 1959 and it promotes economic, social and environmental
development.
business-oriented independent foundation for international development
cooperation and it is represented in 32 countries with over 900 employees.
Swisscontact was founded in 1959 and it promotes economic, social and environmental
development.
About DfID NU-TEC Project:
Swisscontact Uganda is involved in the NU-TEC programme (a five year
DFID funded programme) that aims to increase the incomes and climate resilience
of poor men and women in northern Uganda (NU) by (a) stimulating sustainable,
pro-poor growth in selected agricultural markets and (b) improving the position
of poor men and women within these market systems, to make them more inclusive
for poor people. Swisscontact Uganda implements a programme in Northern Uganda.
Palladium International manages the programme on behalf of DFID.
DFID funded programme) that aims to increase the incomes and climate resilience
of poor men and women in northern Uganda (NU) by (a) stimulating sustainable,
pro-poor growth in selected agricultural markets and (b) improving the position
of poor men and women within these market systems, to make them more inclusive
for poor people. Swisscontact Uganda implements a programme in Northern Uganda.
Palladium International manages the programme on behalf of DFID.
Job Summary: The Marketing
Manager will take overall
responsibility of providing strategic guidance and management for the programme
market groups by managing all the programme interventions within the
market section and overseeing both the strategic and administrative elements of
the interventions. The incumbent will be tasked with establishing and managing
relationships with potential partners and stakeholders in the various
interventions within the market sector. The Market Sector Manager will identify
and design potential interventions for the programme and develop strategies for
implementing these interventions. S/he will be responsible for ensuring strong
linkages between the market sector and the Results Measurement team of the
programme.
Manager will take overall
responsibility of providing strategic guidance and management for the programme
market groups by managing all the programme interventions within the
market section and overseeing both the strategic and administrative elements of
the interventions. The incumbent will be tasked with establishing and managing
relationships with potential partners and stakeholders in the various
interventions within the market sector. The Market Sector Manager will identify
and design potential interventions for the programme and develop strategies for
implementing these interventions. S/he will be responsible for ensuring strong
linkages between the market sector and the Results Measurement team of the
programme.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Provide overall strategic direction for
the market sector and all interventions within the sector; monitoring and
quality assuring all intervention guides and resulting outputs. - The incumbent will identify new markets or
market actors with the aim of contributing to the overall programme
strategy; liaise with the programme Senior Management Team on potential markets
and design effective implementation strategies for approved market
interventions ensuring that they meet all donor and programme
requirements. - Identify and build strategic partnerships
within the market and play a lead role in managing all established
partnerships. This will include approaching firms or other market actors
and brokering deals. - Lead on determining the commercial
viability of new product areas within new market actors; identify the
strategic partnerships between NU-TEC MD and these potential market
actors. - Coordinate the development of final market
opportunity reports as well as all other weekly, monthly, quarterly and
annual reports within the market sector. - Drive the stakeholder analysis of the
selected market systems as well as identifying and contacting potential
agents of change. - Manage the implementation of all market
intervention ensuring that initiative is taken within each intervention
and setting work plans for the interventions. - Ensure sustained reporting on all
intervention activities, progress reports, on and off field feedback and
lessons learnt from each intervention. - Identify key policy areas for each
intervention and establish appropriate partnerships and contacts aimed at
driving the policy amendment process where applicable. - Coordinate all administrative aspects of
market partnerships including but not limited to grants, MoUs and
contracts. - Manage the outputs of all members of the
market section team ensuring optimum performance of all members of the
team - Establish and maintain processes and
systems which ensure strong continued linkages between the programme’s
Results Measurement team and the Market Section team ensuring all
interventions are adequately and extensively researched, reported and
monitored. - Oversee spending on interventions within
the market ensuring the meet agreed standards and also exhibit the DFID
value for money policy
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
Experience:
- The ideal candidate for this Market
Manager vacancy must hold a Master’s degree or similar qualification in
Business, Economics or Development Studies; - At least three years’ experience in
implementing and managing projects or running a business; - Previous supervisory/ managerial
responsibilities within a busy team; - Experience in business strategic development
with a focus in the agricultural sector; - Experience reviewing and writing reports;
- Previous experience in the development of
surveys and data collection instruments and data analysis experience using
Microsoft Excel or other data analysis tools; - Previous experience using the market for
the poor (M4P) approach would be of great advantage; - Working knowledge of the institutions and
organisations and/ or businesses that provide services to the agricultural
sector in Uganda and especially Northern Uganda; - We especially welcome individuals from a
private sector background, or those who have experience in agricultural
extension or experience in providing business services for companies.
Personal Competencies:
- Communication: Confidently
delivers tailored messages to various audiences using various media and
tools. Asks insightful questions, validates the speaker’s feelings and
points, and encourages the speaker; leaves the speaker feeling ‘heard’.
Reports concisely and proactively with observations, analysis, and
implications of the observations on project work and has the ability to
present such findings to a variety of stakeholders in a concise and
effective manner. - Relationship Builder: Quickly
develops trusting relationships with others; proactively assesses and
manages trust with others. Maintains industry, government and corporate
networks and consistently forges new business relationships to fit
strategic priorities. Identifies shared goals and develops effective
strategies around those goals; follows-up on connections to catalyze
positive relationships. Demonstrates neutrality and helps parties come to
creative agreements and solutions, while keeping ownership with the
parties. - Business Person: Understands
the idea of the marketing mix (the 5 ‘P’s); can gather market info and
give advice on marketing strategy; Advises on building and keeping good
customer relations. Keeps records in more complex business environments;
Advises on basic finances; Identifies and considers the financial risks of
decisions; considers the economic value for the markets before making
financial decisions. Delivers training workshops; Advises on selecting and
recruiting staff; appreciates the importance of incentives for performance
- Coach: Regularly engages with
market actors and stakeholders to uncover and identify specific needs;
builds desire in the coachee to address the needs. Offers specific,
constructive feedback to others; leaves the coachee feeling empowered to
improve; actively seeks out feedback to improve; uses feedback in
reviewing intervention strategies. Creates buy-in from the coachee to
improve; helps develop action plans; provides support, while ensure
coachee ownership over the process - Innovator: Tests out new ideas
on an ongoing basis; failure encourages greater future effort; often
demonstrates creative thinking; uses innovative approaches in the
execution of work; actively searches for solutions beyond traditional
boundaries. Makes time to reflect and codify learning; seeks out sources
of learning; regularly adjusts actions based on comparing expected results
against actual results; makes informed decisions based on lessons learnt
from other interventions within the sector. Proactively shares both
successful and unsuccessful endeavours; actively identifies issues that
may hinder effective collaborations and devises means of minimizing these;
takes a leadership role in a team - Political Economist: Critically
analyses institutions using a visual model, objectively allocating roles
and functions. Can prescribe an agenda to improve the institutional
arrangements for the benefit of poor people. Rigorously analyses the way
power and politics affects markets and poverty; can model the power
relations; and can prescribe improvements for the benefit of poor people.
Collects and arranges complex evidence within an Excel workbook;
cost-benefit analysis of economic options; prescription and argument for
pro-poor improvements in markets.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to send
their applications mentioning the District they are interested in and updated
CVs via e-mail addressed to:
their applications mentioning the District they are interested in and updated
CVs via e-mail addressed to:
Country Director Swisscontact Uganda,
Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation,
P.O. Box 21153, Kampala. Uganda Plot 19/20 Off Martyr’s Way Ntinda,
Kampala. Uganda
E-mail to:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Deadline: 30th
December, 2016
December, 2016
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