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• Responsible for all deliverables of Uganda
  coffee projects, including specific outputs and outcomes laid out in the
  project proposals
• Lead the launch of Coffee Farm College
  activities and ensure excellence in execution
• Maintain project work plan and ensure
  timely project implementation
• Ensuring project activities are
  implemented with sound managerial, technical, human resource and overall
  programmatic practices
• Hold regular team meetings to track
  implementation progress and share relevant project and administrative data
• Provide coaching, direction, and
  leadership support to program team members to achieve results
• Manage and monitor project budget
  variances to ensure spending rates are on target and realign as required.
• Timely production and sharing of project
  performance metrics, including quarterly Program Status Reports (PSRs) and
  Corporate Measurement data
• Proactively identify successful strategies
  and tactics, I or bottlenecks to effective execution of project objectives
• Ensure all payments/activities are in
  compliance with donor requests, restrictions and regulations as outlined
  in donor contracts / Rules and Regulations
• Prepare and submit narrative reports for
  internal and external i consumption
• Ensure project targets are achieved
• Ensure delivery of technical training
  packages is of high quality, appropriate to local context and effectively
  reaching participants

• Build and maintain strong working
  relationships with country management team
• Interface with other countries, regional
  staff, and headquarters staff, as appropriate
• Ensure information is shared and flows
  transparently within the project, country, regional, practice and
  headquarters teams
• Share best practices and lessons learned
  from the j project
• Work closely with program staff to
  identify technical j assistance needs for program
• Work with Country Director to ensure
  appropriate j support for respective teams
• Potentially lead design of new projects as
  required, j including technical design and preparation of proposals.

• Support the Coffee Farm College lesson
  plan development and revision for agronomy and processing
• Analyze and provide guidance on business
  operations of relevant supply chain partners to increase long-term partner
  stability and growth
• Support increasing access to inputs to
  program farmers through identification of sourcing partners and
  development of appropriate input package and package terms
• Offer technical support on coffee agronomy
  and processing to field team
• Develop and update necessary data
  collection tools for monitoring and evaluation
• Analyze and report on monitoring and
  evaluation activities

• Establish and maintain strong
  relationships with relevant stakeholders in the Uganda coffee industry,
  including government ministries (e.g., national and local, administration
  and agricultural/development), private sector companies, and business
  associations
• Represent the program and TechnoServe at
  internal and external functions
• Understand, respect and promote
  TechnoServe’s values, vision and strategy in implementation of assigned
  duties.

• The ideal candidate for the TechnoServe
  Coffee Program Manager job placement should preferably hold a Degree in an
  agriculture-related field
• At least five years’ field and technical
  experience with agribusiness development and/or economic or financial
  analysis related to the agricultural sector in Uganda
• Willingness to be based in district
  office, with ability to travel internationally and to remote rural
  locations
• Fluency in English and Luganda

• Financial and Resource Management:
  The ability to estimate, justify, and manage appropriate funding levels to
  support goal accomplishment. Managing Resources is about understanding
  human, financial, and operational resource issues to make decisions aimed
  at building and planning efficient project workflows, and at improving
  overall organizational performance.
• Analysis, Research and Report Writing:
  Experience in business planning and analysis, modeling for feasibility and
  execution. Able to analyze and express oneself clearly in business
  writing.
• Donor/Partnership Management:
  Identifying opportunities and taking action to build strategic
  relationships between one’s area and other areas, teams, departments, or
  organizations to help achieve business goals.
• Innovative Mindset: Curious
  inquiries, asks questions and seeks out information from multiple sources,
  learns from mistakes, sees change as an opportunity.
• Emotional Intelligence:
  Empathetic, understands attitudes, interests, needs of others; predict others
  behavior. Self-aware and keeps own emotions from interfering with work.
  Understanding both the strengths and limitations of others.
• Trust to delegate: Appropriately
  allocates decision making authority and/or task responsibility to others;
  maximizes the organization’s and individual’s effectiveness.
• Staff development: Planning and
  supporting the development of individuals’ skills and abilities so .that
  they can fulfill current or future job responsibilities more effectively.
• Feedback/Coaching: Recognizes
  and acknowledges strengths in others. Provides timely guidance and
  feedback to help others develop knowledge and skill areas to accomplish
  tasks or solve problems.
• Fundraising: Able to
  continuously identify opportunities for TechnoServe to grow revenue; demonstrates
  good understanding of fundraising and donor management; Able to develop
  high potential fundraising proposals,
• Strategic Thinking: Takes an
  overview and identifies  patterns,
  trends and long-term possibilities. Creates and shapes a vision of the
  future that fits in with TNS’ long term objectives. Is able to articulate
  strategy to a wider audience. Formulates objectives and priorities, and
  implements plans consistent with the long-term interests of the
  organization in a global environment. Capitalizes on opportunities and
  manages risks.

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