Partnerships Manager Job Placement – Chemonics International Inc.

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Job Title:        Partnerships Manager
Organization: Chemonics
International Inc.
Project Name: Uganda Youth
Leadership for Agriculture Activity
Funding Source: USAID
Duty Station: Gulu, Mbale,
Masindi or Mubende, Uganda
About US:
Chemonics International Inc. is certified consulting company that has
partnered with local and international organizations to promote social and
economic change around the world for overe 40 years.
About Feed the Future Program:
Feed the Future, the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security
initiative, is establishing a foundation for lasting progress against global
hunger. The Feed the Future Uganda Youth Leadership for Agriculture is a 5-year
Activity which will support Ugandan partners, with youth in the lead, to
identify and drive forward sustainable, inclusive, and cost-effective
approaches that put youth, especially female youth, squarely in the agriculture
sector as leaders, farmers, entrepreneurs, and employees. The purpose of this
flagship activity is to increase economic opportunities for approximately
350,000 Ugandan female and male youth ages 10 to 35 in agriculture-related
fields, in order to increase their incomes and build their entrepreneurship,
leadership, and workforce readiness skills.
Job Summary: The
Partnerships Manager is responsible for technical leadership and oversight of
activities under objective one: Increased incomes of youth working in
agricultural value chains and Objective two: Improved skills and competencies
of youth in their designated region. This will include implementing activities
that support technical and soft skills development at all age levels (primary,
secondary, and vocational), as well as address the needs of out-of-school youth
with a specific emphasis on reaching young women.
The activities will include organizing opportunities through the
interaction of both objectives for increased incomes. Incomes will largely be
drawn from value chain development- driven job creation by starting with market
demand and working backwards to build the technical and entrepreneurial skills
to meet workforce demand. The Partnership Manager will identify partnerships to
pilot, test, and refine best practices in technical, entrepreneurial, and
workforce readiness skills training, mentoring, and practice. The Partnerships
Manager will work with potential partners to pinpoint which skills are in
demand in each district and which sectors can support a productive youth labor
pool. S/he will then examine the human, social, financial, and physical
capital-related constraints that youth encounter entering the workforce and
design interventions through partnerships to overcome these constraints.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:   The overall
purpose of this role is to provide technical assistance on the identification,
design, and implementation of strategic partnerships between private and public
sector actors aimed at increasing income and promoting employment of youth
working in agricultural value chains in their area of operation while improving
skills and competencies of youth, especially women. More specifically, the
Partnerships Manager will:
  • Facilitate partnerships that increase
    access and adoption of technologies to improve agricultural productivity
    by youth. Coordinate with private sector partners and their agents to
    finance and promote on-farm appropriate technologies.
  • Actively facilitate actors to provide
    private sector market driven technical skills development services. Review
    existing business development and training models that are age and gender
    appropriate and can be incorporated into YLA interventions.
  • Develop, harness and facilitate increased
    employment opportunities along the value chain.
  • Broker and leverage productive relationships
    that result in increased access to various financing mechanisms by youth
  • The jobholder will also design and promote
    “resource bundles” for youth farmers, where youth are supported to access
    agro-inputs, training, financing, and market linkages.
  • Identify and leverage partnerships that
    enable youth to access timely and appropriate market information.
  • Formulate and monitor partnerships to
    implement extra- and co-curricular activities at the primary and secondary
    school level to help students and out-of-school youth develop practical
    agricultural skills.
  • Build and nurture relationships between
    business, technical, vocational education and training (BTVET) centers,
    the private sector, and youth leaders to identify priorities and common
    areas for collaboration.
  • Engage and support local youth
    organizations and identify other areas of youth leadership and social
    entrepreneurship opportunities in their communities
  • Conduct monitoring evaluation and learning
    to track performance, measure the attainment of results and provide
    evidence that enhances collaboration, learning and adapting of the key
    components of this activity.
  • Perform any tasks assigned from time to
    time in line with overall purpose of the role and YLA objectives.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience: 
  • The position has no specific degree
    requirements. We are looking for a strong mix of innovative thinkers,
    fearless personalities, out of the box thinkers who are committed to
    making a difference in the lives of others. The Partnerships Manager should
    have unique ability to think outside the box with an angle for sustainable
    business solutions to promoting youth-led agriculture.
  • Above 30 years old or less, energetic and
    moldable
  • The applicant must be an out-of –the-box,
    self-driven, innovative thinker
  • Excel at identifying and building business
    partnerships
  • Possess highly effective communication
    skills
  • Ability to perform over and above the job
    responsibilities
  • The applicant should possess an interest
    in working to find innovative, cost-effective approaches that put youth –
    especially female youth – squarely in the agricultural sector as leaders,
    farmers, entrepreneurs and employees. We welcome candidates who have never
    considered a career in development.
How to Apply:
All candidates who are interested in building productive agribusiness
partnerships should tell tell us why by submitting a cover letter and CV
addressing the how and why to the five questions below. Only applications with
cover letters that address the five questions above will be evaluated and
considered for an interview. Dare, think, act!
  • Are you 30 years old or less, energetic
    and moldable?
  • Are you an out of the box, self-driven,
    innovative thinker?
  • Do you excel at identifying and building
    business partnerships?
  • Are you able to communicate effectively?
  • Can you perform over and above the job
    responsibilities?
The application package including three professional references should
be send to: chemonicsuyla@gmail.com
Deadline: 29th May
2017

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