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• Supervise, develop, and enable a team of four Business Development
  Services Coordinators; and a variety of short-term technical advisors to
  achieve the program’s results
• Oversee and ensure the effective and efficient use of various
  diagnostic tools to evaluate producers’ organizations on a regular and
  recurring basis
• Oversee and provide guidance to BDS coordinators on mapping and
  producer organizations assessment techniques
• Manage the identification of BDS providers, oversee the development
  of business cases, and facilitating linkages to producer organizations
• Ensure that the appropriate BDS services are provided to
  participating POs
• Manage effective relationships with BDS service providers
• Organize business review meetings with producer organizations to
  share lessons and evaluate progress against business plan milestones.

• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with other
  implementing partners on the USAID funded Feed the Future project
• Manage effective relationships with private sector partners along
  the relevant value chains (maize, beans, and coffee), including but not
  limited to buyers, banks, and  input
  providers
• Manage the identification of private sector partners, overseeing the
  development of business cases to present to private sector partners as
  needed
• Facilitate linkages between market participants and POs, and support
  negotiation processes to foster the establishment and strengthening of
  mutually beneficial commercial relationships

• The ideal candidate for the TechnoServe (TNS) Agribusiness
  Specialist job opportunity should preferably hold a Bachelor’s degree
  in agribusiness management, agricultural economics, or other relevant
  field
• Five years of experience in program management, agribusiness or
  agricultural development activities
• Demonstrated experience supporting producer organizations to access
  agricultural inputs, advisory and business development services, and
  output markets; increase their production and marketing efficiencies; and
  enhance product competitiveness.
• Excellent track record of achieving results in private sector-led
  development activities, preferably in agriculture.
• Demonstrated understanding of agricultural value chains (beans,
  maize, and coffee preferred)
• Knowledge of gender and youth integration approaches relevant to
  producer organizations
• Experience using information and communication technology to
  facilitate business transactions and service delivery
• Demonstrated high-level technical, analytical, interpersonal skills
  and ability to meet tight deadlines with logical analyses and clear
  presentation.
• Proficiency in MS Outlook, MS Word and other Microsoft Office
  programs  as well as common internet
  applications
• Fluency in written and spoken English required
• Ability to travel to remote rural locations in Uganda.
• Prior experience applying market systems and facilitative approaches
• Strong focus on results
• Ability to travel up to 50% of time.
• Experience working in producer organizations in Uganda
• Prior and proven experience successfully implementing USAID funded
  programs
• Fluent in written and spoken English; fluency in local Ugandan
  language(s) is an added
• advantage

• 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 other’s 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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