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Job Title:   Intervention Area Manager   

Organisation: Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI)

Funding Source: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Duty Station:  Uganda

Reports to: Deputy Chief of Party

About US:

Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) is a private development company based in Bethesda, Maryland, US with additional corporate offices in London and Hemel Hempstead in the United Kingdom. We tackle fundamental social and economic development problems caused by inefficient markets, ineffective governance, and instability. We work with a wide range of clients, including national and local governments, bilateral and multilateral donors, private corporations, and philanthropies.

Job Summary:  The Intervention Area Manager will support FtF IAM to expand its work in these resilience zones and support these communities transition from humanitarian assistance to market- responsive development. The Intervention Area Manager will manage a team of Partnership Intervention Managers (PIMs) and provide senior technical leadership to ensure FtF IAM applies a successful market systems development approach to its interventions. The Intervention Area Manager will be responsible for a portfolio of partnerships in the Activity’s Resilience Zones, including agri input suppliers, processors, distributors, member-based organizations (MBOs), GoU, and other private business services providers.

The position is a senior management role and reports to the Deputy Chief of Party.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide senior technical leadership in interventions in resilience zones of Karamoja, Lamwo/Palabek, Isingiro/Nakivale, and Kamwenge/Rwamwanja; develop interventions and partnerships that enable the Activity to achieve its objectives and results by applying a facilitative market systems development approach that considers commercial viability, capacities and behavior changes needed to create transformative change in the wider agricultural market system.
• Build linkages, broker deals, and provide tailored technical assistance focused on attracting businesses to enter marginalized communities and building local partner (private, NGO, donor, GoU) in market system development, focused on growing businesses in an inclusive manner; partnership include but are not limited to processors, traders, financial services, and business development services (BDS) providers, focusing on growing their businesses in an inclusive manner.
• Supervise a team of PIMs, overseeing the development of partnership strategies, negotiation of pay-for-results partnerships, development of technical assistance packages and monitoring of learning and adaptation arising from these interventions; provide ongoing mentorship and technical guidance to the team.
• Ensure quality control of partnership agreements and deliverables, monitoring and learning, reporting and planning documents.
• Monitor the implementation in collaboration with the FtF IAM monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) team to facilitate collection of data, analysis and learning; contribute to learning briefs and monitoring report; facilitate events and present lessons from FtF IAM.
• Support collaboration and learning platforms that advance applications of MSD principles in resilience areas, moving away from humanitarian assistance to development and addressing core underlying challenges in the donor community related to in-kind inputs, other handouts, sustainability of donor/NGO extension and other support services, mindset change, etc.
• Perform any other duties assigned by the Deputy Chief of Party.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a Master’s degree in a relevant field of study, such as rural and agricultural development, agricultural economics, agribusiness and/or business development, business administration OR a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of study with at least 5 years of development experience relevant to the SOW.
• At least seven years of experience with market systems development and/or private sector led agricultural development activities; experience in Karamoja preferred; demonstrated understanding of market systems development approaches and principles of facilitative development.
• Strong knowledge of Uganda’s agricultural market systems, constraints and opportunities to growth; experience in the private sector or building/managing investments or relationships with private sector and donor/implementing partners.
• Minimum of three years’ experience managing a team.
• Excellent communication, computer skills, and analytical skills; strong writing skills required.
• Experience working with international donor agencies; experience with USAID management and administrative requirements preferred.
• Ugandan candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

NB:

• DAI is requiring all staff to be vaccinated for COVID-19 if they wish to access DAI offices; participate in in-person meetings with staff, customers, or stakeholders; or travel on DAI business.
• The above position is contingent upon additional funding

How to Apply:

All candidates should send an updated CV and letter of interest to IAMrecruitment@dai.com with “Intervention Area Manager” in the subject line. Only short-listed candidates will be notified. No phone inquiries, please.

Deadline: 27^th February 2022

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