Job Title: Horticulture Marketing Manager
Organisation: Technoserve
Duty Station: Fort Portal, Uganda
About Organisation:
TechnoServe (TNS) is an international non-profit international development organization founded in 1968. Its mission is to help entrepreneurial men and women break the cycle of poverty by building businesses that create jobs, income, and economic opportunities for their families, their communities, and their countries.
Job Summary: The Horticulture Marketing Manager will design and oversee inception, planning, implementation, and reporting activities to ensure smallholder horticulture farmers increase the safety and sales volumes and value of horticulture products through new and improved relationships with farmer organizations and agri-SMEs. The Horticulture Marketing Manager will supervise the Food Safety Specialist and three Associate Business Advisors, and liaise with and support the Organizational Development team to provide specific technical assistance and capacity building for post-harvest handling and marketing. They will oversee the market opportunity and agri-SME mapping process, linked to value chain selection and studies during the inception phase. They will contribute to inception phase work planning and adapting the participatory EFFORT process, as needed to address issues of marketing of horticulture products.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic leadership for Component 2, involving horticulture marketing interventions, including planning, implementation, and reporting of marketing-focused activities.
- Support farmer organizations (FOs) to deliver tailored post-harvest handling, marketing, and quality and standards control assistance
- Responsible for submission of program deliverables on time and within budget.
- Supervise program roll-out activities including developing and facilitating trainings, capacity building, tools, templates, documents and knowledge sharing to team members and consortium partners
- Build partnerships with agri-SMEs, farmer organizations, and buyers to expand value addition and sales of horticulture products produced by smallholder farmers
- Contribute to reporting requirements both within the program and other requests as needed
- Design, review, and continuously improve program implementation on the basis of feedback from program leadership as well as internal and external stakeholders
- Supervise and mentor the Food Safety Specialist and Business Advisors in delivering high-quality technical assistance.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in international development and or field(s) plus a Master’s degree, or a Bachelor’s Degree plus seven years of experience.
- Experience developing and implementing activities that increase horticulture safety and sales volumes using farmer-centric participatory approaches
- Required Languages: Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal skills, including fluency in English and the native language.
- Travel: Travel up to 10% in Uganda.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working in Uganda or Region preferred
- Experience with EKN preferred
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Analytical, writing, social and management skills required for delivering technical assistance to development programs or initiatives.
- Ability to work both persuasively and diplomatically in a team-based environment with a high degree of complexity and ambiguity.
- Ability to communicate complex issues with clarity, precision and prioritization is a must.
- Strong capacity building skills, including participatory facilitation techniques, coaching, and mentoring
- This position is contingent upon donor funding and approval.
How to Apply:
All applicants who wish to join Technoserve in this capacity should apply online at the link below.
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Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 60