Job Title: Partnerships Manager
Organisation: Elucid Social
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
Elucid Social are health experts and entrepreneurs transforming global supply chains by improving the health and livelihoods of producers and workers and providing verified data for sustainable impact.
Job Summary: You are key to driving Elucid’s success at the country level by developing local partnerships, managing client relationships, and raising Elucid’s visibility on the ground. This role sits within the national team, working under the guidance of the Country Director and in close collaboration with the Global Partnerships and Communications teams in Berlin.
Your role bridges partnership development, program sustainability, and in-country communications — ensuring that Elucid’s health programs are locally anchored, commercially viable, and visible to the stakeholders who matter. You will turn partner insights into action and help shape Elucid’s growing presence in-country.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Local Partnerships Development (45%)
- Builds and grows partnerships with cooperatives, suppliers, government actors, and local offices of global supply chain companies in the coffee, cotton, cocoa and other tradable commodities.
- Drives the local sales cycle — mapping potential clients, pitching Elucid’s offer, and managing opportunities from first contact to signed agreement
- Represents Elucid at local conferences, forums, and stakeholder events, showcasing Elucid’s work, building the brand and generating leads
Program Sustainability & Growth (40%)
- Supports the development of scalable financing models, including cooperative-based payment and sustainability premium mechanisms
- Engages cooperatives and local partners in long-term co-financing conversations, building trust and driving adoption
- Supports developing funding proposals with local impact data, evidence, and context
- Communications & Content (15%)
- Manages the flow of content from the field to the Global Communications Team — photos, videos, testimonials, and project updates, ensuring proper storage and accessibility
- Identifies relevant stories, insights, and data points from field activities and communicates to Global Comms
- Coordinates in-country content production (including logistics, access, and planning) in alignment with global communication priorities and guides partners and field teams on content capture to ensure relevance, quality, and usability
- Supports the development of local branding and awareness materials, and helps drive local visibility through coordination with partners, events, and local media in alignment with the Global Communications Team
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- We are looking for someone with 5–7 years of professional experience, ideally including work with cooperatives, farmer organisations, Processors and Exporters of or sustainability programmes in agricultural value chains.
- You know how to build genuine rapport with local
- partners and navigate the dynamics of corporate sustainability teams.
- Comfortable taking ownership and operating independently in a fast-moving environment.
- In detail, we are looking for someone who is:
- A relationship builder and communicator
- You build trust quickly with diverse stakeholders — cooperatives, local companies, government agencies, and international partners.
- You communicate clearly, whether in client discussions, at events, or in written proposals.
- Commercially aware and well organised
- You are comfortable developing a pipeline of prospective partners, managing multiple relationships in parallel, and following through on commitments. You spot opportunities and turn them into action.
- A connector between local and global
- You understand the local delivery context and can translate it for global stakeholders.
- You flag opportunities, risks, and learnings proactively and enjoy working across cultures and time zones.
- Self-directed and impact-driven
- You take initiative, manage your own workload, and care about scaling meaningful solutions. You don’t wait to be told, you see what needs doing and make it happen.
- Fluency in English is required; proficiency in a local language, French, or Spanish is a strong asset.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and Interested applicants should apply online at the link below.
NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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Level of Education: bachelor degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 60