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Job Title ⇒ Business Sustainability and Upgrading Manager BSUM
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Organisation ⇒ TechnoServe
Duty Station ⇒ Kampala, Uganda
Reports to ⇒ VINES Chief of Party additional TechnoServe Country
Director
Travel ⇒ Remote rural locations
About US ⇒
TechnoServe is a leader in harnessing the power of the private sector to help
people lift themselves out of poverty. A nonprofit organization operating in
29 countries, we work with enterprising men and women in the developing world
to build competitive farms, businesses, and industries. By linking people to
information, capital, and markets, we have helped millions to create lasting
prosperity for their families and communities. Founded over 50 years ago,
TechnoServe has been named the #1 nonprofit for fighting poverty by the
ImpactMatters charity ratings agency.
About VINES Program
TechnoServe, CRS and Frontier Co-op are implementing VINES, a five year, $13
million, USDA Food for Progress program that will make Uganda the world's next
leading supplier of high-quality vanilla. Led by CRS, VINES will leverage the
expertise of CRS and its world class consortium of partners including
TechnoServe, associated experts and leading international buyers to provide
technical assistance to enhance the production of safe, clean, pure vanilla,
develop market links with US trade networks, and strengthen an enabling public
policy network to reduce vanilla theft to transform the lives of 16,200
farmers, 356 self-employed service and input providers, 480 processors'
employees; and generating 15,820 new on-farm seasonal and permanent processing
jobs to reach 32,856 vanilla stakeholders. In turn, this will provide
international buyers with a new origin that will stabilize the extreme price
volatility for this unique spice.
Within the consortium, TechnoServe will lead in market analysis, business
planning, farmer business capacity building, agripreneur and youth training,
input supply and business relationship management.
Job Summary ⇒ As the manager and lead of TechnoServe's contribution to the
VINES consortium, the Business Sustainability and Upgrading Manager BSUM
will oversee a team of 7 and be responsible for achieving activities and
results under TechnoServe's scope of work.

Key Duties and Responsibilities ⇒
Principal Responsibilities
⇗ Develop strategy for and oversee team focused on business viability,
providing strategic advisory support as needed
⇗ Provide business advisory and professionalization support to VANEX
⇗ Ensure an inclusive approach following TechnoServe principles, including
equitable benefits for women and men from the program
⇗ Oversee training and support of fee for service agents providing farmer
training
⇗ Recruitment and support to Microenterprise Specialist, ME Counsellors
delivering micro-entrepreneurship training to 720 micro-entrepreneurs
⇗ Recruitment and support to Business Sustainability and Upgrading
Specialists delivering sector-wide trainings and custom advisory to processors
and capacity building of Producer Organizations POs
⇗ Conduct local, regional and international market analysis for potential
agroforestry system crops to support the strategies for POs
⇗ Support a TechnoServe Fellow to complete an Industry Strategic Plan for the
Vanilla sector
Capacity Building of Agricultural Extension Services
⇗ Adapt existing curriculum to targeted groups
⇗ Develop and execute Training of Trainers for processor-supervised extension
agents and support the establishment of a viable fee-for-service business
model
⇗ Coach and support extension agents to train commercial farmers
⇗ Develop Agro dealers and input suppliers
⇗ Lead team to deliver training to including input suppliers, soil testing
services, nurseries, and other youth employment opportunity activities
⇗ Capacity building of post-harvest handling and processing
⇗ In coordination with Business Sustainability and Upgrading Specialists,
lead
⇗ managerial capacity building of producer organizations, including five-year
business plans
⇗ Improved member relations and services of producer organizations
⇗ managerial capacity building of processors
⇗ improve processor capacity in curing and storing
Facilitate Market linkages and Agricultural Finance
⇗ provide sector wide trainings in market analysis, profitability analysis,
value proposition design and testing, business planning, financial record
preparation, and general support in how to prepare a supply chain upgrading
plan
⇗ Provide pre-investment support and advisory to processors and other supply
chain businesses
⇗ Identify and deliver technical and financial training and BDS support that
required to complement any commercial finance for the partners' co-investment
⇗ Lead relationship development with commercial finance providers to leverage
additional finance
⇗ provide business advisory and professionalization support to VANEX
Program Coordination and Implementation
⇗ Prepare narrative reports to prime and contribute to CRS and TechnoServe
M&E reporting
⇗ Coordinate with members of the VINES consortium and maintain good working
relationships
⇗ Maintain strong working relationships with partners and relevant
stakeholders in the agribusiness investment space
⇗ Actively participate in regular team meetings to track implementation
progress and share relevant program and administrative data
⇗ Ensure the delivery of technical training packages is of high quality, is
appropriate to the local context and is effectively reaching participants
⇗ Share best practices and lessons learned with team members

Qualifications, Skills and Experience ⇒
Required Skills, Knowledge, Experience and Abilities
⇗ Degree qualifications in business-related studies required
⇗ Track record of building strong client and stakeholder relationships
⇗ Strong project management and some financial analysis skills
⇗ Minimum of five years' field and technical experience with agribusiness
development, agribusiness experience in Uganda is required
⇗ Experience working with food aggregation and processing, supply chain
development, out-grower networks, and knowledge of Market Systems Development
approach preferred
⇗ Excellent interpersonal and oral and written communication skills a must
⇗ Ability to develop well-written, cohesive analyses and reports
⇗ Ability to generate innovative solutions in work situations
⇗ Proven ability and experience working with teams will be an added advantage
⇗ Fluency in English required
Competency is a combination of knowledge, skills and abilities KSAs
directly related to successful performance on the job.
Core Competencies include
⇗ Integrity and honesty Is widely trusted; seen as a direct, truthful
individual; presents truthful information in an appropriate and helpful
manner; keeps confidences; admits mistakes; does not misrepresent himself or
herself for personal gain.
⇗ Team Work/ Relationships Works co-operatively and flexibly with other
members of the team with a full understanding of the role to be played as a
team member and/or leader, to achieve a common goal. Ability to build and
maintain effective relationships and networks.
⇗ Learning attitude Proactively takes advantage of opportunities to learn.
Actively identifies new areas for learning; applies and shares new knowledge
and skill appropriately.
⇗ Diversity/Inclusiveness Demonstrates an understanding and appreciation for
diversity and supports diversity efforts. Interacts effectively with and
inclusively with people of all races, cultures, ethnicities, backgrounds,
religions, ages, and genders.
⇗ Communication Expresses ideas effectively in individual and group
situations. Listens effectively; shares information, ideas and arguments;
adjusts terminology, language and communication modes to the needs of the
audience; ensures accurate understanding; acts in a way that facilitates open
exchange of ideas and information; uses appropriate non-verbal communication.
⇗ Decision making/Problem Solving Is able to analyse situations, diagnose
problems, identify the key issues, establish and evaluate alternative courses
of action and produce a logical, practical and acceptable solution. Is able to
make effective decisions on a day-to-day basis, taking ownership of decisions,
demonstrating sound judgement in escalating issues where necessary.
⇗ Results Oriented/ High Quality Deliverables Stays focused on the efforts
necessary to achieve quality results consistent with programmatic or
departmental goals. Demonstrates the ability to achieve effective results;
works persistently to overcome obstacles to goal achievement. Accomplishes
tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small; showing concern
for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks.
⇗ Planning & Time Management Establishes a course of action for self and/or
others to accomplish a specific goal. Effectively plans, schedules,
prioritizes and controls activities; identifies, integrates and orchestrates
resources people, material, information, budget, and/or time to accomplish
goals. Prioritizes work according to the program or department's goals, not
just own job responsibilities; manages own time effectively.
⇗ Business Acumen The ability to use information, ask the right questions
and take decisions that make an impact on the overall business performance.

Job Specific/Technical Competencies include
⇗ Financial & 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.
⇗ 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.
⇗ Analysis, Research, Report Writing Experience in business planning and
analysis, modeling for feasibility and execution. Able to analyze and express
oneself clearly in business writing.
⇗ Innovative Mindset Curious inquiries, asks questions and seeks out
information from multiple sources, learns from mistakes, sees change as an
opportunity.
⇗ Managerial Competencies
⇗ Emotional Intelligence The act of knowing, understanding, and responding
to emotions, overcoming stress in the moment, and being aware of how your
words and actions affect others. Emotional intelligence consists of 4
attributes self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and
relationship management.
⇗ Strategic Thinking Managers should recognize key actions, underlying
problems, make connection and patterns, see consequences and implications.
Anticipates obstacles realistically and plans ways to deal with them.
⇗ Staff Development managers are required to work with employees to plan on
the development of skills and abilities so that they can fulfil current or
future job/role responsibilities more effectively.
⇗ Trust to Delegate managers should have trust and willingness to assign
responsibilities to direct reports and give them discretion and authority to
carry them out.
⇗ Feedback/Coaching mentoring managers should give instructions,
suggestions, explanations, and feedback to subordinates. SPI+R

Career Pathways ⇒ The position that may be a next career opportunity for
employees in this job title include Program Manager
How to Apply ⇒
If you are interested and you meet the requirements, apply through the link
below;
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NB Please submit a resume, cover letter and three professional references.
Please note that only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted.
Deadline 14 th March 2021

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