Team Lead for the anticipated 5-year DFID-funded East and Southern Africa Staple Food Markets Programme

Agribusiness Systems International (ASI) is a specialized international development agency based in Washington, D.C., that works to create increasingly competitive and socially inclusive industries throughout the world. As an affiliate of ACDI/VOCA, ASI draws from 49 years of experience expanding economic opportunities in 145 developing and transitional nations. ASI combines expertise and technical capacity to work with partners across both public and private sectors to promote and reinforce our development mission of empowering people to succeed in a market-driven global economy.

Team Lead, East and Southern Africa

ASI seeks a Team Lead for the anticipated 5-year DFID-funded East and Southern Africa Staple Food Markets Programme. The overall goal of this programme to improve functioning of national and regional staple food market systems, increase regional trade in food, and contribute to benefiting over 375,000 male and female farmers. Beneficiaries will be primarily poor farmers in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique and Malawi. This position is contingent upon ASI being awarded a contract.

Skills: • Experience in agriculture and agribusiness in East and Southern Africa • Demonstrated experience in: markets for inputs, markets for services, food storage and collateral management, supply chain coordination, monitoring and evaluation • Ability to engage with central government and policymakers on high-level issues • Deep understanding of gender equity issues and promoting women’s entrepreneurship/employment • Excellent skills in managing donor relationships • Leadership of transformative programmes that take a systems approach to private sector development • Successful delivery of Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) programmes

Qualifications: • Advanced degree in management, international development or a related field required • Minimum 10 years of professional experience in development required • Minimum 5 years of project management experience, managing complex activities involving coordination with multiple program stakeholders • Excellent knowledge and understanding of the East and Southern African economy • Experience liaising with and working through developing country governments at different tiers of administration (federal/regional/local) • Thorough understanding of and experience leading development programmes that use the M4P approach • Experience managing DFID contracts and knowledge of its approach to value for money

Please apply online at http://acdivoca.maxhire.net/cp/?E55464361D43515B7E59192F7756196804627B4D

No phone calls please. Only finalists contacted. Women and minorities encouraged to apply. EOE

How to apply: 

Please apply online at http://acdivoca.maxhire.net/cp/?E55464361D43515B7E59192F7756196804627B4D

No phone calls please. Only finalists contacted. Women and minorities encouraged to apply. EOE