Chemonics seeks a fund manager for the anticipated five-year, DFID-funded East and Southern Africa Staple Food Markets Program based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The program aims to improve the functionality of national and regional staple food market systems and increase regional trade in foods to benefit male and female farmers, particularly poor farmers in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, and Malawi. It will include a six-month inception phase, followed by a 4.5-year implementation phase. We are looking for individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people around the world.
Responsibilities include:
- Oversee the development of Challenge Fund (CF) policies, systems, documentation, and procedures that include finalizing the appropriate eligibility criteria at the inception stage
- Track the degree to which program objectives can be achieved through the CF and develop a portfolio of investments within selected regional value chains by the end of the program's inception period phase
- Manage and monitor grants issued through the CF, including progress in achieving outputs
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree required; master's degree in business, agribusiness, economics, or related subject preferred
- Demonstrated understanding of private sector-driven market facilitation mechanisms and the use of challenge funds/grants to influence systemic change in market systems required
- Strong understanding required of the risks and challenges the private sector faces, including financial institutions, in investing in underdeveloped market systems and the incentives needed to pursue innovations
- Experience working with staple food system stakeholders in Eastern and Southern Africa required
- Demonstrated knowledge of challenge funds/development funds/grants policies, systems, procedures, cost structures, accounting and financial tracking and reporting, and grantee management programs strongly preferred
- Demonstrated experience in monitoring and evaluating impact of grants program to inform overall program initiatives and direction preferred
- Strong financial management skills including analytical and decision-making skills required
- Ability to write and verbally communicate clearly and concisely
- Strong presentation skills
- Strong supervisory management skills, interpersonal skills, and ability to work both independently and in a team
- Demonstrated leadership, versatility, integrity, management, and organizational skills required
- Ability to travel throughout the Eastern and Southern Africa region required
- English fluency required
How to apply:
Application Instructions:
Send electronic submissions to ESAstaplefoods@chemonics.com by December 17, 2012. Please include the name of the position “Fund Manager” in the subject line. No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted.
In addition, please download and complete Chemonics’ equal employment opportunity self-identification form and submit it separately to EEOselfidentify@chemonics.com with only ESA Staple Foods- Fund Manager” in the subject line. If you prefer not to disclose your sex, race, or ethnicity, you may check “I do not wish to complete the information requested.” Thank you for completing the form and supporting our equal employment opportunity reporting requirements.
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