The Change Management Lead will play a key role in helping programs meet impact, schedule, and budget objectives. The CML will focus on the people side of change—translating proposed and theory-based processes, resource-management habits, systems and technology, job roles, and organization structures into various human contexts. The primary focus of the CML will be creating and implementing change management plans that maximize program impact as well as minimizing any culturally-related or other harm. The CML will report to the project manager and work alongside local experts to drive sustainable farmer adoption, train long-term utilization, and foster genuine stake and investment in the changes programs propose.
Responsibilities
- Apply a structured change management approach and methodology for the people-side of program implementation and success
- Develop a change management strategy based on a situational and cultural awareness of the details of prospective changes and the stakeholders being impacted by and adopting those changes
- Identity potential people-side risks and anticipated points of resistant, and develop specific plans to mitigate or address the concerns
- Conduct readiness assessments, evaluate results and present findings in a logical and easy-to-understand manner.
- Develop a set of actionable and targeted change management plans—including communication plan, training plans, cultural adaptation, and resistance management plans
- Work with the M&E team to create and management measurement systems to track adoption, utilization, and proficiency of individual changes
- Create and enable reinforcement mechanisms and celebrations of success
- Work with the Operations Team to integrate change management activities into the overall project plan
Qualifications
KI is a start-up NGO operating in Uganda, a country with significant challenges, changes, and opportunities to be expected across the course of time. The Project Manager should be capable of responding to this environment with aplomb. In order to do so it is expected that the Project Manager:
- Christian faith as defined by the Nicene and Apostle’s Creeds.
- High capacity to work cross culturally
- Interest in development; Ugandan, East African, and/or African agribusiness development experience a significant plus
- An understanding of and interest in how people go through a change and the change process
- Familiarity with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle
- Exceptional communication skills – both written and verbal
- Excellent active listening skills
- Problem solving and root cause identification skills
- Strong analytic and decision making abilities
- Must be a team player and able to work with and through others
- Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal.
- Experience with large-scale organizational change effort.
- Previous change management experience is a plus.
- Bachelor's degree
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Main Project Details: Maize Value Chain Transformation
Pursuing a unique vision of sustainable development, KI will continue to focus on providing the strategic planning and financing necessary to sustainably transform disenfranchised Ugandan communities in and through agriculture. From February to December 2012, Kýklou has embarked on extensive research into agricultural commodity value chains from which to develop a project-based plan to expand agribusiness empowerment efforts in Uganda. The program’s goal will be to empower small-scale farmers to overcome systemic challenges along the value chain and access higher value markets to raise incomes and promote human flourishing.
Specific items of research include:
- Low crop production yields
- Inter/Extra-value chain access to financial services
- Macroeconomic causes and potential macroeconomics solutions to maize market disequilibria(i.e. Potential for a commodities exchange platform)
- Post-harvest handling techniques
- Value adding logistics, processing, and distribution scheme
The Project Manager will manage this initiative beginning with a Pilot around January 2013. Possible projects for the organization’s next step include:
- Partnering with a cooperative to build an integrated supply network by providing capital and strategy to empower quality driven post harvest handling and high value market differentiation.
- Training small holders to leverage information provided by partner firms delivering market information services
- Partnering with local commodity exchange to develop a strategic plan for a futures market
- Partnering with an individual or corporation to build an agribusiness training center
Please submit cover letters, resumes, and inquiries to info@kyklou.org by June 5, 2012
Location: Kampala, Uganda, not New Jersey
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