Manager, SUN Business Network (SBN) and Private Sector PartnershipsExpiring Soon!

• Lead delivery of the SUN Business Network workplan across Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, including convening and growing the network of member businesses
• Broker private-private and public-private partnerships that strengthen nutrition-sensitive food systems
• Provide technical and project management oversight for the Leveraging Nutrition for Food Systems programme, ensuring delivery on time and on budget
• Build and manage relationships with companies, government counterparts, donors and civil society partners
• Support businesses to adopt and deliver nutrition commitments, including through accountability mechanisms
• Manage future staff recruited into the team in line with GAIN policies, and coach and mentor project team members
• Ensure monthly project reporting in line with GAIN’s Project Management Standards, covering progress, program plans, changes in direction and challenges
• Support the project procurement process by identifying, selecting and managing suppliers in line with ethical procurement standards
• Travel approximately 30% of the time within the region

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in agribusiness, business, economics, international development, food systems or a related field; a postgraduate qualification is useful but not mandatory
• Strong experience in private sector development in food systems, including in low- and middle-income countries
• Proven experience in project management in complex and diverse environments, delivering projects on time and on budget
• Proven ability in donor contracting and budget management

Skills & Competencies:

• Proven experience brokering private-private and private-public partnerships
• Proven ability to use group facilitation to ensure effective stakeholder participation and consensus building
• Excellent project management capabilities
• Strong interpersonal, influencing, communication, diplomacy, tact and negotiation skills
• Ability to build relationships and turn broad strategy into practical activities for country teams
• Understanding of gender and protection dynamics in development contexts
• Computer literacy (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint) and English proficiency
• Must have the existing legal right to live and work in Kenya, Uganda or Rwanda (no visa sponsorship or relocation provided)