Avsi Foundation Jobs in Uganda : Business Development Specialist

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AVSI Foundation is an international not-for-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in Italy in 1972. Its mission is to promote the dignity of the person through development cooperation activities, with special attention to education, according to the social teaching of the Catholic Church. AVSI has been present in Uganda since 1984, first supporting hospitals and agriculture projects in Gulu and Kitgum districts, and later expanding around 1990 to establish the present-day headquarters in Kampala, offices in Pader, Gulu and Kitgum, and project activities in 12 other districts.

Job Summary: The Business Development Specialist will be responsible for implementation of all the BDS activities in Central Uganda and shall carry out the following duties and responsibilities.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide training and coaching to youths on agro-enterprise development and building employability skills;


• Provide training and support to youths in planning and developing micro-enterprises and employability skills


• Mentoring and coaching of youths, agro-institutions, learning firms and other agribusinesses;


• Engage in collecting and promoting information resources on employability and entrepreneurship of youths;


• Support fundraising efforts of AVSI foundation;


• Training, mentoring youth in accessing skilled trade and employment


• Support/strengthen learning firms, agribusinesses and agro institution for better management as required by the project objectives;


• Develop of youth agribusiness models (including financial model and market channels) for facilitation of youth agribusiness and agro-institution growth;


• Development and ensuring smooth delivery of youth agribusiness development support services package to youths;


• Designing the set of indicators and monitoring system for assessment of sustainability of youth agribusinesses;


• Designing of a set of indicators for monitoring and assessment of quality of the BDS services and their regular monitoring.


• Support youths in developing agribusiness development plans across the regions (East/Central/West Uganda) as requested;


• Provide technical support to learning firms in the skills provision;


• Support in the identification of leaning firms and manage the relationships with the learning firms as required by the organisation;


• Provide support in quality control of project activities, including assessing impact and effectiveness, tracking outputs and results, and ensure timely and efficient delivery of project through a client- satisfaction approach;


• Proactively engage in strategic thinking on how to make the program succeed.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The applicant must hold a Degree in Agribusiness, Economics, Marketing, Small Business Management or related field and experience working in an entrepreneurial environment or as owner/manager of a small business


• Eight years of professional experience in agribusiness, and/or value chain and market access related consultancy, and/or analysis/research of agribusiness and/or regional socio-economic development projects;


• Experience in working with public sector, private sector and donor organizations on institutional development or similar projects will be an asset;


• Experience in monitoring and evaluation of performance of business units and/or regional/local or community socio-economic development projects is desirable.


• Experience in training, teaching or mentoring role


• Experience in marketing, market research and management


• Resourcefulness, strategic thinking, creative problem solving and basic financial management skills.


• Highest standards of integrity, discretion and loyalty.


• Shares knowledge and experience;


• Actively works towards continuing personal learning, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills.


• Ability to perform a variety of specialized tasks related to Results Management, including support to design, planning and implementation of program, managing data, reporting;


• Focuses on result for the client and responses positively to feedback.


• Proven ability to follow through on objectives and produce timely results with little supervision


• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written


• Experience of work in farming zones, social entrepreneurship, small business and/or private sector engagement.


• Experience in innovative product development


• Knowledge or experience in value chain development

All suitably qualified candidates should send their application letters, accompanied with updated Curriculum Vitae indicating three professional referees and copies of relevant certificates via e-mail with the subject line indicating ‘APPLICATION FOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST – KAMPALA’ addressed to:

The AVSI Country Representative,

AVSI Foundation,

P.O. Box 6785, Kampala, Uganda.

E-mail to: [email protected]

Deadline: 4^th January 2019

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