Market Manager Job Opportunity - Swisscontact Uganda

Organization: Swisscontact Uganda

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Swisscontact

is the business-oriented independent foundation for international development

cooperation.  Represented in 32 countries

with over 900 employees, it promotes – since 1959 – economic, social and environmental

development. In Uganda, Swisscontact Uganda implements a programme in Northern

Uganda. The aims of the programme is to increase the incomes and climate

resilience of poor men and women in northern Uganda (NU) by (a) stimulating

sustainable, pro-poor growth in selected agricultural markets and (b) improving

the position of poor men and women within these market systems, to make them

more inclusive for poor people.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• The jobholder will provide overall strategic
  
  direction for the market sector and all interventions within the sector;
  
  monitoring and quality assuring all intervention guides and resulting
  
  outputs Identify new markets with the aim of contributing to the overall
  
  programme strategy; liaise with programme senior management team on
  
  potential markets and design effective implementation strategies for
  
  approved market interventions ensuring that they meet all donor and
  
  programme requirements


• Drive the stakeholder analysis of the
  
  selected market systems as well as identifying and contacting potential
  
  agents of change.


• Initiate and manage all market related value
  
  chain analysis ensuring study designs, contracting and implementation are
  
  done in accordance to set standards; coordinate the development of final
  
  market opportunity reports as well as all other weekly, monthly, quarterly
  
  and annual reports within the market sector


• Manage the implementation of all market
  
  intervention ensuring that initiative is taken within each intervention
  
  and setting work plans for the interventions


• Build and strengthen strategic partnerships
  
  within the market and play a lead role in managing all established
  
  partnerships. Ensure sustained reporting on all intervention activities,
  
  progress reports, on and off field feedback and lessons learnt from each
  
  intervention.


• Identify key policy areas for each intervention
  
  and establish appropriate partnerships and contacts aimed at driving the
  
  policy amendment process where applicable.


• Coordinate all administrative aspects of market
  
  partnerships including but not limited to grants, MoUs and contracts


• Manage the outputs of all members of the
  
  market section team


• In charge of ensuring optimum performance of
  
  all members of the team


• Establish and maintain processes and systems
  
  which ensure strong continued linkages between the programme’s Results
  
  Measurement team and the Market Section team ensuring all interventions
  
  are adequately and extensively researched, reported and monitored.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The ideal candidate should hold a Master’s
  
  degree or similar qualification in Business. Economics or Development
  
  Studies;


• At least three years’ experience in
  
  implementing and managing projects with at least one year spent on the
  
  field on market research community projects;


• Two years’ experience leading a busy team and
  
  coordinating across teams;


• Previous exposure and experience in business
  
  strategy development with focus on agricultural value chain analysis


• Previous experience reviewing and writing
  
  reports


• Prior experience in the development of
  
  surveys and data collection instruments for monitoring programmes;


• Previous data analysis experience using
  
  Microsoft Excel or any other data analysis tool;


• Previous experience using the market for the
  
  poor (M4P) approach would be of great advantage.


• Working knowledge of the institutions and
  
  organizations and/or businesses that provide services to the agricultural
  
  sector in Nigeria and at the State level;


• Previous supervisory/ managerial
  
  responsibilities within a busy team

All

suitably qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to send their

applications and updated CVs to the address below:

Country

Director Swisscontact Uganda,

Swiss

Fondation for Technical Cooperation,

P.O.

Box 21153, Kampala. Uganda

Plot

19/20 Off Martyr’s Way Ntinda, Kampala. Uganda

E-mail to: tania.haidara@swisscontact.om