Western Kenya Market Systems Manager, Kenya Crop and Dairy Market Systems Development Activity at RTI International

Responsibilities:

• Support initial value chain assessment and strategy development
• Develop and maintain relationships with national and county level public and private sector stakeholders in agriculture sectors
• Facilitate dialogue between county governments and private agribusinesses
• Develop, adapt, and oversee implementation of governance self-assessment and participatory tools
• Build capacity of county governments to make productive investments in agriculture; Provide ongoing support to government counterparts to implement action plans and evaluate investments
• Train local partners as service providers for the public sector
• Lead interventions to improve accountability of public sector agricultural service delivery

Minimum Qualifications:

· Master’s degree in public administration, economics, business, agricultural or rural development and at least 9 years of experience in agricultural policy or market systems projects;

· Experience in economic growth, agricultural development, or governance programs is required.

· Demonstrated understanding of private sector agribusiness and investment; Knowledge of market facilitation approach is preferred.

· Demonstrated success building relationships with Kenyan government and private sector stakeholders.

· Knowledge of global best practices for local governance and accountability.

· Experience with organizational capacity assessments and institutional capacity strengthening.

· Experience in Kenya is required.

· Ability to build consensus and demonstrated ability to recruit and develop high performing teams; demonstrated ability to manage international and national staff.

· Experience and demonstrated capacity to build and sustain partnerships to achieve development results.

· Excellent oral and written skills in English. Fluency in Kiswahili preferred.

· Demonstrated ability to be collaborative across projects, flexible and creative.

· Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.