Career Opportunities at RTI International

Responsibilities:

• Participate as part of the project’s senior management team; Ensure data are used to inform management decisions
• Lead the development and implementation of the learning agenda for the project, with the aim of both disseminating learning and leveraging learning to improve programming.
• Ensure incorporation of cross-cutting themes across all project activities
• Lead internal learning sessions; Document project success stories and lessons learned
• Lead external learning; ensure communication of project learning to USAID, other projects and stakeholders; Oversee project communications activities.
• Oversee development and management of project performance monitoring and evaluation plan, including development of indicators and database

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.

· Experience in USAID project monitoring and evaluation

· Experience conducting research related to agricultural development

· Proven ability to manage using USAID’s “collaborating, learning, and adapting” approach

· Demonstrated ability to build relationships and facilitate collaborative learning

· Experience in Kenya is required.

· 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.

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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.