Uganda: Market Manager

Market Manager

Kampala, Uganda

Palladium develops and delivers solutions that create positive impact for communities, businesses, societies and economies. We transform lives and create enduring value by working with governments, corporations and non-profit organisations. Palladium is built on the idea that progress will be supported by four key pillars:

· International Development

· Strategy Execution Consulting

· Impact Investment

· Training and Events

We create positive impact through more than 100 current projects with more than 2000 employees operating in over 90 countries.

Background

NU-TEC is a five year DFID-funded programme that aims to increase the incomes and climate resilience of poor men and women in northern Uganda 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.

Primary Responsibilities

· 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

· 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

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

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

· Identify and establish 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 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.

· Oversee spending on interventions within the market ensuring the meet agreed standards and also exhibit the DFID value for money policy

Essential Education and Experience Required:

· A Master’s degree or similar qualification in Business, Economics or Development Studies;

· A minimum of 3 years’ experience in implementing and managing projects with at least one year spent on the field on market research community projects;

· At least 2 years’ experience leading a busy team and coordinating across teams;

· Experience in business strategy development with focus on agricultural value chain analysis

· Experience reviewing and writing reports

· 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.

· 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

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