Farm Africa Country Director, Tanzania and Uganda

Location: Dar es Salaam with significant national travel and some international travel

Salary: Highly competitive

Farm Africa is a different kind of charity, working to end hunger and bring prosperity to rural Africa. 2012 saw the launch of our new strategy and we are extremely proud of the successes of the past year. The impact that we are making with our long-term sustainable, community-led projects in sub-Saharan Africa is enabling communities to significantly improve their livelihoods. Seeing these successes and the impact we are having makes us very excited about our new strategy and our ambition to more than double our impact by 2015.

As part of our new strategy we have opened a new office in Dar es Salaam to manage our programmes in Tanzania and Uganda. After a very successful period both of start-up leadership in Dar es Salaam and interim leadership in Nairobi, we are now looking for new country directors to lead our work in Kenya and in Tanzania and Uganda.

Country directors are responsible for the delivery of Farm Africa’s strategy in-country; managing all operational aspects of the country programme, including relationships with multiple partners and being responsible for programmatic income. We seek skilled senior managers who have the ability to build the capacity of staff to achieve Farm Africa’s strategic objectives; whilst proactively managing relationships with external stakeholders, including institutional donors, governments, civil society partners and the private sector.

We are looking two people with the ability to drive and prioritise innovative engagement with the private sector and other stakeholders in the agricultural sector along with a proven track record of providing broader input into the leadership, contributing to the overall strategy and Farm Africa’s future growth.

You will have a successful track record of working within the NGO sector and a strong understanding of donor environments, working closely with communities, government and the private sector. You will have lived and worked in sub-Saharan Africa, have excellent hands-on programme, financial, strategic and human resource management experience. Exceptional multi-tasking, networking, relationship-building and financial management skills are pre-requisites.

How to apply:

If you are interested in this role and would like to apply please visit http://www.farmafrica.org/jobs/jobs