Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC)
is a regional membership based organization with a mandate covering ten
counties in Eastern Africa.
The regional headquarter is in Kenya
with country offices in Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan and
Burundi.
EAGC mission is “To advocate for an
enabling environment and promote structured grain trade for optimum stakeholder
benefits”.
Country Program Officer – Malawi
We seek to fill the advertised
position with an individual who is analytical, has good organizational skills,
development skills, and is capable of working independently and as part of a
team.
The successful candidate should be
highly professional, self motivated and a proven high achiever with good
leadership skills.
Reporting to the Regional Manager –
Marketing, Information Systems & Communication, the successful candidate
will be based in Malawi but will oversee the EAGC country operations in Malawi
and Zambia and will be responsible for the following amongst others:
- Coordinate, manage and implement the EAGC
Malawi and Zambia annual work plans.
- Coordinate, manage and ensure implementation
of EAGC Malawi and Zambia programs and projects in line with the
established company procedures and processes.
- Co-ordinate EAGC Malawi and Zambia policy
advocacy agenda.
- Manage all EAGC Malawi and Zambia staff,
partnerships and outsourced consultants.
- Manage EAGC Malawi and Zambia budgets
including fund-raising for projects.
- Provide strategic direction on Membership
growth, communication and ensure their involvement in EAGC programs and
activities.
- Manage all administrative functions of the
EAGC Malawi and Zambia office including maintaining existing financial
systems like petty cash, expenses, mileage claims, income & expenditure
records, processing all payments and monthly bank reconciliations.
Qualification, Skills and Experience:
- A bachelor’s degree in Agriculture,
Agri-business Management, Economics, Business Administration, or related
field (a Master’s Degree will be an added advantage)
- 5 years’ experience in the private sector,
client services, sales, marketing, project management will be preferred.
- Computer literate.
- Team player.
- Good report writing skills.
- Proposal writing and fund raising skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal
skills.
- High integrity, initiative and highly
organised.
- Capacity to manage several tasks
simultaneously, be flexible and be willing to assume a range of
unanticipated assignments.
Manager, Eastern Africa Grain Institute
We seek to fill the advertised
position with an individual who is analytical, has good organizational skills,
development skills, and is capable of working independently or as part of a
team.
The successful candidate should be
highly professional, self motivated and a proven high achiever with good
leadership skills.
Reporting to the Executive Director, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following amongst others:
- Implement and monitor the Eastern Africa Grain
Institute Strategic plan.
- Coordinate, manage and implement the operating
policies and procedures for EAGI.
- Lead in curriculum design and development and
ensure implementation of the training programs.
- Lead in identifying, developing and
implementing the marketing strategy for EAGI.
- Lead in EAGI budget preparation and management
including fundraising for programs.
- Coordinate the institute’s research programs
and manage partnerships with other universities.
- Ensure compliance with statutory requirements
of operating the institute.
Qualification, Skills and Experience:
- A bachelor’s degree in Education. (A master’s
degree in Business Administration / Economics will be an added advantage)
- 10 years’ relevant work experience.
- Computer literate.
- Good report writing skills.
- Team player, people leadership –achieving
results through people.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal
skills.
- High integrity, integrity and business acumen.
- Capacity to manage several tasks
simultaneously, be flexible and be willing to assume a range of
unanticipated assignments.
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
We seek to fill the advertised
position with an individual who is analytical, has good organizational skills,
development skills, and is capable of working independently or as part of a
team.
The successful candidate should be
highly professional, self motivated and a proven high achiever with good
leadership skills.
Reporting to the Monitoring &
Evaluation Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for the
following amongst others:
- Participating in developing systematic and
realistic monitoring plans that capture quantitative and qualitative data
to report on project performance indicators.
- Assisting in coordinating the implementation
of baseline surveys, follow‐on
monitoring and evaluation exercises for various initiatives in the
Council.
- Participating in building capacity of staff on
the logical framework, data management, data analysis and results‐oriented programming, monitoring and
evaluation methods and principles and report writing techniques and
requirements for relevant donors/partners to ensure compliance.
- Participating in developing program and
operational reporting templates.
- Participating in compilation and dissemination
of quarterly, half year and annual program reports and project reviews.
- Proposing strategies to the projects team for
improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the project by identifying
bottlenecks in completing project activities and developing plans to
minimize or eliminate such bottlenecks.
- Facilitating documentation and reporting of
training assessments, program data, lessons learnt and best practices for
internal and external sharing.
Qualification, Skills and Experience:
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in
development related subjects preferable Economics or Sociology
- 3 years’ experience in monitoring and
evaluation of development programs.
- Good knowledge of Program Cycle Management and
Development.
- Good communication and analytical skills.
- Computer skills especially statistical
analysis using SPSS, Ms Access, STATA, Excel etc.
- Team player with excellent communication and
interpersonal skills.
- Capacity to manage several tasks
simultaneously, be flexible and be willing to assume a range of
unanticipated assignments.
If your background and competence
match the above specifications, please send your application demonstrating how
your experience matches our requirements.
It should include an updated C.V.,
your current remuneration package, valid email address, daytime contact number
and full contact details of 3 referees including day time telephone number to:
hr@eagc.org copied to dkiai@eagc.org by 16th October 2015.
Only shortlisted candidates will be
contacted.
