Business Investment Enabling Environment Manager
About The Role
Palladium is seeking a
County Investment Enabling Environment Advisor for an anticipated USAID-funded
economic growth program which is anticipated to begin in 2023. The USAID/Kenya
and East Africa Feed the Future (FtF) Private Sector Activity (PSA) will be a
5-year program focused on accelerating agriculture-led growth in Kenya through
partnerships with large agricultural sector firms (such as processors and
off-takers) and expansion of smallholder farmer out-grower schemes. The
anticipated activity will focus on creating jobs and increasing incomes.
The activity would combine tools used in USAID’s traditional private
sector development activities with tools used to mobilize finance and
investment into one mechanism – supporting a range of agricultural firms to
expand investments and operations via a blended finance approach.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Working primarily with the Feed the Future Prosper Counties,
identify and prioritize the financial and agriculture policies inhibiting
large scale investments in agriculture.
- Work with central government investment promotion agencies
and opportunities to improve the investment climate within Kenya
- Coordinate consultants’ assignments focussed on both new and
ongoing financial sector and agriculture sector policy reforms at the
different stages; analysed, consulted on, proposed drafted/revised,
approved, or implementation.
- Facilitate activities that will identify potential
investments and engage both the private sector and government officials to
facilitate regulatory or policy reforms that will create an environment
for sustainable investments and impact agriculture, including outgrower
schemes, value addition, processing and aggregation, at scale.
- Using an ‘anchor firm’ approach, assist counties in
implementing policy reforms attached to specific, significant investment
opportunities
- Bring together government officials, private sector
stakeholders, and implementing partners to network and engage in
meaningful dialogue to identify and flesh out those areas where reforms
are needed to create an open and transparent investment climate,
- Using partnership approach, facilitate the development, and
implementation of pragmatic strategies to build investment promotion
capability at the county-level,
- Facilitate partnerships that enable effective utilization of
government and private sector resources that demonstrate both buy-in and
commitment for policy reform,
- Plan and oversee the capacity building efforts for county
official’s county, these may include trainings, workshops, stakeholders
round table discussions and webinars for investment promotion,
- Monitor Implementation of Enabling Environment Reform Efforts.
- Host quarterly meetings with stakeholders to measure and
track policy reform progress
- Publish regular briefs on investment mobilization and
enabling environment reforms in Prosper Counties
Key Competencies
- Master’s Degree in MBA, MA in Business, Finance, Economics,
Accounting, International Development, Agriculture, Law or a B.A. and 10+
years of similar experience.
- Eight years or more of experience in the finance and
investment services sector
- Five years or more of experience in private sector
development, business enabling environment, and policy reform in Kenya.
- Three years working experience working with Kenya County
governments
Excellent contacts in the Kenyan public sector and County Governments - Impeccable professional record and integrity
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Understanding of Balanced Scorecard preferred
- Experience with USAID program initiatives preferred
- Strong written and oral communication skills in English
- An excellent grasp of the Kenyan investment climate and the
ability to identify viable investment opportunities
- Ability to manage and satisfy competing priorities from
multiple stakeholders
- Ability to facilitate and build collaborative relationships
- Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and concisely
both orally and in writing, and lead presentations and effective meetings
- Outstanding interpersonal communication skills and the
ability to work with people at all levels internally and externally
- Demonstrated integrity, independent thinking, judgment, and
respect for others
- Intellectual curiosity and a desire to solve complex problems
and create innovative solutions
- Local Kenyan candidates are preferred
- Written and oral proficiency in English required
How To Apply