A leading International Development
organization is looking for Portfolio Managers.
Main Objective: Application of integrated approach to international
economic development that capitalizes on our company’s 90 years as a leading
farm-to-market agribusiness.
For more than 3 decades, we have
implemented programs in several countries, facilitating targeted technical
expertise and impact investments that empower local communities to build
sustainable and competitive enterprises.
One of these is the USAID funded
whose overarching goal is to harness innovations for cutting-edge results
through private sector-oriented strategies to generate significant measurable
increases in household income and/or nutrition.
KIE is a venture capital-like
mechanism by which innovations that support food security and nutrition are
proactively sought, incubated and scaled up for widespread impact, particularly
across target populations within Feed the Future (FTF) focus regions in
Kenya.
KIE supports innovators with grant
funding and technical assistance to grow their businesses.
The Position of a Portfolio Manager
will provide on-going support to a portfolio of 5 – 10 food security
innovations, serving as the innovators’ main point of contact and mobilizing
the various support services KIE provides.
The Portfolio Manager will take a
lead on identifying innovation scale and co-investing opportunities.
Requirements:
Requirements:
- Master’s degree in a related field or
Bachelor’s Degree and 5 years of related experience.
- 5 years private sector experience (preferred)
in agricultural investing, banking or consulting experience.
- Demonstrated experience and success in
supervising, coaching and developing private sector businesses.
- Demonstrated awareness and knowledge of the
local and regional economic and business climate as well as the Kenyan
agricultural innovation and agribusiness landscape will be distinctly
advantageous.
- Ability to coordinate, collaborate, negotiate
and foster strategic partnerships with private sector firms, host
government officials, NGOs, sub-grantees in implementing project
activities.
- Ability to summarize complex quantitative
information from multiple sources and combine it with text to explain the
underlying reality as clearly and unambiguously as possible.
- Capacity to turn out high quality written work
under tight deadlines.
- Strong inter-personal skills, self-motivated
and result-driven, with ability to effectively build and manage networks
and relationships for program promotion and issues resolution.
- Highly developed conceptual, analytical and
innovative problem-solving ability. Preferred
- Demonstrated track record in initiating new
and innovative approaches.
- Experience in designing, implementing, and
administering USG performance-based grants.
- USAID project experience Location: Nairobi
with frequent travel to the field.
Salary will be negotiated depending
on experience and expertise on the field of over 5 years.
Kindly send your application with a
short written testimonial of your greatest achievement (at Most Half a page)
and expected salary to recruitment@peopleandstrategy.co.ke
Note that only shortlisted candidates
will be contacted.
The candidate will be based in
Nairobi with frequent travel.