The Country Director is the senior role in the country programme and Kenya has a dynamic and varied country portfolio. Self Help Africa has a long-established presence in Kenya, with approximately 60 full-time staff running development and humanitarian projects that encompass enterprise development and climate resilience programming with smallholder farmers. The Kenya programme, with an annual budget for 2023 of €8m, has a strong focus on supporting market access, trade, and enterprise development, underpinned by natural resource management, green economy approaches, gender and nutrition sensitive programming and climate change adaptation across the country. The team, located in Nairobi and 4 regional project locations, are experienced in fund management and multi-stakeholder management.
We are looking for a dynamic and entrepreneurial professional with significant programme management and proven business growth experience, to drive forward our mission and vision and deepening of our impact, through delivering high quality programmes and ensuring that the processes of planning, implementation as well as monitoring, evaluation, and learning, are robust. The Country Director will be responsible for overseeing all areas of Self Help Africa’s and TruTrade’s operations in Kenya, leveraging on their networks and resources, driving business growth, and providing leadership and strategy guidance to the country teams, with five direct reports.
This role offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced Country Director to lead the team to grow the programme in line with the ambitious strategy that responds to the ambition of the Kenya National Development Plans. The country portfolio of programmes is supported with a diversity of funder including Irish Aid, the European Union, Slovak Aid, the Global Evergreening Alliance, Trade Mark Africa, Teagasc and several Trusts and Foundations.
The Country Director will also take full ownership for growing Self Help Africa operations in Kenya. This will focus on growing the funding base and exploring new income streams to help us increase our footprint and maximise our impact through securing and implementing new programmes. The Country Director will collaborate with international organisations, national government, national organisations and the private sector to design and finance innovative programmes that strengthen agricultural value chains, support entrepreneurs and their businesses and drive rural economic development and reduce poverty.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Leadership:
New business development and stakeholder relationship management:
Programme management & operations:
Finance, audit, and risk:
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
Essential:
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