Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Self Help Africa (SHA) is an international NGO dedicated to taking an enterprise approach to reducing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa Headquartered in Ireland, with offices in the UK, the US and sex African countries, SHA focuses on agriculture and agribusiness as the engine of growth in Africa. Our approach is collaborative and market-based: although we see our primary clients as smallholder farmers in Africa, we work with all participants in agricultural value chains.
With over 300 staff worldwide, and a global turnover of over €30m. SHA currently runs programmes on behalf of a range of organisations including the European Union, Irish Aid the World Food Programme and the UK Department for International Development. SHA has an ambitious five-year growth strategy to increase its global footprint and expand into new areas. SHA Kenya is currently managing a €24M Challenge Fund on behalf of the EU and Slovak Aid providing blended finance in cooperation with the EB and a local bank to agri-business SMEs.
The organisation also has a number of social enterprise subsidiaries - Tru Trade, which supports market access for small-holder farmers in agricultural value-chains and Partner Africa, an ethical auditing and consultancy firm that operates across more than 40 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.
Self Help Africa has a long established and growing office in Kenya, with over 40 members of full-time staff running development projects that encompass enterprise development and climate resilience programming with smallholder farmers. The Kenya office has a particularly strong focus supporting and strengthening agricultural SMEs and value chains and is currently managing a blended finance facility on behalf of the EU, funding agricultural businesses to increase their sourcing capacity through working with smallholder farmers.
SHA seeks to recruit suitable candidate to fill the position of: COUNTRY DIRECTOR .

  Responsibilities;
• Reporting to the Head of Operations, Africa, the Country Director will be responsible for overseeing all areas of SHA's operations in Konya, and providing leadership and strategy guidance to the SHA team.
• The key responsibility of this role is the development, delivery and recalibration of SHA's Kenya's country strategy to ensure that it is fit for purpose, aligned to SHA's Global Strategy and that SHA is achieving significant impact for participants of its programming She/he will also take full ownership for growing SHA's operations in Kenya.
• This will focus on growing the funding base and exploring new income streams to help SHA increase its footprint and maximize our impact through securing and implementing new programmes. The Country Director will collaborate with international organisations, national government 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

Job Skills: Not Specified

Job Qualifications: Not Specified

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Education Experience: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
For the full Job Descriptions and information on how to apply, visit https://selfhelpafrica.org/uk/country-director-kenya/
The closing date for receiving applications is not later than 5.00pm EAT on Monday 6th April 2020.
Please do not send certificates at this stage Due to the anticipated high volume of applications kindly note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Self Help Africa is an equal opportunities employer

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