TechnoServe Key Personnel Pipeline

Description

About Techno Serve:

At Techno Serve, we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to build a better life. For over 50 years, we have given smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs the skills, connections, and confidence to lift themselves out of poverty. We leverage the power of markets and the private sector to create sustainable economic growth to benefit people and the planet. Our unique mix of business solutions, deep knowledge of local contexts, and data-driven insights is helping to fight poverty across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Techno Serve staff are local-95% are from the countries in which they work. We put a high premium on collaboration and entrepreneurship. We hold ourselves and each other to the highest standards of integrity and transparency. And we focus on delivering lasting impact for our mission.

Techno Serve Key Personnel Pipeline:

'Our success in creating business solutions to poverty is due in large part to our talented and highly committed team.' We are always searching for talented and motivated individuals for future Key Personnel positions.

Key Personnel positions are the positions which lead our donor funded projects and will usually be recruited during the proposal or bidding stage of the opportunity. Techno Serve pursues funding from various sources and donors, both public and private. Typical Key Personnel Roles include:

Chief of Party

Position Summary:

• Lead overall implementation and management of the anticipated program, from inception to close-out, ensuring that the program achieves established goals, objectives, and targets.
• Provide strategic guidance, leadership, management, and general technical oversight of the program.
• Lead and strengthen the design, monitoring and evaluation of the program.
• Oversee development and submission of project deliverables on time, within budget and in compliance with the donor and Techno Serve requirements.

General qualifications:

• Master's degree or equivalent in agricultural economics, international development, business, economics, public policy or other relevant areas, and at least eight years of experience in relevant private sector or development programs.
• Demonstrated prior technical and management expertise leading and supervising donor funded projects.

Deputy Chief of Party

Position Summary:

• Support the Chief of Party in overall management of program operations, ensuring overall monitoring of the project against milestones and work-plans and implementing course corrections as needed.
• Monitor and follow up on critical management and planning issues to ensure effective and timely project execution.
• Manage review and finalization of internal and external project documents, including donor deliverables, presentation decks, studies and technical reports.

General qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in international relations, economics, business, or other relevant areas, and at least 10 years of experience in relevant private sector or development programs.
• Strong project management and analytical skills, including the ability to anticipate demand and manage multiple tasks and projects while meeting tight deadlines.

Technical Lead

Position Summary:

• Provide strategic guidance and technical leadership to support the Chief of Party and Deputy Chief of Party in the technical area of the project.
• Engage and develop partnerships with various stakeholders within the agriculture and private sector.
• Lead and ensure technical deliverables of the project are completed within the project timeline and to the standards of the donor and Techno Serve requirements.

General qualifications:

• Master's degree or equivalent in agricultural economics, international development, business, economics, public policy or other relevant areas, and at least eight years of experience in relevant private sector or development programs.
• Significant experience in the technical area of the specified project.

Please note the specific requirements and locations for these positions will vary based on Techno Serve and donor requirements.

This pipeline will be regularly monitored by our recruiters for current and future considerations. When and if your profile matches with an…