Project Manager job at SNV
Posted by: great-volunteer
Posted date: 2025-Sep-08
Location: Fort Portal, Fort portal, Uganda
Project Manager 2025-09-08T12:53:28+00:00 SNV https://cdn.ugashare.com/jsjobsdata/data/employer/comp_4043/logo/snv.jpg https://snv.org/ FULL_TIME Fort Portal Fort portal 00256 Uganda Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources Management 2025-09-21T17:00:00+00:00 Uganda 8 Key Responsibilities - Strategic Project Leadership and Technical Oversight of project implementation
- Provide overall strategic direction for the INCLUDE project, ensuring full alignment with SNV’s agri-food systems approach and donor priorities as well compliance and accountability towards all SNV policies and procedures.
- Guide the implementation of project pathways with a quality and learning lens: Ensuring timely, high-quality project delivery against scope and secure budget planning, expenditure tracking, and compliance with required SNV documentation.
- Lead adaptively with focus on quality assurance and learning with data and through periodic reflection, consultation, and reporting in collaboration with EKN and peer initiatives (MEL).
- Offer technical advisory to staff and partners, troubleshoot potential challenges and promote evidence-based decision making and continuous improvement of project delivery.
- Team Leadership and Staff Development
- Lead, coach, and mentor a diverse team of 32 development professionals, promoting a collaborative learning culture with the aim to deliver goals and objectives.
- Lead recruitment, performance and staff development to ensure the right skillsets and mindsets across the team to support and enable empowerment.
- Ensure that staff wellbeing and safety according to SNV code of conduct and related policies.
- Stakeholder Engagement and Partnership Management
- Serve as the primary liaison with the donor (EKN), fostering a transparent and pro-active relationship through regular updates and consultations.
- Coordinate and collaborate closely with implementing partners, government institutions, civil society actors, and private sector stakeholders to ensure strong collaboration and alignment.
- Proactively build linkages with other food security initiatives to maximize synergy and scale development outcomes.
Qualifications Essential Qualifications: - Master’s degree in Agriculture, Business, Livestock development, Economics, Rural Development, or a related field relevant to agri-food systems transformation.
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive leadership experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder development programs in the agri-food or livestock sector (preferably in sub-Saharan Africa) to ensure improved livelihoods and food security.
- Proven ability to mobilize, inspire, lead and guide multidisciplinary teams, enabling performance and impact through effective planning, delivery oversight, and adaptive management.
- Track record of coaching and developing towards high-performing teams, with a commitment to capability -growth, well-being, and promoting inclusive, value-based leadership.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and donor coordination experience, including successfully aligning public and private sector partnerships for systems-level impact.
Preferred Qualifications: - Postgraduate qualification or certification in Project Management, Organizational Leadership or related discipline that reinforces structured delivery and team leadership.
- Experience leading through complexity, using evidence-based decision-making, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing to navigate systemic challenges and drive innovation.
- Demonstrate expertise in inclusive market systems, livestock value chains, or climate-resilient agricultural systems, including participatory planning tools such as Participatory Integrated Planning (PIP).
- Excellent coalition-building and influencing skills, with experience fostering cross-sector collaboration that results in or exceeds planned scalable and sustainable development results.
- Extensive experience engaging with private sector actors, fostering investment in smallholder development, and brokering impactful partnerships that result in sustainable, scalable solutions.
- Familiarity with Uganda’s agricultural policy landscape and rural institutions systems, with an ability to build trust and alignment with local and national stakeholders.
Strategic Project Leadership and Technical Oversight of project implementation Provide overall strategic direction for the INCLUDE project, ensuring full alignment with SNV’s agri-food systems approach and donor priorities as well compliance and accountability towards all SNV policies and procedures. Guide the implementation of project pathways with a quality and learning lens: Ensuring timely, high-quality project delivery against scope and secure budget planning, expenditure tracking, and compliance with required SNV documentation. Lead adaptively with focus on quality assurance and learning with data and through periodic reflection, consultation, and reporting in collaboration with EKN and peer initiatives (MEL). Offer technical advisory to staff and partners, troubleshoot potential challenges and promote evidence-based decision making and continuous improvement of project delivery. Team Leadership and Staff Development Lead, coach, and mentor a diverse team of 32 development professionals, promoting a collaborative learning culture with the aim to deliver goals and objectives. Lead recruitment, performance and staff development to ensure the right skillsets and mindsets across the team to support and enable empowerment. Ensure that staff wellbeing and safety according to SNV code of conduct and related policies. Stakeholder Engagement and Partnership Management Serve as the primary liaison with the donor (EKN), fostering a transparent and pro-active relationship through regular updates and consultations. Coordinate and collaborate closely with implementing partners, government institutions, civil society actors, and private sector stakeholders to ensure strong collaboration and alignment. Proactively build linkages with other food security initiatives to maximize synergy and scale development outcomes. Master’s degree in Agriculture, Business, Livestock development, Economics, Rural Development, or a related field relevant to agri-food systems transformation. Minimum of 10 years of progressive leadership experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder development programs in the agri-food or livestock sector (preferably in sub-Saharan Africa) to ensure improved livelihoods and food security. Proven ability to mobilize, inspire, lead and guide multidisciplinary teams, enabling performance and impact through effective planning, delivery oversight, and adaptive management. Track record of coaching and developing towards high-performing teams, with a commitment to capability -growth, well-being, and promoting inclusive, value-based leadership. Strong stakeholder engagement and donor coordination experience, including successfully aligning public and private sector partnerships for systems-level impact. JOB-68bed1c851267 Vacancy title:
Project Manager Jobs at:
SNV Deadline of this Job:
Sunday, September 21 2025 Duty Station:
Fort Portal | Fort portal | Uganda Summary
Date Posted: Monday, September 8 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed JOB DETAILS: Key Responsibilities - Strategic Project Leadership and Technical Oversight of project implementation
- Provide overall strategic direction for the INCLUDE project, ensuring full alignment with SNV’s agri-food systems approach and donor priorities as well compliance and accountability towards all SNV policies and procedures.
- Guide the implementation of project pathways with a quality and learning lens: Ensuring timely, high-quality project delivery against scope and secure budget planning, expenditure tracking, and compliance with required SNV documentation.
- Lead adaptively with focus on quality assurance and learning with data and through periodic reflection, consultation, and reporting in collaboration with EKN and peer initiatives (MEL).
- Offer technical advisory to staff and partners, troubleshoot potential challenges and promote evidence-based decision making and continuous improvement of project delivery.
- Team Leadership and Staff Development
- Lead, coach, and mentor a diverse team of 32 development professionals, promoting a collaborative learning culture with the aim to deliver goals and objectives.
- Lead recruitment, performance and staff development to ensure the right skillsets and mindsets across the team to support and enable empowerment.
- Ensure that staff wellbeing and safety according to SNV code of conduct and related policies.
- Stakeholder Engagement and Partnership Management
- Serve as the primary liaison with the donor (EKN), fostering a transparent and pro-active relationship through regular updates and consultations.
- Coordinate and collaborate closely with implementing partners, government institutions, civil society actors, and private sector stakeholders to ensure strong collaboration and alignment.
- Proactively build linkages with other food security initiatives to maximize synergy and scale development outcomes.
Qualifications Essential Qualifications: - Master’s degree in Agriculture, Business, Livestock development, Economics, Rural Development, or a related field relevant to agri-food systems transformation.
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive leadership experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder development programs in the agri-food or livestock sector (preferably in sub-Saharan Africa) to ensure improved livelihoods and food security.
- Proven ability to mobilize, inspire, lead and guide multidisciplinary teams, enabling performance and impact through effective planning, delivery oversight, and adaptive management.
- Track record of coaching and developing towards high-performing teams, with a commitment to capability -growth, well-being, and promoting inclusive, value-based leadership.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and donor coordination experience, including successfully aligning public and private sector partnerships for systems-level impact.
Preferred Qualifications: - Postgraduate qualification or certification in Project Management, Organizational Leadership or related discipline that reinforces structured delivery and team leadership.
- Experience leading through complexity, using evidence-based decision-making, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing to navigate systemic challenges and drive innovation.
- Demonstrate expertise in inclusive market systems, livestock value chains, or climate-resilient agricultural systems, including participatory planning tools such as Participatory Integrated Planning (PIP).
- Excellent coalition-building and influencing skills, with experience fostering cross-sector collaboration that results in or exceeds planned scalable and sustainable development results.
- Extensive experience engaging with private sector actors, fostering investment in smallholder development, and brokering impactful partnerships that result in sustainable, scalable solutions.
- Familiarity with Uganda’s agricultural policy landscape and rural institutions systems, with an ability to build trust and alignment with local and national stakeholders.
Work Hours: 8 Experience in Months: 120 Level of Education: postgraduate degree Job application procedure Interested and qualified? Click here to apply
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