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Job title: Country Director (Any African including Tanzanian Can Apply)
Location: Ethiopia with frequent travel
Full time, 3 years, fixed term
Salary & Benefits: Competitive
About us: Effective agriculture has the power to change lives. It underpins prosperity, food security and stability the world over. Farm Africa focuses on transforming agriculture and managing natural resources sustainably. We champion a holistic approach that boosts yields, protects the environment and connects smallholder farmers to thriving markets.
Ethiopia is Farm Africa’s largest, most dynamic, and innovative programme. We are looking for an inspirational leader, communicator and manager who to drives growth and deliver high quality and technically expert programmes, as well as fronting some of our most important organisational relationships.
Location: Ethiopia with frequent travel
Full time, 3 years, fixed term
Salary & Benefits: Competitive
About us: Effective agriculture has the power to change lives. It underpins prosperity, food security and stability the world over. Farm Africa focuses on transforming agriculture and managing natural resources sustainably. We champion a holistic approach that boosts yields, protects the environment and connects smallholder farmers to thriving markets.
Ethiopia is Farm Africa’s largest, most dynamic, and innovative programme. We are looking for an inspirational leader, communicator and manager who to drives growth and deliver high quality and technically expert programmes, as well as fronting some of our most important organisational relationships.
The Country Director, Ethiopia will play a key role within Farm Africa’s global senior management team and will be responsible for setting the strategic direction for Farm Africa’s Ethiopian country programme, in line with our global strategy.
You will have a successful track record of working at Country Director level within the INGO sector and will have a strong understanding of donor environments, working closely with communities, government and the private sector. You will have lived and worked in sub-Saharan Africa, have excellent hands-on programme, financial, strategic and human resource management experience. Exceptional multi-tasking, networking, relationship-building and financial management skills are pre-requisites.
You will have a successful track record of working at Country Director level within the INGO sector and will have a strong understanding of donor environments, working closely with communities, government and the private sector. You will have lived and worked in sub-Saharan Africa, have excellent hands-on programme, financial, strategic and human resource management experience. Exceptional multi-tasking, networking, relationship-building and financial management skills are pre-requisites.
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Contract: Full time
Salary: Competitive
Effective agriculture has the power to change lives. It underpins prosperity, food security and stability the world over. Farm Africa focuses on transforming agriculture and managing natural resources sustainably. We champion a holistic approach that boosts yields, protects the environment and connects smallholder farmers to thriving markets.
We are looking for a Proposal Writer, to play a central role in the development of programmes for Farm Africa. If you are an experienced programme funding professional with strong proposal writing, project design and project management skills then we would love to hear from you.
As a Proposal Writer you will work as part of Business Development team and will collaborate closely with Farm Africa’s technical and programmes experts to develop high quality technical project designs and to secure restricted funding for programmes.
This roles is crucial to Farm Africa’s strategy to become the leading European NGO specialising in agriculture, environment and business in rural Africa.
We are looking for an individual to be based either in a country office in East Africa (Addis Ababa, Dar es Salaam, Kampala, or Nairobi) or London with an interest in relocating to East Africa.
If you would like to apply , please submit a CV and cover letter to recruitment@farmafrica.orgThe deadline for application is Midnight (11:59pm GMT) on Wednesday 08 January 2020. We will be contacted shortlisted candidates only w/c 13 January 2020.
Note: Farm Africa will not accept third party applications and recruitment consultants are respectfully asked not to get in touch with regards to this role.