Vacancy title:
Project Manager

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, Category: Management]

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

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JOB DETAILS:

Key Responsibilities

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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

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