Vacancy title:
Project Manager

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: , Category: Management]

Jobs at:
SNV

Deadline of this Job:
Thursday, July 31 2025

Duty Station:
Uganda | Kampala | Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, July 18 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

As the Project Manager for the INCLUDE project under SNV Uganda’s Agri-Food Sector, you will lead the implementation of a transformative 5-year initiative aimed at improving the living income and building resilient livestock-based livelihoods for 75,000 smallholder farmer households across the Busoga, Rwenzori, Greater Ankole, and Kigezi subregions. Based full-time in Fort Portal, Uganda, this pivotal role requires a dynamic leader with a strong grasp of inclusive development and systems thinking to navigate complex rural ecosystems and drive sustainable change.

The INCLUDE project focuses on two key outcome areas: sustainable livestock production and inclusive market development. Through the Participatory Integrated Planning (PIP) approach, you will guide farming communities to strengthen their adaptive capacities, optimize land use, increase productivity, and access better markets and nutrition. Your leadership will ensure local ownership of solutions and meaningful farmer engagement.

Reporting to the Sector Leader, Agri-Food Sector, SNV Uganda, you will oversee a team of 32 dedicated staff and serve as the primary liaison with the donor (EKN). Your role will be instrumental in aligning project delivery with donor priorities, ensuring high-quality implementation, rigorous reporting, and strong stakeholder collaboration throughout the life of the project.

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: bachelor degree

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