Business Manager

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• Serve as the primary, organizational-wide focal point providing technical expertise on business development across the entire Farm Africa Kenya project portfolio. • Develop and drive implementation of Farm Africa Agribusiness strategy. • Actively collaborate with external implementing partners and internal Farm Africa Project Managers to troubleshoot, refine, and advance their specific BDS project components. • Ensure organization-wide consistency and quality control by overseeing all decentralized BDS activities, making sure they align with international best practices and institutional frameworks. • Coordinate internal resource sharing, ensuring that competent technical staff and short-term consultants are efficiently sourced and deployed to support BDS components across various active assignments. • Lead the technical conceptualization and design of Business Development Services (BDS) interventions for all new grants, active projects, and upcoming consultancies. • Actively contribute to resource mobilization and proposal writing to ensure relevant Farm Africa pipeline submissions feature strong, competitive, and actionable enterprise engagement opportunities. • Explore blended finance opportunities and ensure integration within programmes to enhance financial leveraging. • Design, standardize, and maintain a centralized repository of viable BDS models, training curriculum’s, tools, and templates for use across all applicable Farm Africa interventions. • Provide continuous coaching, mentorship, and capacity-building support to implementing partners and project teams on enterprise development and market access. • Support project-level Business Support Advisors in diagnosing technical, managerial, governance, and financial capacity gaps within targeted small and medium enterprises. • Directly engage in report writing as well as provide support in reviewing project reports. • Develop and manage annual, quarterly and monthly work plans and its associated budgets, in compliance with both donor and Farm Africa’s requirements. • Ensure adherence to Farm Africa’s management processes and tools, including the quarterly reviews of the Project Management Tool and the bi-annual Project Performance Reviews. • Review monthly Budget Monitoring Reports and provide sound explanation on variances; develop plans to address potential significant variances and report on implementation progress.