Program Director, Ghana Agriculture Productivity and Youth (APY) Program at TechnoServe

We have started building our professional LinkedIn page. Follow Company: TechnoServe Location: Ghana State: Jobs in Accra Job type: Full-Time Job category: Agricultural Jobs in Ghana No views yet Job Description Everyone deserves the opportunity to build a better future. This simple idea has been at the heart of TechnoServe’s work around the world for over 50 years. TechnoServe is a pioneer in leveraging the power of business and markets to create sustainable pathways out of poverty. The low-income communities in which we work are full of enterprising people. Their small-scale farms and businesses are the keys to economic development. But they face many challenges: low literacy, lack of access to jobs and markets, unpredictable political dynamics and, increasingly, the effects of climate change. For many women and young people, the challenges are even more daunting. Working with TechnoServe staff, people around the world are lifting themselves out of poverty. The results are amazing…when incomes increase and living conditions for families get better, they are able to access health care and education previously out of reach. Communities and even whole countries are better off. Job Summary: TechnoServe seeks a Program Director to lead the implementation of the APY program in Ghana, which will focus mainly on poultry, soybean, tomato, and rice value chains. Program Overview: Agriculture Productivity and Youth Program (APY) is a donor-funded program to improve the well-being and resilience of young women and men as a result of strengthened producers, processors, and agribusinesses in Agriculture & Adjacent Sectors. The program will implement a market systems facilitation approach that will leverage private sector actors to achieve more sustainable impacts. Program outcomes include a) Increased productivity of value chain actors in agriculture and adjacent sectors; b) Improved policy implementation to support growth in the relevant sectors; and c) Shift in mindset and fulfillment of youth towards employment and entrepreneurship in the sectors and rural futures. Primary Functions & Responsibilities:

• Leading overall implementation and management of the anticipated program, from inception to close-out

• Providing strategic guidance, leadership, management, and general technical oversight of the program, with an unwavering commitment to delivering results through partnership

• Serving as a liaison and driving shared vision and strategy among consortium members, donors, Ghanaian government agencies and private sector actors

• Recruiting, leading, managing, and supervising a complex consortium of implementing partners, technical organizations, and service providers

• Fostering collaboration, learning, and adaptive management to inform decision-making, communicate with stakeholders, and drive impact

• Ensuring coordination with a range of do...