Country Director - Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Nairobi

The role represents AGRA in the country and will act as the catalyst for AGRA’s integrated interventions, under the guidance of the VP Program Delivery, and respective Regional Director. S/he will mainly be responsible for coordinating activities and building necessary relationships with the government, private sector, donors, and other key stakeholders. S/He will lead the country to actively manage the country strategies, while maintaining close linkages with the Centre of Technical Expertise Division and relevant support services from the headquarters. S/He will lead the country team in liaising with the government and donors and be seen as the expert on needs in the country, to provide feedback to technical teams, and lead in identifying grantees and the right avenues for making AGRA’s investments effective. Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops the country strategy, change narrative and annual work plans in collaboration with relevant teams at the center and regional level.

• Provides strategic oversight for quality program execution in line with government priorities, as well as AGRA’s goals, vision and reputation the institution aspires to.

• Identifies and pursues opportunities to mobilize resources in support of AGRA’s priorities and/or advocating for public and private sector stakeholders to scale AGRA’s demonstrated intervention models in the country.

• Supports the Country Programs Lead in directing program officers to research and develop grantee portfolios dealing with binding constraints, resources, and opportunities for increasing and improving program delivery.

• Support country teams to strengthen collaboration, accountability, and stronger decentralization with support from regional and central technical/operational teams.

• Works closely with the Centre of Technical Expertise (CTE) in implementing the strategy through established collaboration instruments, such as deal teams, action guides and playbooks.

• Convenes and builds relationships with national government, private sector, donors, civil society organizations and other in-country stakeholders, with the aim to build and nurture country-level strategic partnerships deemed essential to AGRA’s mission.

• Leads in representing AGRA in key meetings and forums of the government and its development partners including sector coordination pl...