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Kampala, Uganda

Full-time

Deadline: 

15 Dec 2023

About the Organisation

At Self Help Africa, our mission is to alleviate hunger, poverty, social inequality and the impact of climate change. We achieve this through community-led, market-based and enterprise focused approaches to agricultural development, ensuring that people with have access to: 

Nutritious food
Decent incomes and employment 
Clean water and basic services
All while sustaining natural resources. 
Our aim is to transition communities out of long-term poverty through work that gives them greater control over their futures and provides a better quality of life.  The main focus of our work is in sub-Saharan Africa, where global hunger and poverty is most acute, but we also work in Bangladesh and Brazil.  We believe that equitable economic development is key to ending poverty. 

Our core areas of focus are: 

Sustainable landscapes, resilient food systems and healthy communities.
Sustainable businesses, decent employment and thriving economies.
Crisis response and resilience.
System strengthening and an enabling policy environment.

Job Title

Head of Programme and Business Development Coordinator job at Self Help Africa.

Job Description

The Head of Programme and Business Development Coordinator provides overall leadership and management for all SHA- Uganda programme including leading the planning, design, development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the country programme and ensuring that the quality of projects, implementation, donor reporting, and field level management is of the highest standards.

Duties and Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Key areas of responsibilities include:

  • Program Management (25%)

  • Program Planning and Budgeting (15%)

  • Budget Management and Monitoring (10%)

  • Program Reporting (10%)

  • Business Development (35%)

  • Documentation and lessons learning (5%)


  • The Head of Programme and Business Development Coordinator provides overall leadership and management for all SHA- Uganda programme including leading the planning, design, development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the country programme and ensuring that the quality of projects, implementation, donor reporting, and field level management is of the highest standards.

  • The Head of Programme and Business Development Coordinator supports the Country Director in pursuit of business development activities in relation to resource mobilization, partnership development and management. He/She enforces quality assurance with all projects being implemented by SHA in Uganda.

  • The Head of Programme and Business Development Coordinator provides line management support to all Project Managers and Program Coordinators including overall management of their performance and of all the Program staff in Uganda.

  • The Head of Programme and Business Development Coordinator supports the translating of SHA’s Global Vision and strategy into project implementation and ensuring project design and implementation are geared towards achieving scale and impact, attracting funding to diversify funding resources and that the project implementation processes respond to SHA’s need to strengthen global operating systems. With the support of the Country Director, the Head of Programme and Business Development Coordinator shall steer the process for developing and growing SHA’s country portfolio to reflect a fair balance in the project portfolios that will include but are not limited to Value chain and market systems development, Climate Change, Food security, Youth and Women empowerment.

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Qualifications and Competencies

  • The Head of Programme and Business Development Coordinator is a senior position that requires a minimum of five years of experience in programme management, resource mobilization and partnership development.

How to Apply

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