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Principal Responsibilities:

• Oversee MDF client performance and off-boarding strategies.

• Review monthly reports and SME dash boards

• Develop strategies to fix gaps between agreed deliverables vs actual partner performance.

• Support the project team to plug-in partner (SME) resources to support attainment of strategic objectives.

• Oversee planning & coordination of meetings, site visits, and collaboration opportunities with partners

• Oversee execution of partnership roadmaps

• Lead HortiMAP networks to link SHF/FOs/FAs with buyers

• Lead relationship development with commercial finance providers to leverage additional finance that complements catalytic grants

• Ensure private-sector match commitments

MDF Results and Quality Management:

• Deliverables:The MDF Lead will coordinate and monitor deliverables implementation particular emphasis on participation of women, youth and job creation. Tracking key measurable indicators (e.g., revenues, sales, jobs created, etc.), guided by a budget, and an M&E section.

• Reviewing reports:Responsible reviewing partner reports, designing quality review mechanisms, follow up and ensuring that activity reports are aligned with the financial accountability submitted.

• Partnership Management:The MDF Lead will support partners in implementation of their road maps, provide technical support to managers and directors, engage regularly on critical operational, market and regulatory issues to support business operations.

• Linkages:Ensures beneficial linkages to services and products across sector actors like farmers to inputs, finance, markets and information

• Horticulture credit line: Ensures the SACCOs develop the capacity to access funds from DHCL, they build capacity to implement the HCL and grow membership.

Technical Assistance Mechanism:

• Develop a closeout strategy for all pipeline of Technical Assistance for SME clients and coordinate with PUM Netherlands and Bid-capital to achieve this.

• Work with PCP to ensure the participating SACCOs, gain the technical capacity to implement HCL, access the finance and grow membership

• The MDF Lead will work to ensure the consultants perform as expected and support the Finance and Operations, and country procurement teams to provide statement of works.

• Support PMs and Business Advisors to provide sector-wide events to small businesses like deal-making activities.

• Prioritize identifying and support SACCOs to whom SHF can be linked for access to finance.

• Ensure external service provider contracts (consultants) include a clear scope of work, and disbursement of payments will be tied to satisfactory outputs.

• Monitor execution of technical assistance to ensure the quality of delivery and alignment with Partnership Roadmaps

Partnership & Client Management:

• Anticipate client and partner’s needs and capabilities, develop standards for vetting them and ROI proposition (the program framework) to replicate them in the follow-on project.

• Coordinate with the Horticulture Value Chain team to integrate program participants in client value chains and vice-versa;

• Together with the M&E team, operationalize the framework for supervision and tracking of MDF client performance and compliance with the obligations under the partnership roadmaps signed

• Make regular visits to the partners & clients to track their performance and provide regular updates/reports on their progress

Program Coordination and Implementation:

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with partners and relevant stakeholders in the agribusiness investment space by leading coordination meetings

• Review the narrative reports of MDF project partners and write the comprehensive annual report.

• Actively participate in regular team meetings to track implementation progress and share relevant program and administrative data

• Ensure the delivery of Sector-wide entrepreneurship training packages is of high quality, is appropriate to the local context, and is effectively reaching participants

• Support the Program Director in all aspects to ensure proper closeout of the project

• Share best practices and lessons learned with team members

• Contribute to design of the follow-on project