Deputy Program Director Full-Time

TechnoServe is currently seeking an entrepreneurial and gender expert for the position of Deputy Program Director of WIN. The role is based in Maputo. The Deputy Program Director will oversee a significant portion of the portfolio of the WIN program, as well as providing strategic and practical support for other programs in Mozambique. The position’s key responsibility is to ensure a high quality of program design and implementation of TechnoServe’s flagship gender and entrepreneurship programs, and to integrate quality gender programming into the rest of TechnoServe’s portfolio.

General Information:

TechnoServe is a leader in harnessing the power of the private sector to help people lift themselves out of poverty. A nonprofit organization operating in 29 countries, we work with enterprising men and women in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses and industries. By linking people to information, capital and markets, we have helped millions to create lasting prosperity for their families and communities. Founded over 50 years ago, TechnoServe has been named the #1 nonprofit for fighting poverty by the ImpactMatters charity ratings agency

TechnoServe has been providing technical assistance to Mozambique’s industries, agribusinesses, and entrepreneurs with high growth potential for over 20 years. We have helped create a competitive and sustainable commercial agricultural sector, which has generated opportunities for small-scale rural producers and suppliers, in addition to catalyzing entrepreneurship among the rural and urban poor. Our goal in the next 10 years is to scale our impact through leveraging and sharing knowledge and build new partnerships in order to catalyze further change.

Program Description:

TechnoServe Mozambique is working with Sida to design and implement a five-year, Women IN Business (WIN) program (2018-2022). WIN has an ambitious goal of empowering women across Mozambique by making sustainable improvements to their participation in the market place.

WIN uses a market systems approach (“M4P”) to support the growth and efficiency of women in business. WIN will work with partners across the public and private sector to invest in changes that benefit women. For example, increasing the involvement and power of women to buy and sell in the market, improving the quality of goods and services to women, and advocating to change the rules and norms that determine how women engage in business. WIN’s activities focus on sectors with high-growth potential for women, such as distribution systems, financial services or agriculture.

TechnoServe Mozambique is implementing the Business Women Connect (BWC) program, which supports women entrepreneurs in Mozambique to develop their businesses and integrate into the financial system as banking and mobile money agents by providing direct entrepreneurship training, and linking women to financial services institutions. BWC is funded by ExxonMobil Foundation.

The Deputy Program Director will oversee a large part of the portfolio under the WIN Program. They will take accountability for specific sector areas of intervention, where WIN works with private and public sector actors within the market system, to change their approach in favor of WOB. The Deputy Program Director will also support program operations and represent the program externally.

The Deputy Program Director may also take on strategic oversight of other programs and for gender advisory across Mozambique.

Main Activities:

Program management

• Lead on multiple sectors within program implementation related to gender sensitive market research, idea generation and partnership management;
• Independently engage senior-level executives from private sector actors and convince them to provide solutions to meet needs of women (for instance, by providing services or products to women, or engaging women as suppliers or agents);
• Ensure sound managerial and financial performance of program areas of responsibility by regularly reviewing program budgets, work plans, monitoring systems and key performance indicators (KPIs);
• Make regular field visits to keep appraised of the situation of our beneficiaries.

Technical management

• Oversee research and analysis on women’s business needs;
• Provide strategic direction for program areas of responsibility;
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis of the business case for engaging women;
• Provide coaching to program staff and contractors, especially related to gender and entrepreneurship;
• Line management of 3-4 team members.

 Innovation & learning

• With support from M&E team members, monitor and evaluate the progress of programs;
• Develops innovative approaches to TechnoServe’s work and share these innovations with the practice to promote the adoption of best practices;
• Communicates progress, learnings and achievements of the programs internally to the global practice (especially gender and entrepreneurship practice groups).

Strategy and new business development

• Represent the program at networking and relationship meetings with private and public actors;
• Identification of new and strategic program opportunities;
• Assists in division and country-specific strategic planning related to the gender and entrepreneurship.

 Industry stakeholder management

• Engage with external stakeholders;
• Performs other related duties as required.

Qualifications and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in management, economics, statistics, agribusiness, business administration, agricultural economics, international development or relevant field, or equivalent work experience, master’s degree preferred;
• At least 7 years of multinational experience in one or more of TechnoServe focus areas such as entrepreneurship, value chain development, agribusiness, business strategy, industry analysis, financial management, gender, and monitoring and evaluation;
• Strong gender leadership, supervisory, problem-solving, communication and coordination skills required;
• Demonstrated commitment to advancing gender equality;
• Track record of building and managing strong client and stakeholder relationships;
• Proven ability to develop strategies and conduct analysis on complex commercial questions
• Experience in authoring concise and well-written reports and presentations;
• Knowledge and experience in Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) is an advantage;
• Demonstrated competency in program and staff management, coaching and team leadership;
• Experience working on donor funded projects is preferred;
• Strategic and analytical thinking skills;
• Exceptional interpersonal and cross-cultural skills;
• Fluent user of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint;
• Verbal and written fluency in English and Portuguese.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)