Overview
The Project Manager (Corridor Manager) is responsible for leading activities within the target corridor, developing and maintaining partnerships, and coordinating events to strengthen market systems development best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Co-develop and lead implementation of the Corridor development strategy.
- Provide strategic leadership and direction on the Corridor’s strategy to improve private sector development.
- Drive the creation of partnerships between private sector actors.
- Facilitate strategic partnerships between private sector actors, government institutions and financial service providers.
- Promote commercially viable, climate-resilient and inclusive business models.
- Lead the implementation of water ecosystem strengthening initiatives.
- Support establishment of private sector platforms and learning networks.
- Facilitate research into relevant private sector-facing opportunities and trends.
- Liaise with the MEAL team on the development of research tools and methods.
- Formulate strategies to develop private sector actors within the Togwaajale Corridor.
- Support development of operational plans and budgets.
- Facilitate engagement with commercial banks, microfinance institutions, impact investors, diaspora investors and development finance actors.
- Ensure due diligence assessments are conducted before financing decisions are made.
- Lead negotiation and structuring of financing arrangements.
- Support organization of investment forums, business matchmaking events and investor engagement platforms.
- Ensure performance of financed enterprises and ensure financing contributes to improved resilience.
- Assist in updating and supervising MEAL activities.
- Assist in collecting baseline, midline and endline data.
- Lead stakeholder mapping, stakeholder capacity measurement and stakeholder analysis.
- Develop products and campaigns to promote private sector-led investments.
- Ensure the appropriate communication of clear intervention guidelines, expected outcomes, timeframe and workplan.
- Assist the programs teams and the MEAL teams in developing relevant grant agreements, MoUs, ToRs and any other administrative requirements.
- Lead implementation team to refine and adapt the intervention strategies.
- Identify priority areas for interventions.
- Coordinate with local partners and stakeholders to develop and implement a Corridor influence and advocacy agenda.
- Represent the Programme in key forums within The Togwaajale corridor.
- Manage and update stakeholder management plan.
- Hire, orient and lead team members as necessary.
- Work closely with the programme MEAL team members to ensure that the W4R teams working within the Corridor feed into M&E systems and processes.
- Work with country-level Program managers to assess and analyze impact and adaptively manage the programme to meet results.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 3 years of experience implementing entrepreneurship, private sector engagement, market systems development, or investment/incubation interventions. If having a Bachelor’s degree, ideal candidate will have minimum of 5 years’ experience implementing PSE/MSD interventions.
- Demonstrated experience working, partnering with, and brokering PPPs or B2B partnerships with private businesses of diverse sizes including national and mulit-national firms.
- Preference for candidates with experience working in or owning businesses or social enterprises.
- Experience coordinating multiple activities, developing synergies and creating opportunities for collaboration.
- Demonstrated experience in stakeholder relationship cultivation and management, driving partnership agreements, and strengthening B2B coordination for achieving program goals.
- Demonstrated commitment to local capacity building and the ability to engage local stakeholders in project design and implementation.
