Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, January 23 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Your Mission
Your role is to support us to maintain and build strategic partnerships with NGOs, Corporates, Investors & Development Partners to build Good Businesses in East Africa, in a cost effective and time efficient manner. These strategic partnerships help us grow our impact by supporting more businesses to grow into Good Businesses.

We have built a lot of experience in working with entrepreneurs, supporting them to grow their businesses. One of the ways we are looking to grow our work is by selling this experience to investors, NGOs, Corporates and Development partners that are looking to design and implement programs and initiatives that help entrepreneurs build Good Businesses.

Your role will be to support our team by identifying the right opportunities for these partnerships and converting these opportunities into partnerships and revenue for SHONA.

Our goal is to be the program implementation partner of choice for enterprise development projects and programs in Uganda. You and this role will play a key role in ensuring this.

Key Responsibilities
Responsibility
• Strategic Business Development. Support the alignment of our strategic partnership processes and procedures with SHONA’s strategic business goals. The goal of this is to acquire ideal clients for our expertise and capabilities using brand promises that we can deliver upon.
• Pipeline development. Lead the building of a pipeline of relevant projects, potential partners and strategic partnerships.
• Relationship building. Support the building of relationships and creative strategic partnerships with NGOs, Corporates, Investors & Development Partners to help entrepreneurs build Good Businesses in East Africa.
• Proposal development. Support the development of Technical & Financial Proposals for projects in areas related to helping entrepreneurs build Good Businesses in East Africa, including but not limited to capacity building, accessing financing, training, private sector development, and sustainable development.
• Project acquisition. Support the mobilisation of the internal and external resources required for successful implementation of projects as planned.
• Bid management. Support the process of developing and coordinating the bidding process from identification of relevant projects, conducting research through the conclusion of contracts.
• Doing whatever it takes to support the work of SHONA and the businesses we work with: We are a small entrepreneurial team that steps up when there is work to be done. At times, you'll be expected to work outside of just your role to contribute to our team's overall efforts.

Person Specification:
Education/Work Experience
Essential
● An Advanced Degree in any fields
● 3+ years in Project Business Development with Institutional Donors and/or Development Finance Institutions

Desirable
● Experience working with an Institutional Donor and/or Development Finance Institution

Skills + Capabilities
● Outstanding planning, resource and stakeholder management
● Ability to see the bigger picture and sell the vision
● Excellent writing and communication skills
● Attention to detail
● Ability to work under pressure and with tight deadlines
● Excellent research skills
● Creative problem solving
● Conflict resolution skills
● Negotiation & Influencing skills

SHONA Foundational Skills
These are core foundational skills that apply to all members of our team.
• Independence/Self Starter - Ability to assess and initiate things independently. Ability to manage a growing task/project without much guidance or structure. A person who is sufficiently motivated or ambitious to work on their own initiative without needing direction. Shows Initiative and is proactive in taking action.
• Business Acumen - Ability to understand how a business operates and makes money, and to proactively anticipate, navigate and leverage trends impacting the business.
• Proven at accomplishing results - Diligent executor, result driven and methodical in their execution.
• Team collaborator - Ability to work as a team to achieve the common goal.
• Life-long learner - Has a growth mindset, is curious and demonstrates a commitment to continued learning and development
• Intellectual curiosity - The desire to want to know more, to poke around in blind spots and new areas, to make connections between different challenges and opportunities to cross-pollinate ideas.
• Resilience and perseverance - The ability to thrive in a variety of circumstances.
• High emotional intelligence - Self-aware, self-regulated, strong interpersonal skills, curious about people and empathetic.
• Relationship building - Ability to quickly build rapport and engagement with people, including listening and clear communication.
• Analytical skills - Ability to collect, gather, visualise and analyse information in detail and see a problem or situation from different points of view. Analytical skills allow you to solve complex problems by making decisions in the most effective way.
• Project management - Ability to plan, execute, coordinate - leading to completion of the work of a team, achieving specific goals and meet specific success criteria in the required timeframe


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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