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Project Manager - Marketplace for Nutritious Foods, Mozambique


GAIN fights malnutrition in Mozambique through innovative and sustainable models that increase access to affordable nutritious foods among communities vulnerable to malnutrition.
The GAIN Marketplace for Nutritious Foods (‘Marketplace’) is knowledge, networking and financing platform for local enterprises to improve the market availability of nutritious foods. It facilitates partnerships and knowledge sharing across the agriculture value chain and catalyzes innovations to improve the diets of ordinary Mozambicans.
The Project Manager will implement and oversee the project's main activities which includes the Innovation Accelerator, Community of Practice and the Technical Advisory Committee. The Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring the success of the Marketplace in Mozambique which includes managing the technical/financial reporting for GAIN and as per donor requirements. Further, the Project Manager will ensure there is high quality of business planning and technical assistance delievered to the Marketplace grantees.
The ideal candidate will have solid project management experience in Mozambique with proven abilities to manage consultants and sub-contractors. A strong understanding of the business context in Mozambique (in particular the role of agribusiness) is required. It is highly desirable for the candidate to have proven experience of mamaing donor funded development projects and has led donor relations such as USAID. Fluency in English and Portuguese is mandatory and candidates must already have the legal right to reside and work in Mozambique.

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