Head of Business Development – Farm Africa

Head of Business Development

Duration: Full time, permanent

Location: Flexible, we are open to hearing from candidates who are based in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda or the UK

Salary: £49,000 – £53,000

For more than 35 years Farm Africa has worked with farmers, helping them to increase their harvests, build their incomes and sustain their natural resources. We do this by working closely with local communities, partnering with governments and the private sector to find effective ways to fight poverty. We are now seeking a highly-skilled Head of Business Development to join our team.

You will be responsible for identifying new business opportunities, working with and guiding your team and senior staff to develop and manage bid development and secure restricted income for Farm Africa.

You will be highly skilled in building an effective and innovative pipeline of concepts/ proposals for funding and adept at liaising and coordinating with in-country teams. You will be responsible for originating and developing Farm Africa’s relationships with a global range of multilateral institutional donors and partners.

This is an ideal position for somebody with the entrepreneurial skills, capability and tenacity to drive an effective and innovative pipeline of proposals for funding within an ambitious specialist organisation.

If you are one of the best at what you do but have grown tired of the bureaucracy and red tape involved in getting it done, then please send your CV to recruitment@farmafrica.org because this could be the perfect role for you.

More details about this role can be found in the job description, the deadline for applications is 9:00 am GMT on Monday 01 February 2021.

Note: Farm Africa will not accept third party applications and recruitment consultants are respectfully asked not to get in touch with regards to this role.