Kenya Markets Trust is a Kenyan non-governmental organisation that works in partnership with the private sector; non-governmental organisations; county and national governments; associations and other local and International partners to unleash large scale, sustainable market growth by changing the underlying incentives, capacities and rules that shape
RE: IS/05/2020
Reporting to the Sector Manager – Water, the incumbent will work to build strong relationships with businesses, water utilities and government partners across the country. S/he will also contribute to driving sector transformation by developing and implementing innovative interventions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage day-to-day relationships with selected water utilities, national and county governments and other private sector actors.
- Design innovative interventions that would facilitate change among targeted market actors.
- Support selected market actors to improve its commercial, financial and technical competencies.
- Support the team to design interventions that would mainstream resilience, competitiveness and inclusiveness in business operations.
- Contribute to internal learning and knowledge management processes, including regular performance monitoring, programme reviews and evaluations.
- Collect, analyse, interpret and compile reports that communicate gaps in market actors’ practices.
- Prepare briefs for selected market actors, including expected results and milestones and subsequently monitor their performance and results.
- Manage assigned technical interventions to improve the performance of selected market actors.
- Identify opportunities for innovation and new areas for developing market systems approaches and tools.
- Collect basic data to support situation analysis and for preparing briefs to the Sector Managers with recommendations for in-depth Policy or research work.
Key Qualifications:
- A degree in economics, water engineering, social sciences or related field.
- At least 5 years’ working experience in the commercial sector and/or economic development or management consultancy. Experience gained in the water sector environment would be an added advantage.
- Good commercial acumen – appreciation of budgeting and financial management.
- Good analytical and critical thinking skills, problem-solving, judgment and decisionmaking skills and the ability to monitor and explain trends and variances.
- Excellent writing skills and strong reporting and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate technical information in a clear and concise manner, for different purposes and across multiple audiences.
- Strong relationship management skills, with the ability to engage direct and indirect reports and peers.
- Good negotiation and persuasion skills with the ability to influence people positively
- Able to work both independently, efficiently and effectively as well as in collaboration with people at various levels and from different backgrounds.
- Intermediate level proficiency in MS Office applications i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, Outlook and statistical packages.
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