The Lead, Agrifood Systems is responsible for overseeing and driving the transformation of agrifood systems, ensuring the integration of sustainable agricultural practices and innovative solutions that address systemic constraints. In this role, you will engage with partner organizations and ecosystem stakeholders to drive the development and execution of the Foundation’s country strategy and agrifood systems roadmap.

Collaboration with stakeholders, including governments and private sector actors, to develop evidence-based recommendations on program implementation to enhance sustainable agrifood systems for youth employment.
Track and analyze existing and emerging policy trends, regulatory frameworks, and market dynamics impacting the agrifood sector nationally and regionally to adjust program strategies and ensure alignment with evolving agrifood sector conditions.
Provide thought leadership and regular policy updates to the Foundation team, partners and other stakeholders to ensure alignment of programs with evolving economic landscapes.
Lead the development and implementation of strategic initiatives that address ecosystem barriers to young people’s economic participation in the agrifoods sector and sustainable, equitable, and inclusive food systems.
Provide policy and other systems-level analysis and technical input for the design and implementation of agrifoods programs, ensuring alignment with national, regional, and other relevant frameworks.
Contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of system-level impacts, offering insights to improve program effectiveness and sustainability.
Coordinate multi-stakeholder platforms to facilitate concerted efforts aimed at improving the enabling environment for meaningful youth participation in the agrifoods sector.
Lead the design, implementation, and management of agrifood systems programs and projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and sustainable practices.
Collaborate with the Country Program team to leverage synergistic opportunities in developing ecosystem strategies and interventions relevant to Young Africa Works in Uganda and their interlinkages to agricultural, agri-business, and agri-finance programs.
Represent the Foundation’s interest in programming governance activities, such as investment committees, advisory committees, or other stakeholders to provide oversight or elevate and leverage learnings.
Working closely with implementing partners and participants to contribute towards systematic learning and reflection processes to enable continuous adaptive management of programs.
Provide perspective and expertise on emerging issues and trends in the agricultural, agribusiness and agri-finance sector at the ecosystem level.
Identify ecosystem challenges and opportunities in Uganda that can be unlocked through education, labour and financial systems to drive job growth.
Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including Government, Ministries, and Agencies, industry leaders, civil society organizations, development partners, and other stakeholders critical to shaping the country’s agricultural landscape.
Stay abreast of developments in the agriculture sector in Uganda, such as new concepts, key partners, new information being generated, policy movements, important upcoming events, etc.
Lead matrixed and cross-functional team in a myriad of activities related to co-design and implementation phase.
Establish and lead a community of practice for ecosystem actors to enhance sustainable and scalable youth participation in the agrifoods sector.