PROGRAM MANAGER at EAMDA

ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The Financial Inclusion for Youths and MSMEs in Agriculture program is a bold, 5-year nationwide initiative that aims to support financially disadvantaged young people and enable youth work opportunities by strengthening farmer organizations, youth-led MSMEs, value chain clusters, and access to affordable finance.

EAMDA is the technical and market systems lead, designing youth-friendly enterprise support, strengthening value chains, coordinating clusters, and driving business development.

The Program Manager will own this engine.

POSITION: Program Manager 
You will lead a highly collaborative, youth-driven, agriculture-tech-finance program that blends business skills, financial inclusion, market systems, and innovation. This is a role for someone with energy, leadership flair, humour, humility, and serious business acumen.

WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS
Because you will:

• Work with youth MSMEs, agripreneurs, farmer organizations, and cooperatives across 20+ counties in Kenya
• Lead a team designing solutions using tech, finance, business coaching, and value chains
• Be at the centre of a national transformation movement for young people
• Co-create a program with our partners

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Program Leadership and Strategy

• Drive overall implementation of program components (enterprise development, markets, clusters, technology adoption).
• Lead annual work planning, budgeting, and reporting.
• Ensure program alignment with outcomes and targets.
• Provide technical direction to regional teams and partners.

2. Youth-Focused Business Development and Capacity Building

• Oversee development and rollout of the business development activities .
• Guide enterprise assessments, clustering, and tailored business support.
• Ensure youth-led MSMEs build strong business systems, financial discipline and market readiness.
• Supervise Business Service Providers

3. Market Systems and Value Chain Strengthening

• Coordinate mapping, research and development of value chain clusters.
• Facilitate linkages with buyers/offtakers, agri-tech providers and service providers.
• Promote technology adoption for efficiency and profitability.

4. Consortium Coordination

• Serve as EAMDA’s focal point to partners.
• Participate in program committees and partner forums.
• Ensure consortium partners align implementation in counties.

5. Youth Engagement and Safeguarding

• Ensure youth-friendly approaches, safe programming, and safeguarding compliance.
• Promote participation of young women in leadership, markets, and farmer organization structures.

6. MEAL and Reporting

• Work with MEAL Lead to track performance, collect data and drive adaptive management.
• Lead documentation of lessons, case studies & innovation pilots.

7. Team Leadership

• Supervise regional coordinators, business advisors, and technical assistants.
• Build a fun, high-energy, accountable culture within the EAMDA team.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Must-Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Agriculture, Development Studies OR related field.
• Master’s degree / MBA (strong business acumen essential).
• 10+ years of experience in program management, enterprise development, or market systems.
• Experience working with youth programs, MSMEs, cooperatives, or financial inclusion.
• Strong experience in multi-stakeholder project coordination.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience in agri-value chains, technology adoption, or rural market development.
• Familiarity with donor-funded programs
• Understanding of gender and safeguarding standards

PERSONALITY AND CULTURE FIT
We’re looking for someone who is:

• Enthusiastic, vibrant, full of energy
• Youth-centric, relatable and down-to-earth
• Big-picture thinker with hands-on execution ability
• Passionate about agriculture, markets and social transformation
• Creative problem solver, not afraid to get dusty in the field
• Loves working with young people and believes in their potential

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
Within 12 months you will have:

• Built strong regional teams and county-level relationships.
• Rolled out enterprise assessments and value chain clusters.
• Enabled youth MSMEs to access markets and finance.
• Positioned EAMDA as a leading technical partner.

HOW TO APPLY
EAMDA Africa is an equal opportunity employer. Women and members of vulnerable and marginalized groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

Please send your CV and a brief cover letter to procurement@eamda.africa with the subject line:

Application – Program Manager

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.