The Venture37 Technical Director, Resilient Agriculture is a proven thought leader in the area of integrated agricultural solutions that strengthen community resilience to climate-driven shocks towards improved food security and nutrition for communities around the world. S/he will provide technical leadership and support to a diverse portfolio of projects and will serve as the lead technical designer on relevant project proposals. S/he will develop a comprehensive and cohesive strategy to deploy innovative climate-smart and resilience-building solutions to complex agricultural systems around the world. S/he will ensure that new project proposals responsibly support communities to better plan and respond to current and future climate-related stressors. The Director will represent Venture37 as a leader in climate-smart and sensitive agricultural and will help boost agricultural productivity while paving the way for future generations to come.
Primary responsibilities:
Develop customer responsive, integrated and adaptive technical approaches on proposals based on current evidence, research, and learning.
Integrate proven technical best practices to existing projects that are consistent with Venture37’s mission and strategy.
Identify and leverage technical tools and resources to better integrate climate-sensitive solutions into programs that are flexible and adaptable to unique agricultural and geographical contexts.
Ensure high levels of impact and customer satisfaction by providing technical and management oversight throughout program implementation.
Identify and provide insights on emerging issues and trends in resilience programming and its intersection with agriculture.
Serve as technical leader for high-priority NBD pursuits for a variety of US and international clients (e.g. USAID, USDA, non-USG bilateral organizations, foundations, and corporate customers).
Develop strong customer relationships to gain insights and to influence future development priorities.
Collaborate with the NBD team to build and execute customer and country business plans that support Venture37 strategic growth commitments.
Oversee the development of innovative technical work plans to ensure that activities will deliver the intended impact outcomes on time and on budget.
Work with program technical teams to adaptively achieve technical objectives.
Engage closely with customers to develop insights for future impact and ensure ongoing donor satisfaction with V37s programming and technical approaches with a variety of US and international clients.
Lead Venture37 community of practice to share learnings and build team technical capabilities.
Represent Venture37 at agriculture-focused international forums, conferences, roundtables, and other technically relevant events.
Advocate to support climate-smart agriculture investments.
Required experience/knowledge:
Master’s degree in International Development or related technical agricultural field.
Minimum of 12 years’ experience in designing, implementing, and/or managing international agricultural development programs.
Experience with integrated agriculture and crosscutting objectives (e.g. gender, nutrition, youth).
Experience as technical leader of successful openly-competed USAID proposals, as well as new business experience with foundations, bilateral or corporate donor customers.
Proven track record of leading the technical development program activities.
Ability to interact effectively with established networks of senior level international development professionals, donors, governments, universities, and other partners.
Experience leading and working with staff and sensitivity to working with multi-cultural groups.
