Manager, SUN Business Network (SBN) and Private Sector Partnerships

Role Overview

As Manager, SUN Business Network (SBN) and Private Sector Partnerships, you will lead delivery of GAIN’s work to bring business perspectives and investment into food systems transformation and nutrition. You will shape the SUN Movement’s approach to private sector engagement, help national business alliances contribute to policy discussions in eight SUN countries, and guide changes to SBN governance, including its co-chairing arrangements. The position is a 14-month fixed-term role, subject to funding, based in GAIN’s office in Kenya, Uganda or Rwanda.

Key Responsibilities

• Consult with SUN Movement stakeholders and business representatives to develop a practical private sector engagement strategy.
• Build and deliver a partnership approach linking agribusinesses in the Global North and Global South.
• Set out the private sector’s needs and potential contribution in two fragile and conflict-affected countries.
• Coordinate with the SUN Movement’s networks and Secretariat to develop an agreed plan for SBN’s long-term sustainability.
• Help national business alliances engage in regional and international policy and advocacy forums.
• Organise and facilitate SBN participation in regional discussions on business contributions to food systems transformation.
• Support national alliances to take part in nutrition dialogues and represent business perspectives effectively.
• Help alliance representatives prepare private sector investment cases and build relationships with multilateral and public development banks and other financing institutions.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Substantial experience in private sector development, preferably in food systems, nutrition or a related programme area.
• A track record of establishing and managing partnerships among businesses, government bodies and development organisations.
• Experience working in low- and middle-income countries; experience brokering public-private or private-private partnerships is particularly relevant.
• Understanding of investment or financing initiatives, including developing business cases or engaging financial institutions.
• Strong project management capability, including oversight of workplans, budgets, risks, consultants and delivery involving multiple teams or countries.
• Confident facilitation, negotiation, consensus-building and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence without relying on formal authority.
• Clear communication, sound judgement and practical problem-solving skills, including the ability to manage competing priorities in complex settings.
• Willingness and ability to travel as required. The source does not specify an education requirement.

What We Offer / Why Join

This fixed-term role offers the opportunity to strengthen business participation in nutrition governance and connect agribusinesses with policy and financing opportunities across the SUN Movement. The position is based in Kenya, Uganda or Rwanda and runs for 14 months, subject to funding availability.