Peter Okoth Email & Phone Number

Nairobi County, Kenya

The Country Director is the senior role in the country programme and Kenya has a dynamic and varied country portfolio. The Kenya programme, has a strong focus on supporting market access, trade, and enterprise development, underpinned by natural resource management, green economy approaches, gender and nutrition sensitive programming and climate change.

Nairobi, Kenya

• Responsible for overall programme delivery and business growth of the SHA Kenya country Programmes by directly providing Leadership and Strategic Direction; Programme Management; Operations Management; Safety and.
• The position co-ordinates service delivery from relevant units within SHA including programme/project managers, technical advisors, HR, Finance, and logistics.
• Funding and donor relationship management is central to this role in building a pipeline of new programmes.
• This role is SHA Kenya private sector lead, expanding SHA Kenya private sector engagement and building new strategic alliances and business development and fundraising opportunities.Specifically:
• Provide direct line management to country Advisors and Programme Managers, and through them support the management and development of all programme staff to promote SHA’s values in their day-to-day work.
• Lead strategic programme development of the Kenya country programme, in collaboration with the Kenya CD.

• The Programmes Manager is responsible for the successful implementation of the TMEA Women in Trade Programme in Kenya and across East Africa’s Uganda, Burundi and DRC by ensuring programme outcomes are achieved and.
• Responsible for donor management and the overall programme management and delivery of key output areas within timelines
• Provided Partnership management to the consortium members – TruTrade Africa and Sauti East Africa, and ensuring each partner delivers their role in the programme effectively.
• Provided People and operations management to the programme staff and consortium staff by ensuring periodic review and planning meetings.
• Provided direct implementation support for certifications on Global GAP, HACCP, ISO 45001 and ISO 9001, ensuring all products under ISO 9001 meet the nutritional needs of the consumers.
• Ensures successful delivery of key programme activity areas such as due diligence on SMEs using SCOPEinsight Tool and Partner Africa Capacity Assessment Took to inform tailor-made training, coaching and mentorship.

Kenya

• The job role is to provide technical assistance to Programme and Portfolio managers on all agribusiness issues, to ensure development of profitable SMEs and smallholder farmer-led enterprises that are fully integrated.
• Identify and support the growth of farmer business groups, cooperatives and farmer associations to develop and manage both on farm and off farm Income generating Activities,
• Provide technical leadership on Agribusiness matters to AgriFi Kenya challenge Fund managers and support on concept note evaluations, due diligence, financial forecast assessment, setting up grant processes.
• Work closely with Portfolio Managers as the chief SME advisor on matters trade development including market access/linkages, financial access and meeting customer specifications,
• Conduct economic, commercial and market assessments, participatory action research and market intelligence for the relevant sectors (VC) and assist SMEs in establishing and elaborating business and strategic plans.
• Provide technical guidance in designing appropriate Agribusiness capacity development interventions including, recruitment and training of BDS providers, mentorship and coaching of MSMEs and farmer-based enterprises.

Nairobi, Kenya

• Provided and ensured Leadership and Strategic Direction; Quality Programme Management; Operations Management; Relationship Management with partners, stakeholders and donors; Safety and Security of staff and site.
• Provide technical support in coaching and mentoring out grower farmer business groups and cooperatives, efficient management of financial resources, including the review and approval of program budgets and monitoring.
• Provide technical assistance to the Business Support Advisors to identify technical, managerial, governance, financial capacity needs, and the development of growth plans for each farmer business groups.
• Identify risks and issues related to business development services in a timely manner and suggest appropriate and profitable adjustments,
• Oversee management, delivery, and monitoring of business development departments;
• Supervise business monitoring, evaluation, and reporting and ensure quality control and timeliness of all deliverables as required by Agrinfo Kenya;

Rangpur, Bangladesh

• Provided Technical training, coaching and mentoring to Farmer Business Groups, Cooperatives and MSMEs of different value chains; including building their capacity on different business development services; and.
• Performed analysis of selected agricultural value/food chains, including food security and food safety issues and assessed the feasibility of agribusiness investment by entrepreneurs;
• Identified, trained, mentored and coached agribusiness MSMEs on business development services; maintained strong partnerships between farmer groups and SMEs/private sector organizations and collaborating with.
• Streamlined gender and youth inclusion and participation in agribusiness, including training and mentoring youth on agri-enterprise development; identification and training of youth ambassadors to manage knowledge and.
• Developed effectively functioning Farmer-centers’ Service catalogue and Business Development Services; trained and provided technical mentorship to the Franchisors/entrepreneurs for sustainability of the farmer centres;
• Worked with social enterprises in conducting Environmental Due Diligence and investment analysis of interested investors, including carrying out due diligence to identify capacity needs;

Ghana

• Overall purpose of this job was to work with Christian Aid and their National partner NGOs in Ghana to develop and implement a number of market/value chain initiatives and also to build organizational capacities of.
• Worked with GIZ Experts, Ghana Green Label Standards Authority and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Directorate to research and pilot the possibility of producing fresh fruits and vegetables using Good Agricultural.
• Developed concepts, methodologies, guidelines and indicators for small-holders’ agricultural marketing, inclusive and sustainable agri-food value chain and private sector engagement;
• Lead and conducted research in different areas of the projects for both CAOF and YHFG including; an Agronomic analysis of fresh fruits and vegetables market in Upper East Region, and different Market Actor Analyses.
• Analyzed constraints and opportunities related to agribusiness investment options with emphasis on the functionality of markets, support services, trade policies, market institutions and organizations, risk management.
• Provided technical support in identifying and facilitating linkages with market opportunities including developing digital mobile platforms to strengthen value chain development and quick access to agricultural.

Uganda

• General purpose of this position was to assess the pastoral system in Northern Uganda (Moroto, Lira and Kabong’) and how it affects livestock transactions, household food security, budgets, and labour use, and design.
• Lead a team in conducting a comprehensive impact assessment to determine how the level of resource management, inputs, and outputs occur on the household level; the returns per unit cost on crop production and.
• Conducted food security, nutrition, markets and resilience analysis and prepared reports on household food assessment to enable effective decision-making on the development of regional strategic interventions, policies.
• Developed and Supported the implementation of agricultural strategy and, in particular, the institutionalization of the value chain approach;
• Developed programme activities, providing technical analysis, interpretation, recommendations and coaching to staff, SMEs and Lead Groups to enable high performance and value chain working;
• Worked closely with staff, crop and livestock industry SMEs to develop relevant market-oriented business model that contributed to the organization’s strategy in the northern region.

Lodwar, Turkana County, Kenya

• Designed survey tools to assess existing economic potential of the Lodwar-Turkana community, their assets, activities and capabilities that can be used for future drought resilient livelihoods development interventions.
• Conducted a baseline survey in 5 communities of Turkana: Lodwar, Lokichar, Nadwat, Kalobeyei and Lokichogio; that informed the organization of the available assets, activities and capabilities of the community that.
• Collected, analyzed and presented data that helped design interventions aimed at getting the primary actors out of extreme poverty by addressing related elements that contributed to the cycle of aid dependency in the.
• Conducted an analysis of gender role and control over productive resources such as land, livestock, water, seeds, fertilizers, machinery, financial assets, and the income from sales of crop, livestock or livestock.
• Provided technical support in designing livelihoods intervention programme and development of monitoring and assessment tools for crop and livestock farming

Kisumu County, Kenya

• Goals Management of both Micro- finance and Agribusiness Departments of the company,
• Line Management of a high performing business staff, capacity building, mentoring, and implement recruitment, training and retention strategies,
• Developed and Implemented Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP) and undertook performance appraisals to assess staff against their individual targets,
• Monitored business assessments, loan underwriting, processing, disbursements, and repayments, including staff portfolio management,
• Managed contractual agreements between Agrinfo Kenya Ltd and other private companies and pool of small-scale producers,
• Established business appraisal criteria for credits, designed credit repayment and recovery system

Kisumu, Kenya

• Managed Loan Underwriting and Processing for business and agribusiness clients;
• Managed Client recruitment, Education and Training to enhance efficiency;
• Managed credit Portfolios in the satellite office;
• Managed periodic Debt Collection and Loan repayments from Faulu clients;
• Handled Public Relations issues of the company at all level.

Nakuru, Kenya

• Managed and coordinated all farm activities and workers
• Made farm plans and budgets
• Ensured maximum outputs and profit from both crop and livestock
• Marketed ABMA products to increase sales and profitability

Migori County

Middle College for Middle and Advanced Diploma Courses

Njoro Kenya

Support in Data Collection, Entry and Ananlysis

Master Of Science - Ms, Sustainable Agriculture & Food Security

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Agricultural Economics

Activities and Societies: CHAIRMAN EDITORIAL CU, CHAIRMAN NET, CHAIRMAN AGECSA, MEMBER OF ROTARACTcourse subjects including Agribusiness.

Certificate, Agricultural Economics, Certificate

Activities and Societies: Partnership study sponsored by USAID, Egerton University and Utah State UniversityDiscussed issues on; Face of.

High School, Kenya Certificate Of Secondary Education (Kcse)

Activities and Societies: Class Secretary/Prefect for four yearsStudied English, Swahili, Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Geography, and History