Business Development and Food Systems-Climate Resilience Manager

1. Resource Mobilisation & Business Development (50%)

• Lead and coordinate the development of competitive concept notes and full proposals, ensuring strong technical design, sound budgeting, and alignment with donor and national priorities.
• Strengthen donor intelligence systems, funding pipeline tracking, and pre-positioning efforts, including participation in relevant sector working groups and national technical platforms.
• Support farmer organizations, cooperatives, and women/youth groups to develop practical and profitable business plans that can secure financing, strengthen market access, and remain resilient to climate shocks.
• Contribute to fundraising strategies linked to WHH Malawi’s country strategy and global “Food Systems for Zero Hunger” ambition

2. Technical Leadership in Food Systems and Climate Resilience (40%)

• Provide expert advisory on climate-smart agriculture, agroecology, soil and water management, watershed planning, and regenerative practices.
• Conduct or guide value chain assessments, focusing on nutrition-sensitive, women- and youth-inclusive market opportunities.
• Identify bottlenecks (input supply, production, processing, storage, transport, market access) and co-develop practical solutions with farmers, cooperatives, private sector and government partners.
• Provide technical input on anticipatory action and disaster risk management to mitigate climate-related shocks (drought, floods, pests, livestock disease)
• Ensure programming is gender-transformative, addressing barriers to voice, agency, land use, labour burden, and control over income.
• Support the mainstreaming of climate risk management across project planning and implementation.
• Contribute to the development or adaptation of training materials and operational guidelines on food systems and climate resilience.
• Support documentation of evidence, learning and scalable models, and share lessons across the organisation.

3. Partnerships, Coordination & Representation (10%)

• Maintain strong coordination with local partners, cooperatives, farmers’ organizations, private sector actors, academia and national/district government structures.
• Participate in and contribute to relevant clusters/working groups to support systems-level coordination.
• Facilitate technical learning exchanges, joint planning and technical capacity strengthening with partners and across the organization.
• Represent WHH in national dialogues, alongside other colleagues, related to food systems, climate resilience, adaptation financing, and inclusive market development.
• Support responsible visibility, communications and evidence-based advocacy together with the Communications Expert.

Your profile

• Master’s degree in agriculture, Agribusiness, Rural Development, Climate Adaptation, Environmental Sciences, or a related field.
• 5–7+ years of relevant professional experience in climate-resilient agriculture, market systems, or food systems programming.
• Proven experience in proposal development for donors such as BMZ, EU, WFP, GFFO, SIDA, USAID, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated capacity to analyse value chains and design inclusive, climate-resilient livelihood systems, especially for women and youth.
• Experience working with district government structures, community institutions, and local CSO partners.
• Ability to synthesize evidence and lead training, coaching, and capacity building processes at multiple levels.

Our offer

We offer you the opportunity to work in a responsible and interesting field as part of an extremely dedicated team. Welthungerhilfe attaches great importance to the personal and professional development of its employees. Remuneration is based on our gender-independent salary scale.