Senior Manager, Government Advisory

Precision Development (PxD)

Senior Manager overseeing government advisory programs at PxD, a non-profit scaling digital agriculture in low-income countries. Driving partnerships and managing project coordination across Africa and Asia.

Posted 5/29/2026full-timeNairobi • 🇰🇪 KenyaSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as the primary coordination point between PMU leads and PxD senior leadership, ensuring learnings, risks, and strategic decisions flow effectively across the organization
Work with PMU leads in India and Ethiopia to streamline PMU activities across geographies, and share learnings across geographies
Work with PMU leads in India and Ethiopia to ensure existing PMU deliverables are on track, report progress to government partners and funders, and revise deliverables and targets if necessary
Work with PMU leads in India and Ethiopia to provide technical support on the development of written materials and presentations
Work with PxD senior leadership (CEO, Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Economist) to develop an overall strategy for PxD’s government advisory work
Own the end-to-end pipeline for new government advisory programs — from opportunity identification and relationship development through to proposal submission, staffing, and program launch
Build and manage relationships with: Government partners to generate demand for government advisory programs, including digital agriculture roadmaps (DAR) and PMUs, Multilateral development finance institutions (World Bank, AfDB, ADB, IFAD) to incorporate digital agriculture into large-scale funding initiatives, Existing PxD ecosystem partners to identify opportunities to advise governments and funders on the expansion of public digital agriculture programs
Represent PxD externally at events, and develop written materials and presentations that build the evidence base and business case for PxD's government advisory model
Develop the internal systems, playbooks, and processes required to establish government advisory as a scalable, replicable service offering within PxD — including onboarding frameworks for new PMUs, knowledge management across geographies, and quality standards for advisory outputs
Work with PxD senior leadership (CEO, Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Economist) and other staff allocated to M&E work, to develop a monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) framework to assess the impact that PxD is having through its government advisory programs, including both direct impact on service delivery to farmers, and indirect impact through policy support and coordination

Requirements

What you’ll need

A bachelor's degree in economics, agricultural economics, public policy, business (MBA), computer science, data science, or a closely related field
Significant experience in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, with at least 2 years of experience managing projects, programs, or business units
A track record of building relationships with senior government counterparts, multilateral institutions, or other high-level stakeholders in low- and middle-income countries
Strong quantitative analytical skills, and the ability to use data to generate strategic insights
Strong understanding of monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) in an international development context, including experience designing KPI and MEL frameworks
Strong writing, presentation, and oral communication skills in English, with the ability to translate evidence into compelling narratives for government and donor audiences
The ability to operate across strategy, business development, and execution — from high-level advisory conversations to building internal systems
Excellent attention to detail
Strong tenacity and self-motivation, with the ability to work proactively with limited supervision and a high degree of uncertainty to achieve deliverables under tight timelines
Experience managing and working collaboratively with diverse, geographically distributed teams
Willingness to travel up to 50% between India, Ethiopia, and other countries in Africa and Asia

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible working arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

economicsagricultural economicspublic policybusiness (MBA)computer sciencedata sciencequantitative analytical skillsmonitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL)KPI designstrategic insights

Soft Skills

relationship buildingwriting skillspresentation skillsoral communication skillsattention to detailtenacityself-motivationproactive work ethiccollaborationadaptability