Job particulars
- Job title
- Business Development and Investor Relations Manager at Strathmore University
- Hiring organisation
- s Expand Recruitment Services
- Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Industry
- Sales & Marketing
- Level
- Management
- Posted
- 7 Oct 2026
- Closing date
- 14 Oct 2026
Key responsibilities
- Investor and funding partner relations:.
- Keeping contact with investors, donors and funding partners; keep a disciplined cadence of quarterly updates, and briefings.
- Maintaining investor CRM and track commitments, milestones and reporting obligations.
- Helping the Programme team sustain investor trust, escalating issues early and protecting the Programme’s credibility.
- Offtaker domestic market expansion:.
- Identifying, size and prioritizing opportunities to grow offtakers’ domestic customer base and distribution across Kenya.
- Supporting go-to-market plans for institutional buyers, urban retail, food service and informal markets, respecting each offtaker’s commercial strategy.
- Opening access to buyer networks, distributors and market intelligence; tracking sales against agreed growth indicators.
- Identifying shared-service and coopetition opportunities, such as joint logistics, cold chain or promotion.
- Advisory to the Programme team:.
- Advising on offtakers’ commercial trajectory, analyzing unit economics, margins, distribution economics and competitive positioning, and recommending Programme adaptations.
- Anticipating risks (pricing pressure, buyer concentration, working capital, new entrants) with proposed responses; supporting briefings to the Programme Director, partners and investors.
- Offtaker workshop support:.
- Helping to coordinate and deliver workshops on market expansion, buyer engagement, distribution economics and investor readiness.
- Capturing learnings from each event as practical, actionable outputs.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Marketing, Agribusiness or a related field.
- Commercial acumen and unit-economics literacy; data and dashboard fluency with the ability to turn data into narratives; excellent written and verbal communication, including senior-level briefings and presentations.
- Willingness to travel within Kenya, especially to pastoral counties (minimal international travel possible).
- Proficiency in English, Kiswahili (highly desired) and a local language of the pastoralist counties (an advantage).
- Agriculture, agribusiness, livestock or FMCG distribution experience (highly desirable); donor-funded or development-sector programme exposure (an advantage).
- Stakeholders: proven senior-level management of investors, donors, corporate partners or institutional buyers.
- Competencies and working relationships:.
- Investor and Stakeholder Management.
- Commercial Judgement.
- Market Analysis and Go-to-Market design.
- Data Literacy
- Facilitation and workshop delivery; accountability, integrity and reporting discipline; collaboration in a small, mission-driven team.
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Hiring organisation
s Expand Recruitment Services