Jacqueline Chepkoech

Zealous agriculture enterprises development and market systems professional experienced in designing and implementing sustainable agribusiness and food value chains programs that impact economic growth and livelihood development. Refined acumen in identifying problems and opportunities faced by farming communities, SMEs and youth in agriculture and in designing market-led business models and market linkage. Resourceful contributor to strategies on engaging value chain actors and stakeholders in agriculture, market systems analysis and agribusiness policy design. Gained expertise in developing competitive agribusiness models, collaborating with agribusinesses, public sector, private sector and other industry players to accelerate scale ups in market systems development and financial inclusion. 

• Industry knowledge: refined through a 14-year progressive career encompassing agriculture value chains, market system approaches, agricultural finance and working with farmers, off-takers, private and public sector. 
• Stakeholder engagement: strong stakeholder and partnership building expertise, with successes in establishing public-private partnerships and working with donors and other donor funded organizations.
• Project management: familiar with the full project lifecycle, and solid experience in project planning, implementation, review and closure 
• Leadership: successfully worked with multicultural teams, created collaborative cultures, and managed performance through mentorship, training and frequent performance reviews
• Analytical skills: gained through value chain analysis, budget design and monitoring, and synthesizing market and economic data for strategic decision making 
• Communication: demonstrated through successes in proposal development, report writing, senior stakeholder communication and listening to target communities 
• Problem solving: accustomed to identify, evaluate problems and design relevant and long-term solutions

1. MBA, Strategic Management | Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi | 2011
2. Bachelor’s in Business and Management, Marketing | Egerton University | 2004
3. Financing Agriculture Value Chain | Strathmore University | Nov – Dec 2020