Job Description

Title: Field Officer Business Development (Response Programme)

Company Name: World Vision Bangladesh

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor degree in Agribusiness, Business/ Agricultural Marketing, Market Research or relevant field.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Provide supervision, technical capacity building of Facilitators and project teams in project modules and approaches such as S4T, Business selection, planning and management, business record keeping, risk management and market linkages. S/He is responsible for engagement with private sector businesses including in Ukhiya and Teknaf as well as Cox Bazar as needed.
∎ The Field Officer Business development will coordinate and support linkage between Cash for work beneficiaries and farmers and the market. The coordinator will identify right market for the products of the farmers and help them set up their businesses and through mentoring focus on developing commercial capacities of the farmers towards becoming professional business entrepreneurs. He/she will discover opportunities for contract farming or linkage of farmers with BDS providers, processors and exporting companies. The coordinator will work directly and closely with the Field Coordinators, Project Manager and other field teams, Government departments and local NGOs and other stakeholders

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Training staff and beneficiaries ( CFW and IGA beneficiaries) on S4T, Business selection, planning and management (SPM) modules
∎ Ensure targeted beneficiaries are trained on the S4T modules and are functional as per WV S4T principles
∎ Ensure targeted beneficiaries are trained on SPM, business plan developed and businesses are flourishing
∎ Work with targeted businesses and support those with promising businesses with startup Grants for their IGA
∎ Work with buyers to clarify their specific needs and help farmers to communicate with these buyers to plan concrete and successful completion of transaction
∎ Work with quality input suppliers to clarify their specific procedures of procurements and help business/farmers to communicate with these input suppliers to plan and concrete successful completion of transaction
∎ Work with banks and MFIs to clarify specific requirement for loan/financial services and help farmers to communicate with these buyers to plan and concrete successful completion of transactions -in case a group wants to expand their business through external credit
∎ Work closely with CFW beneficiaries to ensure their business are functional and being manage well
∎ Work with MEAL team to ensure the integration of business practices and Core Humanitarian standard
∎ Increase the capacity of the farmers to adopt high value, export standard and space saving enterprises
∎ Provide consistent and regular business support, mentoring and follow up to enterprises including production support to ensure a successful enterprise
∎ Support successful business set up including setting up financial records, business plan, dividend policy and profit and loss statement
∎ Conduct regular scoping of business, identify gaps and take measures to fill the gaps to reduce business mortality
∎ Support enterprises to have access to loan to ensure expansion or diversification
∎ Support enterprises to have access to input
∎ Identify opportunities for farm based value addition of products and provide instant training to farmers

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at least 30 years
∎ Minimum 3 years professional work experience in livelihood humanitarian/ development work including in displacement setting.
∎ Competence in agro business planning, development and profitability analysis
∎ Ability to work in a harsh working environment
∎ Sensitivity towards emerging conflict in refugee settings
∎ Good communication, writing, negotiation and facilitation skills
∎ Good computer skills: Ms Excel, Ms Word
∎ Self-motivator, having the ability to work with limited supervision
∎ Ability to work in an innovative environment where plans are developed fast and open for change
∎ Ability and skills to support activities where both refugee and host communities are involved
∎ Able to ride a motorcycle with a valid driving/riding license
∎ Preferably knowledge of Arabic or other relevant local language

Salary: Tk. 65000 (Monthly)

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Medical allowance, Weekly 2 holidays
∎ Festival Bonus: 1

Application Deadline: June 15, 2019

Company Information:
∎ World Vision Bangladesh
∎ Address : Abedin Tower (2nd floor), 35 Kemal Ataturk Avenue, Banani, Dhaka - 1213, P.O. Box: 9071
∎ Business : World Vision (WV) is an established international Christian humanitarian development and advocacy organization dedicated for working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their fullest potential by tackling the causes of poverty & injustice. It serves all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, gender or ability.

Being a child-focused organization, World Vision has the responsibility to ensure safety & protection of the children while they come in contact with the staff; accordingly all the recruits will go through specific checks and compliance procedures in accordance to its Child Protection Policy. Persons with a history of child rights and child protection violation are discouraged to apply.

Female are specially encourage to apply.

Category: NGO/Development

Source: bdjobs.com

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