ICT Business Development Manager
Job Description
Title: ICT Business Development Manager
Company Name: mPower Social Enterprises Ltd.
Vacancy: 1
Job Location: Dhaka (Banani)
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Minimum Bachelor's degree in any relevant discipline.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 8 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Are you passionate about changing the world and improving the lives of millions of smallholder farmers in Bangladesh? Are you excited about the use of innovative information and communication technologies (ICT) to make impact? If so, here is a great opportunity for a role where your career growth can meet your personal potential and value. mPower Social needs someone to lead the flagship ICT-based livestock services. The role will need to focus from commercialization of certain products. If you think that you are the right candidate for this position, please apply by the 1st of January, 2023 for our ICT Business Development Manager vacancy.
∎ Duty Station: Head Office in Banani, Dhaka with occasional field visits as per project needs.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ The ICT Business Development Manager will have two major categories of responsibilities:
∎ 1. Partnership Management
∎ 2. Institutionalization & Commercialization of ICT application
∎ 1. Partnership Management:
∎ Livestock ecosystem analysis and stakeholder mapping in view of potential users and clients of ICT-enabled services.
∎ Targeting potential business organizations having potential to be a commercial client of the services and making client-specific sales strategy.
∎ Manage stakeholders' partnership agreement life cycle as the primary account person.
∎ Creating targeted and customized communication materials including pitch deck for targeted organizations, for both internal and external stakeholders.
∎ Managing the various threads of partnerships and sales.
∎ Organizing meetings, creating support material, doing innovation/sales pitch, conducting co-creation & ideation workshops and preparing follow-up reports.
∎ Assess crisis situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem.
∎ Proficiency in multiple visual tools (PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator) to create professional presentations and pitches.
∎ Knack to learn new topics to connect technology and livestock commercial needs.
∎ 2. Institutionalization & Commercialization of ICT application:
∎ Private Sector Partners:
∎ Strike written agreements with business clients for collaboration in the form of pilot and/or actual sales, can include but not limited to, Animal Health Companies, Artificial Companies, Vaccine Companies, Pharma Companies, Microinsurance providers, Micro Finance Institutions, Financial Institutions.
∎ Explore partnership opportunities with TSP (Training Service Providers) to commercialize training using ICT solutions.
∎ Collaborate and strike tri-patriate and two-way partnerships with private sector enterprises from different industries.
∎ Government Partners:
∎ Liaising with the relevant government officials, sector specialists, solution designers, technology team and other possible stakeholders as necessary.
∎ Work closely and in collaboration with MSD Team Lead, and ICT Team Lead to ensure Activity's goals are met, while ensuring timely reporting on performance indicators to ACDI/VOCA & mPower Social.
Additional Requirements:
∎ S/he should have minimum 8 (eight) years of experience in project management, ICT 4 development and/or development sector. Experience in livestock sector will be an added advantage.
∎ Relevant project leading experience with development sector, private sector, software development and management consultancy.
∎ Experience of working closely with relevant government bodies, private companies, and development agencies. Candidates with livestock specific experience will get preference.
∎ Understanding of ICT solutions and prior experience with commercializing ICT solutions/applications via b2b sales, onboarding key stakeholders, investors etc. will be an added advantage.
∎ Proven networking skills for developing and managing stakeholder relationships.
∎ Fluency in written and spoken English.
∎ Advanced communication, negotiation and decision-making skills to do effective and goal-oriented business development with experience in developing reports and relevant communication materials.
∎ Prior experience working in collaborative teams working with multi stakeholders' settings and reporting requirements.
∎ Strong verbal and written communication skill to manage internal and external stakeholder, as well as donor communication and reporting guidelines.
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Competitive salary package.
∎ Two festival bonuses.
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 1 Jan 2023
Company Information:
∎ 20 Dec 2022
∎ mPower Social Enterprises Ltd.
∎ Business : About mPower: mPower Social Enterprises was founded by graduate students of Harvard University and MIT in 2008. Currently based in Dhaka (Bangladesh), mPower has partnered with more than 30 of the world`s leading development organizations across 8 countries to amplify the impact of development programs through innovative use of ICTs. Our partners/ funders include BRAC, Save the Children, CARE International, Oxfam, Winrock International, The Asia Foundation, Grameen, World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF, WHO, DFID, USAID, Population Council, Harvard and Johns Hopkins University. mPower has won a number of competitive innovation awards both at international and national levels, including USAID Global Development Award, Gates Innovation Challenge, Grand Challenges Canada etc.
Vision: A world where everyone has access to quality services
Mission: We partner with development organizations to amplify the impact and outreach of their interventions by leveraging the power of information and communication technologies
mPower`s Services:
We help implementers harness the power of innovative design, information technologies, and market forces to ensure delivery of quality services to the underserved
We design and build solutions that allow implementing organizations,
to provide more timely and higher quality services using frontline workforces
to collect field data for better decision-making, organizational learning and monitoring
to develop capacity of community members so as to positively influence choices and behavior
to empower community members to report abnormalities and hold service providers accountable
to take market-driven approaches to service delivery rather than subsidy-driven in order to ensure sustainability
Category: IT/Telecommunication
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