Inclusive Business Development Advisor
Job Description
Title: Inclusive Business Development Advisor
Company Name: ICCO Cooperation
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Gaibandha
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's degree on social science, business development, agriculture marketing or relevant subject.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 7 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Reports to: Operation Lead SONGO & Project Manager in matrix Structure
∎ Nature of Job: Full time
∎ Level: Mid-level position
∎ Key contacts: Project Manager, Operation Lead, Head of Programs, PNGOs, Manager, HR & Admin and Finance department of ICCO
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Develop the community sales agents and entrepreneurs with innovative tools to work as a catalyst for community mobilization, bridging the public & private sector and civil society as well as build up capacities of local SMEs.
∎ Develop strategy for sustainable entrepreneurs' and market actor's development and establish last mile distribution points for products and service delivery to the target communities.
∎ Capacity building the SME and market actors through training conduction and innovative training toolkits development.
∎ Provide technical support, capacity building, leadership and strategic direction to technical expert, PNGO staff to meet quality standards in delivery.
∎ Contribute to the design and validation of intervention strategies, based on different types of research (e.g. desk, action, formative) at different levels;
∎ Identify Nutrition Sales agents (NSA) and build their capacity on nutrition messaging, door to door sales
∎ Capacity development of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) to improve nutrition, WASH and food situation of target group
∎ Provide training to WASH entrepreneurs on WASH products and service including scaleable business
∎ Organize training for private sector extension agents for creating linkage between producer and market actor
∎ Provide business development training for selected FBA
∎ Assess local market demanded and organize off farm skills training to selected women, youth and PWDs
∎ Curriculum and Module development of all kind of business development training for different stakeholders
∎ Initiate MOU singing with producer group and input and output market actors to ensure the quality inputs and end market of homestead on-firm and off-firm products
∎ Maintain regular coordination with the consortium partners, project manager and ICCO Dhaka team to ensure supports to the project.
∎ Establish strong working relationships with all consortium members and develop an in-depth understanding of the activities, support needs and strengths of each partner with regards their respective implementation.
∎ Develop action plans on partnerships activities for the project on annual basis through coordinating with consortium members at the districts levels.
∎ Establish networking relationships with the public-private sectors and other partner organizations.
∎ Ensure that planning and monitoring tools are developed and standardized, and that data is regularly collected, based on the overall PMEL mechanism.
∎ Compile and analyses monitoring data and produce monthly monitoring reports.
∎ Conduct and coordinate regular monitoring covering operational issues (finance and compliance), capacity strengthening and overall partnership at field level
Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum of 7 years' experience of working with inclusive business development for poor and extreme poor
∎ Knowledge in developing the community sales agents and entrepreneurs with innovative tools to work as a catalyst for community mobilization, bridging the public & private sector and civil society as well as build up capacities of local SMEs .
∎ Skill in strategy development for sustainable entrepreneurs' and market actors development and capacity building through training conduction and training materials development.
∎ Working experience with multi-stakeholders such as local government, government line department, private sectors, market actors, local service providers.
∎ Extensive experience to design and implementation of suitable business plan and model for SMEs
∎ Candidates having prior working experiences with on-firm and off-firm value chain development for poor and extreme poor households
∎ Capacity to coordinate and liaison with private sector, local government officials, PNGOs and ICCO senior management
∎ Management experience of nutrition / health projects in developing countries and interest in market-led approach and a feeling with business aspects
∎ Ability and willingness to manage project implementation and team-player with good interpersonal skills; aptitude for community mobilization and capacity-building
∎ Excellent communication skills (written and oral) in English.
∎ Excellent in activity monitoring and reporting.
∎ Good computer skills in MS Office.
∎ Working Conditions:
∎ Working days from Sunday to Thursday with 40 hours per week. This position may be required to work some overtime hours to attend meetings such as the Annual Audit.
∎ Any other tasks assigned by the supervisor from time to time.
∎ Yearly renewable the contract based on fund availability and performance.
∎ Have to follow ICCO HR, Admin and Finance related policy.
Salary:
∎ Competitive salary package depending on education and experience.
Application Deadline: May 31, 2019
Company Information:
∎ ICCO Cooperation
Category: NGO/Development
