Lead of Digital Livestock Services

Job Description

Title: Lead of Digital Livestock Services

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 values. At mPower, we need someone to lead our digital livestock services from design to implementation to commercialization. If you think that you are the right candidate for this position, please apply by the 12th March 2022 for our Lead of Digital Livestock Services vacancy.
∎ Duty Station: Head Office in Banani, Dhaka with occasional field visits as per project needs.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Job Responsibilities:
∎ The Lead of Digital Livestock Services will have three major categories of responsibilities:
∎ Project Management
∎ Field Implementation
∎ Institutionalization
∎ Project Management
∎ Lead mPower's digital livestock services including but not limited to client need assessment, user acquisition, systematic collection of user feedback for service upgradation etc.
∎ Coordinate with mPower project management focal point for project lifecycle planning and development of digital livestock services.
∎ Ensure delivery within deadline and budget.
∎ Write periodic reports.
∎ 2. Field Implementation
∎ Coordinate with field teams for implementation of the digital livestock services.
∎ Design, develop, coordinate, and implement user feedback to improve UI/UX and make
∎ continuous improvement of digital livestock services.
∎ Pilot and scale the digital livestock solutions in the field.
∎ Supervise field staff responsible for implementation of digital services.
∎ 3. Institutionalization
∎ Collaborate with government and private stakeholders (e.g., DLS, FAO, Livestock Pharmaceuticals and Artificial Insemination companies) that are relevant for the uptake and upscale of the digital services.
∎ Understand the stakeholders' strategies, processes, pain points, opportunities and identify ways how the digital services can be plugged into them for a win-win situation.
∎ Organize and facilitate stakeholder meetings, and pitch digital services to find opportunities for collaboration.
∎ Define client-specific strategy, conduct pilots with them and measure outcome so that the services can be positioned as a market-driven solutions.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum 8 (eight) years of relevant experience either in development sector, digital services rollout or livestock private sector.
∎ Experience of working closely with relevant government bodies, private companies, and development agencies, especially in livestock will get preference.
∎ Proven networking skills for developing and managing stakeholder relationships.
∎ Strong verbal and written communication skill to manage internal and external stakeholder

Salary:
∎ Salary Range: BDT 1,00,000 - BDT 1,20,000

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Competitive salary package.
∎ Income tax paid by the company.
∎ Lunch provided by the company.
∎ Two festival bonuses.

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 12 Mar 2022

Company Information:
∎ 6 Mar 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: Agro (Plant/Animal/Fisheries)

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