Job Description

Title: Livelihoods and Market System Advisor ( Re Advertisement)

Company Name: Concern Worldwide

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters in Social Science, Business Administration (Marketing as major), Agricultural Science, Economics or relevant discipline

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 7 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Type of Contract: Fixed Term contract for three (03) years
∎ Duty Station: Head Office, Dhaka, Bangladesh
∎ Job Purpose:
∎ The Livelihoods and Market System Advisor`s main responsibility is to ensure high quality technical support to Concern`s Gender Transformative Livelihoods, Market Systems related work in development and emergency programmes in Bangladesh, targeting especially extremely poor and vulnerable populations. The advisor will be expected to develop and document best practices and to promote organisational learning, liaising closely with the programme teams and partners in Dhaka and Cox`s Bazar, as well as the Strategy, Advocacy and Learning (SAL) Unit at headquarters level.
∎ The successful candidate will report to the Deputy Director Programme Quality & Development on a day-to-day basis, however will have strong links with Deputy Director Programme Implementation, Programme Managers, MEAL Advisor, supporting integrated programming responses in the area of nutrition, health systems, livelihoods, social protection programmes, DRR and emergency preparedness and response. The Livelihoods and Market System Advisor, will also be expected to work in a very supportive, pro-active manner with all of Concern`s partners, ensuring that best practice is applied and high levels of programme quality are achieved.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Work closely with the Deputy Director Programme Quality and Development in delivering contextual analysis, identifying existing and potential opportunities, proposal development, and designing innovative pilots engaging relevant colleagues.
∎ Engage with Deputy Director Programme Implementation and Programme Managers and support them in the implementation of high quality and gender transformative livelihoods, markets, and cash assistance programmes across Concern's operational areas, and champion evidence based innovative adaptations as appropriate.
∎ Lead in ensuring that there is a high level of knowledge and skills that contributes to strong alignment to Concerns' organisational Livelihood Security Policy, Livelihoods Strategy and other relevant sectorial guidelines including innovative used of cash, application of market systems development approaches and the inclusion of cross-cutting issues (e.g. equality, protection, DRR, climate change, environment, conflict sensitive).
∎ Work with Technical Advisors in HQ to ensure the adaptation of tools and materials for respective delivery modalities that are not only technically sound but suitable to the context as well, in the fields of livelihoods, food security, markets and cash assistance.
∎ Develop and update standard operating procedures (SOPs) and training curriculums to support the implementation of high quality, donor compliant, livelihoods, markets system development and cash assistance interventions, and a standard approach is adopted across all regions/partners/programmes.
∎ Ensure that market assessments and market systems analysis are routinely carried out using appropriate tools, and that the findings are used to inform programme development, adaptation and learning that ensure that all our programmes are appropriately engaging with markets.
∎ Lead on monitoring of the changing context in Bangladesh (and globally) and how Concern areas of operation are impacted, market trends and how agriculture and small and medium enterprises are coping.
∎ Represent Concern at livelihoods, markets, food security and cash assistance forums at sector, national, regional and global level, as appropriate.
∎ Coordinate with the Advocacy Advisor and Deputy Director Programme Implementation to input directly into Concern's advocacy strategies and annual implementation plans.
∎ Review monthly progress and assess technical support requirement for all programme teams and partner staff and to provide support and training accordingly
∎ Implement the technical support plan with regular follow up through frequent field trips.
∎ Work with the MEAL team to capture and disseminate learning and best practices around gender transformative livelihoods, markets, food security, cash assistance internally and externally and with other Concern country programmes.
∎ Provide the Communication Coordinator with regular content, that enable us to produce high quality capacity statements, technical briefs, and other communication products that profile Concern's work.
∎ Other:
∎ Actively participate in preparation or updates of Preparing for Effective Emergency Response (PEER) plan, Security Management Plan (SMP) and other Concern initiatives.
∎ Take active measures to address equality issues, particularly relating to gender equality and inclusion, in programme as well as operational activities.
∎ Ensure the highest stands of accountability through ensuring good communication and information sharing within and outside the organisation.
∎ Be aware of, understand and comply with all of Concern's policies and procedures (P4, finance, logistics, HR, security management etc).
∎ Actively participate in any emergency response if called upon to do so (within the existing programme area or in a new one).
∎ Undertake other related duties as may reasonably be assigned by the Deputy Director Programme Quality & Development, Programme Director, or Country Director.
∎ Accountability :
∎ In line with Concern's commitments under the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS):
∎ Actively promote meaningful community participation and consultation at all stages of the project cycle (planning, implementation, M&E);
∎ Work with relevant colleagues to ensure that the Complaints and Response Mechanism (CRM) is functional and accessible, that feedback and complaints are welcomed and addressed;
∎ Work with relevant colleagues to ensure that information about CRM, safeguarding and expected staff behaviour is disseminated among programme participants and communities.

Additional Requirements:
∎ At least seven (07) years' (for females 05 years) of proven experience of working in similar positions under I/NGOs or UN agencies.
∎ Highly competent in implementation of and/or providing technical support to gender transformative livelihood and market systems programmes in Bangladesh, both in development and emergency contexts.
∎ Proven experience in designing, implementing, monitoring inclusive livelihood and market interventions
∎ Extensive knowledge and experience of supporting evidence based, innovative adaptation of approaches, appropriate to the needs of program(s) having livelihood, market and cash assistance, support for trade and small businesses/entrepreneurship etc. as key components
∎ Competent in market assessments, market systems and trend analysis, using appropriate tools including gender and climate change lens.
∎ Proven expertise of pro-poor market development and accessing products of extreme poor program participants (women and men) in market and benefiting them from market value chains.
∎ Experienced in developing/formulating policies, guidelines and or SOPs relevant to livelihood, market driven program components.
∎ Experience of working in partnership with private sector will be an added advantage
∎ Representational skills at regional, national and international level
∎ Strong ability to manage and deal with diverse stakeholders.

Salary: Tk. 132900 - 155475 (Monthly)

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival allowance (02), Baisakhi allowance, Provident Fund, Gratuity, Group Life and Hospitalisation Insurance coverages, OPD coverage, Mobile ceiling and other admissible benefits as per organisational policy.

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 19 Jul 2023

Company Information:
∎ 6 Jul 2023
∎ Concern Worldwide
∎ Business : Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organization dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world`s poorest countries. With its head quarter in Ireland, Concern has been working in Bangladesh since 1972.

Category: NGO/Development