Manager, Agriculture Business Development
Job Description
Title: Manager, Agriculture Business Development
Company Name: mPower Social Enterprises Ltd.
Vacancy: 1
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, veterinary or related subjects is preferred but not mandatory for people having strong experience in the field.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 6 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ mPower Social Enterprises Limited has been developing digital services for farmers and other stakeholders in agriculture value chain. We work both with development organizations and private companies for scaling up our digital services. We are looking for someone who will lead the business development and sales efforts in agriculture both at non-profit organization and private company ends. If you think that you are the right candidate for this position, please apply for our Manager, Agriculture Business Development vacancy.
∎ Duty Station: Head Office in Banani, Dhaka with occasional field visits as per project needs.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Making new partnerships and keeping existing partnerships warm with relevant local NGOs, international NGOs, government agencies and agricultural enterprises.
∎ Designing pilots with partners with the aim to enter into meaningful, long term and larger execution.
∎ Monitoring funding opportunities in agriculture, livestock and climate change and collaborate with proposal writing team for submitting strong proposals on time.
∎ Keeping track of and attending donor, partner and academic conferences of relevant topics
∎ Making presentations of mPower's solutions with confidence and with minimal guidance.
∎ Leading sales efforts of mPower's agriculture unit till contract signing and smoothly handing over new projects to the project managers.
∎ Liaising with the sector specialists, solution designers, product manager and technology team in identifying innovative concepts and executing them.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Deep understanding of the NGO sector.
∎ Understanding of ICT solutions and prior experience with ICT either in design, or requirements gathering would be an added advantage.
∎ Fluency in written and spoken English.
∎ Experience in working independently with high level of self-management.
∎ Advanced communication, negotiation and decision-making skills to do effective and goal-oriented business development.
∎ Knack to learn new topics to connect technology and development paradigm in different sectors like - health, agriculture and humanitarian topics to create new opportunities.
∎ Have proven ability to quickly investigate, learn and deliver technical solutions.
∎ Work cooperatively and effectively with potential clients and different teams to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that enhance organizational effectiveness.
∎ 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 looking presentations with aesthetically pleasing infographics.
∎ Proficiency in MS Office applications, Project Management tools.
∎ Minimum 6 years of work experience in a Business Development role in agriculture or veterinary. The experience can be either in development organizations, government agencies, private agriculture business, ag-tech companies etc.
Salary:
∎ Competitive salary package.
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Income tax paid by the company.
∎ Lunch provided by the company.
∎ Two festival bonuses.
∎ Leave Encashment/Carry Forward Facility.
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 30 Jul 2023
Company Information:
∎ 17 Jul 2023
∎ mPower Social Enterprises Ltd.
∎ Address : Nur Empori (Level-10) | House # 77, B # M, R # 11, Banani, Dhaka-1213
∎ Web : www.mpower-social.com
∎ 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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