Market Development Specialist

Job Description

Title: Market Development Specialist

Company Name: Mukti Cox`s Bazar

Vacancy: 02

Age: Na

Job Location: Cox`s Bazar

Salary: Tk. 60000 - 65000 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 8 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

Published: 2025-11-09

Application Deadline: 2025-11-20

Education:

• Master’s degree in Economics/ Agriculture/ Development Studies /Urban Planning/ Agri Economics/ Agri Business/ MBA or equivalent from recognized university. Experience Requirements·      

• At least 8 years of experience and more than 5 years experience in market system development, producer groups, institutional development, cooperatives, AC and stakeholder management experience·      

• The applicants should have experience in the following area(s):Market linkage, Food Security, Livelihoods.

Requirements:

• At least 8 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

Skills Required: Gender Sensitive Programming,Good capacity to work under pressure,Good comunication skill,leadership and negotiation,Leadership and teamwork,Marketing,Performing job independently,Product Pricing,Relationship Marketing,Time Management and Prioritization

Additional Requirements:

• Ability to work hard, work under pressure, positive and can-do attitude and ability to understand local language.     

• Self-motivated, independent of the ability to perform multi-task.      

• Knowledge in gender focused approach to development and resilience.·       Expertise on undertaking and follow up monitoring to ensure that proposed mitigation measures are implemented according to an agreed upon environmental and social mitigation implementation plan.      

• Proven understanding and knowledge on development sector including work related to program and budget planning/monitoring activities.

•  Develop and nurture strategic relationships with external decision-makers in government, the private sector and donors in support of our change ambitions.      

• Ensure that gender and inclusion issues are properly considered and resourced in all of our work.      

• Experience in organizing knowledge and learning sharing events involving community, practitioners and researchers and policy makers.      

• Strong communication, report writing and presentation skill in Bangla and English.      

• Demonstrated capacity to work with teams.      

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and report-writing skills in Bangla and English; knowledge of Rohingya dialect is an asset.      

• Knowledge in gender focused approach to development and resilience.·       Proven understanding and knowledge on development sector including work related to program and budget planning/monitoring activities.      

• Develop and nurture strategic relationships with external decision-makers in government, the private sector and donors in support of our change ambitions.      

• Ensure that gender and inclusion issues are properly considered and resourced in all of our work.     

• Demonstrated capacity to work with teams.      

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and report-writing skills in Bangla and English; knowledge of Rohingya dialect is an asset.      

• Demonstrated experience in market assessment, partnership development, and private sector engagement, preferably in fragile or displacement-affected settings.      

• Strong analytical, negotiation, and networking skills to build partnerships with private sector entities, CSOs, and market actors.     

• Proficiency in business planning, marketing, entrepreneurship development tools, and market linkage facilitation.

Responsibilities & Context:

Context :

Mukti Cox’s Bazar, with technical support from FAO, is implementing the EU-funded PROACT Bangladesh project titled “Promoting Nutrition-Sensitive Farming, Toxin-Free Dried Fish Production, and Strengthening Market Access and Value Chains” in Cox’s Bazar Sadar, Ramu, Ukhiya, and Teknaf. The initiative aims to improve food security, nutrition, and income through climate-smart agriculture, toxin-free dried fish processing, and homestead gardening. It will establish aggregation centers to boost market access and provide business and financial literacy training to empower smallholder farmers, especially women. With 30+ years of experience and 3,028 staff, Mukti ensures inclusive, resilient, and impactful programming aligned with FAO’s strategic goals.

Purpose of job:

Designs and implements market facilitation strategies and interventions that impact the competitiveness, inclusiveness, and resilience of vegetables/Dry fish . Ensures market system strategies and interventions are well integrated. Facilitates relationships between buyers, input suppliers, producers, and other relevant market actors. Acts as focal point for private and public sector actors in promoting value chain and market system development.

 Job Responsibilities :

• Identifies relevant market actors, develops value chain maps, and identifies constraints, market-based solutions, and incentives to integrate small-scale producers into their supply chains and commercial distribution networks.

• Designs and implements inclusive market systems interventions that support overall target value chain strategies.

• Recommends adaptation, scaling up or termination of facilitation activities based on feasibility analysis.

• Identifies and assesses initiatives to integrate marginalized producers into supply chains or distribution networks. Draft agreements for partnerships. 

• Facilitates and organizes cross-company initiatives (exposure visits, training activities, etc.) that would benefit firms with similar interests and needs.

• Provide support to the 50 dried fish processing entrepreneurs on labelling, packaging and branding of toxin free dried fish

• Conduct 4 promotional campaign through sale displays, social media platforms and connect them with physical and online marketplace

• Coordinate and monitor the construction work of establishing 50 dried fish processing unit though FAO selected Service Provider (SP).

• Support new ACs on registration with the Department of Cooperatives.

• Identify 100 Local Service Providers (LSPs) specializing in machinery repair and livestock vaccination, along with 50 Digital Service Providers (DSPs), to support ACMCs and community farmers

• Prepare agreements or contracts between 25 ACMCs with 25 input suppliers and 25 output buyers to ensure access of the farmers to the quality inputs and enhance sales to the market

• Support establishment of agent banking outlets in Acs.

• Improves and adapts program design through internal and external collaboration and learning.

• Identify potential market actors, various entrepreneurs, dealers, retailers, and lead firms for training.

• Implement a variety of market linkage and business development activities related to various IGAs.

• ·       Assess and improve skills and competencies of livelihood related entrepreneurs of business skills such as livelihood, financial literacy, marketing, supply chain linkages, public sector linkages and technical capacity, etc.

• Capacity to liaise closely with the relevant private sector (SMEs, associations, specialized organizations), government bodies, (I) NGOs and other projects at district/sub-district levels.

• Develop women led enterprises, CBOs, Cooperative, VSLA and value Chain of project produced commodities.

• Assist Field Associate to Provide livelihoods support to beneficiary and ensure the proper utilization of support.

• Adequate filed visit to proper utilization of livelihood support by beneficiaries and ensure economic benefit of beneficiaries.

• Any other duties as per project and organization requirement.

• Safeguarding: Safeguarding and PSEA: To meet the program's objectives for safeguarding and PSEA implementation, make sure team members are protected from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation. serve as a major resource for help, direction, and knowledge on safeguarding & Child protection for developing a safe workplace. To ensure that safeguarding standards are used in every course of action, team members should practice, advocate, and embrace safeguarding policy concerns.

Job Other Benifits:

• T/A,Mobile bill,Weekly 2 holidays

• As per project provision.

Employment Status: Full Time

Job Work Place: Work at office

Company Information:

Gender: Male and Female can apply

Read Before Apply: Please apply only who are fulfilling all the requirements of this job

Category: NGO/Development