Marketing and Quality Control Officer

Job Description

Title: Marketing and Quality Control Officer

Company Name: Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS)

Vacancy: 1

Age: Na

Job Location: Khulna

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• 3 to 5 years

• BBA, Bachelor/Master’s degree in Marketing, Food & Nutrition, Agronomy, Agro-economics, Forestry, Fisheries, Agricultural Science, Horticulture, or any other relevant subject from any recognized university/ institute

• Good English writing, analytical and communication skills.

• 3 to 5 years

• Knowledge on application of skills development component, monitoring, report writing, presentation preparation, and safeguarding

• Knowledge on budget preparation, administration and donor compliance issues

• Knowledge on people management, multiculturalism, ethics and supervision

• Have management and leadership quality

• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with stakeholders in a sensitive environment

• Effective communication and presentation skills

• Have computer skills with all Microsoft Office programs (MS Word, Power Point, and Excel)

• Excellent influencing, negotiating and communication skills

• Excellent organization, and coordination skills

• Demonstrated ability to think technically, prioritize and meet deadlines in a challenging environment; must be culturally sensitive

• Ability to operate in a complex organization, across functions and work on own initiative and collaboratively as part of diverse teams

• Experienced candidate will be preferred.

Job Context

The overall responsibility of the Marketing and Quality Control Officer will be to ensure overall program related functions of the project. He/she will work under the project of Livelihood Improvement of the Poor Palm Sugar and Flower Producers through Sixth sector Industrialization in Jashore District, Bangladesh, s/he will be responsible for relevant program activities and General Support Service for smooth implementation.

Job Responsibilities

• Identify and build relationships with the relevant stakeholders, including local leaders, groups, and individuals for the quality production of the date palm molasses, flower, and handicrafts

• Maintain regular contact with the project staff and cooperative society members on the programmatic issues and oversees the relevant work of the project team in the project target locations

• Facilitate to generate ideas on flower and molasses by-products as well as diversified handicrafts product for the economic development of beneficiaries. Ensure monitoring and evaluation of the relevant project activities through regular field visits and report on project progress and constraints

• Develop market and value chain of the relevant products through conducting field visit, meeting and workshop. Communicate/create different market for the promotion of products

• Ensure and take initiatives to maintain the quality of the products in terms of health hygiene in mangrove food products, date palm molasses byproducts and flower packaging.

• Facilitate skill development training sessions for community members, enabling them to actively participate in project activities. Linkage development between BANOJIBI and Gachi Gur.

• Undertake project tasks as required under the supervision of Project Coordinator of Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS)