Private Sector Advisor

Job Description

Title: Private Sector Advisor

Company Name: CARE Bangladesh

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Degree in the field Business Administration, Marketing Communications, Economics, Law or related field.

Experience Requirements:
∎ 7 to 8 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Job Summary:
∎ CARE is one of the world's leading international humanitarian and development organisations, committed to helping people in poor communities improve their lives and alleviate poverty. Founded in 1945, CARE is working across 95 countries to fight global poverty and marginalization. CARE has been active in Bangladesh since 1949 being one of the largest country offices of CARE. CARE works to help people achieve social and economic well-being, while being among the best in their fields. In CARE put women and girls at the center of our work because we know that we cannot overcome poverty until all people have equal rights and opportunities. CARE Bangladesh is currently shifting towards a program approach, where it has developed longer-term impact visions to have more sustainable changes in the lives of the extreme poor and marginalized.
∎ Strengthening Household Ability to Respond to Development Opportunities (SHOUHARDO III) Program is a five-year USAID-funded food security program that started in September 2015. The aim of the program is to improve gender equitable food security, nutrition and resilience of vulnerable people in target communities from 8 districts and 23 Upazilas in Char and Haor regions by 2020. The program will achieve enduring change for over 1.1 million women, adolescent girls, children under five, men, and youth, through a comprehensive development approach that strategically layers, sequences and integrates technical interventions that meet the immediate needs of the targeted communities while also investing in social, economic and institutional capital to build a foundation for future food security and resilience. The program will be implemented in partnership with local NGOs with technical support from various Government of Bangladesh departments/units, academia and national/international organizations.
∎ The Private Sector Advisor will work under the supervision of the Deputy Chief of Party and will guide the program technical and field staff in formulating and refining programmatic activities geared at fostering greater service provision and enhanced incomes and market access for poor and extreme poor in rural Bangladesh.
∎ S/he will proactively seek new relations and formulate ways of working within the program and in communities that will ensure appropriate mutually beneficial interactions between communities and private sector.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum 7-8 years of professional experience, ideally related to partnership development with private sector institutions and development.
∎ Second Degree in the field Business Administration, Marketing Communications, Economics, Law or related field.
∎ Knowledge of counter-trafficking in persons an asset but not required Knowledge of the Bangladeshi private and NGO regulatory framework related to enterprises, business finance, and social involvement activities of private sector institutions required.
∎ Computer literate in word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software (Microsoft).

Salary:
∎ Attractive remuneration package will be offered to the really deserving candidate.

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ CARE offers Provident Fund, Gratuity, Festival Bonus, Leave Encashment, Life and Health Insurance, Working Mother Benefits, Day Care Facilities etc.

Application Deadline: August 31, 2019

Company Information:
∎ CARE Bangladesh

Category: NGO/Development