Senior Manager - Private Sector Development, Prabriddhi
Job Description
Title: Senior Manager - Private Sector Development, Prabriddhi
Company Name: Swisscontact Bangladesh
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ At least Post-graduate degree in Economics, Business Administration, Development Studies, agricultural studies, finance, social sciences or an equivalent discipline
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 8 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Location: Dhaka with regular (up to 50% time) visits to field locations
∎ Duration: Initial contract for 3 months (May 1, 2020 to July 31, 2020), If satisfactory the contract is expected to be renewed in the new phase under similar conditions for the time of the new project phase i.e. 5 years
∎ Reports To: Team Leader, Prabriddhi (LED)
∎ Purpose of the Job:
∎ Working as part of a core team of thematic managers, the PSD Senior Manager will have responsibility for overseeing effective design and implementation of LED and related PSD portfolio of interventions, ensuring consistently high standards and adherence to the principles of Local Economic and Market Systems development. It is expected that the PSD Manager will take a `hands on` approach to the role, working closely with a team of LED coordinators and Field Facilitators and becoming involved in the intervention design and delivery. The Team Leader will support in the supervision of a team of full-time personnel (the Intervention Team) in addition to short-term technical assistance. As a member of senior management team, the PSD Senior Manager will respond to the Team Leader and be responsible for quality and timely delivery of projects goals and outputs. He/she will work closely with the Facilitation and Capacity Building Manager, the Monitoring and Results Measurement Coordinator, and Finance Division. The PSD Manager will be PRABRIDDHI`s lead technical resource on the private sector and market systems development approach within the LED context and will provide mentoring support to colleagues as required.
∎ Working Conditions and Environment:
∎ Guided by Swisscontact Bangladesh Operations Manual
∎ Reporting structure
∎ Senior manager will work collaboratively with the other managers of PRABRIDDHI team and will report to the Team Leader of PRABRIDDHI.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Analysis, Assessment In the context of the PRABRIDDHI project in the municipalities selected by the project
∎ Help develop the necessary ToR for the Local Economic Potential Study
∎ Analyze, assess the local conditions, write private sector position documents
∎ Engage with the local critical stakeholders (private sector and local administration) and together with them:
∎ develop the municipality's vision
∎ identify/confirm/validate the most vibrant sectors for the areas
∎ identify and develop sector strategies,
∎ define the strategy implementation plans and support in their execution
∎ develop technical proposals and methodologies for project delivery with budgets, funding
∎ Assess and, if the opportunity arises, engage in public - private partnerships
∎ Support awareness creation on market systems/value chain development related to LED at the local and the national level in LGD and other departments through designing and delivering training courses and project management tools.
∎ Adopt strategies to ensure that the project interventions do not distort the market, rather strengthen the market systems to benefit the marginalized communities.
∎ Provide monthly forecasting of budgets based on estimates of planned activities and partnership contracts (and take accountability of first months of invoicing).
∎ Partnership development:
∎ Facilitate partnerships between local, national and global private sector companies and government bodies to address local LED needs and opportunities; identify, negotiate contracts, organize funding of related deals
∎ Mobilize internal and external support for the execution, putting together consultancy teams, helping with logistics, reviewing reports, and providing feedback.
∎ Support the development of inclusive approaches including promoting pro-poor and Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE) outcomes;
∎ Capacity building:
∎ In-house capacity building of core and field team
∎ Support effective capacity development among relevant stakeholders on the PSD approach
∎ Support the leverage of (local) private sector capabilities at national level Monitoring and Results Measurement (RM) and Communication
∎ Support the MRM coordinator to conduct regular monitoring and evaluation of the interventions
∎ Support project team to develop learning and communication products. Knowledge management
∎ Ensure that information and lessons learned are collected from projects and knowledge shared with key stakeholders within and outside the organisation including development and dissemination of tools, analytical work, country case studies and workshops at local, regional and national level
∎ Assess opportunities for expansion, upscaling and replication
∎ Upscale and expansion:
∎ Assess opportunities for expansion, upscaling and replication
Additional Requirements:
∎ The individual must conform to the following qualifications:
∎ Minimum 8 years of substantive relevant experience in project design, conceptualization, strategy development, planning and implementation as manager/ expert/ consultant in PSD and/or LED
∎ Solid understanding of PSD / Value chain, and if possible, LED, in particular the conceptual framework, tools and methods in Bangladesh
∎ Demonstrable knowledge and experience in private sector development (and possibly local government) and participatory methodologies
∎ Extensive experience in PSD training and facilitation
∎ Demonstrated negotiation skills.
∎ Ability and experience in business plan development.
∎ Willingness to learn from mistakes and ability to think 'out-of-the-box'.
∎ Good written and oral communication in Bangla and English; attention to detail as well as to the big picture
∎ Strong interpersonal skills to be able to work with partners and in teams.
∎ Professional conduct in all operational matters, with an appropriate balance between the needs of staff, stakeholders and client
Application Deadline: April 7, 2020
Company Information:
∎ Swisscontact Bangladesh
∎ Business : Swisscontact, Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation, is headquartered in Zurich and was founded in 1959 by leading figures from the Swiss private sector and Swiss universities. It is exclusively involved in international co-operation and since 1961 has carried out its own and mandated projects. In Bangladesh, Swisscontact is registered as an international non-governmental organisation (INGO) under NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of the People`s Republic of Bangladesh.
Category: NGO/Development
