Senior Programme Officer - Business Partnership & Enterprise Development

Job Description

Title: Senior Programme Officer - Business Partnership & Enterprise Development

Company Name: Oxfam

Vacancy: Undefined

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters/ Bachelor degree in veterinary science or animal Husbandry or MBA major in Finance or Masters in economics or Agri- economics or Development Studies from any reputed university;

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Job Type: Fixed Term for 1 Year (With possibility of extension)
∎ The post holder reports directly to Rural Manager

Job Responsibilities:
∎ A confident and motivated self-starter with experience of working with dairy sector financing, market development, private sector engagement and rural resilience project.
∎ Experience to develop and implement comprehensive financial protection strategies.
∎ Proven track record in managing multi-year and donor funded
∎ Significant experience of and proven ability to build, sustain, advocate and manage strong partnerships and work collaboratively with a wide variety of organizations including financial institute, private sector, academia, donor, civil societies and NGOs.
∎ Strong interpersonal skills and a highly-developed ability to work in multicultural settings and with people from different background and culture.
∎ Strong understanding of gender equality, safe guarding, women economic empowerment issues and experience in integrating these into programme practice
∎ Excellent team player, coordination, communication and interpersonal skills
∎ Ability to adapt to different working cultures
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Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year experience on dairy sub sector with proven track record of working with the high performance teams or experiences on economic development project management and implementation and at least 3 years work experience with rural MSEs and value chain development project;
∎ Knowledge and work experience on gender sensitiveness project, gender diversity, RCA and DRR programming for smallholder and women producers;
∎ Knowledge and experience of small and micro dairy farming system in river island areas of Bangladesh;
∎ Knowledge and experience of renewable energy production on dairy farms;
∎ Proven knowledge and experiences to identify the key advocacy issues and strategies for pro poor and gender equitable market & enterprise policy development in dairy sub-sector;
∎ Knowledge on market, value chain system and role of private sectors in development specially growing importance of micro and small enterprise & entrepreneurship development;
∎ Experience on partnership development among the stakeholder, nurturing and management and alliance building and maintenance across the dairy sub sector and agriculture sector.
∎ Experience in negotiating with the Private Sector, especially green financing institutions, would be an asset;
∎ Strong knowledge on markets, enterprise development, business plan and management, financial analysis, income statements and cash-flows.
∎ Good understanding on market structure, sub-sector analysis and value chain promotion
∎ Working experience with private and public sectors to build the capacity and link with smallholder producers organization and small enterprises;
∎ An ability and willingness to work towards deadlines in a planned and inclusive way;
∎ Demonstrable communication, facilitation and representation skills (in English and local language preferably).

Salary:
∎ BDT. 10,56,451 (13th months) per annum gross

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Medical for spouse and children, contributory Provident fund, gratuity, leave & Insurance etc.

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting

Application Deadline: April 11, 2019

Company Information:
∎ Oxfam
∎ Business : Oxfam employs more than six thousand people in 90 countries who share a commitment to work together to end poverty and suffering. It is committed to ensure diversity and gender equality within the organization and welcomes applications from women, person with disability and under-represented groups. Oxfam does not discriminate against applicants or employees based on their HIV/AIDS status. The organization has been working in Bangladesh since the War of Independence and has established a permanent country office in 1972. Since then it has responded to all major emergencies in the country. Oxfam's current program focuses on Economic Justice & Resilience, Gender and Women?s Leadership and Humanitarian Capacity Building and Response.

Category: NGO/Development