Technical officer (Private Sector Engagement)

Job Description

Title: Technical officer (Private Sector Engagement)

Company Name: Action for Social Development (ASD)

Vacancy: 1

Age: At most 50 years

Job Location: Sunamganj

Salary: Tk. 45000 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 5 years

• BSc in Agriculture, Bachelor of Agriculture education. Masters in Agriculture, Master’s in Business Administration, International Relations, Economics, Public Relations, Marketing, Social Enterprise.

• At least 5 years

• Age At most 50 years

• Age: Up to 50 Years (In terms of experience age will be considerable)

• Experience

• Minimum 05 years of experience in the development field. Working on USAID-funded project is given preference.

• Committed to achieving results in a short time frame and under time pressure.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to effective coordination among sections.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, cost-effectiveness, and integrity.

• Ability to set priorities, plan, and organize the work.

• Skilled in computer literacy, application software, internet, and email communication.

• Good understanding of and commitment to promote Gender, Equity, and Diversity Inclusion (GEDI) related concepts, ideas, and best practices.

• Willing to drive a motorcycle with a valid driving license.

• Adequate knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, email, etc.

• Excellent spoken and written English language skills.

• Willing to travel and work in the most remote Area

About ASD:

Action for Social Development (ASD), established in 1988, is a non-government, non-profit and non-political development organization. ASD started its development activities with a Vision that people irrespective of their culture, ethnicity and religion enjoy full democratic and human rights and live in peace and dignity. The Mission of ASD is to facilitate the poor creating solidarity among themselves, building their capacity and bargaining power for realizing their rights and needs in order to improve their quality of life. ASD has a unique experience of working in both urban and rural areas and has experience of working as the head of consortium. ASD in a span of over 35 years, successfully implemented 75 development projects. In the previous journey ASD had a footprint in 17 districts of Bangladesh.

Livelihood, agriculture and food security is one of the major focus areas of ASD. ASD has given importance on empowerment and capacity building to the vulnerable community, agricultural technology and alternative IGAs, diversify food production, ensure better utilization of food.

From the beginning of its journey ASD has been working to eliminate existing barriers in order to increase access, enable decision-making and participation of marginalized populations. ASD has demonstrated committed dedication to improving the quality of life for marginalized populations, such as women and youth, through meticulously planned interventions and strategic partnerships. By leveraging both local and national strategies, ASD ensures that its programs are effective, scalable, and sustainable, thereby fostering resilience and self-sufficiency in the communities it serves.

Project Background:

ASD is going to implement a project named USAID Bangladesh America Maitree Project (Agriculture and Food Security) at Sunamgonj District from November 2024 to November 2026 funded by USAID. This project will be implemented in 03 (Three) Upazila (Sunamgonj Sadar, Derai and Dowarabazar) under the Sunamgonj District in partnership with USAID Bangladesh America Maitree Project-BRAC. To implement the project, ASD invites applications from the competent and qualified persons for the following positions:

Position: Technical officer (Private Sector Engagement)

Project Title: USAID Bangladesh America Maitree Project (Agriculture and Food Security)

Project Duration: November 2024 to November 2026

Job Category: Project Staff

Reporting: Report to the Project Manager.

Job Responsibilities:

Summary of work experience:

Technical Officer should have extensive experience in market research and agricultural product marketing. He/she should be a detail-oriented professional with strong communication and organizational skills. TO will communicate and build rapport with input market and output market and play a business development role where the focus is on growing stronger business relationships in a specific market related to agriculture. He/she will use innovative strategies and tech-based resources such as market analysis and competitive research.

• Provide support to the effective and efficient management of the marketing support and business development activities of the project through a range of actions.
• Identify, develop, and evaluate marketing strategy, based on knowledge of Privet Sector Engagement s objectives, market characteristics, and cost factors.
• Work with Project Manager in product development, such as budgets, expenditures, research and development appropriations, and return-on-investment and profit-loss projections.
• Plan and implement marketing strategies in consultation with the management.
• Provide support to Producer Group (PG), Women Business center, Product collection center (PCC), Farmer Producer organization (FPO) for establishment and run.
• Identification of Local/Union/Upazila/District/Divisional level potential input-output actors/ organizations and communicate with them and arrange coordination meeting
• Conduct market and value chain analysis to select expected input-output actors/organizations for partnership
• Identify potential input and output actors and arrange market linkage workshop at the union level
• Communicate and link with interested input and output actors to collaborate in response to sell their quality agro-inputs to smallholders/PG as well as purchase safe/organic food items
• Develop Modules on using technology in harvesting, packaging and storage of major crops such as rice, wheat, corn etc.
• Develop Modules on supply chain and transport syndication in response to agro-products
• Conduct meeting with ethnic women in women business center (WBC) and with resource farmers
• Initiate market research studies to identify potential markets for products and services and analyze their findings.
• Provide support to the effective and efficient management of the Agro base marketing support and business development activities of the project.
• Develop, and evaluate marketing strategy, based on knowledge of objectives, market characteristics, and cost factors.
• Contract with vendors and distributors to manage product distribution, establishing distribution networks and developing distribution strategies.
• Initiate market research studies to identify potential markets for products and services and analyze their findings.
• Identify profitable business linkages for the women home based workers.
• Develop, promote & maintain partnerships with government, media, relevant stakeholders, private sector, etc.
• Ability to perform a variety of specialized tasks related to communications and marketing
• Analyze market strategies and identified areas for improvement.
• Organize and execute events to increase project and organizational visibility.
• Conduct market research to identify new opportunities.
• Analyze customer feedback and market trends to inform product improvements.

• benefits: As per organizational policy