Training Officer (EDT & Value Chain Management & Financial Inclusion)
Job Description
Title: Training Officer (EDT & Value Chain Management & Financial Inclusion)
Company Name: Helen Keller International (HKI)
Vacancy: 01
Job Location: Chattogram
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's degree in agriculture related subjects or business administration. Academic qualification is flexible in case of significant experiences in the following: rural enterprise development, IGA management and feasibility studies, and rural market development issues
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 10 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Helen Keller Intl is an international organization providing technical assistance that emphasizes building the technical and operational capacities of different local government and non-governmental partners including national and international NGOs, development partners, academic and research institutions, and the private sector. In the past two decades, Helen Keller Intl has successfully designed, implemented, monitored, and evaluated community-based, health and nutrition projects in 22 countries. During its 40 years of working in Bangladesh, since 1978, Helen Keller Intl has provided technical leadership in nutritional surveillance, homestead food production, vitamin-A supplementation, and nutrition behavior change education. Helen Keller Intl takes a gender-sensitive approach to improving nutrition, food security and eye health. Current program areas include Dhaka, Sylhet, Bogura, Mymensingh, Satkhira, Chittagong, Cox`s Bazar and the CHT.
∎ The Investment Component VGD (ICVGD), one of the social safety net programme of Bangladesh, was introduced within the VGD programme in 2015. The objective of the ICVGD program is to better enable the participating VGD women and their households to move out of extreme poverty. The overall programme objective is to achieve specific nutrition outcome for children by implementing nutrition sensitive social protection programme envisioned in National Social Security Strategy (NSSS) of Bangladesh. The project will be implemented in 64 Upazilas of Bangladesh in collaboration with the Ministry of Women & Children Affairs (MOWCA) of Bangladesh Government. Helen Keller Intl will work as strategic partner providing required technical assistance and overall implementation support to implementing NGOs at field level. Helen Keller Intl is seeking qualified candidates for the following positions for the WFP ICVGD project.
∎ Job Location : Chittagong Division
∎ Reporting to : Training Managerr
∎ Supervises : N/A
∎ Duration: : 11 Months with possible extension depending of funding, expected start date is February 2021.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION & PLANNING
∎ Preparing Training Manual on value chain selection, value chain analysis, identification of market-based solutions, assessment of market-based solutions and identification of different facilitation activities
∎ Conduct market assessment survey and analyze information to design project intervention/activities
∎ Identify and analyze potential opportunities to improve Project participants/ICVGD Women's access to markets and to improve efficiency of market actors.
∎ Identify potential service providers, input/output market actors, project partners and producers (ICVGD women/Self Help Groups) and develop strategies for analyzing and addressing their constraints
∎ Identify relevant business related Private Sector actors (PSAs) and create necessary linkages between Self Help Group (SHGs) and Market Actors
∎ Implement profitable business models for currently available technology around improved technologies (agriculture, sanitation, safe water and closing the sanitation loop, etc)
∎ Prepare Curriculum/Training module on basic Financial terms
∎ Prepare training plan on financial inclusion training to the community women
∎ Conduct sessions on Business Calculation to the community women for running their individual business
∎ Oversee training sessions provided to the project staffs and Field level stakeholders /community women
∎ Maintain close contact and communication for project planning, strategy formulation and other issues with Supervisor and counterparts, service providers, government & private sector financial service provider and project participants
∎ Mobilize group of women on developing business mindset and maintaining group business, cash/ ledger book maintaining
∎ CAPACITY BUILDING
∎ Prepare comprehensive training plan for project staff of ICVGD
∎ Facilitate training on EDT and Value Chain Management with ICVGD project staff
∎ Identify training agenda, develop strategy and support curriculum development to address diverse needs for capacity building of different market actors
∎ Organize and facilitate different workshops/meetings, orientation and discussion sessions etc.
∎ Conduct financial training with project staffs and community participants
∎ Conduct Training Need Assessment of the community women for developing contextual financial training
∎ PROGRAMME COORDINATION AND OTHER SUPPORT
∎ Maintain regular coordination with relevant stakeholders of public and private sector and WFP officials for smooth operation of value chain activities
∎ Monitor effective implementation of project activities through regular field visits
∎ Contribute in developing M & E tools, collect data, analyze and prepare report
∎ Prepare monthly/quarterly progress reports for the selected IGAs/value chains of the region, incorporating both qualitative and quantitative information
∎ Ensure systematic documentation of project results and impact
∎ Facilitate and engage local level GoB departments and public stakeholders to ensure support for project activities
∎ Maintain close contact and communication for project planning, strategy formulation and other issues with Supervisor and counterparts, service providers, government, private sector and project participants
Additional Requirements:
∎ 10 years of professional experience in similar projects
∎ Working experience with ultra-poor women for business development is a plus
∎ Knowledge & skills in developing & implementing training curriculum/modules
∎ Training quality monitoring, supervision, and reporting
∎ Strong networking capability, and analytical and interpersonal communication skills
∎ Use of basic computer software, e.g. MS Office Suite
Application Deadline: 25 Jan 2021
Company Information:
∎ 19 Jan 2021
∎ Helen Keller International (HKI)
Category: NGO/Development
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