Upazila Enterprise Development Officer

Job Description

Title: Upazila Enterprise Development Officer

Company Name: Gana Unnayan Kendra (GUK)

Vacancy: 07

Age: At most 45 years

Job Location: Gaibandha, Rangpur, Thakurgaon

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• At least 5 years

• Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)

• At least 5 years

• Age At most 45 years

• Educational Requirement

Bachelor degree: preferably in BBA (Major in Business Management/Development Studies or relevant field.  

• Age at most 45 years but Age and educational qualification are relaxable for candidates with more experience;    

• Experience in the field of Post Training Entrepreneurship support, Specific experience in skills training programme/TVET sector will be given priority;  

• Excellent in MS Office application, internet and e-mail;     

• Ability to undertake frequent field visits.

Job Responsibilities:

• Ensure that SEB/EDT training activities and staff capacity development are accomplished as per project requirements;

• Supervise survey and selection of SEB/EDT trainees, mentors and training room as per programme requirements;

• Identify trainees qualified for receiving internship opportunities at nearby factories and seed financing from the Department of Youth Development (DYD);

• Arrange entrepreneurs conference, workshops and Upazila level meeting and showcase successes of the youth entrepreneurs;

• Support youth to develop, manage and grow their business;

• Arrange financial linkage meetings between the entrepreneurs and the financial service providing agencies like banks and MF ogranizations;

• Ensure Mentor-new entrepreneur linkage and supervise and guide entrepreneurs to implement their business knowledge;

• Ensure regular monitoring and provide reports to the supervisor accordingly, while identifying problems and providing solutions, check bill vouchers;

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment;

• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action;

• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Salary:

Negotiable.

Other admissible benefits as per organizational policy.