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Summary

Vacancy: —
Location: Cox’s Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)
Minimum Salary: Negotiable
Experience: At least 5 years
Published: 11 Jul 2024

Requirements

Education

Graduation/ Post Graduation in Agriculture/ Marketing/ Business Administration/ Economics or any relevant subject from any reputed university.

Experience

At least 5 years
The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):
NGO, Development Agency, Direct Selling/Marketing Service Company

Additional Requirements

Knowledge on market linkage and accessibility for the very conservative participants
Knowledge on women empowerment and leadership development process in the camp context
Knowledge on people management, multiculturalism, ethics and supervision
Have management and leadership quality
Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with stakeholders in a sensitive environment
Strong written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills both in Bengali and English
Have computer skills with all Microsoft Office programs (MS Word, Power Point, and Excel)
Excellent influencing, negotiating and communication skills
Excellent organization, and coordination skills
Demonstrated ability to think technically, prioritize and meet deadlines in a challenging environment; must be culturally sensitive
Ability to operate in a complex organization, across functions and work on own initiative and collaboratively as part of diverse teams.

Responsibilities & Context

Deputy Manager- Market Linkage will be responsible for facilitating linkages with the formal and/or informal bodies of local market/bazar/growth centers for start-up entrepreneurs within the Rohingya camp context. S/he will scope and capitalize on available and potential market opportunities, taking the lead in working with vocational training graduates to coach and mentor regarding market accessibilities. S/he will also be responsible for promoting and facilitating the trained refugee youths’ participation in business planning, cooperative works, and post-course activities in engaging/establishing market linkages activities/initiatives/micro enterprises in different sectors by providing necessary ideas, planning, technical assistance, guidance, support and follow up.

Identify relevant market actors, and potential enterprises, assess end markets, potential producer groups, service providers, skills and production centers and develop service, actors and value chain maps
Carry out market study /analysis to understand the market demands and supply of selected commodities, producers’ capacity, existing products, services, sales outlets, markets and value chains, in the target area
Identification of challenges and bottle neck in the marketing system and taking initiative to solve the problems
Facilitate self-employment (entrepreneurship), establish linkages between traders/markets actors, buyers and link producers to new market opportunities
Collaborate and maintain relationships with the different sectors of HCMP, BRAC
Develop and organize market linkages plan that connects the formal and/or informal bodies of local market/bazar/growth centers to vocational training graduates in refugee camps
Devise and suggest various market improvement ideas to projects, and in consultation with Program leaders implement those plans to facilitate and enhance the market access of the HCMP project participants
Field visit on regular basis in the respective market areas
Facilitate cross learning across different project that has livelihoods development components involving some kinds of market
Attend different meeting, training, workshop and other event activities
Provide field report to concern authority regularly and as or when necessary
Develop and maintain the database of Rohingya youths especially women who are trained on different vocational trades by the project
Working closely with the trained Rohingya youths especially women in developing their business plan regarding trade-specific enterprise
Provide the necessary support in the planning of the market linkage, supervision and monitoring of the activities.· Engaging and building strong relationships with community members and leaders
Document field achievements, innovations, failures, and lessons learned in the aspect of market accessibility and trade to integrate into project activities and inform project strategy
Ensure the timely implementation of field works as per the predefined schedule
Inform and document the anomalies and the challenges carried out during the implementation phase of the program
Coordinate with local authorities and ensuring continuous communication with beneficiaries, project team members and communities’ representatives regarding the implementation of works and in order to ensure flawless progress of activities
Regular field visit, monitor, document and report work progress on daily and weekly basis
Report possible problem or conflict with possible solutions during the activities
Contribute in developing external and internal reports
Any other responsibilities related to market linkage and employability and entrepreneurship management, assigned by the supervisor and senior management
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, and encourage others to do so

Skills & Expertise

Agro Marketing

NGO Development projects

Compensation & Other Benefits

Mobile bill, Weekly 2 holidays
Festival Bonus: 2

Health & Life Insurance
Health & Wellness Facility
Paternity/ Maternity leave and
Others as per Organisation policy

Workplace

Work at office

Employment Status

Contractual

Job Location

Cox’s Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)

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