HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Bangladesh
HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Bangladesh
HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Bangladesh
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Summary
- Vacancy: 01
- Age: at least 22 years
- Location: Dhaka
- Minimum Salary: Negotiable
- Published: 3 Jul 2024
Requirements
Additional Requirements
- Age at least 22 years
- At least 5 years experience in Private Sector Engagement.
- Have high-level technical, analytical, and interpersonal skills.Excellent research and analytical skills, particularly in stakeholder mapping, outreach, engagement, and partnership development to support program activities.Work experience with INGO.
- Dedication to promoting gender equality, social inclusion, and poverty reduction.
- In-depth knowledge and work experience in Private Sector Engagement, Coordination, collaboration, advocacy and networking, reporting agro-food processing and agricultural value chains and market systems, skill development framework and related job sectors in Bangladesh.
- Have strong analytical, facilitation and team building skills.leading public and private sector in implementation and decent job placement activity.
- Proven experience in building and maintaining strong and productive relationships with implementing and strategic partner agencies.
- Commitment to informed and transparent decision-making.
- Ability to collaborate effectively, provide support, manage negotiations, and facilitate consensus among multiple private sector stakeholders.
- Honest, approachable, flexible, dynamic worker with high team spirit.
- Fluent in English both written and spoken English (proficiency level written and spoken).
- Microsoft office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
Responsibilities & Context
- Identify, assess (e.g. due diligence) and on-board new private sector partner as per HELVETAS policy; and actively engaged current private companies to train and hiring workers as per agreed plan between HELVETAS and private company- PRAN/Rani Food Industries Ltd.
- Support private sectors to identify industry requirements and skill demands to align with market trends (conduct regular skills forecasts); and developing occupational sectoral plan.
- Mobilize partners’ focal person, factory focal person, trainers/facilitators to train job seekers with the right skills sets” and to recruit new employees in the respective private companies.
- Collaborate with the training specialist to oversee in-factory training; identify implementation challenges and set overcome strategy to ensure training is operating smoothly across private sector partner factories and maintain USAID-complaint of training program and environment.
- Organize and facilitate meetings, workshops, and events to convince stakeholders and showcase the best model/practices to potential industry partners.
- Prepare plan, reports, presentations, and case stories of private sector engagement efforts to communicate their impact to internal and external stakeholders through weekly basis gathering impact data from the factories where training is ongoing.
- Assist partners to regain business functionality by addressing constraints that affected by COVID 19 capacitated/advocate partners to take measure.
- Support partners to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for marketing and branding of new offers for business resilience ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives.
- Collaborate with relevant government stakeholders, other companies in the food processing area, business associations like BAPA etc to advocate for and promote the successful model /approach to other agro-food processing companies in Bangladesh.
- Coordinate and collaborate with USAID-mandated projects as well as other like-minded projects, for potential exchange related to private sector engagement. Seek further synergies and cooperation among projects.
- Make sure that private companies are followed in the execution of the project as per agreed activities.
- Support the project team and partners to promote project experiences and lessons learned for replication and upscaling.
- Coordinate and conduct capacity-building measures for private sector partners.
- Explain specific private sector engagement experiences with detailed information.
- Candidates who applied earlier need not to apply again.
Workplace
Work at office
Employment Status
Full Time
Job Location
Dhaka
Job Highlights
Helvetas Bangladesh is hiring a “Private Sector Engagement Specialist” under the USAID Feed the Future Shamortha Plus Activity Project, based in the Country Office, Dhaka. This position will directly report to the Project Director.