Business Development Officer (BDO)

Job Description

Title: Business Development Officer (BDO)

Company Name: National Development Programme - NDP

Vacancy: 01

Job Location: Kurigram (Chilmari)

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's in Business Administration/ Agriculture/Economics or Social Science from any reputed university with 5 years relevant experience.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Plan, develop, design, implement, and monitor the SLP, FbF and CRI activities
∎ Support and guide on the development of producer organizations and small-scale enterprises to develop business plan, financial projection, financial analysis and business management
∎ Provide support to smallholder farmers, community-based organization/cooperatives, traders association and small enterprises on business plan and management
∎ Conduct market assessment and analyses the information to design project activities
∎ Identify and analyses the potential opportunities to improve project participants' access to markets and to improve efficiency of market actors.
∎ Identify potential service providers, input/output market actors, project partners and producers (households) and develop strategies for analyzing and addressing their constraints.
∎ Prepare monthly/quarterly implementation plan for the assigned area in accordance with detailed annual activity plan of the project.
∎ Provide technical support to the participants to develop business plans for various income generating activities through facilitating consultation process with the women;
∎ Design and develop training programme and appropriate training materials on entrepreneurship development, income generating activities based on needs of the women participants of the project and incorporate behavioral change communication (BCC) component in the regular training activities;
∎ Facilitate competitive IGA/value chain for agricultural input & product marketing
∎ Analyze the knowledge and behavior of participant groups/MSEs and their constraints to increase production and access to markets.
∎ Organize and facilitate different workshops/meetings, orientation and discussion sessions for project staff and stakeholders.
∎ Supervise and monitor training programmes delivered by Filed Trainer including training quality and provide technical support for corrective actions;
∎ Establish collaboration and working relationship with the union and upazilla level officials such as DAE, DLS, DoF, Youth Development to engage them in providing technical support and monitoring the project activities
∎ Facilitate project beneficiaries to establish linkage with input and output market actors
∎ Closely monitor and follow up income generating activities initiated by the beneficiaries through regular field visits
∎ Contribute in developing M & E tools, collect data, analyses and prepare report.
∎ Produce project progress report, case studies, blogs and publications

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at most 40 years
∎ Age below or equal to 40 years
∎ 5 years relevant Working experience
∎ Commitment towards working for the poor and extreme poor people in rural area
∎ Report writing skill in English
∎ Having computer knowledge MS word/excel
∎ Should have valid motorcycle driving license

Salary:
∎ Tk. 35,000 and other project benefits

Application Deadline: April 26, 2020

Company Information:
∎ National Development Programme - NDP
∎ Business : NGO

Category: NGO/Development

Read Before Apply: Women are encouraged to apply; only the short-listed candidates will be called for interview

Source: bdjobs.com