Company Name: International Development Enterprises
Roles & Responsibilities:
- The responsibilities of the Business Development Officer include but are not limited to the descriptions below.
- General Responsibilities:
- Function as Business Development Officer on all project activities within an assigned district, under the supervision of the Field Team Leader
- Regularly check-in with all stakeholders for whom the BDO is a primary point of contact (PCO) for rapport building and market strengthening
- Assist Field Team Leader and technical experts to manage and operating all the field level activities
- Communicate all the relevant stakeholders for the better implementation of the project
- Follow the work plan and central instruction and perform accordingly to achieve the project goal
- Prepare event, monthly, quarterly and all necessary reports and assist Field Team Leader for preparing the final report.
- Maintain close contact and communication for project planning, strategy formulation and other issues with supervisor and partners, counterparts, service providers, government, the private sector and project participants
- Carry out responsibilities in financial management and administration at the local level and ensure the efficient use and maintenance of the project resources in consultation with supervisor
- Programmatic Responsibilities:
- Implement a variety of market linkage, supply chain, technology introduction and business development activities related to water and sanitation
- Assess and improve skills and competencies of sanitation and hygiene related entrepreneurs (latrine producers) and businesses on a diverse range of business skills such as financial literacy, marketing, supply chain linkages, public sector linkages, and technical capacity, etc
- Build rapport and trust with sanitation and hygiene related entrepreneurs for effective communication and linkage development
- Co-facilitate sanitation and hygiene product demand creation activities with sanitation and hygiene related entrepreneurs
- Identify potential market actors, sanitation and hygiene entrepreneurs, dealers, retailers, lead firms
- Facilitate sanitation and hygiene entrepreneurs for product introduction and commercialization
- Ensuring the successful commercialization of selected sanitation and hygiene technologies
- Facilitate the development of business plans by the sanitation and hygiene entrepreneurs
- Assess and improve skills & competencies of sanitation and hygiene entrepreneurs on a diverse range of business skills like finance, business planning, quality management, human resource management, etc.
- Work together with the sanitation and hygiene entrepreneurs to ensure linkage of the sanitation and hygiene Value Chain Actor
- Facilitate wash entrepreneurs to establish and maintain business networks at upazila levels and linked with wider area like District, Regional & National level to build profitable business relationships between wash entrepreneurs and others PSAs.
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning:
- Complete event reports in a timely fashion for all project activities and upload to relevant monitoring system as supported by the Field Team Leader.
- Complete relevant stakeholder check-ins in a timely fashion for all project activities and upload to relevant monitoring system as supported by the Monitoring and Advocacy Specialist
- Complete pulse checks and case studies as supported by the Monitoring and Advocacy Specialist and FC in a timely fashion
- Actively engage in initiating best practices, key learnings, unique cases and other relevant documentation to share with the wider team
- Coordination and Support:
- Based on guidance from the Field Team Leader, support cross-program activities including:
- Product innovation
- Technology commercialization
- Best practices documentation
- Cross-project learning activities
- Evidence and Analytics (E&A)
- Maintain close contact and communication for project planning, strategy formulation and other issues with supervisor, technical specialists and institutional support teams
- Harmonize approach with other BDOs in the program through best practice sharing and feedback loops.
- Rapport Building:
- Coordinate with development, private and public sector partners at the national level for possible partnership and strategy refinement
- Coordinate and report to supervisor on a regular basis as per the annual coordination strategy and cross-visits
- Quarterly travel to all assigned unions at least once for problem solving and systems development using the CLEAR framework (Connect, Listen, Educate, Ask, Resolve)
- Conversation with relevant supporting actors (SAs, installers etc.)
- Visit to 2-3 Community Households for feedback collection
- Other Responsibilities:
- Actively follow and engage with Global WASH initiatives in other countries and other Bangladesh programs for stronger network connections
- Actively learn and develop skills related to online platforms used by iDE including but not limited to: Salesforce, Smart sheets, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets
- Maintain use of online platforms for sharing reports, documents and data
- Represent iDE at external events and meetings as agreed with supervisor
- Participate in all relevant meetings and workshops
- Undertake additional tasks subject to workload and skill sets such as photography, cross-project trainings and evaluations
Educational Qualification:
- Bachelors in Business Administration/ Masters in Management, Economics or Development Studies
Work Experience:
- At least 4 year(s)
Others Requirements:
- At least 4 years of experience working on market system development in sanitation or another relevant field
- Familiarity and experience with project management concepts such as Logical Frameworks, Impact Logic or Results Chains
- Considerable understanding and knowledge of rural markets, trading relationships and rural service provision
- Previous experience in private sector preferable
- Experience in business planning with sanitation and hygiene service
- Strong in financial skills (e.g. profit & loss statements, cash flow statements, balance sheets)
- Must understand the technical, social, and other constraints in the development field.
- Programmatic Skills
- Ability to responsibly manage district level funds, monitoring and team progress
- Ability to plan and implement iterative field level activities for market systems change
- Understands the facilitative role of the market development approach
- Good analytical and problem solving skills
- Personal Skills:
- Energetic and focused approach to sales coaching and mentoring
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
- Self-motivated, energetic and team player
- Ability to work with various national and international team members and flexibility to adapt to different work conditions
- Ability to interact and collaborate with a broad range of public and private sector and NGO partners
- Physical and Language Skills:
- Ability to travel and undertake fieldwork in rural context
- Ability to drive motorcycles and having valid driving license
- Physical fitness required for frequent field visits and extensive travel.
- Written and oral communication skills in English, including ability to present coherent and convincing messages to different audiences
- Strong computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite, e-mail and the internet
- Familiarity with internet based software systems such as Google Apps
- Other Information and Conditions:
- The position would be the regular employment of iDE-B
- The remuneration package, work days and deliverables might be change based on negotiation among iDE management and the contract
- iDE reserve rights to terminate this agreement at any time with the consultation of the employee as per HR policy.
Others Benefit:
As per company rules.