Business and Market Promotion Officer

DCA nbsp;is looking for an experienced and motivated Nepali candidate for the position of Business and Market Promotion Officer to be a part of our dynamic Programme Team based at Kailali.You will report to the Programme Manager-Resilient Livelihood and Sustainable Food Security at Nepal Country Office, Kathmandu. You will assist the value chain processes,that will be supported by DCA in Far Western Region of Nepal (Bardiya, Kailali and Kanchanpur) for the anticipated project to be implemented from mid-February 2021. This project will enhance the livelihood opportunities for poor and marginalised households in the selected municipalities of the districts through access to market, food, water and sanitation. The project will support to strengthen the market system of goat, vegetables, poultry and fish for smallholder and marginalised households.  

You are responsible to provide technical and strategic support for business planning, market promotion, entrepreneurship development, and value chain development with sub-sector analysis to our partners, cooperatives, producer groups and the entrepreneurs to strengthen the market system in the municipalities. 

You will work closely with Programme, MEAL and funding team in the preparation and timely delivery of relevant reports on project implementation status and against outcomes. Youwill also support the communications team to produce communication materials, testimonies, case studies including success stories about the project. You will support partners to engage with provincial and local government for resource leverage and successful implementation of the project and participate in Palika and provincial level meetings of government, I/NGOs and private sector to build synergy in the project implementation.

Key responsibilities include,

• Provide technical and strategic frameworks on enterprise development, business planning, market promotion and value chain development to partner organizations, producer organizations and enterprises.
• Support partners, producer organizations and entrepreneurs in preparing TORs and memorandum of understandings with the local government and private sector stakeholders. 
• Support partners, cooperatives, and enterprises in developing annual plans and budgets, business plans and business performance indicators in the identified value chains and facilitating loan management with financial institutions.
• Capacity building of partners and that of cooperatives and enterprises on market-based livelihood intervention design and business promotion interventions ensuring they achieve the sales, profitability and loan repayments in their business.
• Prepare and submit regular report on project implementation status and outcome of the project.
• Prepare and submit the case stories and success stories of the project.
• Ensure the quality of the data collected by partners and support them in developing log frame and MEAL plan of the project. 
• Support partners to engage with provincial and local government for resource leverage and successful implementation of the project.
• Participate in Palika and Provincial level meetings of government, I/NGOS and private sectors to build synergy in the project implementation.

What you bring

• Have strong abilities in agricultural markets and value chain development, business planning and promotion techniques; and understanding about market system change. 
• Have strong abilities to monitor and facilitates the cooperatives business planning, governance and financial management. 
• Proficiency in professional writing and communication in English
• Fluency in spoken and written Nepali language
• Proficiency in data analysis skills and report writing
• Strong interpersonal skills 
• Good analytical and research skills
• Good command over report writing in English
• Good computer knowledge and applications skills
• Strong planning and organizational skills with knowledge on Project Cycle Management
• Self-motivation, creativity and an ability to perform with less supervision

• At least have Bachelor’s Degree in economics. business management, agriculture economics, Project Management or relevant course, preferably with a specialization in agriculture and livestock sector market promotion and value-chain development 
• Have minimum of three years of work experience in Livestock and agriculture markets, value chain development preferably with INGOs.