Business and Job Placement Officer

Base Location: Peshawar

Field Location: Peshawar

Number of Positions: 01

Gender: Male

Reports to: Senior Project Officer

Job Purpose: This project is based on Scaling-up Extreme Poverty Graduation and Climate Change Resilience in Disaster Vulnerable Communities. BDPO will develop marketing plans of community products and job placement in private sector. BDPO will explore employment opportunities and develop markets for micro and small businesses to enhance HH income and sales.

 Key Accountabilities:

• The job holder is accountable for fulfilling his / her roles and responsibilities in line with organizational values and principles of fairness, humanity, honesty, respect and fair treatment of his/her colleagues and team members.
• The following are the main responsibilities that the role holder will be accountable for:
• To develop a Trainees Cohorts database for job placement in target markets
• To develop the organization’s enterprise product database for promotion and marketing
• To develop mapping of Employees in on-farm and off-farm sectors and target markets
• To develop inventories for product promotion and exhibitions
• To organize and ensure participation in exhibitions, roadshow
• To establish business facilitation centers for the organization’s product display and promotion in key market areas.
• To develop networking and linkages with the private sector and public sector such as SMEDA & Chambers and Co-operative for inclusion in markets and access to public funds
• To develop linkages of organization’s small enterprises with micro-finance services providers to access affordable finances to scale-up businesses, different business forums and registration of businesses
• To ensure linkages of the organization’s Small businesses and organization’s trainees on Digital marketing and digital platforms such as the National Incubation Centre and other digital platforms.
• To develop linkages with social media influencers to scale up business sales
• To design and develop training modules on marketing and entrepreneurship
• To deliver capacity-building training on marketing and entrepreneurship.       
• To develop business plans and business model frameworks of the identified beneficiaries.
• To develop IEC material for the organization’s products and job placement.
• To prepare weekly and monthly work plans and timelines of the project activities
• Any duty assigned by line manager

Person Specification: 

  It is essential that the post holder shows a good understanding and adherence with organisation’s values and principles as well as commitment to organisation's vision, mission and core values.

Qualification: 

• Masters with 3 years experience / Diploma & Certificates in Technical and Vocational Skills or Bachelor’s degree experience with 5 Years

Experience: 

• Relevant experience with national/international organizations/private sector/government and  preferably in development project.
• He or She must have experience of working in development sector.

Language:

Urdu, Pushto and English

Kep Personal Qualities

• Responsible
• Punctual
• Trustworthy
• Conflict handler
• He or She must have experience of working for a Humanitarian Organization specifically in Emergency Preparedness in developing democracies. 

Please note, that we are only able to accept applications from candidates who are eligible to live and work in Pakistan. We are unable to progress applications that would require sponsorship. 

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

The organisation is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom the organisation engages. The organisation expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records checks. The organisation also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.

In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.

By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Pre-employment Checks:

Any employment with the organization will be subject to the following checks:

• Screening clearance
• Receipt of satisfactory references

We are an equal opportunities employer.

DECLARATION:

By applying for this position with the organization;

I confirm that the above information in the CV/Application is complete, correct, and updated and that any untrue or misleading information will give my employer the right to terminate any employment contract offered.

I agree that information contained within this application and supporting documents (including "sensitive information) may be accessed, stored, and used and by the organization in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998