The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is looking for a Business Advisor for six months to be working in identifying sustainable business opportunities for the beneficiaries of the project: “Building Resilience of Returning Migrants from the Andaman Sea through Economic Reintegration and Community Empowerment”.
The position would further require identifying existing and potential
economic linkages and local CSR initiatives both individual business
entrepreneurship as well as community based economic employability
center for the Andaman Sea Returnees.
Project Background:
The Andaman Sea Crisis has brought to light the
ongoing tragedy of thousands of Bangladeshi and Myanmar nationals
trying to migrate via irregular channels mainly towards Malaysia and
falling into the hands of people smugglers or traffickers. With 2,811
Bangladeshis returned to Bangladesh as of 24 May 2016 and many more to
come, it is clear that the motivation to migrate outweighs the
perceived danger of the trip and the uncertainty of success at
destination.
IOM in Bangladesh has undertaken the project for two
year’s duration on ‘Building Resilience of Returning Migrants from the
Andaman Sea through Economic Reintegration and Community Empowerment’.
Four districts have been selected for intervention, in Cox’s Bazar,
Jhenaidah, Norshindhi and Sirajganj. The overall design of project is
as follows:
Overall objective:
Enhanced assistance for sustainable economic
reintegration, increased livelihood opportunities and improved
availability of pre-decision support; thereby decreasing the appeal of
irregular migration.
Project outcomes are:
Outcome 1: Improved self-sufficiency of returnees
Outcome 2: Improved livelihood and economic conditions in 8 target communities
Outcome 3: Returned migrants, their families and potential migrants in target communities practice safe and informed migration
Overall responsibilities of Business Advisor:
The Business Advisor will have the responsibility of
analyzing the private sector and local market demands to establish the
linkage between such demands and the migrants’ businesses and community
economic infrastructures. The Business Advisor will further be
responsible for conducting the feasibility of the identified, trades and
giving project recommendations for developing businesses run by the
project beneficiaries. S/he will play an important role in identifying
the character of market structure, creating the value chain focus on
income generation through developing business center by individual or
cooperative formation and finding out functioning approaches for
income/profit generation or create employability.
Scope of Work:
The business advisor will have the following specific responsibilities:
- Conduct rapid market assessments to identify the
demand of current trades and businesses at project locations, also
taking into account various CSR opportunities.
- Conduct assessments on the scope of small business
opportunities in the project locations with the aim of establishing a
durable reintegration of Andaman Sea’s returnees.
- Support the development of individual business
plans that match individual project beneficiaries’ skills and aptitude,
keeping in mind the demand driven market opportunities in the project
locations.
- Capacitate the NGO partners in operationalizing the assessment findings and giving appropriate support to the beneficiaries.
- Conduct detailed assessments, with market analysis
of potential products to be developed by communities, linking the
analysis to the private sector and local market demands.
- Support the development of community economic
infrastructure frameworks by creating and building value at every step
(value chain analysis of the infrastructure).
- Develop necessary market linkages in making community based economic center profitable.
- Provide capacity support to NGOs for managing
community based small business unit; developing business plan of
individual as well as for cooperative business.
- Provide capacity support to the supervisors of each
small business unit for managing staff, and for checking product
quality and market growth matrix.
Tentative Timeline of Deliverable:
| Deliverables |
Target Due Dates |
| Detailed plans and inception report based on above responsibilities. |
1st Month from contract signing date. |
| Report on rapid market assessments of the scope of small business opportunities |
3rd and four Month from contract signing date |
| Training four partner NGOs in providing one on one business counselling to their beneficiaries |
4th and 5th Month of project implementation, this may continue further at the end of contract. |
| Detailed business plan for potential economic infrastructure in the project location (including value analysis). |
5th Month of Project Implementation |
| Final Report on the business establishment and recommendations. |
6th Month Project Implementation. |
Qualifications of the Successful Business Adviser:
- Master’s in Business Administration, Management, Development Studies or related field.
- At least 7 years professional experience in the
relevant areas of increasing livelihood, and subsequently in market
development, value chain analysis and building economic
infrastructure.
- Ability to lead strategic planning, result based management, and reporting.
- Ability to effectively coordinate with NGO partnership, Govt. Offices and other teams.
- Analytical skills, communication abilities and team work abilities.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to meet deadlines and prioritize multiple tasks.
Method of Application:
Along with Technical Proposal,
Interested Candidates/Organizations are invited to submit (i) Attached
example of previous experience (ii) Organization profile by November 25, 2016, addressed to: IOM Dhaka Human Resources, House # 13/A, Road # 136, Gulshan-1, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh or e-mail to: DhakaJobs@iom.int . Please mention the reference code CFCV-30/2016/C-BD1 on the email subject header
Finalization of Applicant:
IOM selection committee further scrutinize and review
all proposals. The potential candidate or organization will go for
further interview once selected their proposal. Financial selection
will be made on the basis of proposal and expectation of IOM.
Remuneration:
This is six month consultancy, tentatively will be
starting from January 2017 to June 2017. Total remuneration for whole
assignment inclusively: BDT. 1500,000
For detail information on assignment please see the herewith attached ToR
IOM is an equal opportunity employer and women are encouraged to apply.
IOM Offices and vehicles have smoke-free work environment.
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