Technical Specialist - Agricultural Markets and Food Security, Bangladesh

iDE leverages the power of business to fight poverty around the world. We understand that our customers – low-income households, small scale farmers, and microenterprises serving the last mile – are entrepreneurs in their own rights and that our approach offers them a chance to use technologies and services that we promote, to create significant additional income.

The Technical Specialist - Agricultural Markets and Food Security is a key technical and program management role based in our Bangladesh country program, providing support to a variety of programming needs. In Bangladesh, iDE currently has eight projects across four key sectoral portfolios: i) Agricultural Markets, Food Security and Nutrition, ii), Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), iii) Access to Finance, Renewable Energy and Technology, and iv) Women’s Economic Empowerment, Livelihoods, and Employment.

At iDE, we put people first. We are looking for a passionate professional that shares our values and commitment to developing and managing creative, high-impact change for low-income communities in Bangladesh to deliver on our mission to create income and livelihood opportunities for the rural poor.

What you'll be doing ...

iDE Bangladesh is looking for a skilled, creative and ambitious professional as the Technical Specialist for the Agricultural Markets and Food Security portfolio, supporting several project teams and senior leaders to deliver highly effective results for our customers in terms of direct impact (e.g. income), scale, and cost-effectiveness. The role will involve providing technical leadership, strategy development, and creative problem solving/adaptive management of several agriculture and food security-related projects currently ongoing in the country program.

The Technical Specialist role will involve a balance between strategic/creative thinking, and high levels of self-initiative, organization, and interpersonal skills with others. The Specialist will provide critical economic and policy analysis relevant to agricultural/food security sectors and the overall economy, coordinate intensive field research with our customers and market stakeholders, and convert this action research into tangible strategic and tactical plans that project teams will build their work around. Cross-cultural facilitation and negotiation skills are critical to the role, as the Specialist will be responsible for building consensus within iDE decision-making on relevant issues, while leading and/or supporting engagement with external stakeholders including market actors (i.e. large corporations, microenterprises), government agencies, and other implementing aid organizations’ teams. Throughout project lifespans, the Specialist will also be heavily involved in report writing, monitoring and evaluation, business development/grant writing, and knowledge/communications product development. Overall, the Specialist provides guidance and support to iDE’s senior management and project management teams in Bangladesh on all matters related to agriculture and food security.

This role is a full-time position based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Please reference the Technical Specialist - Agricultural Markets and Food Security Job Description (click on link) for complete details about the position.

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