Five to ten years of experience in medium and small enterprise business engagement
Availability to conduct multi-day or week-long trainings outside the office, with possible travel outside of Kathmandu.
Previous successful experience in professional learning for out-of-school adults (some GFBs have no formal academic training), food safety development and service delivery.
Collaborative and diplomatic professional, able to communicate in a clear, positive manner with staff and external partners.
At least a bachelor’s degree in business studies/administration, finance, and relevant studies.
Experience using the Zoom and Teams platform as host/presenter is required. Experience presenting in person and online is preferable.
Commitment to the BD4FS mission and able to articulate the case for business as a key driver for food safety development.
Prior experience working on access to finance, food safety and business engagement
Prior experience working on donor-sponsored projects, with a preference for experience with USAID.
Job Specification
In collaboration with the BD4FS team, assess growing food business from food safety management lens, identify the constraints/barriers, and business drivers and engage in improving services of growing food business by adopting food safety knowledge and good practices.
Assist the project teams in designing methodologies used to engage with companies, businesses, cooperatives, associations, and market centres to improve food safety practices
Closely worked with team to identify financial service needs of growing food business, financial analysis, value chain linkages, institutional linkages, identify programs, etc.
Closely work with GFBs to co-design program activities
Work with team on market research and analysis, participate in value chain working group platforms and broader stakeholders’ forums
Will participate in the development of EOIs, and RFPs
Work with the monitoring and evaluation team to report on training results (data) and write some documents to support annual reports, quarterly reports, communication materials, technical documents, etc.