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| Marketing Officer | |||
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| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Herat, |
| Categories | Marketing, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2022-12-15 | Close Date | 2022-12-20 |
| Vacancy No | AFN-1293 | Gender | male female |
| No Of Jobs | 1 | Contract Duration | One Year – (Contract extension is subject to project funding availability and also based on acceptable performance evaluation) |
| Education | Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture or Marketing, Business Administration, Masters preferred. | Experience | Four (4) years of work experience as a Marketing Officer or similar role. |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | As per ROP Salary Scale |
About Company
About Roots of Peace: Roots of Peace is a humanitarian organization that has worked in war-torn countries around the world with our partners to remove the remnants of war, landmines and unexploded ordinance, and restore the land in order to rebuild peaceful communities for generations to come. For the past twenty years, the Roots of Peace award-winning “Mines to Vines” approach has impacted one million farmers and families, enabling the exports worth over $150 million to international markets. Since beginning our work in Afghanistan in 2003, Roots of Peace has worked with agricultural value chains in every province of the country resulting in 100,000 tons of exports, creating over 9,000 full-time agribusiness jobs that benefited more than 38,000 families from these value chain approaches. From farmers to exporters, Roots of Peace develops entire agricultural value chains by implementing the ROP Development Model which is designed to serve as a catalyst to generate much broader impact industry-wide - improving incomes for smallholder farmers, bringing peace to rural communities, transforming national industries.
Job Description
The Marketing Officer is responsible for providing the expertise to ROP Marketing Department focused on quality improvement of high value crops, linkage programs between farmers and traders and, implementation of a value-chain-based marketing program.
Tasks:
- Identify program beneficiary farmers and traders to participate in the CBARD marketing program and assist beneficiaries in technical capacity building.
- Provide training and technical assistance to the farmers and traders.
- Assist the Sr. Marketing Specialist to implement various marketing components of the CBARD Project.
- Collect information report weekly activity reports from farmers, traders and food processors, as required.
- Assist farmers and traders in adding value to their products for sale to domestic and international markets.
- Assist farmers and traders in understanding and completing various export-related documents.
- Provide accurate documentation
- of all sales transactions to domestic and international markets from project beneficiaries.
- Travel to CBARD targeted areas and participate in any coordination meetings with private sector organizations.
- To the extent feasible, coordinate activities with DAIL staff members in the districts.
- Coordinate program activities with local Shuras and district councils
- Draft marketing reports according to the activities in the provinces/districts and submit to the Sr. Marketing Specialist
- Any other assigned tasks by the supervisor.
Job Requirement
Desired Education:
Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture or Marketing, Business Administration, Masters perferred.
Experience:
- Four (4) years of work experience as a Marketing Officer or similar role.
- Good knowledge of marketing techniques and principles.
- Some level of familiarity with an international donor organization, preferably on USAID or United Nations agencies.
- Proficiency in MS Office.
- Good Understanding of market, Statistical and data analysis method.
- Good reporting skills.
- Excellent oral/written communication skills in English, Dari and Pashtu.
- Excellent organizational skills in the field and office.
- A team player with customer-oriented experience.
- Candidate from Herat Province preferred.
Minimum Requirement:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and/or Business Administration
- Four (4) years of work experience as a Marketing Officer or similar role.
- Good knowledge of marketing techniques and principles.
- Some level of familiarity with an international donor organization, preferably on USAID or United Nations agencies.
- Proficiency in MS Office.
Working Conditions including Travel:
During the work assignment, the Marketing Officer will be based in Herat City with travel to the program target districts will be required.
Submission Guideline
Applicants should copy and paste the relevant Vacancy Announcement Number and Position Title into the email subject line when submitting their application.
Applications received without a VA Number will not be considered.