Job Description

About Azim Premji Foundation:

We are a not-for-profit organisation with a vision to contribute towards a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society. Our work is focused on India. Our presence on the ground provides us with the unique opportunity to contribute to immediate and long-term developments through continual work. We build institutions through our own operations, collaborate with governments on projects fundamental to our vision and work with partners in areas of equity and human well-being.

About the work:

Our work in Livelihoods is geared towards promoting livelihood opportunities for some of India’s most vulnerable and marginalised people. We took our first steps under Livelihoods at the country’s central tribal belt, in Raigarh and Gumla districts of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand respectively.

Job Location:

Jharkhand - Simdega, Gumla & Chhattisgarh – Raigarh, Ambikapur

Job Description:

The focus of the role will be to:

The Resource Person—Market Research, will be based in one of our district headquarters and will be in pan-field (CG & JH states) role on building an institutional understanding on markets around rural commodities identified by the Livelihood Initiatives—supporting in sub-sector analysis, market explorations, buyer linkages and creating business opportunities for the smallholder farmers and their collectives.

Advising Working Groups in anchoring market research for certain agricultural commodities (such as paddy, livestock, fruit, vegetables, and forest products) in terms of market forecasts, trends, and demand conditions to identify market potential and space for entry.

Assessing value propositions and areas of intervention through value chain analysis studies and advice for investment in production, processing, cold storage, branding and so on.

Recommending field teams on possible marketing strategies for input and output services and other agri-business management processes that assures low cost of production and better price realization for produces.

Supporting other Resources Persons with market intelligence in making informed production choices and business plans for the commercial collectives in accordance with the market realities.

Exposing the Working Groups to outer world of markets and business case studies so that the WG can make better proposals on technology, management, and policy interventions around—value addition, new product development, market development, branding, promotional events, awareness-raising and so on. 

Scan the business environment and provide the best market intelligence to maximize price realization for the smallholder and remotely located farming communities.

General responsibilities would include—

Supporting the leaders in programming livelihood programs based on market realities

Contribute to the team’s capacity building on agribusiness concepts, commodity sectors and rural marketing,

Assist in preparing contracts, quality parameters, compliances, and other such technical documents based on market standards.

Participate in meetings and represent the organization in the external forums especially related to market stakeholders.

Required Qualifications, Experience, Skills

PG/ Master’s from a management institute preferably in rural management/agribusiness management or any relevant subject.

Minimum 5 years of work experience in agriculture marketing fields

Candidates with higher relevant professional experience will be given priority

Language proficiency in Hindi and English.

Requirement:

The above responsibilities shall require:

Significant travel time.

Proficiency in statistics and data analysis tools.

Ability to work with diverse actors — multidisciplinary team members, farmers, bureaucrats, business houses, small traders, etc.

Years Of Experience:

Above 5 Years

Department – Livelihood

Interested candidates can apply using the following link

https://bit.ly/ResourcePerson_MarketResearch

"Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for next level" 

About Company

All Jobs posted by: Azim Premji Foundation