Requirements

Additional Requirements

• 1–2 years of experience in market facilitation, retail, food supply chains, or business development.

Technical Skills

• Working knowledge on MS Office

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to changing conditions in the field

• Ability to work independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team

Responsibilities & Context

• Contract Duration: Initially for 9 months (1st April 2025 to 31 December 2025).

Job Summary

• PROTTYASHI, a social development organization has been working for the development of disadvantaged population of the country since its establishment with an aim to ensure everyone to live with dignity and prosperity. PROTTYASHI reaches the community with basic needs and supports to save lives and facilitate all the people of the community to live with equal value and priority. PROTTYASHI works for the disadvantaged portion of the population in community addressing their pressing needs following the strategies contextually viable and environmentally sustainable. PROTTYASHI has been actively supporting the refugee population in the humanitarian response in Cox’s Bazar as one of the first responders since August 2017. PROTTYASHI has been vigilantly supporting these crises affected population to accomplish its promised commitment towards humanity and people in distress.

• population helping them to meet nutritional requirement in an environmentally sustainable manner, PROTTYASHI is going to implement “Promotion of Market Linkage” Activity of WFP Cox’s Bazar Resilience Programme with the technical support of Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation in selected host communities of Ukhiya and Teknaf upazilas. PROTTYASHI invites applications for the vacant position titled- Market Facilitator for the Project and encourages the persons enthusiastic to contribute to the increased resilience of the humanitarian crisis affected host community people in Cox’s Bazar.

Reporting

• Market Facilitator will report to Market Linkage Supervisor (On-farm). S/He has to maintain functional relationship with his/her peers, project teams and organization’s other priority teams. S/He must be able to communicate with other teams and units both program and operational of the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate market linkage to connect producers with buyers, input suppliers, and service providers.

• Organize market fairs, buyer-seller meetings, and other activities to promote direct sales and strengthen market connections.

• Evaluate the capacity of farmers to meet market standards, including quality, quantity, and delivery timelines.

• Facilitate and support the establishment of direct market linkages between farmers and buyers (such as wholesalers, retailers, and cooperatives).

• Facilitate meetings with producers to address supply chain bottlenecks.

• Act as a direct connector between farmers, traders, wholesalers, retailers, and potential institutional buyers.

• Identify market demands, trends, and buyer requirements for various agricultural and non-agricultural products.

• Facilitate bulk transactions and link smallholder producers to aggregators, local markets, and value chain actors.

• Strengthen relationships between producers and local businesses to ensure long-term market sustainability.

• Guide producers in understanding customer preferences, pricing strategies, and product differentiation.

• Support local vendors and traders in adopting customer-centric sales techniques that improve consumer engagement.

• Gather insights on supply chain constraints and inefficiencies that impact producer access to competitive markets.

• Maintain a database of buyers, suppliers, and key market actors, ensuring continuous monitoring of business transactions.

• Provide practical market intelligence reports to help farmers make informed production and sales decisions.

• Develop and maintain relationships with market actors, business associations, financial institutions, and supply chain partners.

• Organize and capacity build up of AC’s members on negotiation, order collection, delivery, price fixation, payment settlement etc.

• Organize different events like workshops, training, visits, fair, meetings etc. under On-farm activities.

• Assist Market Linkage Supervisor to facilitate different visits at ACs

• Assist ACM members and capacity build up on AC management

• Assist to supply food items to WFP fresh food corners

• Any other activities as assigned

Organizational values and norms towards Safeguarding and PSEA

• PROTTYASHI is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct and expects staff to promote the welfare of children, young people and adults at all times. PROTTYASHI expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our Code of Conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate this commitment are recruited to work with us.