CARE Ghana believes that businesses have an important role to play in the fight against poverty, by creating economic opportunities, employment and coming up with innovations and acting responsibly in its operations and interactions. Through working in partnership with corporate organizations, CARE Ghana believes that economic growth with sustained social benefit can be achieved.

CARE Ghana is currently working on several promising corporate partnerships and social enterprise approaches, especially corporate partnerships that support smallholder farmers in agriculture value chains and social enterprise models that efficiently distribute quality products and services to poor communities. In order to accelerate this work, CARE Ghana is seeking a professional who will:

•   Develop CARE Ghanas private sector engagement strategy;
•   Support and grow corporate partnerships
•   Lead the development of promising social enterprise opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

•   Develop a Private Sector Engagement strategy aligned with CARE Ghanas Strategic Programming Framework
•   Be the point of contact for corporate engagements, especially new opportunities in agriculture (other than cocoa), financial services, consumer products, health.
•   Identify and profile potential private sector partners that would be willing to partner with CARE Ghana in fulfillment of its mission.
•   Explore opportunities with Ghanaian companies.
•   Standardize CARE Ghanas work on rural sales approaches: develop a rural sales framework and a business model
•   Manage the relationship with existing partners and negotiate new engagements; follow-up on the implementation of the different projects
•   Identify and explore one additional social enterprise opportunity emerging from CARE Ghanas programs, possibly a network of agro-dealers.
•   Build the capacity of CARE Ghana Country office personnel in private sector engagement approaches through organizing trainings for selected country staff.
•   Provide ongoing mentoring and support to selected staff members on private sector engagement processes.
•   Document best practices and learning from successful partnerships for wider dissemination in CARE Ghana.
•   Identify private sector engagement spaces (for discussion of best practices in Private sector engagement (Linked in, SEEP network, MAFI) and introduce selected staff members to these initiatives to enhance learning.

Qualification Required & Experience

•   A masters degree in Business Administration or related field
•   A minimum of five (5) years solid background or professional experience in management of corporate-NGO partnerships, livelihood programs or business management
•   Prior experience in setting up private sector partnerships in Ghana or elsewhere.
•   Genuine interest in social business Base of the Pyramid approaches
•   Existing experience in business planning and enterprise development
•   High potential in leadership, self starter, result oriented, ability to work with a variety of partners
•   Understanding on gender and diversity
•   Excellent communicator and negotiator
•   Autonomy and team spirit.

Location: Lawra

How To Apply For The Job

Interested candidates should submit their applications and detailed CVs to the HR Officer, CARE International in Ghana or electronically to:-

hr.ghana@co.care.org

Closing Date: 28 October, 2013

•   PLEASE INDICATE CLEARLY IN THE SUBJECT LINE THE POSITION YOU ARE APPLYING FOR.
•   Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted

OUR DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH; WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS AND EXPERIENCES, PARTICULARLY WOMEN, TO APPLY