Job Title: Business Development Specialist

We are looking for a Business Development Specialist

Position Scope: This position will prepare the formation of cooperatives and oversee the business activities of social cooperatives until they become sustainable by the end of the project including: providing access to market services, expanding sales channels, managing day-to-day operations and providing marketing and outreach for goods and services.

About INOGAR

INOGAR is a social non-profit cooperative established in 2018 with the objective to organize resources for social change and economic independence. INOGAR’s main areas of work include: advancing socio-economic studies, empowering disadvantaged groups through livelihood innovations and income generation, helping eradicate poverty through Fair Trade, and contributing to the development of corporate capacities of social cooperatives. INOGAR has contributed to designing and conducting various entrepreneurship and cooperative training programmes for the capacity building of refugees and vulnerable host community members in Turkey.

About the Project

In December 2021, Save the Children, along with its Turkey country partner INOGAR Cooperative, will kick-off an extensive support project to strengthen the socioeconomic inclusion of marginalized, at risk refugee and host community youth through protection and livelihood services. The Project will be anchored through the establishment of a Youth Center in Esenyurt to foster inclusion and solidarity amongst refugee and host community young people to contribute to broader social and economic inclusion of refugees. The three-year Project will seek to contribute to durable solutions by reducing vulnerability of targeted young women and men, by providing Mental Health and Psychosocial Services and livelihood programs, and by establishing youth-led cooperatives which will continue to provide livelihood opportunities and promote social cohesion after the end of the project.

Within the framework of this project, two social cooperatives will be established. Through a series of Social Design Workshops with the selected cooperative members/founders, the sectors of the cooperatives will be determined during the course of the project. The social cooperatives will be designed to provide socio-economic development and livelihoods elevation within their communities by providing job creation, especially for women, serving as community focal points for cohesion and reinvesting a portion of their profit on community based activities and programs. Business Development Specialist will play a key role in guiding the cooperatives for creating sustainable business models.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, economics, finance or other related fields (having completed a graduate program is an asset),
• 5+  years of work experience,
• Experience in training, mentoring or counselling young people,
• Experience in market research, feasibility and product-market fit analyses,
• Knowledge of entrepreneurship and business processes related to social cooperatives,
• Proficiency in English, at least C1 Level,
• Advanced knowledge and skill with Microsoft Office Programs and Google Drive.
• Understanding the barriers and issues faced by vulnerable young people,
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment and to demonstrate gender-sensitive and non-discriminatory behaviour and attitudes,
• Able to establish good communication with different groups,
• Highly organized and prioritize workload effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare selected cooperatives for their establishment and support them in designing their own business model,
• Oversee the business activities of the cooperatives throughout the project,
• Support the cooperatives on key issues such as access to market services, expanding sales channels, managing day-to-day operations and providing marketing and outreach for goods and services,
• Lead a research team for product-market fit analysis,
• Provide one-to-one support if needed.

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.