Job Description

MARKETING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

• Provide expertise in developing sustainable sanitation businesses in Ghana.
• Identify needs, opportunities, gaps, and challenges in potential sanitation markets, models, and entrepreneurs, and provide mentoring and support to sanitation businesses.
• Oversee the management of market assessments, feasibility studies and business planning processes.
• Build the capacity of local business development service providers where necessary to provide professional and sustainable service for emerging sanitation businesses.
• Engage with the innovative business development service strategy and continue to search for new sanitation business opportunities within Ghana.
• Participate in the design of service and product delivery strategies which will be based on evidence.

EXTERNAL RELATIONS

• Engage with all stakeholders including regional and district authorities, government agencies to understand and if necessary to identify opportunities for collaboration.
• Build trust and relationships with key local entrepreneurs, and gain an understanding of the private sector in Ghana.

​INTERNAL RELATIONS

• Communicate regularly with project staff in country to share lessons learned and project updates.

ADMINSTRATION

• Ensure the technical inputs and oversight are provided and made into activities and the programs in collaboration with the project team and partners
• Document successes and failures, and share knowledge internally and externally.
• Support the reiterative learning process aimed at developing and documenting improvements.

Required Skills or Experience

• More years’ experience in a relevant position.
• Degree in Public Health, Marketing, or Behavioral/Social Sciences.
• Experience in the Water and Sanitation Sector.
• Strong experience with social accountability approaches to improve service coverage, quality and equity.
• Experience in Sales and Marketing, quality improvement and/or data analysis and use;
• Ability to build partnerships across technical sub-divisions and manage integrated approaches to programme implementation.
• Strong skills in research design and implementation.
• Evidence of excellent writing skills (e.g. publication record)
• Technologically competent in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Ability to communicate effectively in oral and written formats;
• Fluency in speaking, reading, and writing in English (required);
• Experience with USAID contracts.
• Must be risk taker, and have a flair for entrepreneurial opportunities.
• Ability to build partnerships and manage teams.
• Ability to communicate at the top level with professional organizations

SPECIFIC SKILLS

• Excellent communication skills.
• Entrepreneurial skills.
• Leadership skills.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Negotiation skills.
• Strong marketing & business development skills.
• People management skills.