This is a call for expression of interest (EOI) in the role Monitoring and Results Management (MRM) Field Researcher for Australia’s Strongim Bisnis
Position Description
Position: Monitoring and Results Management (MRM) Field Researcher
Program: Strongim Bisnis
Location: Honiara, Solomon Islands with extensive domestic provincial travel
Duration: Full time, fixed term
Line manager and Directly report to: MRM Manager
Application deadline: 8 October 2024, 11:59pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis.
Applications and questions should be sent to: operations@strongimbisnis.com.sb
Background to Australia's Strongim Bisnis
Solomon Islands-Australia Partnership’s Strongim Bisnis is an innovative pro-business program funded by the Australian Government.
Strongim Bisnis supports Solomon Islands businesses to increase productivity, and access greater income earning opportunities and higher value markets with the intention of enabling greater resilience and job creation. Poverty reduction is the desired result. Strongim Bisnis also supports the private sector and the Solomon Islands Government to work together effectively to increase opportunities for trade and investment and to accelerate business growth. A key focus of the program ensures that Solomon Islands women, youth and people with disabilities have increased economic opportunities.
The program takes a market systems development (MSD) approach to unlocking opportunities for growth in selected sectors (cocoa, coconut, tourism, timber, horticulture and waste management) and GEDSI. MSD requires Strongim Bisnis to carefully select partnerships, and design interconnected activities that deliver tangible and measurable results. For each activity it must be possible to track progress from improving the performance of Solomon Islands enterprises, to achieving resilient systemic change in markets, and ultimately increasing income and employment. In this way, Strongim Bisnis avoids ad hoc activities and seeks deep engagement with market actors.
Strongim Bisnis activities may include developing and testing new business models, sharing the risk of new ventures in partnership with private sector actors, facilitating market access, supporting structural changes to the ‘business enabling environment’, product marketing to bring about greater scale, and improving women, youth, and people with disability’s participation in markets and their access and control over productive resources.