Volunteer Marketing and Brand Building Strategist to Create Customer Engagement for Partnership Benefitting Smallholder Farms with eKutir

This is an opportunity to work with an Ashoka Fellow

Ashoka Fellows are leading social entrepreneurs that have been taken through a rigorous selection process, testing the quality of their ideas and character, to become part of the Ashoka Fellowship and Network. Ashoka Fellows take on the challenges of building innovative system change ideas to make and spread social impact in a world wrought with challenges. They refuse to let the ‘impossible’ stand in their way to creating a better world.

This is an unpaid, volunteer opportunity

About The Affiliated Organization

eKutir was founded by Ashoka Fellow Krishna Chandra Mishra in 2009 to help the small and marginal farmers by integrating our innovation enabled by technology, data and analytics .It helps smallholder farmers in providing access to the market of advisory, technology, finance as well as helping them in their decision making to increase yields and income with sustainability. Our work is important as it creates an equitable farm and food ecosystem in the world.

For more information, please visit www.ekutirsb.com

Job Description

Our specific project is called Partnership Farming, a new initiative designed with the help of IT, Data and analytics to create a partnership ecosystem between small farmers and the big buyers at the global level. Our Goal is to create an inclusive partnership model between the big Buyers and the Small farmers to raise a partnership crop with sustainability. We are looking for a Volunteer who will help in designing an appropriate marketing and engagement strategy to launch this initiative in India and Africa. This work is vitally important as creating a strong partnership with small farmers is the only way forward to ensure their sense of trust and ensure food security for all.

Volunteer Logistics

Estimated hours required per week: 10 hrs

The estimated duration of the project is: 3-6 months

This position is Virtual

Language Requirements

English

Desired Skills And Experience

• A Design skill set for marketing, branding and engagement with customers
• Experience with Marketing Strategy preparation
• Experience with customer engagement
• A commitment to do good for the society and help create change makers
• Creativity and out-of-box thinking
  
  

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