Area Coordinator

Job Description

Title: Area Coordinator

Company Name: The Hunger Project-Bangladesh

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master Degree in Social Science or Business Administration or any other related disciplines.
∎ Good command over Bangla both verbal and written and moderate command over English both verbal and written is necessary.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Reporting to: Deputy Programme Director, MIPS
∎ Functional Relationship: Technical and field staff of the Programme.
∎ Staff Category: Project Based (MIPS)
∎ Job Summary:
∎ The Area Coordinator will work together with the Field Coordinators for the implementation of the Programme at the field level. S/he will maintain regular contacts with Deputy Programme Director and Technical Experts for obtaining necessary guidance to support Field Coordinators` filed implementation. S/he will support and monitor the project implementation at the filed level maintaining necessary relationship with the political parties and other stakeholders at the local level. S/he will also guide the Field Coordinators to prepare the implementation action plan and budgets, solve field problems, and take part with the Field Coordinator in activity implementation, as and when required. S/he will require to provide necessary information to the Programme about the stakeholders` recommendations and the contextual changes at the ground to support the Programme to be adaptive with appropriate activities and implementation strategies.
∎ Work condition : Office based Job- 20% and Field job/travel- 80%

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Provide necessary inputs to the Deputy Programme Director, and Technical Experts for project planning, budgeting, reporting, and problem solving.
∎ Provide necessary information to Deputy Programme Director about the stakeholders' recommendations and the contextual changes at the ground to support the Programme to be adaptive with appropriate activities and implementation strategies.
∎ Guide/ support the Field Coordinator for formation and/or activate, and provide necessary support to the Peace Facilitator Groups (PFGs) and Peace Ambassador Networks (PANs) for preventing political, communal and ethnic violence at the project working areas.
∎ Maintain excellent working relationship with the Political Parties, Peace Ambassadors, and other stakeholders for their active engagement in the PFGs, and PFG planned activity implementation process.
∎ Provide necessary guidance and support to the Field Coordinators for planning, budgeting and implementation of project activities at the field level.
∎ Impart regular field visit for providing necessary guidance to the Field Coordinators and take part in field implementation, as and when required.
∎ Identify innovative peace building events in consultations with the PFGs and Field Coordinators and bring those potential peace building events to Deputy Programme Director's attention for necessary funding support to implement.
∎ Guide/ support the Field Coordinator in arranging various training, seminars and workshops with guidance from the Deputy Programme Director, and with support from the Technical Experts at the field level.
∎ Guide/ support Field Coordinator in monitoring and mitigating project field level risks and challenges taking necessary advises from the Deputy Programme Director.
∎ Guide/ support/ participate with the Field Coordinator in provide necessary monitoring data to google data sheet to be prepared by the Programme, document case studies, best practices, and share those materials and learning with KM and M&E Expert to contribute the Programme Knowledge Management (KM) Process.
∎ Maintain good functional relationship with both electronic and print media at the local level.
∎ Manage Field Coordinators performance, and impart their performance evaluation on time.
∎ Any other tasks as assigned by the line manager for achieving project goal.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum 5 years' field coordination and implementation related work experiences in the development sector of Bangladesh through National/ international NGOs with particular focus on governance and reforms.
∎ Sound knowledge in political, communal and ethnic violence in Bangladesh.
∎ Some working experience with the Multi-stakeholder Platforms for governance and reforms.
∎ Good organizing and communication skills and relation building capacity with the team and the Programme stakeholders.
∎ A socially active person having good networking skills.
∎ Challenge taker and meet the deadline.
∎ Good level competency with Microsoft word, Excel, Power point, and Outlook.

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 17 Jun 2023

Company Information:
∎ 7 Jun 2023
∎ The Hunger Project-Bangladesh

Category: NGO/Development

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Source: bdjobs.com