Job Description

Title: Assistant Country Director

Company Name: The Hunger Project-Bangladesh

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's Degree or higher in Economics, Public Administration or other related disciplines from reputed university, especially from foreign university

Experience Requirements:
∎ 15 to 20 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Program Design and Direction
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∎ Understand, embrace and espouse the principles of the organization
∎ Direct and provide program implementation teams with all necessary assistance to ensure that program activities are carried out in accordance with plans, in a timely manner and with high standard of quality. Provide leadership, coordination, and day-to-day support to the programs
∎ Develop and implement annual work plans
∎ Define, articulate and propose issues for reform that create bottom-up, gender-focused, decentralized democratic governance
∎ Keep abreast of socio-economic and political changes in the environment and undertake timely strategic review of the organization's program and strategy to ensure continued relevance in the rapidly changing environment
∎ Management
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∎ Provide policy advice and support to the Country Director
∎ Develop ideas on organizational priorities and conduct strategic and operational planning exercises
∎ Support in developing and managing annual country operational budget
∎ Provide management expertise and leadership to a technically diverse team and create a work environment that promotes excellence
∎ Partnership Building
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∎ Mobilize people from all sectors of the society into a volunteer-based movement for a hunger and poverty-free, self-reliant Bangladesh
∎ Represent the organization in high level national, regional and international meetings, conferences, forums and other public events and contribute toward consolidating and raising the profile of The Hunger Project
∎ Build and maintain productive relationships with government officials, policy makers, donor agencies, national and international organizations, political leaders and media
∎ Develop effective resource mobilization strategies and prepare grant proposals
∎ Explore opportunities for new partnerships and knowledge sharing with institutions dedicated to poverty alleviation
∎ Funding and Grant Management
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∎ Develop networks and partnerships with national, regional and international institutions in Bangladesh and spearhead donor collaboration, fund raising and project development within the country.
∎ Keep abreast of the trends within the donor environment in the country and internationally
∎ Undertake diversified local and international fund raising initiatives to strength programme funding and sustainability
∎ Ensure that effective grant management systems are in place and are in consistent with the organization's overall fund seeking and management policy

Additional Requirements:
∎ 15-20 years of experience, including 10 years in a top managerial position of private, public, bi-lateral or multilateral development institutions or non-profit organizations
∎ Proven track record in strategic planning, program development and fundraising
∎ Strong team-building and representational skills
∎ Demonstrated management skills and experience in supervising multi-disciplinary teams
∎ Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, creativity, resourcefulness and flexibility
∎ Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Bangla and English.
∎ Proven interpersonal and intercultural skills, including flexibility and sensitivity
∎ Exceptional transformative leadership skills for building leadership of others
∎ Sound knowledge of development concepts specially local government, good governance, human rights, and women's empowerment

Salary: Negotiable

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Negotiable

Application Deadline: 24 Dec 2020

Company Information:
∎ 9 Dec 2020
∎ The Hunger Project-Bangladesh

Category: NGO/Development

Source: bdjobs.com

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