Divisional Program Manager

Job Description

Title: Divisional Program Manager

Company Name: Pathfinder International

Vacancy: 04

Job Location: Chattogram, Dhaka, Mymensingh, Sylhet

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ MBBS/ Master's degree in public health, Population Sciences or related discipline, or a combination of education and experience that yields the required competencies

Experience Requirements:
∎ 7 to 8 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Reports to: Program & Impact
∎ Direct Supervisor: Family Planning Specialist
∎ Extensive Travel required; must be willing to travel in public transportation
∎ Uses cellular and desk phone; laptop or desktop computer and other IT devices

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Implementation of Project Activities: As focal person of the project at the divisional level, ensures timely and proper implantation of the project activities.
∎ Community Relations: Liaises with community teams for cross cutting issues and to ensure integration. Collaborates and networks with key stakeholders closely with selected teams to promote all the activities at facility and community level.
∎ Project Management and Participation: Leads, manages or participates in cross-functional project teams at the divisional level.
∎ Relationship Management: Build and maintain professional relationship with team and partner's relevant staff and upholding Pathfinder's values and code of conduct while implementing the project activities timely in a facilitative/ supportive mode
∎ Internal & External Coordination: Organize and facilitate regular coordination and review meetings with project employees and the stakeholders, including DGFP, DGHS and NIPORT at the division and district level. Responsible for arranging/coordinating workshop /training/ meeting and any other outdoor program as per project activities.
∎ Project Activity Monitoring: Monitor all the relevant project activities. Prepares monthly and quarterly reports of all activities. Ensures linkage with MEL for compilation of data from the project sites and monthly service statistics data from MIS/ DHIS
∎ Documentation and Reports: Ensures quality, reliability, and timeliness of performance reports and other programmatic compliance activities.

Additional Requirements:
∎ 7-8 years' experience in program management preferably family planning related experience funded by an INGO in the field
∎ Prefer: 5 years' programmatic experience in field offices under USAID project
∎ Program Management: Must have extensive knowledge on family planning and reproductive health service delivery system and network in Bangladesh. Should have clear understanding about the population dynamics and demographic goals stated in different strategy and policy documents
∎ Informed Choice and Voluntarism in FP service delivery: Should have clear understanding about Reproductive Rights in relation to Informed choice and voluntarism in FP service delivery.
∎ Data for decision making: Should have knowledge on FP Management Information System maintained by GOB. Basic orientation about different FP registers and forms would be added advantage.
∎ Social Behavior Change Communication (SBCC): Should have basic understanding about community engagement and SBCC activities.
∎ Presentation skills: Should be able to prepare presentations slides and be able to conduct sessions in different events.
∎ Teamwork: Must have clear understanding about teamwork and be able to play individual role effectively.
∎ Budget Management: Proven ability to manage a budget within Pathfinder's guidelines.
∎ Training and Development: Ability to develop and deliver training to small and large groups.
∎ Software Applications: Advanced knowledge of MS Office products, including MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
∎ Languages: Proven ability to write and speak using Bangla and English language.
∎ Communication Advanced oral and written communication skills, Ability to prepare and write reports.
∎ Multi-tasking Skills: Ability to manage multiple initiatives at the same time and work cooperatively with multiple partners.
∎ Self-Management and Teamwork: Ability to work independently and as a member of the team, ability to thrive in a matrix organization, ability to be detailed-oriented, and ability to manage stress effectively in a fast-paced environment
∎ Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Services: Foundational knowledge of family planning and reproductive health principles, practices and services of programs, including program strategies and indicators, and the latest professional developments in SRHR.

Application Deadline: September 30, 2019

Company Information:
∎ Pathfinder International
∎ Business : Pathfinder is driven by the conviction that all people, regardless of where they live, have the right to decide whether and when to have children, to exist free from fear and stigma, and to lead the lives they choose.

Since 1957, we have partnered with local governments, communities, and health systems to remove barriers to critical sexual and reproductive health services. Together, we expand access to contraception, promote healthy pregnancies, save women’s lives, and stop the spread of new HIV infections, wherever the need is most urgent.

Our work ensures millions of women, men, and young people are able to choose their own paths forward. Change lives with us.

Category: NGO/Development

Source: bdjobs.com

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