Project Manager

Job Description

Title: Project Manager

Company Name: Practical Action - Bangladesh.

Vacancy: 1

Location: Dhaka

Salary: Tk. 125000 - 133000 (Monthly)

Experience:
∎ 5 to 10 years
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):NGO

Published: 9 Jan 2025

Education:
∎ Master of Science (MSc)

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
∎ Candidates who identify as Indigenous People are encouraged to apply.
∎ Minimum qualification required is Master’s Degree in Development Studies, Social Sciences, Project Management, Environment science, Disaster management and climate change.
∎ At least five years of work experience in project management, human and finance resource management and budgeting.
∎ Preferred knowledge in Disaster risk reduction and Climate Change.
∎ Experience in project management.
∎ Experience in management of finance and human resources.
∎ Experience in project planning and technical activities.
∎ Good experience of participatory approaches in project development and implementation.
∎ Good communication skills with fluency in English and Bangladeshi.
∎ Good reporting and analysis writing.
∎ Capacity in influencing skills.
∎ Demonstrated skills in prioritizing task and meeting deadlines.
∎ Experience of working in multi-stakeholders, multi-country institutions and with government organizations.
∎ Experienced in team works and managing relationships.
∎ Excellent networking and communication skills.
∎ Strong presentation and reporting skills.
∎ Knowledge and skills in computing.
∎ Knowledge of global DRR and CCA policy processes an advantage.
∎ Willingness and enthusiasm to work in challenging and difficult situations.
∎ Willingness and enthusiasm for working and travelling to rural areas with vulnerable communities living in remote areas of the country.
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∎ Skills
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∎ Knowledge and Abilities

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Prepare annual, quarterly and monthly plans ( both physical and financial) for effective execution of the project activities as stipulated in the project document.
∎ Ensure project Monitoring, Reporting and Learning in line with donor complience and Practical Actions organizational requirements, ensuring SMART indicators, regular monitoring, reflection and project strategy review when necessary, communicating changes to relevant staff involved in the program.
∎ Support preparation of and review financial reports of program in conjunction with the respective units and team members.
∎ Coordinate with expert groups of Practical Action to deliver agreed knowledge outputs for sharing project learning with beneficiaries, partners and to influence policy makers.
∎ Develop and strengthening networks of peers and professional contacts outside the organization.
∎ Organise meetings, workshops and other information dissemination events with different stakeholders to achieve influencing objectives, in particular on the CRMC approach and evidence generated.
∎ Establish or adhere to existing office ways of working to ensure project information is regularly communicated to the Management Team in Bangladesh.People, Budget and Partnership ManagementManage people working in the project to deliver the project outcomes in accordance with the highest standards of safeguarding and inclusive practice.
∎ Ensure that project budget from field to the central level is planned effectively and expenditures are made meeting the all compliance and organizational policy/procedures.
∎ Maintain relationship with the local, district, and national level stakeholders ensuring that transparency at all levels maintained and project information communicated to relevant stakeholders in timely fashion.
∎ Facilitate the team to collect required data to develop PAP.
∎ Lead the team to prepare and implement knowledge capture and dissemination plan in support of the project objectives.
∎ Coordinate with other stakeholders (i.e. government, academia, INGOs, civil society organization and research institutions) to share the project knowledge as well as to encourage them on capturing and disseminating knowledge related to PAP.
∎ Ensure the compliance (i.e. government, donor, organizational policies, procedures and requirement) maintained in each levels of project administration.
∎ As a practical Actioners, provide proactive feedback and reporting to Senior Management Team for any internal/external issues around project/organizational reputation as well as any solutions to overcome it.
∎ The PAP (Peoples adaptation plan) project is designed to deliver the anticipated outcomes  ensuring inclusion of pro –poor climate related priorities in the master plans, supporting NbS considering long-term climate threats, informing community-level infrastructure, and facilitating green jobs thus contributing to climate resilience, gender empowerment, and sustainable urban development. The proposed approach of comprehensive mapping of climate risks and vulnerabilities, particularly in the poor informal areas, will help to identify specific climate threats like flooding and heatwaves and lead to the development of a comprehensive, locally led People’s Adaptation Plan (PAP), which will reflect the specific needs of vulnerable groups, especially women and the urban poor. To have oversight
∎ and coordinate strategy and implementation of activities of the GCA funded people’s Adaptation project (PAP) Narayangonj. The post holder must effectively coordinate, focus and communicate the implementation of the project in order to achieve the stated outcomes. The post holder must properly support the facilitation of developing peoples adaptation plan engaging local city corporation, women's group, sanitation and waste workers, communities and CSO’s. The PM will harness available capacity of organization and improve efficiency in our ways of working to deliver high quality results.
∎ Key Responsibilities:
∎ Prepare annual, quarterly and monthly plans ( both physical and financial) for effective execution of the project activities as stipulated in the project document.
∎ Ensure project Monitoring, Reporting and Learning in line with donor complience and Practical Actions organizational requirements, ensuring SMART indicators, regular monitoring, reflection and project strategy review when necessary, communicating changes to relevant staff involved in the program.
∎ Support preparation of and review financial reports of program in conjunction with the respective units and team members.
∎ Coordinate with expert groups of Practical Action to deliver agreed knowledge outputs for sharing project learning with beneficiaries, partners and to influence policy makers.
∎ Develop and strengthening networks of peers and professional contacts outside the organization.
∎ Organise meetings, workshops and other information dissemination events with different stakeholders to achieve influencing objectives, in particular on the CRMC approach and evidence generated.
∎ Establish or adhere to existing office ways of working to ensure project information is regularly communicated to the Management Team in Bangladesh.People, Budget and Partnership ManagementManage people working in the project to deliver the project outcomes in accordance with the highest standards of safeguarding and inclusive practice.
∎ Ensure that project budget from field to the central level is planned effectively and expenditures are made meeting the all compliance and organizational policy/procedures.
∎ Maintain relationship with the local, district, and national level stakeholders ensuring that transparency at all levels maintained and project information communicated to relevant stakeholders in timely fashion.
∎ Facilitate the team to collect required data to develop PAP.
∎ Knowledge Management
∎ Lead the team to prepare and implement knowledge capture and dissemination plan in support of the project objectives.
∎ Coordinate with other stakeholders (i.e. government, academia, INGOs, civil society organization and research institutions) to share the project knowledge as well as to encourage them on capturing and disseminating knowledge related to PAP.
∎ Compliance and Feedback
∎ Ensure the compliance (i.e. government, donor, organizational policies, procedures and requirement) maintained in each levels of project administration.
∎ As a practical Actioners, provide proactive feedback and reporting to Senior Management Team for any internal/external issues around project/organizational reputation as well as any solutions to overcome it.

Workplace:
∎ Work at office

Employment Status: Full Time

Job Location: Dhaka

Job Highlights:
∎ Practical Action is a highly innovative community development charity operating in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Practical Action community projects use ingenious ideas to design, test, refine and prove new ways to overcome poverty.

Company Information:
∎ Practical Action - Bangladesh.
∎ House # 28/A, Road # 5, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1205
∎ Practical Action is an international development organisation putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.

We treat all applications for employment on their merits and do not take into consideration any factors that are not relevant to the job such as gender, race, religion, ethnic or national origin, caste, tribe, belief, age, marital status, pregnancy, caring responsibilities, sexual orientation, or disability. Practical Action is committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults and as such candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks including criminal checks and terrorist financing. As part of SEEDs commitment to safeguarding we are a member of the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. This will mean that we ask your references to comment on any disciplinary investigations undertaken as a result of safeguarding concerns that resulted in disciplinary action. SEED will also ask you for additional references if the references you provide do not cover the past five years of employment.

We’re a global change-making group. We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.

Address::
∎ House # 28/A, Road # 5, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1205
∎ Practical Action is an international development organisation putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.We treat all applications for employment on their merits and do not take into consideration any factors that are not relevant to the job such as gender, race, religion, ethnic or national origin, caste, tribe, belief, age, marital status, pregnancy, caring responsibilities, sexual orientation, or disability. Practical Action is committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults and as such candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks including criminal checks and terrorist financing. As part of SEEDs commitment to safeguarding we are a member of the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. This will mean that we ask your references to comment on any disciplinary investigations undertaken as a result of safeguarding concerns that resulted in disciplinary action. SEED will also ask you for additional references if the references you provide do not cover the past five years of employment. We’re a global change-making group. We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.

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Application Deadline: 23 Jan 2025

Category: NGO/Development