Bangladesh: Logistics Platform Project Manager - Bangladesh

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Handicap International is an international, independent and impartial non-profit organisation that intervenes in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. Working alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, HI takes action and takes notice, to meet their basic needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.

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Handicap International has offices in more than 55 countries and 2 HQ-based operational divisions:

• Humanitarian Action Division (DAH)
• Development Division (DAD)

MISSION CONTEXT

Since August 25th, 615,000 Rohingya refugees arrived to Bangladesh. OCHA planned response to this crisis set the caseload of people in need to 1.2 M, including Rohingya (new and old arrivals) and host communities, but these figure is likely to increase as 100,000 new refugees arrived in the past ten days only.

A high proportion of the refugees in Cox’s Bazar remain in a chronic emergency situation due to long-term challenges to find a durable solution to their status in Myanmar and Bangladesh and therefore require continuous humanitarian assistance. The new influx has created even more pressure on resources and increasing humanitarian needs.

HI's capacity, current response and coordination:

Since 2007, HI has been providing support to the Rohingya refugees and host communities in the official refugee camps, makeshift camps, and host communities in Teknaf and Ukhiya, in Cox’s Bazar district.
Before August 25th crisis, HI was implementing 3 projects focusing on child protection, child development, DRR, Physical and Functional Rehabilitation, MHPSS and inclusion mainstreaming.
In January 2017, HI also provided emergency response following the refugee influx in October 2016, distributing assistive devices and NFI kits to 1,850 households.
With offices in Cox’s Bazar, Teknaf, and Ukhiya, HI is among the very few INGOs providing support to refugees in all three geographical categories (official refugee camps, makeshift camps, and host communities). HI also works with two local NGOs, SHED and MUKTI, and one national NGO, CDD.
HI ongoing emergency response focuses on physical and functional rehabilitation, mental health and psychosocial support, protection and identification of extremely vulnerable individuals (EVI), logistic platform and basic needs
HI is part of Cox’s Bazar ISCG Coordination, and regularly attends Health, Protection, Shelter/NFI, Education, WASH and Food Security sector meetings. HI is also an active member of MHPSS Working Group.

MISSION DESCRIPTION

Reporting directly to the Platform Coordinator, with functional links to the deputy desk officer and platform technical adviser at HQ, as project manager you are responsible for:

• Operational and technical implementation of the project
• Compliance with contractual undertakings
• Internal coordination of the project and management of the project’s teams in liaison with the mission’s logistics, administrative, financial and security services
• Effective external coordination of the programme
• Compliance with the security regulations and legal frameworks in place on the mission and ensuring compliance on the part of your teams
• Production of the project’s reports and knowledge capitalisation
• Development and implementation of a withdrawal/continuity strategy for the project.

PROFILE SOUGHT

Qualification/Training:

• Two to three years of higher education in the field of Civil Engineering or Water and Sanitation Engineering
• Qualification in the field of technical logistics

Experience:

• 1 years’ experience of managing humanitarian aid projects in an international NGO
• Community mobilisation (labour intensive methodology)
• Experience of site supervision
• Experience in isolated rural areas where the living conditions are basic (materially and socially)

Skills:

• Knowledge of humanitarian aid project management tools (project cycle, etc.)
• Good planning and organisational skills
• Capacity to manage teams, while strengthening their competences and autonomy
• Forward-planning and decision-making
• Adaptability and comprehension
• Ability to work under pressure (heavy workload on occasion, temporary deterioration in the security situation)
• French language skills mandatory
• IT skills (Windows)

Personal qualities:

• Commitment to humanitarian aid and its values. Strong focus on the principles of ‘Do no harm”, “Accountability” and “Community acceptance”
• Communication skills

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

• Salary: from 2250 € gross/month depending on the experience of the candidate
• Perdiem: 536 € net/month
• Hardship allowance: 250 € net/month
• Insurances: medical health coverage, retirement planning, repatriation
• Paid holiday: 25 days per year
• R&R: 5 days every 6 weeks
• Status: unaccompanied position
• Accomodation: collective covered by HI

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