Country: Bangladesh
Closing date: 30 Jun 2016
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Posted on:** 23/05/2016
Desired start date: ASAP
Duration of the mission: 12 months
Location: Dhaka with frequent field visits to our fields of operations (Teknaf, Satkhira and others if necessary)
About the mission
Solidarités International has now been present in Bangladesh since 2007 and the overall country operational objective for 2016 is to improve living conditions and resilience capacity of the most vulnerable persons to natural disaster, climate change and to discrimination (migrants, refugees, urban and rural poor).
Solidarités International’s strategy axes in Bangladesh are the following:
- Respond to Bangladesh’s recurrent humanitarian crises in geographical areas where SI is well established, and integrating a long-term resilience focus as a cross-cutting consideration to all our interventions
- Enhance community resilience through stand-alone programs in order to limit the impacts of recurrent crises and climate change in sectors relevant to SI’s capacities such as livelihood and WaSH
- Tackle silent crises such as arsenic and urban slum issues when SI has a demonstrated capacity to have a significant impact to improve the conditions of the most vulnerable communities
- Improve access to services for Rohingya refugees and host communities as well as maintaining a humanitarian presence, monitoring the situation and advocate, and be ready to respond to any humanitarian crisis in the event of massive displacements or spread of water-borne diseases
SI expertise allows the mission to intervene both in emergency and recovery situations, and gradually integrate interventions aiming at fostering long term resilience of populations in disaster prone areas. SI is currently involved in:
- A WaSH intervention in Cox bazaar which aims at improving access to WaSH to refugees and host communities and reduce the potential tensions related to the scarcity of resources in this area.
- Resilient Livelihoods and Climate Change Adaptation project in Satkhira District, Bangladesh
- Develop a strategy to increase its capacity to respond to emergencies
How the mission is organized :
The mission benefits from a coordination team based in Dhaka with the Country Director, a Program Coordinator, an Administrative Coordinator and a Logistics Coordinator. The coordination is managing 2 bases located in Teknaf and Sathkira. In the whole mission, there are 4 expatriated staff and 83 national staff.
About the job:
The SI Bangladesh mission is an active and innovative middle scale mission, involved in a wide range of humanitarian and DRR activities. The program coordinator contributes to the implementation of Solidarités International strategy in Bangladesh and supports more closely the follow-up of our operations and presence in Cox’s Bazar District and Satkhira.
He/she if the guarantor of the quality, relevance and consistency of the operational strategy and implements programs according to the general mission’s strategy, the needs of the population and the mandate of the organization. He/she coordinates the project cycle and more particularly the operational monitoring of programs implemented in Bangladesh and contributes to the improvement of Solidarités International methods and techniques in Bangladesh.
He/she designs and supervises the implementation of both the contingency & the capacity building plans of the mission with a special focus on cross cutting issues.
He/she supports the Country Representatives in fund raising and donor relations, coordinates the reports and proposals writing process
Together with his/her deputy, he/she actively represents SI in the local, regional & national level coordination platforms as technical focal point for the mission and helps the country director in humanitarian and political contexts’ analysis.
Your profile
Qualification
Master degree in Development or Humanitarian Action or WaSH, or DRR, or FSL, or project management, or any other related educations. Can be balanced by experience if the candidate has not this education’s level.
Experience
- Substantial experience in a senior management position in an overseas INGO environment.
- Solid experience of program implementation in different development or humanitarian fields: WaSH and/or food security and/or livelihood and/or DRR and/or Climate change adaptation and / or community mobilization and/or gender-inclusiveness.
- Experience in dealing with donors and external stakeholders.
- Experience of team management in different contexts and various problematic.
- Experience of budget management.
- Experience with SI is a plus.
Technical skill and competence
- Capacity to deal with many different issues, programs, sectors, to self-update and learn very quickly from a highly and constantly evolving environment.
- Strong representation / communication and public relation skills.
- A flexible approach to managing and prioritizing a potentially high workload and multiple tasks with tight deadlines.
- Interest for innovative solution in humanitarian intervention.
- Good knowledge about project cycle management and monitoring tools.
- Confident and proficient in the use of MS Word, Excel and Sphynx (optional).
- Good report writing skills in English.
Personal quality
- Ability to take decisions and work in autonomy.
- Interest for both field and institutional work and capacity to switch from one to another.
- Diplomatic and smooth leadership skills.
- Understanding of and commitment to SI’s mission and values.
Language: Strong communication skills, with excellent written and spoken English
We offer
SI will offer you:
A salaried post: according to experience from 2000 euros gross per month, plus 10% annual leave allowance paid monthly, and a monthly Per Diem of 500 USD.
Social and medical cover: Expatriates benefit from an insurance package which reimburses all healthcare expenses (including medical and surgical expenses, dental care and ophthalmological expenses, repatriation) and a welfare system including war risks. Essential vaccination and antimalarial treatment costs are refunded.
Vacation: During the assignment, a system of alternation between work and time off is implemented at the rate of one break every three months. For a one-year assignment, the expatriate will have a 7-day break during the 3rd and the 9th month (with 500 euros allocated by Solidarités). He or she will also be entitled to go back to his or her home country for a 14-day period after six months spent on the mission (Solidarités will cover travel costs)
For further information about SI, please consult our website: http://www.solidarites.org/en/
Contact: Anna FRANGI, Recruitment and Follow Up Officer
How to apply:
Application process
Does this description fit you? Please send us your CV and Cover letter in English. CV only applications will not be considered.
NB: The vacancy may close before the deadline. Thank you for your comprehension.