Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB)

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Summary

Vacancy: 2
Age: 30 to 56 years
Location: Habiganj, Kishoreganj
Maximum Salary: Tk. 49500 (Monthly)
Experience: At least 5 years
Published: 7 Nov 2024

Requirements

Education

Masters

Master’s degree in social science, public health, nutrition, agriculture, or a related field.

Experience

At least 5 years
The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):
NGO

Additional Requirements

Age 30 to 56 years

Minimum 5 years of professional experience in managerial positions with 2 years experience in leading/managing development projects in the fields of health, family planning, food security, and nutrition.
Working experience in USAID-funded projects is preferable.
Strong understanding of community health systems, management hierarchy, services delivery platforms, and coordination mechanisms at the sub-national level.
Effective communication, report writing, and presentation skills in both Bangla and English.
Skilled in computer literacy, internet, and email communication.
Introduce and expand new initiatives in the district in the context of implementing field interventions.
Promote team spirit and cooperative attitudes among project personnel and project partners.
Promote a gender-equitable, women-friendly, sensitive work environment in the district office.
Identify staff needs for training or improvement and take appropriate actions to achieve those.
Coach & mentor staff to improve their programming and analytical skills in project planning, management, communication, and monitoring activities.
Facilitate field visits conducted by the CNHA team, donors, and relevant government agencies.
Document innovations, case studies, and other pilot initiatives as guided by the Project Manager.
Document and preserve project disaggregated records as per the MEL plan and DQA standard.
Ensure data quality and completeness in a timely manner according to project/donor guidelines, including compiled quality reporting.
Ensure a system of communication and branding across the staff, partners, concerned government officials, and communities related to project policies, strategies, and implementation activities established.
Ensure ICT intervention implementation at the field level according to project guidelines.

Safety, Security, and Safeguarding

As part of this role, the job holder will be expected to adhere to and support FIVDB’s safety and security-related policies and systems in their day-to-day duties and always comply with safety and security protocols and directives, including reporting. Staff must maintain situational and self–awareness and be aware of the safety and security-related consequences of their actions on themselves, their team, and the organization.

Reporting:

The District Manager will report to the Project Manager

Working Conditions:

The District Manager is based on any one (Kishoregonj/Habigonj) district office of CNHA, with approximately 80% of the time in the field.

Responsibilities & Context

Job Context:

Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) is implementing the “USAID’s Community Nutrition and Health Activity (CNHA)’ funded by USAID” Project in Haor region Sunamgonj, Habigonj, Natrokona and Kishorgonj district in partnership with CARE Bangladesh. The present project tenure is up to September 2027.
USAID’s Community Nutrition and Health Activity (CNHA)’ funded by USAID, and implemented by CARE Bangladesh, aims to sustainably impact the nutrition and health of women and children in their first 1000 days of life. The activity will strive to achieve its goal by contributing to the areas of Strengthened community health systems to deliver nutrition, family planning, and health services; improving household nutrition and health behaviors; enhancing leadership and governance for improved nutrition; resilience of communities and households to potential nutrition shocks increased.
Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB), is a Bangladeshi non-governmental organisation founded in 1979 under the Societies’ Registration Act, 1860. The organisation is also registered with the NGO Affairs Bureau and the Micro Credit Regulatory Authority, of the Government of Bangladesh.
FIVDB’s societal vision is that of ‘a vibrant society based on justice, equity, democracy and environmentally sound principles’. It works with the mission to give the disadvantaged women, men and children greater voice, reduce their vulnerability, increase their use of citizenship rights and help them enhance their quality of life. To that end FIVDB pursues educational, social and economic capacity building and social organization processes. It works to strengthen social protection and safety networks and participates in national and international outreach and advocacy.
Under this CNHA Project, the CARE Bangladesh consortium will work with different ministries, especially the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) at the national, regional, and local levels, to improve nutrition status by strengthening the community health system and support the effective implementation of the Second National Plan of Action for Nutrition (NPAN2). This will work at multiple levels of local government institutions, specifically with the Nutrition Coordination Committees at the district, upazila, and union levels. The project intends to impact several of the core challenges selected districts face in the North (Rangpur), Haor (Kishoreganj), Padma Basin (Madaripur), and Coastal belt (Patuakhali) of Bangladesh.

Job Responsibilities:

FIVDB, a local partner of this project implementation is hiring a District Manager. The District Manager will lead the implementation of the project in the respective district as guided by the Project Manager. This District Manager will ensure that the technical direction of the project is geared to achieve the desired impact and project operations maximize value for money and overall management of the project implementation. The District Manager, under the supervision of the Project Manager, will coordinate with the consortium partners, technical specialists, cluster teams, project staff, and other stakeholders in the development and implementation of project plans, as well as achieving standards set for staff development, project impact, and monitoring and result measurement.
Under the direct guidance of the Project Manager, the District Manager will facilitate the Project Implementation Team representing the assigned District in reflecting on project implementation issues by coordinating with the CNHA consortium. The District Manager will also be responsible for guiding Union Facilitators and the field staff in ensuring sound administrative and financial management systems at various levels. The District Manager will promote and support anchorage at the district office level so that the field team can work with a good level of independence and undertake initiatives on their own.
Responsibility # 01: Coordination, implementation guidance, and operational leadership. 30%: Lead project implementation team in taking responsibility with adequate authorities about intervention planning, implementation, monitoring, and management in the respective district.
Plan and implement the project interventions in the respective district following CNHA’s approaches and standards in consultation with the CNHA Consortium.
Build capacities of project staff to manage resources and monitor the impact of the project.
# 02: Staff management and administrative operations 25%: Ensure that the project is implemented in a cost-effective manner, within the budget framework, and make sure that the burn rate is up to the expected level.
Regularly monitor the status of record keeping and provide feedback to the project team and management.
# 03: Liaison with project consortium and other relevant stakeholders 20%: Liaison, coordinate, and nurture excellent relationships with project teams, government, and other stakeholders.
Participate in coordination meetings, including NGO coordination/DNCC/Health/FP, update progress, and represent project team as needed.
# 04: Ensure proper monitoring, reporting, and result measurement systems for the project. 15%: Support data collection, experience capitalization, study, or research undertaken by the project.
Establish a culture of reviewing findings from the monitoring visits and initiate actions for qualitative improvements of interventions.
# 05: Communication and information management, effective networking, and collaboration. 10%: Share and execute management directions of the project to all staff in the respective district.

Skills & Expertise

Agriculture

Nutrition

public health

Compensation & Other Benefits

Mobile bill, Weekly 2 holidays
Salary Review: Yearly

As per the project policy of FIVDB and the budgeted provision of this project.

Workplace

Work at office

Employment Status

Full Time

Job Location

Habiganj, Kishoreganj

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