Area Director (Contractual); Humanitarian Crisis Management Programme (HCMP)

Job Description

Title: Area Director (Contractual); Humanitarian Crisis Management Programme (HCMP)

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters in Management/ Social Science/ Economics/ Development Studies/ Public Administration/ International Relations or any other relevant discipline

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 15 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Develop strategic plans and lead to prepare specific need based short or long term intervention plan for humanitarian response programmes.
∎ Provide leadership and overall management support to programmes and support services operations for all ongoing humanitarian projects in the Cox's Bazar area.
∎ Ensure strong operational systems are in place to support project implementation, managing program team including sectors and branch offices.
∎ Oversee the Grants management for effective execution of the projects as stipulated in the project documents.
∎ Play a coordinating role with team members to carry out field visits, prepare project review reports, technical progress reports and other periodic reports.
∎ Promote accountability, communicate expectations and provide constructive feedback through regular performance reviews.
∎ Take lead for developing and submission of quality EOI, concept notes and project proposals and budget.
∎ Develop highly competitive project and programme proposals, finalize applications to persuasively communicate our vision, strategy, and programs to potential funders; solicit and integrate feedback from program, budget, and fundraising perspectives.
∎ Engage in regular scanning of new programme opportunities and primary donors for humanitarian response.
∎ Work closely with BRAC Head Office Team and HCMP team for developing fundraising strategies through successful engagement with donors, UN agencies and development partners in the humanitarian sector.
∎ Coordinate with Programme Development and Fund-Raising team in managing the grant application process and ensuring that grants received are tracked, and reported upon and aligned with donors' expectations.
∎ Ensure that the M&E team has developed and maintain standard M&E framework, guidelines and tools.
∎ Ensure that the sectors have established programme quality standards and standards are followed strictly.
∎ Ensure that the protection needs for programme staff are analysed and addressed appropriately in all programme activities.
∎ Work with the M&E team to carry out monitoring, after-action review and other forms of project monitoring and evaluation.
∎ Ensure that lessons learnt are documented and shared with the HCMP teams.
∎ Help to establish, maintain, and improve active and regular working relationships with the key humanitarian agencies and partner organizations.
∎ Represent HCMP in different coordination forums e.g. ISCG sectors (Protection, Health, Nutrition, WASH and Education).
∎ Maintain regular contact with all relevant UN agencies, RRRC and team, district administration and other BDG agencies.
∎ Represent HCMP in different policy and advocacy forums to ensure that our efforts in humanitarian response are recognized and addressed in humanitarian policy and practice.
∎ Consult and coordinate with the team to identify key actors, likeminded consortium/ agencies for roll out advocacy and involve in quick decision making in rapid humanitarian response.
∎ Represent HCMP at different levels of meetings, workshops etc.
∎ Work closely with the BRAC Communication team to develop communication materials, documents,
∎ Actively interact with the sectors to share case studies, lessons learned and best practice on the Knowledge System.
∎ Communicate with Consortium/ Networks/ Alliances as per advice from Director, Humanitarian Programme and Other Management Officials when needed.
∎ Communicate related information regularly with BRAC Head Office Management and team members.
∎ Ensure proper documentation of all key documents of HCMP.
∎ Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme's goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
∎ Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
∎ Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum 15 years' experience preferably in any emergency response, including 5 years in management and/ or supervisory role. Experience in providing support (logistical, operational, safety and security, administrative, finance etc.) and monitoring large-scale field operations is important
∎ Enormous knowledge of national and international humanitarian issues, core humanitarian standard and principles, coordination mechanism, humanitarian reform, humanitarian programme cycle, National and international statue relating to disaster management etc.
∎ Advance knowledge on grants, financial, administrative and human resources management, excellent knowledge on emergency response/humanitarian programme.
∎ Proven strategic planner and team leader with sound technical knowledge of support systems.
∎ Proven ability to develop and lead a high performing team.
∎ Excellent people manager, mentor and coach.
∎ Strong problem solving and organisational skills in day to day and crisis situations.
∎ Experience of a flexible approach to managing and prioritising a high workload and multiple tasks in a fast paced environment with tight deadlines.
∎ Experience of working collaboratively with local and government, with NGO partners and a commitment to working through systems of children/community participation.
∎ Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.

Salary: Negotiable

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ As per organisation policy

Application Deadline: November 30, 2019

Company Information:
∎ BRAC

Category: NGO/Development