Job Description

Title: Area Program Manager

Company Name: FH Association

Vacancy: 06

Age: at least 30 years

Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Experience:
∎ At least 5 years
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):NGO, Development Agency

Published: 18 Mar 2025

Education:
∎ Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Agriculture, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor of Social Science (BSS), Bachelor of Science (Pass) in Environmental Science
∎ Trainings on project management, management, M&E shall be an added advantage.
∎ Trainings on project management, management, M&E shall be an added advantage.

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at least 30 years
∎ Demonstrable knowledge and experience in program management and coordination, from program inception (proposal writing and budget development) to implementation and closeout.
∎ Demonstrable budget management experience, including experience implementing and working in accordance with corporate and donor policies and practices.
∎ Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with local communities and other stakeholders.
∎ Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
∎ Commitment to accountability to beneficiaries, showing dignity and respect, and demonstrating listening and understanding skills.
∎ Excellent report writing, interpersonal, and communication skills.
∎ Flexibility to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines.
∎ Ability to reside within the area program and travel to the field at least 25% of the time. The expectation is 25-50% of their time.
∎ Demonstrated computer-operating skills, including proficiency in Google platforms, Microsoft Office products, and virtual technologies.
∎ Knowledge and experience with participatory approaches, including systems mapping, human-centered design, and capacity building of local partners, is desired.
∎ Proficiency in spoken and written English. Ability to speak the local language of the area is an added advantage.
∎ Technical/Functional Skills:
∎ Demonstrable knowledge and experience in program management and coordination, from program inception (proposal writing and budget development) to implementation and closeout.
∎ Demonstrable budget management experience, including experience implementing and working in accordance with corporate and donor policies and practices.
∎ Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with local communities and other stakeholders.
∎ Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
∎ Commitment to accountability to beneficiaries, showing dignity and respect, and demonstrating listening and understanding skills.
∎ Excellent report writing, interpersonal, and communication skills.
∎ Flexibility to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines.
∎ Ability to reside within the area program and travel to the field at least 25% of the time. The expectation is 25-50% of their time.
∎ Demonstrated computer-operating skills, including proficiency in Google platforms, Microsoft Office products, and virtual technologies.
∎ Knowledge and experience with participatory approaches, including systems mapping, human-centered design, and capacity building of local partners, is desired.
∎ Proficiency in spoken and written English. Ability to speak the local language of the area is an added advantage.
∎

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Ensure timely and appropriate engagement with community members to analyze local systems, identify patterns, and recognize areas where interventions can create the most significant impact.
∎ In collaboration with the Systems Practice Specialist and the technical leads, facilitate the co-creation of solutions that are community-led and contextually appropriate.
∎ Use insights from systems mapping to inform strategic decisions and program adjustments.
∎ Lead the yearly, quarterly, and monthly planning process for all projects in the area programs.
∎ Supervise program implementation on a daily basis, ensuring that projects stay on time, scope, and budget.
∎ Promote collaborative working relationships between stakeholders and operational projects to ensure synergy within the program area for maximum impact.
∎ Plan and conduct regular field visits to assess the implementation of activities.
∎ Supervise the implementation of SotF activities in the Area Program, including supervision of the Value Exchange Relationships Coordinator.
∎ In partnership with the area program teams, ensure that periodic progress reports (quarterly, bi-annual, and annual) for all projects in the area are prepared and submitted within agreed reporting timelines and in accordance with the established donor and organizational standards.
∎ In close collaboration with the M&E Manager, ensure that M&E processes are undertaken and feedback is continuously incorporated into program implementation.
∎ Ensure proper documentation of program activities and best practices.
∎ Document and share lessons learned and best practices to contribute to organizational learning.
∎ Represent FH at the relevant county and national government authorities at the program level, helping to ensure constructive working relationships are maintained to allow expansion, alignment, and growth of FH’s programs within the area.
∎ Represent FH to other NGOs and visitors ensuring coordination and attendance at relevant interagency technical and security coordination networks at the program area level.
∎ In coordination with other FH teams, develop and strengthen new and existing relationships with public and private sector donors, positioning FH as a preferred partner in the area.
∎ Provide input into project proposals that will be implemented in the area.
∎ Oversee new initiatives, new geographies, and new partnerships across the AP.
∎ Ensure financial management across project budgets in line with FH financial management policies and donor regulations.
∎ Review monthly Budget Variance Analysis (BVAs), providing appropriate feedback.
∎ In collaboration with Procurement Officers, develop procurement plans with appropriate lead times to ensure timely acquisition of goods and services; track procurements in line with the plan.
∎ Develop risk registers and strategies to manage risks across the projects.
∎ Lead compliance to all FH, Donor and Government policies and procedures. Disseminate and guide staff in use of Procurement, Purchasing, IT, Security, Safeguarding and other work facilitation manuals/policies/SOPs.
∎ Promote FH’s Community-System for Accountability and Feedback (C-SAFE) to provide an opportunity for program participants to provide feedback about FH’s work. Close feedback loops and provide opportunities for adaptive programming across communities.
∎ Lead and manage staff ensuring clarity of strategy, plans, and priorities, providing supervision, coaching, and mentoring, encouraging effective teamwork and inclusiveness, and building a team spirit through regular meetings and events.
∎ Lead and contribute to developing and modeling a team culture characterized by a shared vision, commitment, and mutual accountability that reflects FH’s Heartbeat
∎ Conduct performance management processes including refining of JDs, setting performance goals, and periodic appraisals for direct reports.
∎ Other duties as assigned
∎ Principal Responsibilities:
∎ Key Result Area-1: Program Planning and Management
∎ Ensure timely and appropriate engagement with community members to analyze local systems, identify patterns, and recognize areas where interventions can create the most significant impact.
∎ In collaboration with the Systems Practice Specialist and the technical leads, facilitate the co-creation of solutions that are community-led and contextually appropriate.
∎ Use insights from systems mapping to inform strategic decisions and program adjustments.
∎ Lead the yearly, quarterly, and monthly planning process for all projects in the area programs.
∎ Supervise program implementation on a daily basis, ensuring that projects stay on time, scope, and budget.
∎ Promote collaborative working relationships between stakeholders and operational projects to ensure synergy within the program area for maximum impact.
∎ Plan and conduct regular field visits to assess the implementation of activities.
∎ Supervise the implementation of SotF activities in the Area Program, including supervision of the Value Exchange Relationships Coordinator.
∎ Key Result Area-2: Program Documentation, Reporting, and M&E
∎ In partnership with the area program teams, ensure that periodic progress reports (quarterly, bi-annual, and annual) for all projects in the area are prepared and submitted within agreed reporting timelines and in accordance with the established donor and organizational standards.
∎ In close collaboration with the M&E Manager, ensure that M&E processes are undertaken and feedback is continuously incorporated into program implementation.
∎ Ensure proper documentation of program activities and best practices.
∎ Document and share lessons learned and best practices to contribute to organizational learning.
∎ Key Result Area-3: Strategic partnerships and business development
∎ Represent FH at the relevant county and national government authorities at the program level, helping to ensure constructive working relationships are maintained to allow expansion, alignment, and growth of FH’s programs within the area.
∎ Represent FH to other NGOs and visitors ensuring coordination and attendance at relevant interagency technical and security coordination networks at the program area level.
∎ In coordination with other FH teams, develop and strengthen new and existing relationships with public and private sector donors, positioning FH as a preferred partner in the area.
∎ Provide input into project proposals that will be implemented in the area.
∎ Oversee new initiatives, new geographies, and new partnerships across the AP.
∎ Key Result Area-4: Financial, Procurement and Risk Management
∎ Ensure financial management across project budgets in line with FH financial management policies and donor regulations.
∎ Review monthly Budget Variance Analysis (BVAs), providing appropriate feedback.
∎ In collaboration with Procurement Officers, develop procurement plans with appropriate lead times to ensure timely acquisition of goods and services; track procurements in line with the plan.
∎ Develop risk registers and strategies to manage risks across the projects.
∎ Lead compliance to all FH, Donor and Government policies and procedures. Disseminate and guide staff in use of Procurement, Purchasing, IT, Security, Safeguarding and other work facilitation manuals/policies/SOPs.
∎ Promote FH’s Community-System for Accountability and Feedback (C-SAFE) to provide an opportunity for program participants to provide feedback about FH’s work. Close feedback loops and provide opportunities for adaptive programming across communities.
∎ Key Result Area-5: Leadership, culture and talent development
∎ Lead and manage staff ensuring clarity of strategy, plans, and priorities, providing supervision, coaching, and mentoring, encouraging effective teamwork and inclusiveness, and building a team spirit through regular meetings and events.
∎ Lead and contribute to developing and modeling a team culture characterized by a shared vision, commitment, and mutual accountability that reflects FH’s Heartbeat
∎ Conduct performance management processes including refining of JDs, setting performance goals, and periodic appraisals for direct reports.
∎ Other duties as assigned
∎ FH Culture: All we do, and how we do it, seeks to promote God’s beauty, goodness, and truth in a broken world. As such, we are defined by our ability to make people’s lives measurably better; our ability to deliver impact is the measure of our collective success. For we know that we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God has already prepared in advance for us to do. At Food for the Hungry, we operate under a set of values called Heartbeat Values.
∎ Safeguarding Policy: FH strives to provide an environment free from sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment in all places where relief and development programs are implemented. FH holds a zero-tolerance policy against sexual exploitation and abuse and harassment. FH expects its employees to maintain high ethical standards, protect organizational integrity and reputation, and ensure that FH work is carried out in honest and fair methods, in alignment with the Heartbeat Values and safeguarding and associated policies. Violations of stated policies will be subject to corrective action up to and including termination of employment.

Skills & Expertise:

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ T/A, Mobile bill, Medical allowance, Provident fund, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance
∎ Salary Review: Yearly
∎ Festival Bonus: 1

Workplace:
∎ Work at office

Employment Status: Full Time

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Job Highlights:
∎ Food for the Hungry (FH), registered as FH Association in Bangladesh, is a Christian relief & development organization working in Bangladesh since 1972. FH seeks to end ALL forms of human poverty by working with the world's most vulnerable people.

Company Information:
∎ FH Association
∎ 6th & 7th Floor, House # 2/B, Road # 04, Block # B, Banani, Dhaka - 1213
∎ Food for the Hungry (FH), registered as FH Association in Bangladesh, is a Christian relief & development organization working in Bangladesh since 1972. FH seeks to end ALL forms of human poverty by going to the hard places and walking with the world’s most vulnerable people. We provide life-changing resources such as clean water, medical aid, food, equal educational opportunities to girls and boys, vocational training and empowerment in the midst of unimaginable hardships. Our view of poverty is holistic and complex. We honor the people we serve by inviting them to contribute to the process. We are grateful to be invited into the communities we serve and work side-by-side with local leaders, responding to their needs with transformative solutions, which are both sustainable and implemented at the hands of the communities themselves.

FH is committed to building a diverse workforce through fair and equitable employment practices. FH encourages people of any race, color, age, sex, marital status, or political ideology, to apply for employment.

For more information, follow us on Facebook @foodforthehungrybd or visit www.fh.org


Address::
∎ 6th & 7th Floor, House # 2/B, Road # 04, Block # B, Banani, Dhaka - 1213
∎ Food for the Hungry (FH), registered as FH Association in Bangladesh, is a Christian relief & development organization working in Bangladesh since 1972. FH seeks to end ALL forms of human poverty by going to the hard places and walking with the world’s most vulnerable people. We provide life-changing resources such as clean water, medical aid, food, equal educational opportunities to girls and boys, vocational training and empowerment in the midst of unimaginable hardships. Our view of poverty is holistic and complex. We honor the people we serve by inviting them to contribute to the process. We are grateful to be invited into the communities we serve and work side-by-side with local leaders, responding to their needs with transformative solutions, which are both sustainable and implemented at the hands of the communities themselves.FH is committed to building a diverse workforce through fair and equitable employment practices. FH encourages people of any race, color, age, sex, marital status, or political ideology, to apply for employment.For more information, follow us on Facebook @foodforthehungrybd or visit www.fh.org

Read Before Apply: Please apply only who are fulfilling all the requirements of this job

Application Deadline: 5 Apr 2025

Category: NGO/Development