Job Description

Title: Country Director -Bangladesh

Company Name: Translators without Borders (TWB)

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor degree in any discipline
∎ Skills Required: Communication, Community Development, Community Engagement, Management

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 8 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s): Adaptability, Budgeting, Communication skill, Community Development, Coordination, Emeergency Response, Humanitarian Response, Program Management, Staff Management

Job Context:
∎ The role
∎ The Country Director leads TWB`s Bangladesh program with support from the Country Management Team, which s/he empowers to perform collaboratively and efficiently. The Country Director is the primary champion of TWB`s organizational culture in Bangladesh, s/he nurtures a positive work environment of quality, innovation and drive to achieve. The Country Director provides strategic leadership and oversight of innovative program strategies, s/he has overall responsibility for corporate representation and partnership building, efficient and transparent fundraising, financial management and compliance, security management, advocacy and external communication in Bangladesh.
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Job Responsibilities:
∎ Essential duties and responsibilities, other duties may be assigned
∎ Team leadership
∎ Recruit, lead, empower and manage the high-performing team needed for the successful implementation of the country strategy
∎ Promote, model and take proactive steps to ensure a positive, innovative and supportive work environment
∎ Maintain close contact with other TWB Country Directors and with global teams to ensure the Bangladesh country team learns from and shares with others in the organization
∎ Actively promote understanding of TWB's Code of Conduct and safeguarding and PSEA policies, and associated reporting procedures across the Bangladesh team, and uphold TWB's values (below) in her/his and the team's engagement with communities, partners and colleagues
∎ Program delivery and grant management
∎ Lead and coordinate delivery and monitoring of program activities under current grant agreements, in line with international humanitarian and TWB standards
∎ Coordinate closely with the global COVID-19 response team and COVID activities in other TWB country programs to ensure cross-learning and adoption of good practices and successful tools at all levels
∎ Specifically, coordinate with TWB's tech team and other country teams to promote the use of appropriate language technology to inform communication strategies and risk communication content on COVID-19 as an iterative learning and communication process
∎ Manage program budgets, evaluation and reporting in line with TWB and donor requirements, with support from finance and global crisis response colleagues, and maintain business continuity
∎ Liaise between partner organizations and TWB's language services team to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality translation, editing, and terminology services
∎ Resource mobilization and management
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∎ Proactively seek and pursue opportunities to expand the depth and breadth of the program in response to need. This includes potential geographical expansion, including to neighboring countries
∎ Cultivate and strengthen relationships with existing and potential donors and act as their primary interlocutor
∎ Oversee the development and submission of funding proposals in order to ensure that country plans are sustainably resourced
∎ Complete TWB's registration in Bangladesh
∎ Representation and coordination
∎ Represent TWB and build the organization's profile in Bangladesh, ensuring professional and productive engagement with local, regional, and national authorities, donors, and humanitarian and development partners
∎ Engage with humanitarian coordination and strategy development to ensure that issues relating to language and communication are taken on board by key decision makers and included in strategic documents such as Humanitarian Response Plans, country strategies and any related funding appeals
∎ Media and advocacy
∎ Lead on political and humanitarian context and trend analysis for Bangladesh.
∎ Lead TWB's advocacy and media efforts in the country in close cooperation with the global Senior Advocacy Officer and Communication Senior Officer to ensure that language issues are highlighted within the response in Bangladesh.
∎ Act as spokesperson in Bangladesh, as delegated by the Head of Fundraising and Communication/Executive Director and proactively and constructively engage with reputable journalists to promote coverage and understanding of language issues in the media
∎ Design and implementation of country strategies and plans
∎ Ensure that country strategies and plans are developed and aligned with global TWB priorities and initiatives
∎ Lead on ensuring that TWB programs build an evidence base on the importance and impact of taking language into account in humanitarian programing in Bangladesh.
∎ Ensure that programs and projects meet their goals and targets on time and within budget
∎ Legal, logistics, security, financial and human resource management
∎ Serve as the primary budget authority in Bangladesh, responsible for ensuring all costs charged to projects are allowable, reasonable and correctly allocated; accept fiduciary responsibility for all funds advanced for all TWB projects
∎ Ensure that TWB has adequate security measures in place approved by the Executive Director and that security guidance is understood and adhered to by all team members, including visitors
∎ In collaboration with TWB's global finance and HR team, ensure financial, logistics and HR systems and procedures compliant with legal requirements are in place and adhered to The role will evolve along with the overall program as projects and activities develop to reflect the changing language needs of the affected population and humanitarian community in Bangladesh.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Relevant university degree required
∎ 8+ years of program design and management experience, including institutional donor grants and budget management
∎ 5+ years of international humanitarian aid experience
∎ Demonstrated understanding of AAP, communication and community engagement work
∎ 3+ years of experience as a Country Director, Program Director, or Chief of Party with a strong reputation for developing collaborative working relationships with local counterparts and relevant state actors and agencies, international organizations, and donors
∎ Demonstrated experience in mobilizing, organizing resources and establishing priorities
∎ Proven ability to manage staff and build cohesive, productive teams
∎ Excellent writing and presentation skills in English
∎ Essential aptitudes
∎ Strong diplomatic, negotiation, and leadership skills
∎ Active listening skills, and focus on solutions
∎ Strong ability to multitask, prioritize, and work independently with minimal supervision
∎ Attention to detail, thoroughness, accuracy, ability to meet deadlines under time pressure, and to work quickly and steadily in a focused manner
∎ Ability to deal with frequent changes, delays, interruptions, and unexpected events; flexibility and can-do attitude
∎ Demonstrated initiative, persistence, ability to problem solve, and enthusiasm for learning
∎ Good interpersonal skills; able to work well in a team-oriented, collaborative, cross-functional environment
∎ Ability to innovate to find creative solutions; willing to explore new technologies
∎ Resourcefulness, capacity to get more out of small budgets

Salary: Negotiable

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival Bonus: 1
∎ We offer in addition to salary:
∎ an innovative work environment with a diverse and passionate team
∎ 20 days of annual leave and 10 days of floating holidays
∎ Plus during deployment:
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∎ location-specific allowance
∎ accommodation
∎ a 3-month Rest & Recuperation cycle, including additional leave and travel

Application Deadline: 10 Jul 2020

Company Information:
∎ 29 Jun 2020
∎ Translators without Borders (TWB)
∎ Business : Translators without Borders (TWB) is a non-profit organization offering language and translation support for humanitarian and development agencies, and other non-profit organizations on a global scale.

Category: NGO/Development

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