Job Description

Title: CXB Project Director

Company Name: Green Hill Rangamati

Vacancy: --

Location: Cox's Bazar

Published: 30 Mar 2024

Education:
∎ Master’s degree from a recognized institution (and/or equivalent work experience) in a discipline relevant to social studies, public health, financial management or business administration. Apart from this, experienced employees who have a strong background of implementing and managing such projects are also eligible.Technical expertise● At least 13 years of demonstrated management experience in the NGO/ Development/ Emergency Response Sectors.● At least 5 years experience in Senior Management Role managing Program & Operational functions in roles such as Team Lead, Head of Program or Operations, District-level management.● Experience in the Public Health sector preferred. ● Strong leadership and staff management skills, with a record of managing large, diverse teams and contributing to staff capacity building of all staff.● Fully conversant with the budgeting, finance, operations, compliances, programs, grant management. ● Demonstrated ability to lead strategically with a solid understanding of overall business operations. ● Demonstrated experience in relationship building and working with a wide variety of donors and development partners with awareness and experience in developing policies and procedures.
∎ Master’s degree from a recognized institution (and/or equivalent work experience) in a discipline relevant to social studies, public health, financial management or business administration. Apart from this, experienced employees who have a strong background of implementing and managing such projects are also eligible.
∎ Technical expertise
∎ ● At least 13 years of demonstrated management experience in the NGO/ Development/ Emergency Response Sectors.
∎ ● At least 5 years experience in Senior Management Role managing Program & Operational functions in roles such as Team Lead, Head of Program or Operations, District-level management.
∎ ● Experience in the Public Health sector preferred.
∎ ● Strong leadership and staff management skills, with a record of managing large, diverse teams and contributing to staff capacity building of all staff.
∎ ● Fully conversant with the budgeting, finance, operations, compliances, programs, grant management.
∎ ● Demonstrated ability to lead strategically with a solid understanding of overall business operations.
∎ ● Demonstrated experience in relationship building and working with a wide variety of donors and development partners with awareness and experience in developing policies and procedures.

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ Leadership and Management (30%)
∎ ● Contribute to a culture of collaboration, integrated programming, and shared success
∎ ● Collaborating with leadership to build an environment of collective responsibility and accountability
∎ ● Provide people leadership, engagement, and operational guidance to contribute to the effective delivery of all projects.
∎ ● Design, implement and effectively deliver annual work plans, reports, budgets and in accordance with established targets, results and outcomes.
∎ ● Ensure strong collaborative partner relationships based on principles of mutual trust and respect, mutual accountability, reciprocity, inclusion, and transparency including capacity building.
∎ ● Provide effective & inspiring leadership, direction and guidance to the program and operations to ensure effective and smooth coordination and positive working environment in the response.
∎ ● Represent organization and programs externally in different seminars, symposiums, platforms, networks, sectors, working groups, govt. authorities, partners, donors etc. as required for program and donor purposes.
∎ ● Support teams in developing a good dialog and establishing proper coordination, cooperation and effective communication and document flow/ recording/ tracking.
∎ ● Work towards fostering good professional relationships including motivating all staff to contribute their best to achieve the desired outcomes, targets and objectives.
∎ ● Supervise the administration support services of the project (finance, procurement, grants, risk, administration) and ensure the group is well staffed and ongoing capacity building opportunities are implemented
∎ ● Works closely to ensure all operational, administrative, and compliance functions within the projects are being properly executed in accordance with regulatory-based best practices.
∎ ● Supervise the preparation of the annual budgets and ensure regular monitoring and reporting against these budgets.
∎ ● Supervise the management of the internal/ external audits applied by GH and/or donor partners.
∎ ● Identify capability and capacity gaps (human resources and systems) and identify options for mitigating human resource gaps in the project.
∎ ● Network among donors and key stakeholders to actively seek funding opportunities, help increase the quality of proposals, understand donor priorities, and ensure coordination;
∎ ● Represent GH-CPI at meetings with government partners and regional and local authorities, donors, local agencies, clusters, coordination bodies and other relevant stakeholders, at all levels of project implementation as required.
∎ ● Actively seek partnerships with national and international organizations to improve the scope and impact of projects.
∎ ● Ensures that all security and safety rules (SOPs) are developed, informed and regularly reviewed
∎ ● Incident management: Participates or leads critical security interventions or establishes investigations under the internal policies and procedures.
∎ Monitoring, Evaluation, Research (20%)
∎ ● Provide effective support, guidance and supervision to the monitoring and evaluation team for developing/upgrading log frames, indicators, and tracking the progress/performance for all programs.
∎ ● Ensure proper and timely feedback system for the program teams through monitoring visits and review for taking corrective and preventive actions at program end to ensure programmatic compliances.
∎ ● Ensure smooth data flow for collecting, monitoring, and evaluating program indicators and reporting as needed.
∎ ● Ensure required support, guidance and supervision to the research team in identifying appropriate evidence based research topics closely working with the programs team, designing/developing new research proposals and implementing the approved research projects.
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∎ ● Direct experience of staff and grant management in a similar role with INGOs.
∎ ● Proven history of successfully building and leading multi-disciplinary teams, and demonstrated ability to manage professional, technical, and program support
∎ staff in a team environment, ensuring everyone’s role contributes to successful team outputs of the project.
∎ ● Demonstrated skills and experience in continuous improvement and facilitating innovation across teams.
∎ ● Strong people skills (influencing and relationship building) and ability to work in a multicultural and gender-sensitive environment.
∎ ● Ability to establish priorities in a time sensitive environment and meet deadlines with strong attention to consistency, detail, and quality.
∎ Language skills
∎ ● Excellent communication skills and report writing skills in English and Bangla.
∎ ● Interpersonal skills and cultural awareness

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Job Title CXB Project Director
∎ Department Programs
∎ Employment status Full time
∎ Location Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
∎ Travel 25% travel to the fields
∎ Reports to Executive Director, Green Hill
∎ Cross-functional CPI SMT
∎ Reporting to this position CXB Managers/ Leads (Program & Operations)
∎ Community Partners International (CPI) is a U.S. based nonprofit organization that works with local partner Green Hill (GH), to improve the access to quality services and generate the resources, local capacity and coordination necessary for partners, vulnerable communities and the people to meet their essential health, humanitarian and sustainable development needs.
∎ Primary Responsibilities
∎ The CXB Project Director is responsible to provide overall guidance and supervision for CPI funded Emergency Response programs with local partner Green Hill; In accordance with the organization mission, principals, strategic directions, goals, policy, procedures, guidelines, donor regulations, local laws and beneficiaries expectations by designing, planning, implementing, monitoring, organizing and governing program activities as well as facilitate the development of innovative concepts/ideas according to grant agreements and timelines.
∎ As a member of the GH senior management team (SMT), work closely with CPI SMT to facilitate grant according to donor requirements and guidelines in Cox’s Bazar while ensuring enterprise risk management, safety & security plan, policy, procedures, guideline, system strengthening, capacity building and knowledge management across departments and along with dealing and directing the resources with fullest efficiency to best meet the organizational and project goals.
∎ Program & Operations (50%)
∎ ● Lead the overall program operations of the organization (Sectors - Health, WASH, Clean Energy, Livelihoods etc.) in accordance with the grants and local approvals including designing, planning, implementing, monitoring, organizing and governing the program activities.
∎ ● Development of innovative concepts/ideas/research topics as appropriate for the program and organization following the specific timeframe.
∎ ● Actively supervise and mentor Program Managers/Program Leads in following the project management cycle towards achieving the desired results/outcomes of the grants with proper documentation, coordination, processes and compliance.
∎ ● Facilitate the capacity building initiatives for Program Managers/Program Leads to develop time management skills, forecasting, project planning, task identification, communication skills for prompt updating, reporting, and information sharing.
∎ ● Ensure preparation and submission of Govt and donor reports for all stakeholders under each grant in a timely and agreed timeframe.
∎ ● Support Program and Unit Managers/ Leads actively in management of CPI Grant System for effective management and coordination for overall program & operations of the response.
∎ ● Ensure required support for the Program & Unit Managers/ Leads to develop training curriculums, training manuals, checklists, data collection systems, IEC/BCC materials and other relevant program & operations materials according to the program needs ensuring correct and appropriate technical knowledge and proper use of branding standard etc.
∎ ● Develop the required documentation and processes to ensure compliances, regulations and requirements of the NGOAB, external program and finance audits, donor, and local laws within the country in the most efficient and effective way. This includes the establishment of robust procedures for reporting, document submission, data management, and tracking to meet the expectations and obligations of our donors."
∎ ● Analyze and ensure lessons learned from previous projects inform the plans of new projects/activities.
∎ ● Develop and oversight shared services models for improved service delivery.
∎ ● Support and develop operations team staff through individual annual work plans, linked to the strategic outputs of the division.
∎ ● Investigate, research and evaluate ‘best practice’ and processes to support an integrated, evidence based programming approach.

Employment Status: Full Time

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Company Information:
∎ Green Hill Rangamati
∎ Green Hill, Indrani House, Champaknagar, Rangamati

Address::
∎ Green Hill, Indrani House, Champaknagar, Rangamati

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

Application Deadline: 29 Apr 2024

Category: NGO/Development