Deputy Project Manager - USAID's YES Activity program

Job Description

Title: Deputy Project Manager - USAID's YES Activity program

Company Name: Relief International

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's degree in respective sectoral fields.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 7 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Duty Station: Cox`s Bazaar, Bangladesh
∎ Report To: Program Manager - USAID`s YES Activity program.
∎ Expected Start Date: At Earliest
∎ Contract length: Up to January 05, 2023
∎ Position Code: FEB2020- Deputy Project Manager

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Support the?Project Manager in achieving project goals by providing?technical and?operational support & coordination.
∎ Provide support to programmatic teams, including identifying and promoting clear communications on issues of budget management and programmatic activities, compliance, monitoring and evaluation, and documentation.
∎ Ensure compliance among key staff with?USAID, local policies, and?RI policies and procedures.
∎ Contribute to the development of reports for the donor, the host country,?and RI policies and procedures.
∎ In coordination with the Project Manager, oversee budgets to ensure all expenditures?follow?RI and donor policies and regulations as well as within the scope of the program budget.
∎ In the absence of Project Manager,?serve as Acting Project Manager,?represent RI with partners and key stakeholders, maintain positive relationships with USAID, local authorities, and the country office team.
∎ Assist Project Manager to ensure rapid roll-out and supervision of activities.
∎ Support Project Manager to effectively work with other consortium members to assure a coordinated and timely execution of work plans and participate in the Project Steering Committee and other working groups that will meet regularly to discuss project progress.
∎ Actively participate in overseeing planning, quality assurance and supervision of program monitoring, evaluating, and reporting;
∎ Provide support for oversight of delivery, management, and monitoring of sub grants.
∎ Coordinate with appropriate stakeholders in all aspects of project planning, monitoring, and implementation
∎ Ensure compliance with and implementation of all donor-related, RI, and project specific policies.
∎ Support to establish, improve, and maintain accurate administrative, financial, and sub grantee monitoring systems in collaboration with the Finance Manager;
∎ Monitor project training and on-site capacity building activities, ensuring the development of local institutional and personal capacities fostering country ownership and sustainability of interventions;
∎ Serve as a liaison between the project partners and Project Manager;
∎ Conduct budget monitoring and cost control based on sound financial and accounting
∎ Support to ensure technical, financial, contractual and political integrity are maintained to safeguard RI reputation in Bangladesh
∎ Ensure effective collaboration, coordination and internal partnerships with other RI projects, and departments to build synergies across programs for maximum impact.
∎ Other duties as assigned by the line manager.

Additional Requirements:
∎ At least seven years of experience in managing sectors and/or sub-sectors of civil society/advocacy/research/gender sensitive interventions; and at least five years of progressive experience in a relevant sector;
∎ Professional experience in a skill development, local partner capacity building preferably under USAID programs or UN programs. Experience working on similarly complex programs which seek to build the capacity of local actors in multiple technical areas and management capacity required.
∎ Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills and experienced in managing teams;
∎ Experience relevant to accomplishment of the cross-cutting objectives in the cooperative agreement, including gender, youth, minorities, and cultural change;
∎ Demonstrated strong writing and oral presentation skills in English and Bangla.
∎ Work on programs involving social cohesion, youth skill development, TVET in Bangladesh or other developing countries highly desirable.
∎ Strong coordination, project planning, and communication skills.
∎ Demonstrated experience with similarly complex projects, Bangladesh experience highly prioritized, involving coordination with multiple programs, and partner institutions.
∎ Demonstrated experience with the current up-to-date ideas about effective social cohesion and Do No Harm practices and applications in programs managed or influenced.
∎ Experience supervising and mentoring direct-reports.
∎ Commitment to local capacity building and the ability to engage local stakeholders in project design and implementation.
∎ Demonstrated experience and knowledge in establishing systems and overseeing program start-up under limited time constraints as well as program close-out.
∎ Demonstrated problem-solving and consensus-building skills and ability to promote coordination among diverse interests and institutions.
∎ Good understanding of procurement processes, procedures and grants management.
∎ Demonstrated effective problem solving, conflict and ethical management skills.
∎ Successful candidates will have strong management skills, significant project management experience and leadership experience. Experience managing and building the capacity of local implementing partners is highly desired.

Application Deadline: February 18, 2020

Company Information:
∎ Relief International
∎ Business : Relief International, hedquatered in USA, is a leading international non government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.

Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact.

Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Relief International has been working in Bangladesh since 2004. The Bangladesh portfolio of Relief International has strong focus on emergency response, economic opportunity and livelihoods rebuilding, traficking in persons, sustainable tourism, human rights and protection, refugee crisis response and public health. RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar. RI currently employs over 1000 local and international staffs in Bangladesh.

Relief International is currently implementing large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID/OFDA, EU ECHO.
For more information on Relief International: www.ri.org

Category: NGO/Development