District Coordinator, Disaster Risk Management Programme, BRAC (Project Staff)

Job Description

Title: District Coordinator, Disaster Risk Management Programme, BRAC (Project Staff)

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• At least 2 years

• Bachelor/Honors

• Social Science, Disaster Management, or any relevant field or Diploma in Civil Engineering with 2 years experience will get preference.

• At least 2 years

• Disaster management especially emergency response and recovery field
• Community mobilization
• Beneficiary Selection process Forecast based early action
• WASH interventions
• Feedback and Complaint Response Mechanism
• Digital money transfer
• Good oral and written communication skills in Bangla and English
• Computer proficiency MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Typing in English and Bangla
• Capacity to work independently in the field with minimum guideline
• Maintain a high morale with integrity and honesty
• Leadership
• Good management capability
• Project management
• Good communications and interpersonal skills

BRAC is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.

Working at brac is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world, we are building it. Join us to find the way.

This position, under the supervision of the Project Manager, will work with the project team and the Disaster Risk Management Progarmme to ensure implementation of project activities within the time frame. The position holder will also monitor and provide technical support during the implementation of project interventions and achieve the stipulated results. This position will be based at the district level in the Eastern Flash Flood 2024 affected district and is required for frequent travel to intervention areas including the district, other upazilas, unions, and villages.

• Monitor, track, and document project progress, achievements, and challenges

• Document lessons learned and dissemination within BRAC and with other stakeholders as required

• Conduct regular field visits to ensure effective, timely, and quality implementation of project activities

• Organize work to meet deadlines including planning and tracking of progress

• Prepare regular reports on interventions and applications as well as review the progress and challenges of the project

• Support and ensure community engagement at all levels

• Coordinate with other agencies, particularly those undertaking cash transfer programmes and other flood recovery interventions, in designing and implementing of the project

• Participate in meetings with government, local elected bodies, or other NGOs at the national and local level

• Ensure that the project is implemented in a cost-effective, consultative, participative, and gender-sensitive way

• Assist in designing and lead the implementation of appropriate recovery interventions to address medium to long-term food security, livelihood, and WASH needs of the flood-affected population, ensuring gender mainstreaming and disability inclusion and where appropriate linkages with other relevant sectors

• Adhere to BRAC values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women’s rights

Understand and adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety, and staff health and well-being principles

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals of 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, and encourage others to do so.

• Festival Bonus, Health and Life Insurance and others as per policy.