Job Description

Title: District Manager-USAID's Community Nutrition and Health Activity (CNHA)

Company Name: Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB)

Vacancy: 1

Location: Kishoreganj

Maximum Salary: Tk. 49500 (Monthly)

Published: 2 Jul 2024

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Lead project implementation team in taking responsibility with adequate authorities about intervention planning, implementation, monitoring, and management in the respective district.
∎ Plan and implement the project interventions in the respective district following CNHA's approaches and standards in consultation with the CNHA Consortium.
∎ Ensure that the project is implemented in a cost-effective manner, within the budget framework, and make sure that the burn rate is up to the expected level.
∎ Regularly monitor the status of record keeping and provide feedback to the project team and management.
∎ Promote a gender-equitable, women-friendly, sensitive work environment in the district office.
∎ Coach & mentor staff to improve their programming and analytical skills in project planning, management, communication, and monitoring activities.
∎ Promote team spirit and cooperative attitudes among project personnel and project partners.
∎ Identify staff needs for training or improvement and take appropriate actions to achieve those.
∎ Liaison, coordinate, and nurture excellent relationships with project teams, government, and other stakeholders.
∎ Participate in coordination meetings, including NGO coordination/DNCC/Health/FP, update progress, and represent project team as needed.
∎ Facilitate field visits conducted by the CNHA team, donors, and relevant government agencies.
∎ Support data collection, experience capitalization, study, or research undertaken by the project.
∎ Establish a culture of reviewing findings from the monitoring visits and initiate actions for qualitative improvements of interventions. Document innovations, case studies, and other pilot initiatives as guided by the Project Manager.
∎ Ensure data quality and completeness in a timely manner according to project/donor guidelines, including compiled quality reporting.
∎ Share and execute management directions of the project to all staff in the respective district. Adopt and execute new initiatives undertaken by the project in areas of health and family planning, nutrition governance, climate-smart, and nutrition value chain agriculture.
∎ Ensure ICT intervention implementation at the field level according to project guidelines
∎ As part of this role, the job holder will be expected to adhere to and support FIVDB's safety and security-related policies and systems as part of their day-to-day duties and comply, always, with safety & security protocols and directives, including reporting.
∎ Staff must maintain situational and self-awareness and be aware of the safety - security-related consequences of their actions upon themselves, their team, and the organization. FIVDB is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation, abuse, lack of integrity, and financial misconduct, and expects staff to promote the welfare of children, young people, and adults always.
∎ FIVDB expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our Code of Conduct. This is a high priority to ensure that only those who share and demonstrate this commitment are recruited to collaborate with us.
∎ Reporting to: Project Manager The District Manager is based on any one (Kishorgonj/Sunamgonj/Habigonj/Netrokona) district office of CNHA, with approximately 80% of the time in the field.
∎ Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) is implementing the "USAID's Community Nutrition and Health Activity (CNHA)' funded by USAID" Project in Haor region Sunamgonj, Habigonj, Natrokona and Kishorgonj district in partnership with CARE Bangladesh. The present project tenure is up to September 2027.
∎ Under CNHA, the consortium will work with different departments of the ministries, especially the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) at the national, regional, and local levels, to improve nutrition status by strengthening the community health system and support the effective implementation of the Second National Plan of Action for Nutrition (NPAN2). This will work at multiple levels of local government institutions, specifically with the nutrition coordination committees at the district and upazila levels focusing on the community health system and strengthening the Core Team approach and local nutrition-governance mechanisms.
∎ FIVDB, a local partner of this project implementation, is hiring a District Manager. The District Manager will lead the implementation of the project in the respective district as guided by the Project Manager.
∎ Under the direct guidance of the Project Manager, the District Manager will facilitate the Project Implementation Team representing the assigned District in reflecting on project implementation issues by coordinating with the CNHA consortium. The District Manager will also be responsible for guiding Union Facilitators and the field staff in ensuring sound administrative and financial management systems at various levels. The District Manager will promote and support anchorage at the district office level so that the field team can work with a good level of independence and undertake initiatives on their own.
∎ Responsibility # 01: Coordination, implementation guidance, and operational leadership. 30%
∎ Lead project implementation team in taking responsibility with adequate authorities about intervention planning, implementation, monitoring, and management in the respective district.
∎ Plan and implement the project interventions in the respective district following CNHA's approaches and standards in consultation with the CNHA Consortium.
∎ Responsibility # 02: Staff management and administrative operations 25% -
∎ Ensure that the project is implemented in a cost-effective manner, within the budget framework, and make sure that the burn rate is up to the expected level.
∎ Regularly monitor the status of record keeping and provide feedback to the project team and management.
∎ Promote a gender-equitable, women-friendly, sensitive work environment in the district office.
∎ Coach & mentor staff to improve their programming and analytical skills in project planning, management, communication, and monitoring activities.
∎ Promote team spirit and cooperative attitudes among project personnel and project partners.
∎ Identify staff needs for training or improvement and take appropriate actions to achieve those.
∎ Responsibility # 03: Liaison with project consortium and other relevant stakeholders 20%
∎ Liaison, coordinate, and nurture excellent relationships with project teams, government, and other stakeholders.
∎ Participate in coordination meetings, including NGO coordination/DNCC/Health/FP, update progress, and represent project team as needed.
∎ Facilitate field visits conducted by the CNHA team, donors, and relevant government agencies.
∎ Responsibility # 04: Ensure proper monitoring, reporting, and result measurement systems for the project. 15%
∎ Support data collection, experience capitalization, study, or research undertaken by the project.
∎ Establish a culture of reviewing findings from the monitoring visits and initiate actions for qualitative improvements of interventions. Document innovations, case studies, and other pilot initiatives as guided by the Project Manager.
∎ Ensure data quality and completeness in a timely manner according to project/donor guidelines, including compiled quality reporting.
∎ Responsibility # 05: Communication and information management, effective networking, and collaboration. 10%
∎ Share and execute management directions of the project to all staff in the respective district. Adopt and execute new initiatives undertaken by the project in areas of health and family planning, nutrition governance, climate-smart, and nutrition value chain agriculture.
∎ Ensure ICT intervention implementation at the field level according to project guidelines
∎ Responsibility # 6 Safety, Security, and Safeguarding -
∎ As part of this role, the job holder will be expected to adhere to and support FIVDB's safety and security-related policies and systems as part of their day-to-day duties and comply, always, with safety & security protocols and directives, including reporting.
∎ Staff must maintain situational and self-awareness and be aware of the safety - security-related consequences of their actions upon themselves, their team, and the organization. FIVDB is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation, abuse, lack of integrity, and financial misconduct, and expects staff to promote the welfare of children, young people, and adults always.
∎ FIVDB expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our Code of Conduct. This is a high priority to ensure that only those who share and demonstrate this commitment are recruited to collaborate with us.
∎ Reporting to: Project Manager The District Manager is based on any one (Kishorgonj/Sunamgonj/Habigonj/Netrokona) district office of CNHA, with approximately 80% of the time in the field.

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Deduction of Tax at Source
∎ Weekly 2 holidays, Mobile bill
∎ Salary Review: Yearly
∎ As per the project policy of FIVDB and the budgeted provision of this project.

Employment Status: Full Time

Job Location: Kishoreganj

Read Before Apply: FIVDB affirms the 'ZERO' tolerance approach against sexual exploitation and abuse. And is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, lack of integrity, and financial misconduct, and expects staff to promote the welfare of children and adults at all times. FIVDB expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our Code of Conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate this commitment are recruited to work with us. FIVDB is an equal-opportunity organization and any kind of persuasion will be construed as automatic disqualification. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview. Join us on our Facebook page for more updates: www.facebook.com/fivdbngo

Company Information:
∎ Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB)
∎ Khadimnagar, Sylhet-3103
∎ FIVDB is a development organization, established in 1979. Its major operation cover 7 major districts and concentrates round in the north-east of Bangladesh. It mission is to give disadvantage women, men and children greater voice, reduce their vulnerability, increase use of citizenship rights and help them enhance their quality of life.

Address::
∎ Khadimnagar, Sylhet-3103
∎ FIVDB is a development organization, established in 1979. Its major operation cover 7 major districts and concentrates round in the north-east of Bangladesh. It mission is to give disadvantage women, men and children greater voice, reduce their vulnerability, increase use of citizenship rights and help them enhance their quality of life.

Application Deadline: 10 Jul 2024

Category: NGO/Development