Field Team Leader

Job Description

Title: Field Team Leader

Company Name: International Development Enterprises (iDE)

Vacancy: 6

Job Location: Barishal, Chattogram, Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Sylhet

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's in Business Administration/ Masters in Management, Economics or Development Studies

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 10 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ The Field Team Leader (FTM) is responsible to oversee the field activities within the region/division including office management, administration and successful implementation of the project.

∎ The FTM will lead in planning and provide operational guidance for the field teams, technical and implementing partners and other stakeholders to achieve above and beyond the project mandate. The FTM may be required to manage multiple field offices within a single region/division. This position is contingent upon award.
∎ Job Location: Barishal, Chattogram, Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet Divisions
∎ Reporting Line: Project Manager

Job Responsibilities:
∎ General Responsibilities
∎ Function as Field Team Leader on all project activities within an assigned district, under the supervision of the Program Manager
∎ Function as the supervisor for iDE field staff Market Development Officers
∎ Operate as a regional iDE contact person for institutional iDE requirements, roll-outs, security and coordination
∎ Ensure high quality technical support to the field team following organizational and market development principals
∎ Facilitate project startup and phase out planning
∎ Ensure delivery of iDE's program of field activities at a high quality, in line with budget, and in accordance with institutional priorities
∎ Setting the tone
∎ Create a positive environment of piloting, trials, testing theories, learning from mistakes and critical analysis
∎ Actively avoid an environment of activity based implementation and traditional projects
∎ Actively and openly engage with Program Manager and Monitoring and Advocacy Specialists to strengthen project strategy
∎ Directly resolve with challenges with Program Manager, Market Development Officers and Monitoring and Advocacy Specialists to strengthen project strategy
∎ Planning, and Strategy Development
∎ Collaboratively plan and implement project activities through the preparation of multiyear and annual work plan in collaboration with the Program Managers and field staff
∎ Facilitate and frame the strategic direction of the project in collaboration with the Program Manager
∎ Ensure the application of iDE's Sanitation market system approach and closely work with market actors specific to selected value chains and business groups/actors
∎ Reporting and Submissions
∎ Submit quarterly budgets and activity plans through online platform to Program Manager with live revisions and comments
∎ Submit quarterly case studies, photographs and pulse checks in collaboration with the Technical Specialist to Program Manager through Google Drive
∎ Finance and Administration
∎ Carry overall responsibility of the field office management, administration and successful implementation of the project in order to achieve the project objectives
∎ Manage budgetary control of expenditure, manage donor funds and prepare financial reports in line with donor requirements and iDE regulations
∎ Monitoring and Evaluation
∎ Support the Technical Specialists in data quality control and timely entry of the project data into relevant database
∎ Spot check data collection quarterly through process monitoring to ensure quality data in collaboration with the Advocacy Specialists and actively engage in initiating best practices, key learnings, unique cases and other relevant documentation to share with the wider team
∎ Monitor progress and quality of field team and provide regular updates to iDE senior management team and the PM
∎ Supervisor and Staff Development
∎ Supervise relevant staff in project implementation as required for the project
∎ Coach supervisees in development of skills in activity implementation, strategic thinking and critical analysis
∎ Develop effective guidelines/tools that required for field implementation and orient staff on the tools and guidelines;
∎ Develop and lead capacity building initiatives and monitor progress of staff improvement
∎ Develop field team's capacity to deliver training/ mentoring function
∎ Collaboratively develop monthly work plans with staff balancing project implementation and team member capacity
∎ Participate in the annual performance appraisals (APA) process for all supervisees
∎ Coordination and Support
∎ Ensuring that the public, private and NGO sector stakeholders are well-informed of the project goals
∎ Coordinate and liaison between field team, consortium partners and project management for smooth field implementation
∎ Coordinate with development, private and public sector partners at the regional and district level
∎ Coordinate field visits as required by the operations and programmatic teams
∎ Based on guidance from the PM support cross-program activities including:
∎ Product innovation
∎ Technology commercialization
∎ Best practices documentation
∎ Maintain close contact and communication for project planning, strategy formulation and other issues with supervisor, technical specialists and institutional support teams
∎ Harmonize approach with other Field Team Leaders in the program through best practice sharing and feedback loops
∎ Rapport Building
∎ Quarterly travel to all assigned upazilas at least once for problem solving and systems development using the CLEAR framework (Connect, Listen, Educate, Ask, Resolve)
∎ Other Responsibilities
∎ Actively follow and engage with Global WASH initiatives in other countries and other Bangladesh programs for stronger network connections
∎ Actively learn and develop skills related to online platforms used by iDE including but not limited to: Salesforce, Smartsheets, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets
∎ Maintain use of online platforms for sharing reports, documents and data
∎ Represent iDE at external events and meetings as agreed with supervisor
∎ Participate in all relevant meetings and workshops
∎ Undertake additional tasks subject to workload and skill sets such as photography, cross-project trainings and evaluations

Additional Requirements:
∎ Work Experience
∎ At least 10 years of experience working on market system development including a minimum of 5 years in a managerial position and lead project implementation.
∎ Familiarity with WASH sector preferred
∎ Familiarity and experience with project management concepts such as Logical
∎ Frameworks, Impact Logic or Results Chains
∎ Considerable understanding and knowledge of rural markets, trading relationships and rural service provision
∎ Management and Programmatic Skills
∎ Ability to responsibly manage district level funds, monitoring and team progress
∎ Ability to plan and implement iterative field level activities for market systems change (looking beyond the DIP)
∎ Understands the facilitative role and local market development approach
∎ Experience of value chain approaches, market development and deep dive research
∎ Personal Skills
∎ Energetic and focused approach to engaging with multiple stakeholders to promote market system approach to WASH
∎ Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
∎ Ability to work with various national and international team members and flexibility to adapt to different work conditions
∎ Ability to interact and collaborate with a broad range of public and private sector and NGO partners
∎ Physical and Language Skills
∎ Ability to travel and undertake fieldwork in rural contexts
∎ Strong written and oral communication skills in English, including ability to present coherent and convincing messages to different audiences
∎ Strong computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite, email and the internet
∎ Familiarity with internet based software systems such as Google App
∎ Other Information and Conditions
∎ The position would be the regular employment of iDE-Bangladesh
∎ The remuneration package, work days and deliverables might be change based on negotiation between iDE management and the contract
∎ iDE reserves the right to terminate this agreement at any time with the consultation of the employee as per HR policy
∎ As an FTL under Operation Directorate, it is duty and accountability of the FTL to ensure the confidentiality of certain issues. The FTL must maintain full confidentiality for sharing information, documents and others issues with others

Application Deadline: January 21, 2020

Company Information:
∎ International Development Enterprises (iDE)
∎ Business : iDE is an International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO) headquartered in Denver, Colorado USA and operating in 11 countries around the world, including Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, iDE has been working since 1984, registered with the NGO Affairs Bureau (NGO AB), registration number 173 dated 27th April, 1984. iDE is currently working in 27 Districts and 123 Upazilas on a wide variety of thematic areas including Food Security, Nutrition, WASH, Agriculture, Market Systems Development, Women Economic Empowerment. iDE Bangladesh is supported by USAID, SIDA, Unicef, DFID, the European Commission and other multilateral donors working in in the country.

Category: NGO/Development

Source: bdjobs.com

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