Head of Programme, Humanitarian Crisis Management Programme

Job Description

Title: Head of Programme, Humanitarian Crisis Management Programme

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master’s in social science/ public health or other relevant field is required

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 15 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Program Management:
∎ Contribute to programme design of HCMP.
∎ Provide guidance to sectors on programmatic issues; programme planning, technical implementation, etc.
∎ Define program indicators and develop data relevant resources and tools (including M&E plan, technical data collection tools, databases, dashboards and reporting templates), that align with the Humanitarian M&E Standards, donor requirement and overall BRAC goals.
∎ Supervise project administrative and technical staff, specifically regional technical leads, and work to create and implement a strategic vision within a time-sensitive implementation period.
∎ Drive achievement of all project results and oversee project work planning, performance management, and risk forecasting and mitigation.
∎ Advance the M&E capacity-building strategy.
∎ Ensure that all project assistance is technically sound and appropriate.
∎ Work in close collaboration with program leadership to implement studies or operational research, supervising data collection and analysis and presenting results.
∎ Document processes and achievements to ensure best practices are captured and disseminated. This will include the continual re-evaluation of program activities and information, with resulting activity adjustments in keeping with new insights.
∎ Produce written reports on program activities, capturing the impacts of activities.
∎ Conduct field visits to all project sites.
∎ Team Management:
∎ Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.
∎ Set a team culture valuing learning and adaptive management in support of an ongoing resilience approach in programming.
∎ Promote accountability, communicate expectations and provide constructive feedback via regular performance reviews.
∎ Organizational Learning:
∎ As part of our commitment to organizational learning, commit 5% of the time to learning activities that benefit BRAC as well as him/herself.
∎ Accountability to Beneficiaries:
∎ BRAC members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding humanitarian work.
∎ Safeguarding:
∎ Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on 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, encourage others to do so.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum 15 years of experience in managing and implementing multi donor funded diversified projects, with specific experience working with government counterparts, international donors, and local organizations.
∎ Familiar with the Refugee Response programme.
∎ Strong interpersonal skills and proven ability to manage large teams in culturally diverse settings.
∎ Experience in conflict/ post-conflict environments, remote management in transition environments.
∎ Demonstrated experience and knowledge establishing systems and overseeing program start-up and close-out in a constrained environment.
∎ Experience hiring and supervising host country local personnel and ensuring, when need arises, that personnel receive appropriate training to meet programme needs
∎ Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity.
∎ Fluent in English.

Salary: Negotiable

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ As per organisation policy

Application Deadline: 15 Oct 2020

Company Information:
∎ 12 Oct 2020
∎ BRAC

Category: NGO/Development

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