Health Manager, Danish Red Cross

Job Description

Title: Health Manager, Danish Red Cross

Company Name: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Vacancy: 1

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

Published: 2026-02-01

Application Deadline: 2026-02-12

Education:

• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery(MBBS)
• Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS)
• Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Public Health
• Master of Science (MSc) in Public Health

MBBS and/or BDS, Bachelor/Master’s in Public Health, Epidemiology, or other relevant public health subject.

• Background in Project Cycle Management including planning, monitoring, evaluation & reporting.

• Experience in budgeting and budget management.

• Demonstrated experience and achievements in developmental and emergency health programming.

• Experience on working emergency health preparedness and response including epidemic preparedness and response and disease surveillance.

• Background on proposal and concept note development and project narrative and financial reporting.

• Proven experience in establishing and managing collaborations and partnership with government health authorities, private, academia and other national and international health actors.

• Knowledge on public health especially community- based health care and management for both communicable and non-communicable diseases.

• Red Cross/Red Crescent movement experience will be an added advantage.

• Experience working for a humanitarian/non-profit making organization is preferred.

Duration of the contract: 4 months, with possible extension depending on fund availability and performance of the employee

Based in: Dhaka

Reporting to: Senior Programme Manager (Head of Programme), Danish Red Cross

The Danish Red Cross (DRC) has been present in Bangladesh since 2017 but has had a longstanding partnership with the Bangladesh Red Crescent (BDRCS) extending back to the 1980s. Our programs in Bangladesh are identified and planned in close collaboration with BDRCS and other RCRC Movement partners.

This focuses on support to communities to prepare for, respond to, and recover from multi hazards and disasters; the delivery of community health care services (including NCD care and MHPSS); support to people to adapt to the impact of population movement; as well as promoting the engagement and inclusion of the most vulnerable, and marginalized groups in society. There is also an increasing focus by DRC to support both countries to respond to the humanitarian impacts of the climate crisis within their programs, and projects.

From April 2024, DRC has begun the implementation of a Country Cluster which composes individual Country Offices in Bangladesh and Nepal, which are supervised by a Country Cluster Manager (CCM) who is the reporting line of the Head of Programs. This is an effort to maintain as well grow the position of DRC as a leading actor in support of the BDRCS and NRCS as an integrated member of IFRC Network. The appointment of the Health Manager is a reflection of this ambition and will support BDRCS both with technical support in the implementation of DRC-funded projects; but also have a role in the coordination of efforts to embed multi-partner approaches to integrated health programming with the National Society alongside other IFRC members operating in Bangladesh.

Job Purpose:

The Health Manager will provide high level managerial support to the DRC Country office in Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) in the promotion of health interventions, ensuring proper planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting on health programmes and projects. He/ She will coordinate and provide technical support in health programming through close collaboration with the DRC CO teams, BDRCS and other RCRC Movement partners. He/she will provide requisite technical support in the development, strengthening and sustaining technical collaborations on health programming between DRC, BDRCS and other external stakeholders and partners. He/ She may, from time to time, extend technical support on health programming to the DRC Co in Nepal as may be deemed necessary.

Guided by the principles of shared leadership and joint commitments to localization (WOW); the Health Manager will allocate 50% of their time to support the coordination of integrated health programming with the Health Partners (Japanese, Qatar, and Swiss Red Cross), as well as other RCRC Movement partners (as required). He/she will be responsible for managing the Health Partners group; and the execution of deliverables outlined in the Letter of Engagement signed between the Health Partners. The position will report to the Head of Programme of DRC but will be regarded for this allocation of time, as a resource to all Health Partners. The other 50% of their time will be allocated to supporting other DRC supported projects, and interests with BDRCS.

He /she will also promote, grow, and develop the health sector of the CO through research, and identifying relevant initiatives that expand the health programming of DRC and other IFRC members. As requested, he/ she will provide technical support to the DRC CO in Nepal. He/she may represent DRC CO nationally and internationally in health meetings, seminars, workshops, and other health fora that will leverage DRC’s technical expertise, experience, and ability to influence national, regional, and global health agendas.

The Health Manager will be based in the DRC Country Office (CO) which is an integrated part of the IFRC in Bangladesh and located in Dhaka. He/She will work under the supervision of the DRCs Country Cluster Manager, but in liaison technically with other members of the COs in Bangladesh, the DRC Europe and Asia Regional Office, and Technical Matrices in Copenhagen, as well as needed, with the IFRC colleagues based in the Asia Pacific Regional Office.

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