Intervention Manager, Sarathi Project

Job Description

Title: Intervention Manager, Sarathi Project

Company Name: Swisscontact Bangladesh

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ At least a graduate degree in business/economics from a reputed university;

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 6 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Location: Dhaka with possible visits to field locations
∎ Reports to: Team Leader, Sarathi Project
∎ Purpose: Assist the Team Leader in quality and timely delivery of project activities and achieve the desired outputs and outcomes

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Support the Team Leader and other team members to implement the project as per the donor mandate;
∎ Support the Team Leader to plan and budget project interventions;
∎ Lead preparation of partnership strategies, concept notes and intervention plans;
∎ Lead implementation of activities on the ground and support the Team Leader on strategic decision-making based on ground realities;
∎ Ensure that the project delivers all desired targets on time and with quality.
∎ Staff Management
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∎ Oversee designated tasks of the Project Coordinators on a regular basis and guide them accordingly;
∎ Evaluate performances of the Project Coordinators quarterly and annually;
∎ Ensure capacity building of Project Coodinators through mentoring and coaching.
∎ Implementation & Stakeholder Management
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∎ Support the Team Leader to engage with commercial banks, Ready-Made Garment (RMG) buyers and RMG factories;
∎ Establish and maintain liaison with relevant government bodies, private partners, and other stakeholders of the project;
∎ Support the Team Leader to prepare selection matrix for commercial banks;
∎ Support the Team Leader to select additional commercial banks and RMG factories for interventions;
∎ Support the Team Leader to develop Terms of References and Memorandums of Understandings for consultants and project implementation partners, specifically commercial banks;
∎ Provide support to the Project Coordinator - Partnerships & Advocacy to manage relationship with RMG factories and community leaders;
∎ Provide technical support to the Project Coordinator - Monitoring & Results Measurement (MRM) to prepare MRM plans;
∎ Lead engagement with partner commercial banks and their account holders and support the Project Coordinator - MRM to draw insights about their financial behaviour, including number of transactions, amount deposited, amount withdrawn, etc.;
∎ Lead engagement with banking agents and support the Project Coordinator - MRM to draw insights about their business sustainability, specifically investigate their services, fees, floating money, etc.;
∎ Support the Project Coordinator - MRM to monitor and track the progress/achievement of project interventions;
∎ Take lead as the resource person on Gender and Social Issues;
∎ Proactively engage in learning from different stakeholders to identify innovative solutions related to financial inclusion of the underprivileged and underserved;
∎ Support the Team Leader to collaborate with the other projects within Swisscontact for efficient and effective project implementation and mutual learning.
∎ Communication and Reporting
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∎ Support the Team Leader to prepare project progress reports (monthly, bi-annually and annually), including technical reports and other reports as per project requirement;
∎ Take lead in organising different seminars and workshops to disseminate project learnings as and when required; and represent the project during relevant information events;
∎ Support the Project Coordinator - Partnerships & Advocacy to prepare communication materials based on findings.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Demonstrable experience of designing and implementing Market Systems Development approaches, specific experience in RMG would be preferred;
∎ Understanding of incentives of private sector actors, including small and medium enterprises, to adopt new business models;
∎ Experience of designing and imlpementing public-private initiatives is highly desirable;
∎ Experience of directly working with commercial banks, specifically in retail banking services, would be an added advantage;
∎ Strong understanding of Donor Committe for Enterprise Development Standards, gender issues and branchless banking (including mobile financial services) or work environment of banking and non-banking financial institutions;
∎ Practical understanding of the socio-political and economic context of Bangladesh;
∎ Strong leadership and management skills and ability to deliver complex tasks within deadline in a dynamic and fast-paced environment;
∎ Proficient in English and Bangla;
∎ Advanced level of competency of using computer applications like MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook and Powerpoint);
∎ Ability to work in a team and to meet tight deadlines in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment.
∎ Field visits play a large part in the incumbent's activities; as such, it is expected that the incumbent is willing and able to take part in such activities as and when needed and sometimes within short notice.

Application Deadline: July 15, 2019

Company Information:
∎ Swisscontact Bangladesh
∎ Business : Swisscontact, Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation, is headquartered in Zurich and was founded in 1959 by leading figures from the Swiss private sector and Swiss universities. It is exclusively involved in international co-operation and since 1961 has carried out its own and mandated projects. In Bangladesh, Swisscontact is registered as an international non-governmental organisation (INGO) under NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of the People`s Republic of Bangladesh.

Category: NGO/Development

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