Manager-Interventions, Sarathi

Job Description

Title: Manager-Interventions, Sarathi

Company Name: Swisscontact Bangladesh

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Contractual

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

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 6 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Employment start: Earliest start date as per convenience
∎ Contract duration: Initial contract of one year (subject to project approval from the Government)
∎ Place of work: Dhaka, Bangladesh Disposition for required occasional travelling within the country

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:
∎ Oversee designated tasks of the Project Coordinators and Officers on a regular basis and guide them accordingly;
∎ Evaluate performances of the Project Coordinators and Officers quarterly and annually;
∎ Ensure capacity building of Project Coodinators and Officers through mentoring and coaching.
∎ Implementation & Stakeholder Management:
∎ Support the Team Leader to engage with commercial banks, Ready-Made Garment (RMG) buyers, RMG factories and people from other sectors in RMG clusters;
∎ 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 and other relevant stakeholders;
∎ Support the Team Leader to select additional commercial banks, Mobile Financial Services (MFS), Microfinance institutions (MFIs) 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, MFS organizations and MFIs;
∎ Provide support to the Senior Advisor - Partnerships & Advocacy to manage relationship with RMG factories, commercial banks, other stakeholders and community leaders;
∎ Provide technical support to the Senior Officer - Monitoring & Results Measurement (MRM) to prepare MRM plans;
∎ Lead engagement with partner commercial banks and their account holders and support the Senior Officer - 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 Senior Officer- MRM to draw insights about their business sustainability, specifically investigate their services, fees, floating money, etc.;
∎ Support the Senior Officer - 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.

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);
∎ At least 6 years of progressive experience in financial services or market development;
∎ Ability to work in a team and to meet tight deadlines in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment.

Salary:
∎ Swisscontact offers attractive working conditions in an international and multicultural context. We see our work as a joint effort in an agile organizational culture: mutual respect, trust and teamwork.

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 2 Nov 2021

Company Information:
∎ 19 Oct 2021
∎ Swisscontact Bangladesh

Category: NGO/Development