Title: Officer, Project Development Department
Company Name: JAAGO Foundation
Vacancy: 1
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's/Master's degree in a relevant field (Social Sciences, Development Studies, Economics, or equivalent).
Experience Requirements:
∎ 1 to 2 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ The position holder will work with and support the Project Development Department with Fundraising, Grant management and organizational/donor compliance.
∎ Employment Status: Full-time, Contractual (6 Months)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Fundraising: 25% of time:
∎ Develop concept notes and proposals;
∎ Conduct background research on donors and prepare briefs on funding opportunities;
∎ Explore and share new funding opportunities with Program Managers/teams, Senior Management and the Executive Director;
∎ Coordinate with other teams to collect necessary information and supporting documents for successful proposal submission;
∎ Update Project Development Team worksheet on Google Drive to keep track of all submitted project
∎ proposals and potential funding opportunities;
∎ Grant Management: 55% of time:
∎ Study and provide feedback to the grant manager about the donor shared grant contracts;
∎ Write donor email drafts on behalf of grant manager;
∎ Arrange and participate in project inception, progress and post-project meetings;
∎ Ensure compliance with donor reporting requirements by updating the project staff;
∎ Take meeting minutes and share with the relevant staff;
∎ Call meetings with the project staff to collect information, write and edit Project Progress and Final Reports;
∎ Manage project document filing and storing (both physical and Online- Google Drive, Dropbox);
∎ Update and disseminate necessary project information within the team;
∎ Update Project Reporting Calendar and notify the project staff prior to the deadlines;
∎ Participate in occasional field visits to oversee progress of the projects;
∎ Support project implementation teams with Project Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) and develop monitoring and evaluation tools as per the project proposal;
∎ Participate in meetings with Finance Department and Project managers to monitor the expenditure of donor funds;
∎ Prepare a project Operation Plan and monitor the progress of activities against the plan;
∎ Assist the project implementation team in content development of workshops and trainings;
∎ Keep track of fund disbursement and fill out necessary forms to request for funds.
∎ Project Management: 5% of time:
∎ Support project implementation teams in specific project based works when needed.
∎ Networking: 2% of time:
∎ Search funding opportunities that arise out of networking with donors and online.
∎ Job related others: 3% of time:
∎ Assist in completing administrative tasks of the team;
∎ Develop weekly meeting agenda in reference to Monthly work plan to share with the Executive Director;
∎ Others: 10% of time:
∎ Prepare and finalize JAAGO's flagship event-National Youth Assembly's report
∎ Assist different departments of the organization when necessary;
∎ Attend and participate in organization's different events;
Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum 1-2 years experiences in the development sector.
∎ Excellent writing and spoken English and Bangla.
∎ Strategic thinker with proven analytical and planning skills;
∎ Good organization skills;
∎ Competent computer skills especially MS-Word, Ms-Excel and MS- PowerPoint;
∎ Strong understanding of grant management process of institutional donors;
∎ Ability to manage complex tasks, work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
∎ Prior work experience in raising and managing grants of institutional donors; donor reporting and compliance; research, monitoring and evaluation; training facilitation and training content development; maintaining databases will get preference.
Salary:
∎ BDT 20,000 - 25,000
Application Deadline: September 15, 2019
Company Information:
∎ JAAGO Foundation
Category: NGO/Development
Read Before Apply: If you are interested then please send your updated CV with recent passport size photo to [email protected] with subject line "Application for the position of "Officer, Project Development Department" Without subject line application will not accepted.
Source: bdjobs.com