Program Coordinator
Job Description
Title: Program Coordinator
Company Name: Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO)
Vacancy: 01
Location: Chattogram (Chattogram Sadar)
Minimum Salary: Tk. 43893 (Monthly)
Experience:
∎ At least 5 years
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):NGO
Published: 6 May 2025
Education:
∎ Master’s degree preferable in Social Sciences, or relevant discipline. A higher degree will give an advantage.
Requirements:
Additional Requirements:
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∎ Additional Requirements
∎ • Age at most 45 years
∎ • Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ • Proficiency in project planning, implementation, and results measurement.
∎ • Strong advocacy, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
∎ • Proficiency in Bangla and English (written and spoken).
∎ EXPERIENCE AND SKILSS
∎ Working Experience: At least 5 years working experiences in the relevant field including 3 years in management or supervisory position. Experience of working on employability skills program of youth.
∎ Knowledge:
∎ • CRC and other Human Rights instruments
∎ • Understanding of rights based/child rights programming
∎ • Knowledge & skill to analyze Human Rights and Child Rights situation in the global national and local level
∎ • Project Cycle Management
∎ Skills:
∎ Management skills
∎ • Programming, budgeting & M&E
∎ • On Programming, budgeting & M&E
∎ • Conflict Management Skills
∎ • People Management Skills (supervising skills)
∎ • Partnership Management Skills
∎ Communication skills:
∎ • Articulation and presentation skills
∎ • Negotiation skills
∎ • Interpersonal skills
∎ • Facilitation skills
∎ • Analytic skills
∎ • Time Management Skills
∎ • Writing skills
∎ • Excellent in communication skills – both in Bangla and English
∎ Computer skills:
∎ • Working knowledge on MS-Office
∎ • Working knowledge on MS-Office
∎ • Working knowledge on e-mail/internet
∎ Delivering results,
∎ Developing self and others,
∎ Problem solving and decision making,
∎ Innovating and adapting,
∎ Applying technical and professional expertise,
∎ Working effectively with others, Networking
∎ DESIRABLE
∎ Attitude:
∎ • To work in team
∎ • To protect children in connection
∎ • To be non-discriminatory and gender sensitive
∎ Carry out of policies:
∎ The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with Child Safe Guiding Policy, PSEA including all different polices & procedures of organization.
∎ Child safeguarding:
∎ • Understanding of the organization's child protection policy
∎ • If any concern issue raised in child programming immediate informed to respective.
∎ • Under the child protection policy, the do's and don'ts of the practice should be able and encourages to others.
∎ • Active participation on child safeguarding response mechanism.
∎ PSEA
∎ • Understanding of the organization's PSEA policy
∎ • Under the PSEA policy, the do's and don'ts of the practice should be able and encourages to others.
∎ • Active participation on PSEA response mechanism if required
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Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Job Context
∎ • Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO) started its journey in 1988 with a noble vision to stand in solidarity with the poor and marginalized. Being a peoples' centered organization, ESDO envisioned for a society which will be free from inequality and injustice, a society where no child will cry from hunger and no life will be ruined by poverty. Near about three decades of relentless efforts to make this happen, ESDO has embraced new grounds and opened up new horizons to help the disadvantaged and vulnerable people to bring meaningful and lasting changes in their lives. During this long span, ESDO has adapted with the changing situation and provided the most time-bound services especially for the poor and disadvantaged. A community focused and people centered approach has been adapted by ESDO while consideration was given to the national policy and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as its guiding principle. ESDO is one of the most dynamic organizations expanding its development interventions across 408 upazilas under 53 districts of Bangladesh covering over 12 million poor and vulnerable people.
∎ • Project Coordinator has the responsibility of providing support to the team for addressing the deprived youth for employability skills development and resilience. The position holder is accountable to provide technical expertise/guidance for project implementation, monitoring, capacity building of different stakeholders of Employability and digital skills capacity project. S/he is responsible for providing support to the project team for assessment, response analysis, design, coordination, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of the project. S/he will oversee the work of project team in terms of strengthening, referral to services and response under the project ‘"Improvement of Employability Skills and Resilience for Youth in Chattogram” supported by Save the Children International in Bangladesh and implemented by BITA. S/he will distribute time 60% in fieldwork and 40% in desk work and report directly to the organization management and SCI.
∎ Authority
∎ Directly supervise M&E Officer, Officer- MHPSS, Employment Support Staff (business & formal job placement), Instructor- Computer Fundamentals and Graphic design (Freelancing, AI & video editing also part of it), Community Mobilizer, Driver and other staffs of the project.
∎ Reporting to
∎ Executive Director
∎ ESDO is inviting applications from interested qualified candidates for the following position.
∎ Job Responsibilities
∎ Program Management:
∎ • Prepare monthly/quarterly plan & budget.
∎ • Guided quality benchmark of program operation of Mobile Training Center (MTC) and Digital Hub.
∎ • Ensure administrative, logistic and finance procedures are implemented by the project team;
∎ • Organize weekly meetings with project team and ensure reporting on the exchanges.
∎ • Support to documentation of all digital capacity base training/workshop activities and prepared progress reports.
∎ • Supervisory and coordination visit.
∎ • Progress tracking, frequently sharing lesson learned effectively within the team.
∎ • Develop program team spirit and capability.
∎ Coordination and Communication:
∎ • Develop linkage and connectivity for referral services.
∎ • Coordination contact, meeting, information sharing and visit to support structures and organizations.
∎ • Disseminate experience and learning of participation in the national/ international level events.
∎ • Maintain and strengthen coordination within organization’s relevant departments and programs.
∎ • Attend different GO-NGO sponsored coordination meeting at City levels.
∎ • Maintain correspondence with organization, donor & support structures.
∎ Monitoring, Reporting and Documentation:
∎ • Ensure quality of process documentation.
∎ • Assist to data/ information collection, formulation, analysis and share to relevant stakeholders & organization.
∎ • Extend supervisory support to quality M&E implementation
∎ • Program/ field visit and provide feedback.
∎ Staff Management:
∎ • Assist to develop organizational staff capacity development plan.
∎ • Orient the team member’s on organization and project/program conceptual framework.
∎ • Assess capacity/performance and provide feedback for improvements to project staff.
∎ Financial and Administrative Management:
∎ • Disseminate the policies and compliances of donor and organization.
∎ • Support financial planning and reporting.
∎ • Support accounts and admin section in financial and logistics management.
∎ • Ensure to follow administrative and financial rules and regulations at minimum standards
∎ Instruments Development & Capacity Building:
∎ • Coordinate project specific different assessment, study, review
∎ • Facilitate review team for producing methodology, plan and quality reporting
∎ • Coordinate and develop training materials, manual and module
∎ • Coordinate and facilitate publications
∎ • Good practice and learning identification and documentation.
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ As per project Allocation.
Workplace:
∎ Work at office
Employment Status: Full Time
Job Location: Chattogram (Chattogram Sadar)
Job Highlights:
∎ Project Coordinator has the responsibility of providing support to the team for addressing the deprived youth for employability skills development and resilience
Read Before Apply:
ESDO has a Safeguarding & PSEAH policy to protect its employees and beneficiaries and any kind of discrimination, harassment, and abuse falls under ESDO “ZERO TOLERANCE” Policy. All employees are expected to abide by the PSEAH, Child Protection, Safeguarding, and Gender policy of ESDO.
ESDO does not tolerate any child & youth abuse. So, if you have any history of child & youth abuse in organization or personal life please abstains from apply here. After your selection or between the service periods if we found any misinformation, we will take legal action as per organization rules and county law.
ESDO does not tolerate any Safeguarding abuse. So if you have any history of gender abuse in organization or personal life please abstains from apply here. After your selection or between the service periods if we found any misinformation, we will take legal action as per organization rules and county law.
ESDO does not tolerate any kind of extremism/terrorism. So if you have any history of extremism/terrorism in organization or personal life please abstains from apply here. After your selection or between the service periods if we found any misinformation, we will take legal action as per organization rules and county law.
ESDO does not tolerate any corruption. So if you have any history of corruption in organization or personal life please abstains from apply here. After your selection or between the service periods if we found any misinformation, we will take legal action as per organization rules and county law.
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Apply Procedure:
Hard Copy:
∎ If you are passionate about improving the lives of people in the transforming climate context, courageous enough tobring a positive impact through your proficiencies, and confident enough to meet the organization's expectations andfulfill the requirements mentioned above, please visit the following link and apply.
∎ Instructions for Hard Copy Application:
∎ A cover letter and a recent Passport-size photo, photocopy of all academic and experience certificates, NID card/Citizenship certificate, and two references. Applications should arrive within 09/05/2025 by 5.00 PM by post or courieror hand-to-hand delivery to the Head of HR, ESDO, Collegepara (Gobindanagar), Thakurgaon-5100, Bangladesh.
∎ Instructions for Online Application:
∎ Applications should be submitted within 09/05/2025 by 5.00 PM through the ESDO website online application link:https://career.esdo.net.bd/
∎ Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted and called for interview.
∎ Equal opportunity, promoting women & children rights is mandate of ESDO.
∎ Application Deadline: 09 May 2025
∎ Published On: 06 May 2025
Company Information:
∎ Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO)
∎ Collegepara (Gobindanagar), Thakurgaon-5100 Bangladesh
Address::
∎ Collegepara (Gobindanagar), Thakurgaon-5100 Bangladesh
Application Deadline: 9 May 2025
Category: NGO/Development
