Program Manager - Operations
Job Description
Title: Program Manager - Operations
Company Name: mPower Social Enterprises Ltd.
Vacancy: 1
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's degree in any related subjects with an MBA (preferred) from a reputed university.
Experience Requirements:
∎ 3 to 4 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Duty Station : Field Office in Cox`s Bazaar with occasional visits to the Dhaka HQ as per project needs.
∎ Project Description:
∎ The Youth Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Support (YES) Program funded by USAID and implemented by the consortium led by Relief International (RI) with the Chrisitan Commission for Development of Bangladesh (CCDB), mPower Social Enterprises Limited (mPower) and the Young Power in Social Action (YPSA) is a community driven development approach to enhance the skills and competencies of female and male unemployed youth in Teknaf, Ukhiya, Ramu and Cox`s Bazar Sadar, that will ultimately reduce the risk of conflict among the host and Rohingya communities in Cox`s Bazar by creating sustainable, market oriented resilient livelihood opportunities for Host Communities (HCs), while fostering an enabling environment for social cohesion.
∎ We are looking for someone who will take complete ownership of successful execution of this project by fulfilling the job responsibilities mentioned below.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ The overall role of the Project Manager would be to identify and mobilize the needed resources, set milestones, keep the work on the track, coordinate activities, make sure everyone on the team contributes, mediate conflicts and make sure project goals are delivered on time and within budget. The PM will spend a significant amount of time on the field and might have to work for a prolonged period from related project field offices. Specific job role for the position would be the following:
∎ • Partnership:
∎ Managing partnership with the client, donor, and/or lead partner through periodic meetings with the Program Manager and AOR.
∎ Identifying and developing the right strategic partnerships for research, requirement analysis, communication dissemination and solution deployment with Public and/or Private sector stakeholders.
∎ • Coordination:
∎ Proactively take complete handover from the planning and/or Sales team.
∎ Initiate kick-off meetings with department heads to create a roll-out plan, assign team-members and create granular activity plan for each sub-task.
∎ Coordinating between different departments to ensure the smooth flow of the software development lifecycle.
∎ Coordinating with other project partners to manage dependencies.
∎ • Research & Requirement Analysis:
∎ Leading the research efforts on the fields, and overseeing the deliveries of the consultants and the enumerators
∎ Facilitating the requirement analysis activities and ensure timely delivery of BRD & SRS.
∎ • Administration:
∎ Taking lead in the recruitment of new project resources, by creating job descriptions, sorting resumes and conducting interviews. Facilitating the onboarding and orientation of new recruits.
∎ Maintaining the budget adherence, and finances of the project-related costs.
∎ Organizing and managing the field visits, travel itinerary and observing security details.
∎ Overseeing the work of the Field Manager and facilitating the work efficiency of the project office.
∎ • Monitoring, evaluation & reporting:
∎ Updating tasks (Float) and deadlines (Toggle Plan) for the internal management of resources.
∎ Collecting information from the project staff to create and submit periodic activity reports.
∎ Creating/facilitating and submitting the milestone reports on time. In case of a delivery delay, raising flags early-on, removing the impediments and communicating with relevant stakeholders to maintain full transparency.
Additional Requirements:
∎ 3-4 years of work experience in capacity development and communications related projects.
∎ Prior experience in Government/NGO project management will be treated as an advantage.
∎ Additional Job Requirements:
∎ Fluency in written and spoken English. Advanced communication skills to do effective and goal-oriented project management.
∎ Work cooperatively and effectively with clients and internal teams to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that enhance organizational effectiveness.
∎ Assess crisis situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem.
∎ Ability to perform logic driven negotiations with project stakeholders.
∎ Strong decision-making capabilities based on the available information
∎ Keen observation skills with attention towards details to identify different issues of existing projects and coming up with optimal solutions.
∎ Proactive problem-solving attitude.
∎ Ability to Pick up new skills and processes quickly and rigorously.
∎ Managing and working cooperatively with all relevant project stakeholders in a tactful and effective manner to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that enhance organizational effectiveness.
∎ Proficient in MS Office applications, MS Project, Microsoft Visio, Project Management tools.
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Competitive salary package.
∎ In-house catering service for lunch & snacks.
∎ Income tax paid by the company.
∎ Two festival bonuses.
Application Deadline: March 21, 2020
Company Information:
∎ mPower Social Enterprises Ltd.
∎ Business : About mPower: mPower Social Enterprises was founded by graduate students of Harvard University and MIT in 2008. Currently based in Dhaka (Bangladesh), mPower has partnered with more than 30 of the world`s leading development organizations across 8 countries to amplify the impact of development programs through innovative use of ICTs. Our partners/ funders include BRAC, Save the Children, CARE International, Oxfam, Winrock International, The Asia Foundation, Grameen, World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF, WHO, DFID, USAID, Population Council, Harvard and Johns Hopkins University. mPower has won a number of competitive innovation awards both at international and national levels, including USAID Global Development Award, Gates Innovation Challenge, Grand Challenges Canada etc.
Vision: A world where everyone has access to quality services
Mission: We partner with development organizations to amplify the impact and outreach of their interventions by leveraging the power of information and communication technologies
mPower`s Services:
We help implementers harness the power of innovative design, information technologies, and market forces to ensure delivery of quality services to the underserved
We design and build solutions that allow implementing organizations,
to provide more timely and higher quality services using frontline workforces
to collect field data for better decision-making, organizational learning and monitoring
to develop capacity of community members so as to positively influence choices and behavior
to empower community members to report abnormalities and hold service providers accountable
to take market-driven approaches to service delivery rather than subsidy-driven in order to ensure sustainability
Category: NGO/Development
Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 21st Mar 2020
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