Programme Officer

Job Description

Title: Programme Officer

Company Name: Penny Appeal

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ University degrees (Master's) in international relations, development studies and social welfare.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 4 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Invitation to interviews: 8th of September 2020
∎ Interviews: 15th of September 2020 (1st round interview) and 22nd of September (2nd round interviews)
∎ Expected start date: October 2020

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Provide advice to enhance the project management, including capacity building of partners on various issues;
∎ Organize and participate in monitoring and follow-up visits, identifying constraints to implementation, making appropriate recommendations, and ensuring timely follow-up of the recommendations;
∎ In consultation with CD, liaise with partners' and other stakeholders to resolve bottleneck issues;
∎ Undertake activities related to (a) facilitating the project activities in right track, (b) facilitating timely implementation including projects start-ups;
∎ Review projects' (i) work plans, targets, log frames and budgets and (ii) progress and financial Reports;
∎ Ensure horizontal collaboration and knowledge sharing among PA-funded projects through meetings and workshops on different sectors and implementation issues;
∎ Document innovations, best practices and lessons learnt ; preparing reports or briefs on projects' innovations, best practices and lessons learnt, and documenting projects' key achievements and impacts emanating from the experience of PA projects;
∎ Facilitate PA's workshops/training to enable interactions among PA partners' for discussions on best practices and challenging issues;
∎ Share information, knowledge and expertise in PA Bangladesh with the partners' and colleagues;
∎ Manage PA's capacity building for high performance delivery through coaching and mentoring of partners' project personnel;
∎ In close collaboration with the CD, s/he will arrange for providing technical assistance to the CD on formulation of new policies/guidelines/standards on various issues and/or recommend modifications in existing policies/guidelines/standards;
∎ Ensure cordial relationships/networking with relevant government bodies and other stakeholders including academics and technical/specialised institutions to facilitate dialogues on different development issues or building their capacities and identify issue based alliances, partners and networks to invest in;
∎ Visit project areas when necessary for rolling out the PA standards in different interventions, performance assessment of partners', observing roll out status of different standards and suggest onward actions;
∎ Represent Penny Appeal in different networks, alliances, workshops and meetings as assigned;
∎ Liaise on a regular basis with PA HQ and prepare occasional reports and specific information and documents as per requirement and request;
∎ Prepare weekly, monthly and other reports as well as case studies based on PA UK and PA Bangladesh's needs, including lessons from the implementation support experience;
∎ Manage routine activities, such as communications, work planning, ToR/RFPs preparations, outreach activities, event organisation etc.
∎ Perform other duties as may be assigned by the Country Director-Bangladesh.
∎ Prepare feedback reports for UK headquarters within appropriate timeframe.
∎ Attend internal and external meetings as and when required.
∎ This position requires regular attendance at least 5 days per week.
∎ Must be available to work outside normal office hours or at the weekends as required.
∎ The role is mainly office-based in Dhaka, however the candidate must be able to travel (both in and out country) as required (minimum 20% to 30%).
∎ Whilst performing the duties of this job in the field, the employee may be exposed to precarious settings under high security risks and/or very basic living conditions and outside weather conditions, as well is to infectious diseases.

Additional Requirements:
∎ 4+ years of relevant experience in partners' projects management, reporting, capacity building, monitoring and financial administration in national and international organizations.
∎ Team worker: The capability to foster and coordinate teamwork; and establish harmonious working relationships in a multicultural environment.
∎ Self-developer/Innovator: Willingness to learn, share and acquire new competencies and seek new challenges by exploring new approaches.
∎ Performer: Ability to work against an agreed outcome and priorities. To seek performance feedback from supervisor in the performance review in a constructive and objective manner.
∎ Negotiator and communicator: To work effectively with others to meet mutual goals and to negotiate to align parties and build networks. To engage in audiences, commanding attention and respect and inspiring credibility. Writing clearly, succinctly and convincingly and to listen and communicate effectively in order to engage others.
∎ Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
∎ Excellent knowledge of English, including the ability to set out a coherent argument in presentations and group interactions;
∎ Capacity to communicate fluently with different stakeholders (civil society, government authorities, local communities, project staff);
∎ Skills to use different technological resources (computer, multimedia projector, internet, email, computer aided systems, widely used software etc).
∎ Experience in safeguarding.
∎ Experience in organising workshops and training sessions.

Application Deadline: 27 Aug 2020

Company Information:
∎ 16 Aug 2020
∎ Penny Appeal

Category: NGO/Development