Job Description
Title: Project Coordinator
Company Name: Uttaran
Vacancy: 1
Location: Cox's Bazar
Minimum Salary: Tk. 75000 (Monthly)
Experience:
∎ At least 7 years
Published: 26 May 2025
Education:
∎ Masters
∎ Master's degree in Sociology, Disaster Management, Environmental Science, or relevant subjects from a reputed university
∎ Master's degree in Sociology, Disaster Management, Environmental Science, or relevant subjects from a reputed university
Requirements:
Additional Requirements:
∎ Experience
∎ Minimum 7 years of experience in managerial positions including 5 years' experience as a project lead.
∎ Proven experience in program planning, implementation, budgeting, financial management, staff management, and report writing.
∎ Experience in working with government departments.
∎ Experience in delivering training for a variety of state and non-state actor audiences (local NGOs, government authorities, etc.)
∎ Skills
∎ Strong management skills including the ability to provide strategic guidance, technical oversight, mentor staff, build strong teams, develop work plans, and manage budgets and project expenditures
∎ Excellent communication and report-writing skills in English
∎ Knowledge on climate change adaptation, community resilience building
∎ Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other computer skills
∎ Women candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
∎ Experience
∎ Minimum 7 years of experience in managerial positions including 5 years' experience as a project lead.
∎ Proven experience in program planning, implementation, budgeting, financial management, staff management, and report writing.
∎ Experience in working with government departments.
∎ Experience in delivering training for a variety of state and non-state actor audiences (local NGOs, government authorities, etc.)
∎ Skills
∎ Strong management skills including the ability to provide strategic guidance, technical oversight, mentor staff, build strong teams, develop work plans, and manage budgets and project expenditures
∎ Excellent communication and report-writing skills in English
∎ Knowledge on climate change adaptation, community resilience building
∎ Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other computer skills
∎ Women candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Overall project management; project planning, leading the overall implementation, coordination, and monitoring of the NSSS project.
∎ Ensure all three outcomes – economic empowerment, social protection and DRR has been addressed by project activities and considering gender justice and social inclusion aspects across NSSS project cycle management.
∎ Budget management.
∎ Understand the mission, principles, vision, strategies, polices of Uttaran and project implement accordingly.
∎ Coordinate and manage project staff, ensuring capacity building, mentoring, and performance monitoring.
∎ Coordinate and supervise field-level implementation, ensuring timely and quality delivery of all project activities.
∎ Monitor, identify challenges and risk facing the implementation of the project and propose mitigation strategies.
∎ Maintaining close collaboration with Uttaran and Helvetas.
∎ Strengthing and maintaining functional relation with relevant Camp authorities, Government line department, private sector, community stakeholders and other relevant actors to build partnerships and foster ownership.
∎ Ensure regular documentation of best practices, lessons learned, success stories and captured good quality pictures.
∎ Organize monthly coordination meeting with the project team members and keep records on meeting decisions.
∎ Ensure gender-sensitive and socially inclusive approaches throughout project activities.
∎ Directly lead the DRR activities – support to develop community based DRR plans, closely work with local disaster management committee and other relevant stakeholders.
∎ Organize awareness and capacity-building sessions on disaster preparedness, climate resilience, and risk mitigation.
∎ Promote integration of DRR strategies into livelihoods and enterprise development.
∎ Develop and contribute for different training materials, hand out, modules, guideline etc. according to requirement.
∎ Prepare and submit high quality monthly, quarterly and annual report and submit to Uttaran and Helvetas.
∎ Uttaran is a national development organization working in the coastal region of Bangladesh since 1985 to uphold rights and entitlements and to improve the socio-economic condition of the poor and disadvantaged. Uttaran facilitates in getting access to and control over resources by the poor and disadvantaged to improve agricultural productivity and economic empowerment.
∎ Project Background:
∎ Uttaran with the assistance of Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation is implementing Nari Shakti Samaz Shakti (NSSS) project. The objective of the project is to establish a gender-transformative enabling environment that empowers women and marginalized groups to foster safer, inclusive, and resilient communities in the vulnerable contexts of Cox’s Bazar. The project focuses on protecting women and girls aged 10–35 in both host and refugee communities by enhancing resilience, reducing disaster vulnerabilities and creating alternative livelihood opportunities.
∎ Report to: Director
∎ Job responsibility:
∎ Overall project management; project planning, leading the overall implementation, coordination, and monitoring of the NSSS project.
∎ Ensure all three outcomes – economic empowerment, social protection and DRR has been addressed by project activities and considering gender justice and social inclusion aspects across NSSS project cycle management.
∎ Budget management.
∎ Understand the mission, principles, vision, strategies, polices of Uttaran and project implement accordingly.
∎ Coordinate and manage project staff, ensuring capacity building, mentoring, and performance monitoring.
∎ Coordinate and supervise field-level implementation, ensuring timely and quality delivery of all project activities.
∎ Monitor, identify challenges and risk facing the implementation of the project and propose mitigation strategies.
∎ Maintaining close collaboration with Uttaran and Helvetas.
∎ Strengthing and maintaining functional relation with relevant Camp authorities, Government line department, private sector, community stakeholders and other relevant actors to build partnerships and foster ownership.
∎ Ensure regular documentation of best practices, lessons learned, success stories and captured good quality pictures.
∎ Organize monthly coordination meeting with the project team members and keep records on meeting decisions.
∎ Ensure gender-sensitive and socially inclusive approaches throughout project activities.
∎ Directly lead the DRR activities – support to develop community based DRR plans, closely work with local disaster management committee and other relevant stakeholders.
∎ Organize awareness and capacity-building sessions on disaster preparedness, climate resilience, and risk mitigation.
∎ Promote integration of DRR strategies into livelihoods and enterprise development.
∎ Develop and contribute for different training materials, hand out, modules, guideline etc. according to requirement.
∎ Prepare and submit high quality monthly, quarterly and annual report and submit to Uttaran and Helvetas.
Skills & Expertise:
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Salary: 75,000 BDT per month
∎ Compensation & other benefits
∎ As per Uttarans Policy and Project Design.
∎ Salary: 75,000 BDT per month
∎ Compensation & other benefits
∎ As per Uttarans Policy and Project Design.
Employment Status: Contractual
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Apply Procedure:
Hard Copy:
∎ Application Process:
∎ Please send your resume/CV with a photograph latest by 31th May via bdjobs online application. Only properly complete applications will be considered for short-listing and will be contracted for the Interview
∎ Join Uttaran to make a difference in the lives of poor and disadvantaged communities in Bangladesh!
∎ Note - Uttaran is dedicated to creating a secure and equitable environment that is free from all forms of discrimination and harassment. This applies to employees, partner organizations, participants, and other stakeholders, who are all entitled to be treated with respect and dignity and have equal opportunities at every level. Regardless of age, sex, gender, religion, ethnicity, color, physical and mental ability, we believe that everyone has the right to live free from sexual abuse, exploitation, and harassment. To achieve this goal, we have a zero-tolerance policy towards any conduct that is incompatible with the objectives of Uttaran, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. All candidates who are selected for a position with Uttaran will be expected to adhere to our safeguarding policies, code of conduct, child protection guidelines, and other procedures. They will be subject to rigorous reference and background checks, which may involve verifying their academic credentials, employment history, and obtaining police verification if deemed necessary. Additional information may be required from selected candidates to facilitate the background check process.
∎ Uttaran`s contact address is House # 32 (Flat-B1), Road # 10/A, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1209, and our website is www.uttaran.net.
Company Information:
∎ Uttaran
∎ House # 32 (Flat-B1), Road # 10/A, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1209
∎ www.uttaran.net
∎ Uttaran is a national development organization working in the southwest Bangladesh since 1985 to uphold rights and entitlements and to improve the socio-economic condition of the poor and disadvantaged. Uttaran facilitates in getting access to and control over resources by the poor and disadvantaged to improve agricultural productivity and economic empowerment.
Address::
∎ House # 32 (Flat-B1), Road # 10/A, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1209
∎ www.uttaran.net
∎ Uttaran is a national development organization working in the southwest Bangladesh since 1985 to uphold rights and entitlements and to improve the socio-economic condition of the poor and disadvantaged. Uttaran facilitates in getting access to and control over resources by the poor and disadvantaged to improve agricultural productivity and economic empowerment.
Read Before Apply: Please apply only who are fulfilling all the requirements of this job
Application Deadline: 31 May 2025
Category: NGO/Development
