Project Lead

Job Description

Title: Project Lead

Company Name: World Renew (Head Office)

Vacancy: --

Age: 30 to 45 years

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• 6 to 10 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

• A minimum of a Master’s degree in international development, gender, health, or related field, or equivalent experience.

• 6 to 10 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

• Age 30 to 45 years

• To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required:
• Commitment to organization’s vision, mission, values and program standards.
• Ability to design, implement, monitor and manage gender equality programs, particularly donor/government funded projects or SRHR projects.
• Familiarity with relevant national and international gender equality frameworks, safeguarding and conventions such as the PSEA.
• Knowledge and experience with multi donor funded tools and methodologies, including Results Based Management, logic models, performance management frameworks, and budgets.
• Excellent organizational and writing skills and team player with good collaboration skills.
• Ability to relate to a wide diversity of stakeholder groups with diverse value systems and cultures.
• Commitment to maintain work/life balance and to achieving results in a short time frame and under time pressure.
• 6-10 years’ progressive work experience in international development, grants management and government relations required.
• Project management skills including financial planning and budgeting skills and knowledge of donor/government grants specially in health.
• Must have knowledge and skills in computer in Microsoft office applications.
• Good oral and written communication skills in English and Bengali.
• Ability to work in a team approach.
• Able to create a working environment where team members have equal rights to listen, speak up and contribute to achieve a common goal of the project.
• Frequent travel to local partner organizations as required.

Job Context: An international NGO working in the field of Integrated and Sustainable Community Development, Disaster Response, Food Security, Community Health, Peace & Justice and both emergency aid and long-term rebuilding in natural and human-caused disasters invites applications from Bangladeshi nationals for the following position for its 5 (Five) years anticipated SRHR (Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights) project, which aims to Enhanced enjoyment of SRHR for vulnerable adolescent and youth girls (aged 10-24) in select communities in Dinajpur and Netrokona Districts, Bangladesh.

Purpose: This position is a full-time, term contract for donor funded “SRHR:Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights Health System” project, implemented in Bangladesh from 2025-2029. The project will be a comprehensive approach to advancing SRHR by going beyond health services to address gendered inequalities, discriminatory social norms, and institutional structures that limit the access of SRHR services for vulnerable adolescent and youth girls (aged 10-24).

This role will be a key player in the SRHR Bangladesh work in the successful implementation of the project, including co-developing the implementation strategy of the project including annual work plan, and providing oversight/monitoring of budget, project targets and deliverables, project learning, risk register/mitigation, and project and financial reports to funder stakeholders. The key role of the Bangladesh SRHR Project Lead is to support the partners in carrying out of the PMF and ensure work towards achieving targets in the PMF. The Project Lead will lead the partner management teams in regular meetings and annual PIP reviews.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the Bangladesh side in following the Project Design and PIP and carrying out trainings and monitoring and meetings per the project design.

• Liaison with the Global Project Manager, Senior Country Director in Bangladesh and with each implementing partner directors and team members.

• Coordinate in Bangladesh including, Bangladesh project team staff assigned in project, Global M and E, Project Teams.

• Attend meetings of the sub-team for work coordination and reporting on progress of the project and grant.

• Directly supervise the Finance Manager of SRHR project in Bangladesh and ensure Government FD 6 regulations, finance reports are done per GOB and donor guidelines.

• Maintain an effective working relationship with all members of the grants sub-team.

• Management of all compliance and responsibilities of the donor award (i.e. financial, legal, programmatic).

• Monitor, adjust, and evaluate actual project performance against the PMF indicators with project outcomes and impact; ensure timely adaptive action is taken. 

• Ensure partner workshops and timelines are followed according to PIP schedule.

• Oversee baseline surveys and ensure and lead process.

• Facilitate trainings as required per activity list, and contract with trainers for subjects.

• Monitor expenditures, with explanations for project expenditure variances and ensure program and financial reporting on the donor prescribed system.

• Identify potential obstacles and risks, initiating corrective action. 

• Network with alliances and partnerships in Bangladesh to make presentations about the project and do communications to the sector about project learnings.

• Lead quarterly meetings of SRHR partner leads.

• Frequent travel to each project at least quarterly and additionally as needed.