Project Manager, Childhood Development, Health & Nutrition, HCMP

Job Description

Title: Project Manager, Childhood Development, Health & Nutrition, HCMP

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Cox`s Bazar

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• At least 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Bachelors/ Master’s in psychology or Public Health from any UGC approved university or institute.

• Professional degree in mhGAP, Project Management

• At least 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Strong knowledge of community health, MHPSS, ECD, safeguarding, and humanitarian standards (IASC, Sphere, CHS).

• Skilled in project management, leadership, people management, and supervision in multicultural settings.

• Proficient in psychosocial support application, mental health issues, monitoring, reporting, and presentation development.

• Ability to build and maintain productive stakeholder relationships in sensitive and complex environments.

• Strong administrative, budgeting, numerical, and fundraising competencies.

• Excellent communication, negotiation, influencing, and coordination skills.

• High proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) for documentation and data management.

• Demonstrated ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and handle multiple tasks under pressure.

• Capable of working independently and collaboratively with diverse teams while maintaining ethical standards.

BRAC is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh in 1972 that partners globally with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty to create opportunities to realise their potential.

The Project Manager will provide strategic and technical leadership to strengthen ECD-focused childhood development programming, enhance psychosocial support services, and advance community health messaging in camp settings. The role ensures integration of public health and psychosocial care by supervising psychologists and para-counselors to maintain high-quality community and mental health services. The Project Manager will develop health training materials, conduct capacity-building workshops, and support volunteers to improve community awareness and uptake of essential services. All activities will align with public health priorities and ECD goals while fostering a collaborative environment that supports vulnerable children and caregivers.

Leadership & Technical Guidance-

• Lead the implementation of health-related activities under PtL 2.0 and LEGO, ensuring alignment with public health and ECD goals.

• Provide technical support to case management, the psychosocial support unit, and community health messaging initiatives, including Early Childhood Development (ECD) components.

• Implement and monitor interventions related to the "First 1000 Days" approach, focusing on maternal and child health, nutrition, and early development.

• Coordinate with health facilities to ensure timely access to antenatal care, immunizations, and nutrition services for both mothers and children.

• Contribute effectively to budget management, tracking, and monitoring programme budgets as per the JRP Budget/Plan.

• Lead the preparation and submission of reports to BRAC and donors and ensure proper utilization of donor budgets and resources including the procurements of the specific project.

• Contribute to concept note and project proposal writing for fundraising.

Psychosocial & ECD Integration-

• Plan, develop, and implement mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) activities for children aged 0–3 and related beneficiaries in the designated camp(s) under the PtL and LEGO project.

• Supervise psychologists and para-counselors to deliver mental health support tailored to mothers and young children.

• Design and monitor MHPSS activities for children aged 0–3 and their caregivers.

• Integrate child protection and psychosocial care into maternal health programming.

• Lead and deploy emergency teams and provide psychological first aid in coordination with relevant sectors.

Community Engagement & Capacity Building-

• Train Father and Mother volunteers to deliver health education and psychosocial support.

• Develop culturally appropriate training modules on maternal nutrition, breastfeeding, and early child stimulation.

• Facilitate community health messaging campaigns to promote safe caregiving practices.

Monitoring & Reporting-

• Track health indicators related to maternal and child outcomes.

• Ensure timely referrals for high-risk pregnancies, malnutrition, and mental health concerns.

• Prepare donor reports and contribute to fundraising proposals focused on maternal and child health.

• Administrative responsibility-

• Contribute to decision-making, strategic planning, and implementing to extend service modality in alignment with the Health Sector and RRRC.

• Takes administrative decisions like- staff promotion, transfer, and termination by discussing and communicating with supervisor and senior management.

Advisory, liaison and representation-

• Undertake regular coordination with the Office of Management, CIC, other stakeholders (UN, International and national NGOs), contribute to the development of BRAC policy, and ensure alignment of policy and practice.

• Work closely with other sectors of BRAC (Education, Child Protection, Livelihood, DRR, etc) for a better integrated programme implementation at field level.

• Ensure effective occupational health representation at the local occupational health and safety committee.

Safeguarding-

• Ensure the safety of Programme Participants, people who come into contact with the organisation and team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) to achieve the programme's goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.

• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action. 

• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do so.

• Mobile bill

• Weekly 2 holidays

• Festival Bonus

• Health & Life Insurance

• Paternity/ Maternity leave

• others as per Organisation policy.