Project Manager - Inclusive Cities for Nutrition (IC4N) Project

Job Description

Title: Project Manager - Inclusive Cities for Nutrition (IC4N) Project

Company Name: HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Bangladesh

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's degree in any of the following discipline: Agriculture, Nutrition Science, Public Health.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Capacity building of municipality to sensitize local entrepreneurs in the food processing and food distribution sector regarding importance of a healthy and sustainable diet and promote their knowledge on measures to enhance nutritional quality of their products.
∎ Support municipality to promote hygiene practice standard by the stakeholders during food transportation, food processing and food distribution.
∎ Support municipality to establish and promote nutrition sensitive social protection mechanisms for socio-economic vulnerable consumers.
∎ Support municipality to influence public services to make their social protection services are nutrition-sensitive and accessible to vulnerable urban consumers.
∎ Build capacity of Municipality to implement and monitor nutrition sensitive strategies based on evidence (nutrition-related data).
∎ Support municipality to establish operate multi-stakeholder platforms for food nutrition promotion in the municipality.
∎ Support municipality to develop communication strategy for promoting healthy and sustainable diets including key food hygiene practices and implement involving key stakeholders from the municipality, the private sector and civil society.
∎ Provide technical support to project team, municipality and other partners/stakeholders to develop communication materials on best practise and project innovations and disseminate to all concerned.
∎ Support project team in exchanging knowledge and learning, and take lead for experience capitalization of project.
∎ Support municipality and other stakeholders to actively participate in the key for a at multiple levels for sharing their knowledge and experiences.
∎ Facilitate municipality and other stakeholders to promote joint learning culture and participate in relevant policy dialogue.
∎ Participate in relevant networks and working groups at national and international level and coordinate with media as needed for coverage of project learning in electronic media and print articles.
∎ Manage and ensure sound financial and administrative processes for Helvetas components in project including funding disbursements to implementing partners following HELVETAS Bangladesh related policies in collaboration with the Finance and Administration unit.
∎ With the guidance of Project Lead at Head Office, develop capacity and support the implementing partner in enabling the Municipality to implement project interventions and take corrective measures where necessary.
∎ Supervise Helvetas project staff, ensure compliance to HR policies and guidelines, including Code of Conduct.
∎ Participate in review, monitoring and evaluation, and knowledge management processes of implemented activities/partnerships in collaboration with the Technical Officer-M&E and Knowledge Management.
∎ In coordination with Project Lead at Head Office and Regional Humanitarian Coordinator, lead to develop plan and implement inception period activity (during 6 months of inception phase in 2021).

Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 5 years experience in lead and management of nutrition, livelihoods improvement and agricultural value chain development project.
∎ Minimum 3 years experience on working with municipality in the projects in the area of nutrition, and or livelihoods improvement.
∎ Experience on engagement of public and private sector organization.
∎ Experience in capacity building, mentoring and managing staff.
∎ Experience in managing multi-sectoral programmes and managing teams in different locations.
∎ Have knowledge on related government policies and code of conduct.
∎ Able to work independently while being a strong team player.
∎ Ability to work in unstable security environments and to adapt to basic living conditions.
∎ Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions with limited supervision.
∎ Creative and able to work with limited resources.
∎ Proficiency in Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
∎ Good command over written and spoken English.

Salary:
∎ We will offer the candidate a very competitive salary (with in the range BDT.180K to BDT.200K) based on the length of relevant experiences. The salary offer will includes Monthly Gross, Festival bonus, PF, Medical and Life Insurance. The initial employment contract would be for 8 months with possibility of extensions.

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 11 Sep 2021

Company Information:
∎ 4 Sep 2021
∎ HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Bangladesh
∎ Address : House 30 CWN (A), Road 42/43, Gulshan - 2, Dhaka - 1212
∎ Web : www.helvetas.org/bangladesh
∎ Business : Helvetas Bangladesh is part of a network of independent development organizations. With head offices in Switzerland, Germany and the USA, Helvetas is working in 29 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. We bring about real change in the lives of over three million disadvantaged people every year. We implement development projects in the areas of water and sanitation, agriculture and nutrition, education, economic development, democracy and peace, and climate and the environment. Helvetas also provides emergency response after disasters.

Category: NGO/Development

: We encourage the qualified candidates to apply online who has relevant experience, education and skills. Women candidates are highly encouraged to apply for this position.Note that HELVETAS Bangladesh does not charge any fee for the recruitment process and does not provide TA/DA for interview.