Project Manager

Job Description

Title: Project Manager

Company Name: Terre des hommes

Vacancy: 1

Location: Dhaka

Experience:
∎ At least 5 years

Published: 30 Apr 2025

Education:
∎ Master’s degree in social science or relevant field

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in project management
∎ Experience managing child protection projects
∎ Experience managing teams of 3+ staff members
∎ Proven experience in working with children and other stakeholders experiencing child protection concerns
∎ Excellent in English and Bangla speaking and writing skills.
∎ Ability to operate Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint.
∎ Shows integrity and ethical values during activities.
∎ Shows flexibility, adaptability, and availability.
∎ Manage conflicts in a constructive way.
∎ Cooperates and contributes to achieving goals.
∎ Is able to adapt leadership style to each person and each situation.
∎ Respect for others.
∎ Applies a leadership style that is coherence and consistency-oriented.
∎ Manages potentially volatile areas of intervention.
∎ Analyses programme and context in a holistic manner.
∎ Experience:
∎ Languages:
∎ IT Knowledges:
∎ Professional competencies:

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Provide overall oversight and management of the project, ensuring quality, effectiveness, and efficiency at all stages of the project cycle.·
∎ Directly supervise the project team providing technical support for the implementation of project activities.·
∎ Coordinate with the project implementation team to ensure timely and quality implementation of programmatic activities, including ongoing technical capacity building.
∎ Coordinate with implementation partners and relevant authorities at the district and community levels to enhance implementation, acceptance, and ownership of project interventions.·
∎ Engage with all relevant stakeholders to ensure collaboration and support for project goals and objectives.
∎ Serve as the budget holder for the project, overseeing financial planning, expenditure, and reporting processes.·
∎ Conduct regular analysis to ensure alignment between budgeted and actual expenses, identifying variances and implementing corrective actions as necessary.·
∎ Forecast project expenditure based on ongoing needs and activities, ensuring accurate financial planning and resource allocation.·
∎ Ensure accurate documentation and tracking of project expenditure, adhering to financial policies and procedures.
∎ Ensure quality reporting to donors, headquarters, and the NGOAB (Non-Governmental Organization Affairs Bureau) on project progress, achievements, challenges, and financial management.·
∎ Incorporate Tdh's Child Protection Fundamentals and other methodologies into all aspects of project implementation.
∎ Manage and oversee the assigned staff, including their recruitment, performance management (including mentoring and coaching, career planning, development and training, and transition, etc.)·
∎ Oversee day to day tasks, support staff resolve road blocks, ensure they have required resources, manage staff leave, and wellness.·
∎ Ensure that the newly joined staff are oriented properly on Tdh mandate, values and probation is done on a routine basis.
∎ Conduct all duties in accordance with the Tdh Global Code of Conduct and Risk Management Policies, including Tdh's Child Safeguarding Policy.·
∎ Ensure that humanitarian principles and child protection standards are integrated into project activities to safeguard the well-being and rights of children and vulnerable populations.
∎ Project Management and Oversight:
∎ Provide overall oversight and management of the project, ensuring quality, effectiveness, and efficiency at all stages of the project cycle.·
∎ Directly supervise the project team providing technical support for the implementation of project activities.·
∎ Coordinate with the project implementation team to ensure timely and quality implementation of programmatic activities, including ongoing technical capacity building.
∎ Partnership Coordination and Stakeholder Engagement:·
∎ Coordinate with implementation partners and relevant authorities at the district and community levels to enhance implementation, acceptance, and ownership of project interventions.·
∎ Engage with all relevant stakeholders to ensure collaboration and support for project goals and objectives.
∎ Financial management:·
∎ Serve as the budget holder for the project, overseeing financial planning, expenditure, and reporting processes.·
∎ Conduct regular analysis to ensure alignment between budgeted and actual expenses, identifying variances and implementing corrective actions as necessary.·
∎ Forecast project expenditure based on ongoing needs and activities, ensuring accurate financial planning and resource allocation.·
∎ Ensure accurate documentation and tracking of project expenditure, adhering to financial policies and procedures.
∎ Reporting and Compliance:·
∎ Ensure quality reporting to donors, headquarters, and the NGOAB (Non-Governmental Organization Affairs Bureau) on project progress, achievements, challenges, and financial management.·
∎ Incorporate Tdh's Child Protection Fundamentals and other methodologies into all aspects of project implementation.
∎ Staff Management:·
∎ Manage and oversee the assigned staff, including their recruitment, performance management (including mentoring and coaching, career planning, development and training, and transition, etc.)·
∎ Oversee day to day tasks, support staff resolve road blocks, ensure they have required resources, manage staff leave, and wellness.·
∎ Ensure that the newly joined staff are oriented properly on Tdh mandate, values and probation is done on a routine basis.
∎ Adherence to Policies and Standards:·
∎ Conduct all duties in accordance with the Tdh Global Code of Conduct and Risk Management Policies, including Tdh's Child Safeguarding Policy.·
∎ Ensure that humanitarian principles and child protection standards are integrated into project activities to safeguard the well-being and rights of children and vulnerable populations.

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival Bonus: 2
∎ Severance Pay
∎ Life Insurance for employees
∎ Health Insurance for the employees and dependents
∎ Mobile bill
∎ Weekly 2 holidays
∎ Festival Bonus: 2
∎ Severance Pay
∎ Life Insurance for employees
∎ Health Insurance for the employees and dependents
∎ Mobile bill
∎ Weekly 2 holidays

Workplace:
∎ Work at office

Employment Status: Contractual

Job Location: Dhaka

Job Highlights:
∎ Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

Read Before Apply:

Application should include Curriculum Vitae and a Cover Letter through an Application Link at

https://hiring-bd.tdh.ch/project-manager-sws-project-id-1399/

Only a completed Application Form will be considered for short-listing. Short-listed applications will subsequently be called for written and interviews.

Tdh reserves the right to fill the role prior to the advertisement's end date. As such, candidates are encouraged to apply at their earliest convenience.

Apply URL::

Apply Procedure:

Company Information:
∎ Terre des hommes
∎ House no: 52 (1st and 2nd Floor), Road no: 15, Block: D, Banani, Dhaka – 1213
∎ Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) is an International Non-Profit Private Organization operating in Bangladesh since 1974 in the fields of Child Protection, Healthcare, Nutrition, Emergency Relief, Water/Sanitation and Hygiene.

Address::
∎ House no: 52 (1st and 2nd Floor), Road no: 15, Block: D, Banani, Dhaka – 1213
∎ Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) is an International Non-Profit Private Organization operating in Bangladesh since 1974 in the fields of Child Protection, Healthcare, Nutrition, Emergency Relief, Water/Sanitation and Hygiene.

Application Deadline: 14 May 2025

Category: NGO/Development