Project Manager
Job Description
Title: Project Manager
Company Name: The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society
Vacancy: 01
Job Location: Gazipur (Tongi)
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters in Social Science, or Urban Planning, Disaster Management or Public Health, or related field from any reputed university.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Project Name: SRC-BDRCS Urban Empowerment Project
∎ Project Purpose: Equitable access to essential services is improved for the slum dwellers of Ershadnagar, Tongi.
∎ Duration of Contract: 1 year (with possibility of extension subject to satisfactory performance and availability of fund)
∎ Reportable To: Senior Manager-Resilience
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Support project implementation to ensure that the project is delivered on time and in accordance with the project documents and the required quality standards.
∎ Lead and guide the team effectively to implement the project activities according to the quarterly/annual plans and the logframe.
∎ Prepare project work schedule, breaking the activity into tasks and delegate them to the team.
∎ Plan and lead different project events such as stakeholder meetings and training.
∎ Prepare narrative and monitoring reports, case studies on monthly and quarterly basis.
∎ Establish functional linkage with stakeholders (City Corporation, Health Institutes/Facilities, schools and training institutes and other relevant non-governmental organisations); through regular meetings and MoUs.
∎ Support assessments and elaboration of a proposal for a follow up phase.
∎ Support capacity development of the two BDRCS City Units of Dhaka and Gazipur City.
∎ Develop team's capacity to manage the project in a conflict sensitive manner.
∎ Support the capacity building of the community based organisations (CBO) and thereby provide managerial and technical support to the CBOs to manage community led intervention and gain financial autonomy.
∎ Support comprehensive documentation of the project activities.
∎ Plan and implement team building initiatives.
∎ Actively contribute in making BDRCS a recognised urban sector actor.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at most 45 years
∎ Minimum 5 years of working experience in the urban sector.
∎ Knowledge of urban context of Bangladesh with special reference to urban resilience, DRR, community based health care and CCA work.
∎ Knowledge of national policies, issues and legal frameworks related to urban development.
∎ Good command of English and Bangla language.
∎ Ability to solve complex problems.
∎ Excellent interpersonal skills.
∎ Demonstrated ability to work with others in a team environment.
∎ Knowledge on local context.
∎ Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, in English and Bangla.
∎ Knowledge of relevant computer packages.
∎ Age may be relaxed in case of outstanding candidates
Salary: Tk. 75000 (Monthly)
Application Deadline: 30 Sep 2020
Company Information:
∎ 20 Sep 2020
∎ The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society
∎ Business : Red Cross - Red Crescent movement is the largest volunteer organization in the world. Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) is a national society of the movement, constituted on 31 March 1973 by the President`s Order No. 26 of 1973 with retrospective effect from 16 December 1971. This is the biggest humanitarian organization in Bangladesh. As an auxiliary to the government, the Society provides humanitarian assistance to the vulnerable people over the last 48 years and has undertaken a wide range of activities in humanitarian response, disaster management, health, capacity building and in promoting Red Cross/ Red Crescent ideals and principles.
Category: NGO/Development
