Senior Field Coordinator
Job Description
Title: Senior Field Coordinator
Company Name: Relief International
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Master of Business Management (MBM), Master of Business Management (MBM)
∎ Bachelor's and Master's degree level from a recognized and reputed universities in Bangladesh or abroad, preferably with major in management.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Coordination/Representation
∎ Actively participate and represent RI in coordination meetings with NGO colleagues, meetings
∎ Conducted by local and state authorities, UN agencies and stakeholders
∎ Build a close relationship with local authorities and Camps in Charge at the field level
∎ Liaise with partners, local authorities, and local communities whenever it serves the objectives of
∎ The programs. Build and strengthen relations with key government offices including, RRRC, DC and CiC to obtain required authorizations and approvals and ensure understanding or RI programs
∎ Identify gaps in service provision to IDPs or Refugees, proactively referring those gaps to relevant forums or advocating with government authorities or humanitarian partners for additional support
∎ Logistics Functions:
∎ Oversee the carrying out of logistics support operations in Ukhiya and Teknaf offices by the operations staff within the logistics functions i.e Procurement, warehouse management, inventory assets, IT, admin, security and facilities maintenance.
∎ Ensure Compliance with RI and Donor Logistics Policies
∎ Take an overall lead on staffing structure and roles
∎ Logistics/Finance/HR
∎ Effective supervision of the logistics/procurement, finance, and HR staff at the field offices.
∎ Manage all daily field fleet movements of vehicles, including training drivers and maintaining driver schedules and roasters
∎ Oversee procurement and construction within the camp, liaise with suppliers and contractors to ensure timely completion of works.
∎ Provide oversight of engineer for all facilities construction work, repair, and maintenance.
∎ Liaise with CXB operations team to ensure the observance of RI Operations procedures including: procurement, logistics, warehousing, and asset management as well as ensuring compliance with donor regulations
∎ Support project managers with operational challenges, e.g. initiating purchase requests for fencing repair and site-specific improvements
∎ Oversee facilities management of Ukhiya and Teknaf offices including daily office administrative tasks
∎ Support Operations Manager to maintain a register for all field assets and inventory and ensure donor reports for assets are completed and submitted to the Operations Manager
∎ Provide support to warehouse staff and pharmacists to ensure systems and reporting is in place to allow effective storage, tracking and distribution of stocks.
∎ Assist in the regular review and roll out of HR policies, employment policies and procedures in compliance to RI's standards and evolving national labor law for the Field Base Staffs In collaboration with HR Coordinator.
∎ Respond to employee related queries, Issues and provide services to all HR related inquiries and requests for Field Base Staffs In collaboration with HR Coordinator.
∎ Cooperate with HR Coordinator to implement capacity building initiatives/Training and motivate field base staffs to participate.
∎ To ensure staff wellness. Provide support on a wide range of employee relations issues, case investigations, etc in collaboration with HR Coordinator.
∎ Ensure field base HR assistant are following proper compliance in recruitment and selection process.
∎ Any other special assignment assigned by supervisor.
∎ Safety and Security
∎ Assume overall responsibility for staff safety in the area of operation
∎ Ensure that all relevant information regarding safety, security and the context is collected, updated and shared in a regular and timely manner
∎ Manage basic security planning including information gathering and regular updating of risk assessments, standard operating procedures, and evacuation and contingency plans
∎ Make decisions and assist to manage security incidents at local level, in consultation with the Head of CXB Programs
Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ At least 5 years of progressive fulltime employment in a similar position preferably in nonprofit sector.
∎ Must have a valid driver's license and can drive
∎ INGO experience is strongly preferred.
∎ Ability to prioritize and deal with competing demands.
∎ Previous experience of staff supervision and capacity building.
∎ Fluent spoken and written Bengali and English.
∎ Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.
∎ A team builder with excellent people skills; culturally sensitive and has the ability and interest to identify and work with a multicultural team
Salary:
∎ As per RI National Pay Scale Policy in Bangladesh
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Medical allowance, Weekly 2 holidays
∎ Salary Review: Yearly
∎ Two festival bonuses in a year equivalent to one basic salary.
∎ Severance (8.33% of the monthly basic salary) goes with the monthly release of the salary.
Application Deadline: 7 Jul 2020
Company Information:
∎ 30 Jun 2020
∎ Relief International
∎ Address : Bangladesh Country Office: House: 451 , Road: 8 West, DOHS Baridhara, Dhaka-1206; Head Quarter: 5455 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1280 Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
∎ Web : www.ri.org
∎ Business : Relief International, hedquatered in USA, is a leading international non government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.
Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact.
Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Relief International has been working in Bangladesh since 2004. The Bangladesh portfolio of Relief International has strong focus on emergency response, economic opportunity and livelihoods rebuilding, traficking in persons, sustainable tourism, human rights and protection, refugee crisis response and public health. RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar. RI currently employs over 1000 local and international staffs in Bangladesh.
Relief International is currently implementing large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID/OFDA, EU ECHO.
For more information on Relief International: www.ri.org
Category: NGO/Development
