Sr. Vice President, Bangladesh Hub (Country Director)

Job Description

Title: Sr. Vice President, Bangladesh Hub (Country Director)

Company Name: International Justice Mission

Vacancy: --

Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Experience:
∎ 10 to 15 years
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):NGO

Published: 26 Apr 2025

Education:
∎ Master of Commerce (MCom)
∎ Master’s degree in International Development, Public Policy, Law, Social work, Business Management, or other related field.
∎ Master’s degree in International Development, Public Policy, Law, Social work, Business Management, or other related field.

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum of fifteen years’ experience leading large teams of experts to demonstrable success in project/product goals and outcomes;
∎ Minimum of ten years’ experience managing multi-million-dollar international development programs, including complex funding portfolios;
∎ Extensive experience and knowledge implementing programs securing justice, addressing violence, and/or building governmental capacity in the justice sector;
∎ Proven track record of empowering, people-oriented leadership, including building teams of experts and leading them to demonstrable project success while maintaining a healthy team culture;
∎ Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
∎ Strong writing and verbal communication skills;
∎ Technical knowledge of human rights issues, especially regarding human trafficking, and international development program and evaluation standards;
∎ Effective networker with key stakeholders necessary to accomplish significant objectives; and
∎ Prior experience in South Asia preferred.
∎ Fluent in English;
∎ Courageous, confident, humble servant leader;
∎ Demonstrated ability to appropriately handle stress and conflict;
∎ Outstanding and effective communicator, both verbally and in writing.
∎ Sound and disciplined in judgment and problem solving;
∎ Rigorously result-oriented and resilient
∎ Extremely flexible and able to achieve challenging goals in multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary settings.
∎ Minimum of fifteen years’ experience leading large teams of experts to demonstrable success in project/product goals and outcomes;
∎ Minimum of ten years’ experience managing multi-million-dollar international development programs, including complex funding portfolios;
∎ Extensive experience and knowledge implementing programs securing justice, addressing violence, and/or building governmental capacity in the justice sector;
∎ Proven track record of empowering, people-oriented leadership, including building teams of experts and leading them to demonstrable project success while maintaining a healthy team culture;
∎ Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
∎ Strong writing and verbal communication skills;
∎ Technical knowledge of human rights issues, especially regarding human trafficking, and international development program and evaluation standards;
∎ Effective networker with key stakeholders necessary to accomplish significant objectives; and
∎ Prior experience in South Asia preferred.
∎ Fluent in English;
∎ Courageous, confident, humble servant leader;
∎ Demonstrated ability to appropriately handle stress and conflict;
∎ Outstanding and effective communicator, both verbally and in writing.
∎ Sound and disciplined in judgment and problem solving;
∎ Rigorously result-oriented and resilient
∎ Extremely flexible and able to achieve challenging goals in multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary settings.

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Drive Bangladesh program vision and strategy development and implementation, ensuring alignment with IJM internal standards and best practices, including implementation of the global protection model.
∎ Advise the Regional President, South Asia on the status, analysis, and current needs of the Bangladesh portfolio, informing and reporting to the CEO and Global Board of Directors
∎ Cast vision for the future of the Bangladesh presence beyond the completion of the 2030 Vision.
∎ Build a leadership team of subject-matter experts and operations professionals for long-term programmatic success
∎ Engage with program activities as needed, including advocacy with government officials, casework events, survivor engagement, etc.
∎ Build collaborative relationships with justice and security sector agencies, as well as influential and strategic NGOs, INGOs, civil society, and community-based organizations.
∎ Represent IJM at all donor government and international organization-convened forums;
∎ Meet with, identify, and assess NGOs and community-based organizations with potential to become implementing partners of IJM’s programmatic strategies
∎ Prove IJM’s theory of change in both Bangladesh programs through the successful completion of baseline and endline measurement of IJM’s four protection metrics
∎ Advise global and regional teams on strategy development, ensuring it is fully encompassing of the Bangladesh portfolio Identify and elevate program risks and concerns as is appropriate
∎ Foster culture of analysis and learning amongst team, modeling thoughtful assessment of program results
∎ Identify and elevate program risks and concerns as is appropriate, including identified mitigation measures
∎ Manage internal communication between regional and country-level teams, including strategy changes and other pertinent information
∎ Collaborate with South Asia regional team to ensure unified and inclusive communication framework
∎ Provide regular feedback and evaluation to IJM staff, volunteers, fellows, and contractors regarding their performance
∎ Develop leadership training plans for all next-level leaders to ensure transition to local leadership
∎ Develop, monitor, and evaluate concrete performance for all IJM staff
∎ Acts as a budgetary and signatory authority for IJM Bangladesh;
∎ Develop strategic plans and budgets in alignment with internal strategic planning processes;
∎ Engages major and government donors as required, effectively communicating program status and presenting financial needs;
∎ Ensure spending of allocated funds in accordance with IJM’s budgetary and stewardship principles and policies, including relevant donor regulations;
∎ Ensure compliance with local NGO requirements for programmatic and budgetary approvals to ensure ongoing registration; and
∎ Ensure staff-wide compliance with all relevant laws, IJM policies and best practices.
∎ Facilitate the onboarding of national staff, third country nationals, and expatriates
∎ Foster a culture of learning, iteration, and incorporating best practice and lessons learned;
∎ Responsible for the safety and security of all staff persons located in Bangladesh, advised by global and regional security experts;
∎ Foster a culture of mental and emotional health;
∎ Develop and implement an effective staff care program
∎ Who We Are
∎ International Justice Mission (IJM) is a global leader in protecting vulnerable people from violence around the world. Our team of over 1,200 professionals are at work worldwide in over 30 offices. Together we are on a mission to rescue millions, protect half a billion, and make justice unstoppable.
∎ We are a global community that cares for one another. We believe that the way we work is as important as the results we achieve. We provide professional excellence with joy and celebration to all those we serve.
∎ The Need
∎ For over 25 years, IJM has pioneered the work to protect vulnerable people from violence. 9 out of 9 times in the last decade, IJM’s Justice System Strengthening Projects have reduced slavery and violence between 50 and 85% for very large populations of people in poverty. As we grow to expand our impact to protect 500 million people from violence, we are seeking to hire a prolific Country Director who will build and lead a multi-disciplinary team to launch a Justice System Strengthening (JSS) program in Bangladesh to end the pervasive commercial sexual exploitation of children in Dhaka and Mymensingh. Leveraging IJM’s global protection model and best practices from 25 years of similar programming, the Country Director will empower the Bangladesh team to sustainably increase access to justice and secure appropriate services for survivors of sexual exploitation. The Country Director will inspire the team to work in deep partnership with local civil society and government actors, modeling IJM’s values of bridge-building. Within two years of program launch, the Country Director will guide the team to launch a concurrent program to address forced labor trafficking, scaled across an additional three locations (totaling five locations of implementation). Together, the two programs represent IJM’s second-largest single-country portfolio within its global presence.
∎ This is a full time role and will report to the President, South Asia.
∎ The role is based in Dhaka, but will have travels as required to each of IJM’s future program locations (Khulna, Barisal and Mymensingh).
∎ Responsibilities:
∎ Leadership and Management:
∎ Networking & Partnership:
∎ Strategy & Knowledge Development & Implementation:
∎ Research, Program Management and M&E:
∎ Communication:
∎ Training and Development:
∎ General Accounting & Statutory Compliance:
∎ General Tasks:

Employment Status: Full Time

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

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