Team Lead - Girls Advocacy Alliance Project
Job Description
Title: Team Lead - Girls Advocacy Alliance Project
Company Name: Plan International Bangladesh
Vacancy: Undefined
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ A Postgraduate degree holder
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Duration of contract: Initially up to December 30, 2020
∎ Based at the Country Office in Dhaka
Job Responsibilities:
∎ As a Team Lead, you will be responsible for the project's overall strategic direction, technical inputs and results by managing programme and financial resources.
∎ You will lead the planning and implementation process by identifying key areas of policy, advocacy and lobby related to specific forms of GBV (child marriage, sexual harassment) and economic exclusion (entry barriers, gender stereotyping) in the rapidly changing national political environment, where civil society space is shifting and shrinking.
∎ The Team Lead, supported by Co-Leads, will provide technical leadership for the CSO capacity building initiatives of the APT.
∎ Also you will lead the GAA national level advocacy related to GBV and economic exclusion by drawing upon the combined work of the partner CSOs and the APT.
∎ You are required to maintain coordination with Terre des Homme Netherlands, technical advisors in Plan Netherlands, the Netherlands Embassy and other alliance and network members to achieve the project objectives.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum five years of experience in a similar role including managing projects preferably related to advocacy with any international development organization.
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ We promote paid time off, flexible working hour, competitive salary, female friendly workplace, outstanding co-workers (who are respectful, professional, unbiased and easy to work with); equal opportunity that mean equal access to promotion, leadership role or incentive programme.
Application Deadline: May 7, 2019
Company Information:
∎ Plan International Bangladesh
∎ Business : Founded 80 years ago, Plan International is one of the oldest and largest children`s development organisations in the world. We work in 52 countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas to promote child rights and lift millions of children out of poverty. In 2015, Plan International worked with 100 million children in 85,282 communities. Plan International is independent, with no religious, political or governmental affiliations but having a vision of a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies that respect people`s rights and dignity.
Plan International has been operating in Bangladesh since 1994. Plan International seeks to ensure the rights of children to education, health, safe water and sanitation, protection, youth social and economic empowerment and climate change, environmental degradation and natural or man-made disaster hazards throughout the country.
Category: NGO/Development
Read Before Apply: As an independent development and humanitarian organization, We strive for a just world that advances children's rights and equality for girls. We are an equal opportunities employer.
