Team Leader

Job Description

Title: Team Leader

Company Name: Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO)

Vacancy: 01

Age: At most 55 years

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: Tk. 151938 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 12 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

Postgraduate degree in development studies, social sciences, management, public policy or a related subject.

• At least 12 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Age At most 55 years

• Age may be relaxed for highly experience candidates.

• Both male & female are allowed to apply

• At least 12 years in development programmes, including at least 7 years leading multi-partner or consortium programmes, and proven experience of working with donors.

• Leadership and teamwork;

• honesty and accountability;

• clear writing and speaking;

• sensitivity to gender and social inclusion;

• safeguarding awareness.

ESDO was established in 1988 with the aim of supporting poor and marginalized people affected by the devastating flood and gradually moving towards achieving a broader vision of achieving sustainable, secured, and resilient livelihoods for these poor and marginalized people through improving their overall sustainable development. For the last more than three and a half decades of its development journey, ESDO has set an outstanding example of a sustainable development model for the underprivileged communities of Bangladesh. ESDO has been working in the country's primarily unserved and underserved locations, nurturing a community-focused participatory approach and people's ownership. Consequently, the ESDO's working area has already established an enabling environment. We have made notable achievements in livelihood improvement, food security and nutrition, education, women's empowerment, health, the promotion of children's rights, adolescent and youth engagement, and the rights of ethnic minorities. During this long span, we have adapted to the changing situation and provided the most time-bound effective services, especially to the poor and disadvantaged people. Considering the government's development policies, we are currently implementing a considerable number of projects and programs, including a microfinance program, through a community-focused and people-centered approach to accomplish the government's development agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN as a whole. One of the most dynamic organizations, ESDO, is expanding its development interventions across 422 upazilas under 56 districts of Bangladesh, thereby reaching over 15.73 million impoverished and vulnerable individuals.

“ESDO is recruiting for the Transforming Aspirations, Resilience and Upskilling through Networks for Nurturing Youth Action: Building Youth Agency, Voice & Influence (TARUNNYA) project, supported by the Nagorikata: Civic Engagement Fund (CEF), whose development partners are the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Global Affairs Canada (GAC) and the European Union (EU). This position is conditional and depends on (1) approval of the project by the NGO Affairs Bureau (NGOAB), Government of Bangladesh, and (2) final contracting between ESDO and GFA Consulting Group, the Fund Management Agency of Nagorikata CEF. Appointment will be made only after both conditions are met.”

ESDO is inviting applications from interested qualified candidates for the following position.

Project duration: 30 months: 1 November 2026 (M1) to 30 April 2029 (M30).

Working place: TARUNNYA project office, Dhaka (Adabor/Mohammadpur area), with regular travel to partner areas across all eight divisions, including the Chittagong Hill Tracts

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead inception and co-creation, and turn the approved proposal into yearly and quarterly plans.

• Lead consortium governance, partner coordination and problem-solving.

• Stay accountable for delivery across all ten consortium partners, supported by the four Technical Coordinators who hold partner portfolios.

• Keep the work in line with the CEF outcomes, the five civic-engagement safeguards, the human-rights-based approach (HRBA), gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) and Leave No One Behind (LNOB).

• Approve programme and financial reports before they go to the FMA, and make sure agreed corrections are made.

• Watch the main risks – programme, financial, safeguarding, political and reputational.

• Represent the consortium with the FMA, the Youth Thematic Working Group, government, TVET and skills institutions, employers and academia.

• Make sure young people take part in decisions, and that Youth Advisory Group recommendations get a written reply.

• Lead planning for sustainability and exit.

Others benefit as per project allocation