Team Leader

Job Description

Title: Team Leader

Company Name: Helen Keller Intl

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: --

Experience:

• At least 10 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Masters

• Master’s degree in Public Health, Nutrition, Development Studies, or Social Sciences or another relevant field.

• At least 10 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in development or humanitarian project management
• At least 5 years in a senior leadership role managing multi-sectoral programs involving multiple partners
• Proven experience in managing complex, large-scale projects in challenging environments such as CHT or similar settings
• Demonstrated expertise in health, nutrition, WASH, and livelihoods programming
• Experience in institutional partnership management, donor reporting, and financial oversight
• Proven expertise in program planning, implementation, budgeting, financial management, staff management, report writing, and monitoring & evaluation
• Strong management skills with the ability to provide strategic guidance, technical oversight, mentor staff, build effective teams, develop workplans, and manage budget
• Excellent English communication skill
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other relevant software
• Experience working with government departments and delivering training to diverse audiences

COMPETENCIES:

Essential Character:

• Pro-active
• Analytical thinking
• Result oriented
• Impending thinking
• Managing impact

Preferred competencies

• Writing
• Flexibility
• Development oriented
• Thoroughness

Guided by the remarkable legacy of its co-founder, Helen Keller, Helen Keller Intl partners with communities striving to overcome longstanding cycles of poverty. By delivering the essential building blocks of good health, sound nutrition and clear vision, we help millions of people create lasting change in their own lives. Working in more than 20 countries – across Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States – and together with a global community of supporters, we are ensuring every person has the opportunity – as Helen did – to reach their true potential.

In Bangladesh, Helen Keller Intl has a strong history of partnership with the Government of Bangladesh and development partners to strengthen systems and improve outcomes in nutrition, eye health, WASH, and livelihoods. Helen Keller’s programs prioritize remote, hard-to-reach, and marginalized communities, including those in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).

We are currently seeking a Team Leader for the “Access to and Utilization of Lifesaving Services by Access to and Utilization of Lifesaving Services by Marginalized Communities in Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh” project based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Team Leader will provide overall strategic, operational and technical leadership to the project. The incumbent will be responsible for managing multiple partners, leading project planning and implementation, ensuring quality and compliance and representing Helen Keller Intl at national and regional coordination platforms. The Team Leader will supervise a multidisciplinary team across all CHT districts and ensure that project objectives are achieved in line with Helen Keller Intl’s mission, standards, and accountability frameworks.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

The Project “Access to and Utilization of Lifesaving Services by Access to and Utilization of Lifesaving Services by Marginalized Communities in Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh” seeks to restore and scale up essential nutrition, WASH and livelihood services in the three hill districts — Bandarban, Rangamati and Khagrachari. The project focuses on enhancing community resilience, ensuring that marginalized ethnic and rural populations have equitable access to lifesaving interventions and strengthening local systems for sustainable service delivery.

Key Interventions:

• Mass screening of children aged 6–59 months for early detection of acute malnutrition
• Management of Severe and Moderate Acute Malnutrition (SAM/MAM) through 26 SAM Units at district and upazila health facilities
• Emergency nutritious food and cash-based livelihood support to nutritionally vulnerable households
• Expansion of sustainable safe water and sanitation infrastructure
• Capacity strengthening of government health service providers effective service delivery

Helen Keller Intl will lead this project, working closely with technical and implementing partners and government stakeholders to ensure coordinated, high-impact programming across the three CHT districts.

DURATION: ,Approximately 11 Months

Project name: Access to and Utilization of Lifesaving Services by Marginalized Communities in Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh

Reporting to: Deputy Country Director, Helen Keller Intl Bangladesh

SUPERVISES: Senior Nutrition Manager, Senior WASH Manager, Operations Manager and MEAL Coordinator

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Strategic and Program Leadership

• Provide overall strategic direction, leadership, and management for all project components, ensuring alignment with Helen Keller’s country strategy and the project’s goals.
• Lead annual and quarterly work planning, ensuring that technical, operational, and financial targets are met.
• Ensure coherence and synergy among the nutrition, WASH, and livelihoods components for integrated, multisectoral impact.
• Ensure effective field-level coordination and timely implementation of project activities across all three CHT districts.
• Lead adaptive management to respond to emerging needs and contextual challenges in CHT.

2. Technical Oversight and Quality Assurance

• Oversee design and quality implementation of interventions related to nutrition, health, WASH, and livelihoods.
• Ensure all technical approaches are evidence-based, contextually adapted, and consistent with national and Helen Keller standards.
• Strengthen systems for early detection, referral, and management of acute malnutrition at facility and community levels.
• Promote best practices in gender-sensitive and inclusive programming.
• Facilitate periodic technical reviews and ensure continuous quality improvement.

3. Partnership and Stakeholder Coordination

• Provide leadership in managing relationships with technical and implementing partners, ensuring clarity of roles, accountability, and joint performance monitoring.
• Build strong working relationships with government line departments, including MoHFW, DPHE, MoCHTA, and local government institutions.
• Coordinate with civil society, local NGOs, and ethnic community leaders to ensure inclusive, locally owned implementation.
• Represent Helen Keller Intl in external coordination meetings, technical working groups, and stakeholder forums.
• Facilitate regular partner coordination meetings, joint reviews, and learning exchanges to strengthen collaboration and performance.

4. Financial and Operational Management

• Oversee project financial planning and ensure cost-effective and compliant use of resources.
• Manage a total project budget of approximately USD 3 million, ensuring sectoral allocations (Nutrition, Livelihood, WASH) are adhered to.
• Monitor budget utilization, approve expenditures, and ensure alignment with Helen Keller’s financial policies and procedures.
• Support partner financial oversight, ensuring compliance with subaward and institutional requirements.
• Coordinate with Operations, Finance, and HR teams for timely logistics, procurement, and administrative support.

5. Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL)

• Oversee implementation of the project’s MEAL framework, ensuring accurate and timely collection, analysis, and reporting of performance data.
• Support partner organizations to strengthen their data quality and reporting systems.
• Ensure that project results and lessons are documented and disseminated through reports, briefs, and learning events.
• Foster a culture of adaptive learning and evidence-based decision-making across all implementing partners.
• Ensure effective use of MEAL data for program refinement and accountability to beneficiaries.

6. Human Resource Management

• Supervise and mentor district and technical teams, providing regular feedback, guidance, and professional development support.
• Ensure equitable workload distribution and team collaboration across sectors and geographic areas.
• Promote a work culture that upholds Helen Keller’s values of inclusion, integrity, and respect.
• Ensure staff security and well-being in field locations, in coordination with Helen Keller’s Safety and Security focal points.
• Oversee recruitment and orientation of project staff in collaboration with HR.