Team Leader - Income Generation and Market Facilitation

Job Description

Title: Team Leader - Income Generation and Market Facilitation

Company Name: USAID Host and Impacted Community Resilience Activity (HICRA)

Vacancy: 1

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

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

• Master of Business Administration (MBA)

• Master’s degree in agribusiness, international development, MBA or similar fields.

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

• At least 10 years progressively advanced management experience in development programming related to market systems development, livelihoods and/or workforce development.

• Minimum of five (5) years of successful experience as a senior manager in a donor funded project, preferably USAID.

• Demonstrated expertise on market system development, value chain development, livelihoods, markets for the poor and/or job training.

• Excellent computer skills - Word, Excel, PPT, etc.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in English and Bangla.

• Fluency in English.

• Previous experience working with programs in Cox’s Bazar district and/or the CHT desired.

Skills:

• Strong analytical, strategic, operational, coordination, relationship and communication skills.

• Advanced skills in programme implementation planning, tracking and reporting.

• Excellent skills in coordinating, representation, partnership management and staff management.

• Good report writing, and computer proficiency in MS Office.

• Passionate about taking on challenges, applying innovative approaches and learning

• Highly versatile, ability to work well under pressure and to manage a variety of issues at the same time

• Excellent interpersonal and cross-cultural skills.

Competencies:

• Leading and inspiring others,

• Delivering results,

• Developing self and others,

• Problem solving and decision making,

• Innovating and adapting

• Empowering

Cox’s Bazar and the three Chittagong Hill Tract (CHT) districts are among the lowest ranked in Bangladesh for education, skills training, food security, poverty and agricultural productivity. The situation has worsened since 2017, with the Rohingya refugee influx, which has put enormous pressure on the local economies, resulting in loss of livelihoods, depressed local wages, increased food insecurity and distorted local market systems. The increased population has also put severe pressure on already limited resources. There is a need for safe drinking water and sanitation facilities. Forests have become degraded negatively affecting biodiversity and ecosystem services. Moreover, these districts are prone to natural disasters including fires, flash floods, landslides, extreme heat and drought. Cox’s Bazar experiences these as well as rising sea levels, salinification of soil and water, and tropical cyclones.

In response, USAID’s Host and Impacted Communities Resilience Activity (HICRA) led by Friends In Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) will take an integrated approach to improve the overall well-being and resilience of people residing in the communities hosting or impacted by the Rohingya refugee crisis. HICRA will achieve this goal through the implementation of livelihoods; water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); natural resource management (NRM); and disaster risk reduction (DRR) interventions with an estimated 114,000 households across the four prioritised districts, Cox’s Bazar, Bandarban, Rangamati, and Kargarachari.

ROLE

The Team Leader, Income Generation & Market Facilitation will ensure the activity meets the results, milestones and targets of Result 1 (R1). The candidate will work closely with the Chief of Party (COP), other team leaders, and the DCOP to ensure synergies among other result areas: disaster risk reduction, WASH, natural resources management, and cross-cutting themes of gender equality, youth empowerment, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability. S/he will provide technical and managerial leadership over HICRA’s R1 interventions including formal employment, improved access to inputs, increased production of high value commodities, homestead food production, expanded opportunities for sustainable livelihoods, increased market linkages, private sector engagement and implementing the ultra-poor graduation strategy. The candidate will specifically bring expertise on integrating interventions to achieve results, market systems development and engaging with the private sector. The Team Leader (R1) will be responsible for leading R1 work plan development, ensuring activities are completed as per plan, achieving outcomes, ensuring donor compliance, managing for impact and R1 reporting.

The candidate will oversee three staff: Technical Lead, Private Sector Engagement, Technical Lead, UPG, Technical Lead, Livelihoods & Market Development, create an enabling environment for collaboration, learning and adaptation, contribute to staff capacity building, support localization, and provide the inclusive and well-orchestrated leadership needed to best meet the complex needs of HICRA’s participants in cost efficient ways. This includes collaborating with various stakeholders including the Government of Bangladesh, USAID, other USAID activities, traditional leaders and HICRA consortium partners. S/he will apply strategic and analytical skills to accomplish goals and meet objectives, and demonstrate initiative and willingness to work together in partnership with the consortium and all key stakeholders.

Main Areas of Responsibilities:

• Lead and achieve Result 1 goals, objectives and milestones
• Engage and manage staff and consultants as necessary
• Manage the R1 budget while maximising efficiency
• Develop R1 work plan, detailed implementation plans and related staff plans
• Provide weekly updates on progress of against plans
• Lead USAID and government required progress and results reporting for Result 1
• Elevate concerns, challenges and issues while contributing to finding solutions
• Ensure GYSI and protection/safeguarding approaches
• Coordinate with other agriculture and livelihood donor/GOB programs/projects
• Work with the MEL team to support indicator tracking and reporting, analyse data, share learnings and apply adaptive management approaches to increase outcomes.
• Provide overall technical leadership in the areas of market system development, private sector linkages, livelihoods and workforce development

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• Salary Review: Yearly
• Festival Bonus: 2

• Weekly 2 holidays, Mobile bill, Provident fund, Gratuity

• As per the project policy of FIVDB and the budgeted provision of this project.