Upazila Coordinator (UC)

Job Description

Title: Upazila Coordinator (UC)

Company Name: National Development Programme - NDP

Vacancy: 1

Age: At most 45 years

Job Location: Netrokona

Salary: Tk. 52094 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 7 years

Master’s in Social Science or any suitable subject.

• At least 7 years

• Age At most 45 years

• At least 7 years of working experience in a senior or mid-level position and implementing food security/nutrition projects;

• Proven experience of guiding a team for food security or nutrition project implementation;

• Proven experience on project planning, implementation, budgeting, financial management and reporting;

• Clear conception/understanding of child & maternal health, nutrition and food security;

• Clear concept of social safety net programme of the Government;

• Skill in speaking and report writing in English;

• Experience of working with government departments;

• Computer skills in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and others.

Job Context: National Development Programme (NDP) invites applications as a cooperating partner of the World Food Programme (WFP) to support DWA and MoWCA to implement `Mother and Child Benefit Programme (MCBP)` in the Mohonganj upazila of Netrokona District and facilitate learning to support its scaling up in other areas.

Responsibilities/Tasks: 

Management:

• Leading the programme operation of Upazila;

• Support Upazila Women Affairs Officer in implementation of MCBP in the Upazila;

• Support to develop project operation guideline (SOP);

• Ensure the respective Upazila is a learning hub for the other scale-up Uazilas;

• Regular budget review and ensure timely implementation and ensure financing;

• Represent the program in different forums at the Upazila and district level;

• Conduct training/seminars/workshops and other program activities

• Organize progress review meeting with program staff (monthly/weekly)

• Maintain program personnel file and other administrative work;

• Ensure project office security and services. 

Planning:

• Develop a monthly activity plan based on the project plan;

• Support to develop individual plan to the project staff of the respective working area;

• Support DWA (Women Affairs Officer) to prepare monthly plan for MCBP operation and management;

• Prepare monthly field level implementation plan with budget in accordance with detailed activity plan;

• Develop plan to support scale up areas UWAO and other stakeholders;

• Identify potential stakeholders and develop relevant scale up strategies. 

Capacity Building:

• Support for capacity building of project staff and other stakeholders, especially Digital Center and UP in the respective Upazila;

• Support for capacity building ofthe Upazila level stakeholders, especially scale up areas/upazilas;

• To carry out supportive supervision, monitoring and motivation to the staff of the Upazila Plan and implementation appropriate orientation, mentoring and training for staff. 

Programme Coordination:

• Maintain close coordination with DWA, UNO, UP and WFP regional office;

• Maintain coordination with district/upazila administration and other line departments, especially health and family welfare, the commanding Upazila and scale up areas/upazilas;

• Support during field visits and coordinate different delegates (WFP/GoB/others)/development partners;

• Support and organize field visit for the scale up area stakeholders;

• Coordinate to develop and maintain congenial atmosphere/team building within the program;

• Coordinate NDP internal Management system for better team building.

Programme Monitoring and Supervision:

• Frequent field visit for programme monitoring in the Upazila;

• Regular follow-up to ensure well performance of the project staff;

• Monitoring of project performance on regular basis;

• Ensure that essential monitoring mechanisms are in place Develop monitoring plan and indicators and accordingly monitoring of the project activities. 

Logistic Support:

• Ensure required logistics are arranged for proper implementation of the project;

• Ensure proper logistical management. 

Financial Management:

• Prepare monthly financial projections;

• Ensure expenditure and proper bill/voucher Manage activity budgets, control expenditure and report on time to respective authorities. 

Documentation and Reporting:

• Prepare weekly and monthly progress against target and submit to Programme Manager (PM);

• Assist in preparing project monthly quarterly and annual reports;

• Prepare case studies/success stories on program intervention;

• Prepare other reports as per requirements.

Other tasks:

• Other activities as per project, need of the DWA and WFP.

• As per project budget.