Upazila Manager

Job Description

Title: Upazila Manager

Company Name: BITA

Vacancy: 2

Age: At least 14 years

Job Location: Chattogram, Cox`s Bazar

Salary: Tk. 40000 - 45000 (Monthly)

Experience:

• 3 to 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

• Bachelor/Honors

• Bachelor's degree in Sociology, Social Work, Anthropology, Development Studies, or related discipline.

• 3 to 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

• Age At least 14 years

• Minimum 3-5 years' experience in youth development.

• Minimum 3 years' experience in skills training/TVET sector.

• Experience in stakeholder coordination, programme management, and MIS systems.

• Experience in managing vocational training institutes,or centres preferably at the community level.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong leadership, coordination, and team management skills.

• Good understanding of youth development, skills training, and community mobilization.

• Strong reporting, documentation, and MIS/data management skills.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement ability.

• Ability to work in field-based and challenging operational environments.

• Proficiency in MS Office applications and reporting tools.

• Fluency in Bangla and working knowledge of English.

• Candidates with proficiency in local dialects/languages of the respective working areas will be given preference.

Travel Requirements:

The position requires frequent travel to project sites within the assigned districts.

Candidates need to be highly motivated and committed to BITA’s vision, mission, and long-term development work to significantly improve the lives of the most vulnerable and marginalized. Candidates must be capable of displaying great learning agility, supporting and encouraging knowledge sharing across projects, for the ultimate benefit of all of BITA's mission-wide initiatives.

BITA (Bangladesh Institute of Theatre Arts), a non-governmental organization, has been administering development initiatives focusing on human rights, cultural upliftment, and poverty alleviation since 1994.

The basis of development intervention in BITA is the rights-based approach. BITA has sequentially developed an empowerment process which starts its journey from building relationships with communities through communication, supporting them in raising of their awareness level, facilitating them in transforming their trust into internalization capacity to visualize self-development, making them confident to become actors from observers.

Background: BITA aims at economic engagement of the NEET youth, especially women, in rural and semi-urban areas of the Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar Districts in Bangladesh through a potential project. The Scope of work of this project is establishing and managing Village Level Training Centers (VLTCs) and implementing associated activities (community engagement, beneficiary/trade selection, training delivery, employment support, enabling environment) across the Chattogram & Cox’s Bazar District’s selected upazilas, leveraging the collective strengths and expertise of all relevant institutions.

Position: Upazila Manager

Work Location: Project implementation area as assigned by BITA, Union- level across Chattogram & Cox’s Bazar District’s selected upazilas.

Position Summary

The Upazila Manager will lead and manage project implementation at the Upazila level, ensuring effective coordination, smooth operation of vocational training and livelihood activities, stakeholder engagement, quality monitoring, and achievement of project targets in line with donor and organizational requirements.

Job Duration: 24 Months. (Note: Recruitment for this position and the final contract are contingent upon the SCI-led Joint Venture being awarded the project contract by the Client.)

Job Responsibilities

• Lead program implementation and coordination at the Upazila level.

• Maintain functional relationships with DYD, government officials, and consortium partners.

• Develop and maintain coordination and relationships with UCC

• Ensure monitoring systems for achieving program targets and financial accountability.

• Oversee establishment and operation of vocational training centers (VLTCs).

• Engage community, local government, and civil society in programme implementation.

• Represent the programme to NGOs, donors, and stakeholders.

• Organize meetings, workshops, seminars, and training with DYD.

• Ensure proper MIS data entry and documentation at the field level.

• Support personnel, financial and asset management

Safeguarding, Gender, and Inclusion

• Ensure adherence to safeguarding and gender principles.

• Promote safe participation of women and vulnerable groups.

• Report safeguarding concerns as per policy.