Job Description
Deputy Country Director

  Location:    Dhaka, Bangladesh
  Reports to: Global Vice President and Country Director
  Type: Full Time Employee
  Nationality: Bangladeshi

The Hunger Project (THP) is a global, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. The Hunger Project-Bangladesh was founded in 1991 to foment a volunteer-based movement for overcoming hunger and poverty sustainably. THP-Bangladesh is currently the largest volunteer-based organization in the country, with over 150,000 volunteers working toward self-reliance.

In Africa, Asia and Latin America, The Hunger Project empowers millions of women and men to end their own hunger. The Hunger Project has pioneered low-cost, bottom-up, gender-focused strategies in each region where hunger persists. These strategies mobilize clusters of rural villages to create and run their own programs that achieve lasting progress in health, education, nutrition and family income. For details visit www.thp.org, www.thpbd.org.


The Hunger Project-Bangladesh seeks a dynamic and experienced Bangladeshi citizen for the position of Deputy Country Director to direct the in-country senior management team and oversee all programming. The position requires, under the guidance of the Vice President and Country Director, the ability to lead and oversee in-country program design, implementation and expansion, and monitoring and evaluation of all program work. The duties include staff management, organizational development, developing and maintaining relationships with key partners and senior government officials, community building, compiling various programs and donor reports, and developing grant proposals for institutional fundraising. Travel to remote areas where The Hunger Project works with communities to is necessary.


Program Design and Direction

  • Understand, embrace and espouse the principles of the organization
  • Assist the Country Director in articulating, designing, planning and implementing the country programs
  • Direct and provide program implementation teams with all necessary assistance to ensure that program activities are carried out in accordance with plans, in a timely manner, according to a high standard of quality. Provide leadership, coordination, and day-to-day management to the programs
  • Develop and implement annual work plans including objectives, timelines and resource requirements
  • Define, articulate and propose issues for reform that create bottom-up, gender-focused, decentralized democratic governance systems

Management

  • Provide policy advice and support to the Country Director
  • Develop ideas that address organizational priorities and conduct strategic and operational planning exercises
  • Support in developing and managing annual country operational budget
  • Provide management expertise and leadership to a technically diverse team and create a work environment that promotes high-performing teams

Partnership Building

  • Mobilize people from all sectors of the society into a volunteer-based movement for a hunger and poverty-free, self-reliant Bangladesh
  • Represent the organization in high level national and international meetings
  • Travel extensively throughout Bangladesh and abroad as a representative of The Hunger Project
  • Build and maintain productive relationships with government officials, policy makers, donor agencies, national and international organizations, political leaders, media and advocates for reform
  • Develop effective resource mobilization strategies and prepare grant proposals for donor agencies

Explore opportunities for new partnerships and knowledge sharing with NGO experts and other institutions dedicated to poverty alleviation


  • Doctorate or Master’s Degree in Economics, Public Administration or other related disciplines
  • Minimum 15 years experiences in top managerial position of private, public, bi-lateral or multilateral development institutions or non-profit organizations
  • Commitment to The Hunger Project’s values and approach, in particular that of gender equality
  • Proven track record in strategic planning, program development and fundraising
  • Strong team-building, representational and diplomatic skills
  • Demonstrated management skills and experience in supervising multi-disciplinary teams
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, creativity, resourcefulness and flexibility
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Bangla and English. Additional language skills an asset.
  • Proven interpersonal and intercultural skills, including flexibility and sensitivity
  • Exceptional transformative leadership skills, building the leadership of others
  • Sound knowledge of local government, good governance, human rights, and women’s empowerment

Compensation:

Salary and other allowances are negotiable for the really disserving candidates.

Interested candidates should submit their resume, a writing sample and cover letter on their appropriateness and motivation for applying for the position to GPO Box No. 836, Dhaka-1000 (If within Bangladesh) or by email to Swapan Saha at swapan.saha@thp.org (For Bangladeshi national living abroad). The deadline by which to apply is March 15, 2015. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.