Vacancy Announcement

iDE is an International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO) headquartered in Denver, Colorado USA and operating in 11 countries around the world, including Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, iDE has been working since 1984, registered with the NGO Affairs Bureau (NGO AB), registration number 173 dated 27th April, 1984. iDE is currently working in 27 Districts and 123 Upazilas on a wide variety of thematic areas including Food Security, Nutrition, WASH, Agriculture, Market Systems Development, Women Economic Empowerment. iDE Bangladesh is supported by USAID, SIDA, UNICEF, DFID, the European Commission and other multilateral donors working in in the country.

Position
   Field Team Leader (FTL)
Number of Vacancies
   1
SALARY & BENEFITS
   Negotiable
Job Location
   Cox’s Bazar
Reporting Line
   Technical Lead
Contract Length
   10 Months

Key Roles and Responsibilities
  • Function as Field Team Leader on all project activities within an assigned district, under supervision of the Technical Lead
  • Function as the supervisor for iDE field staff (6 Market Development Officers)
  • Operate as a regional iDE contact person for institutional iDE requirements, roll-outs, security and coordination
  • Ensure high quality technical support to the field team following organizational and market development principals
  • Facilitate project startup and phase out planning
  • Ensure delivery of iDE’s program of field activities at a high quality, in line with budget, and in accordance with institutional priorities
Education
  • Bachelor's in Business Administration/ Masters in Management, Economics or Development Studies
Work Experience
  • At least 10 years of experience working on market system development including a minimum of 5 years in a managerial position and lead project implementation.
  • Familiarity with WASH sector preferred
  • Familiarity and experience with project management concepts such as Logical
  • Frameworks, Impact Logic or Results Chains
  • Considerable understanding and knowledge of rural markets, trading relationships and rural service provision
Management and Programmatic Skills
  • Ability to responsibly manage district level funds, monitoring and team progress
  • Ability to plan and implemented iterative field level activities for market systems change (looking beyond the DIP)
  • Understands the facilitative role and local market development approach
  • Experience of value chain approaches, market development and deep dive research
Personal
Skills
  • Energetic and focused approach to engaging with multiple stakeholders to promote market system approach to WASH
  • Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
  • Ability to work with various national and international team members and flexibility to adapt to different work conditions
  • Ability to interact and collaborate with a broad range of public and private sector and NGO partners
Physical and Language Skills
  • Ability to travel and undertake fieldwork in rural contexts
  • Strong written and oral communication skills in English, including ability to present coherent and convincing messages to different audiences
  • Strong computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite, email and the internet
  • Familiarity with internet based software systems such as Google Apps
Other Information and Conditions
  • The position would be the regular employment of iDE-Bangladesh
  • The remuneration package, work days and deliverables might be change based on negotiation between iDE management and the contract
  • iDE reserves the right to terminate this agreement any time with the consultation of the employee as per HR policy
  • As an FTL under Operation Directorate, it is duty and accountability of the FTL to ensure the confidentiality of certain issues. The FTL must maintain full confidentiality for sharing information, documents and others issues with other

Women are strongly encouraged to apply

iDE provides a women friendly work environment with flexible work arrangements, appropriate skill development opportunities and good career development potential for high performing individuals.

Please submit your recent CV (maximum 4 pages) with a cover letter describing motivation along with prescribed job application form to bangladesh-jobs@ideglobal.org.

Please mark the subject with preferred job location the position you applied for.

Only short-listed and qualified candidates will be notified.

Deadline: 19 December 2018 COB (4:30PM)