JOB ITLE
FIELD COORDINATOR PROGRAM
DURATION
12 MONTH
 START DATE
OCTOBER 1ST 2019
LOCATION
COX’S BAZAR
 CONTRACT TYPE
Fixed Term

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION

Action Against Hunger | Action Contre La Faim is one of the leading organization in the fight against hunger worldwide. Founded in 1979, Action Against Hunger is working across 48 countries including Bangladesh. Action Against Hunger begin working in Bangladesh in 2007, following floods in Shariatpur and cyclone Sidr. Since then Action Against Hunger has been working to fight against hunger, undernutrition and responding to humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh with programs in Dhaka, South West and South East parts of Bangladesh

The Field Coordinator Program is responsible for coordination, consolidation, and ensuring smooth implementation of our programs, ensuring transparency and efficiency of our activities, manages the grants and represents ACF to relevant stakeholders at district level.

Under the supervision of Divisional Director, the Field Coordinator Program develops and implements the district strategy integrating NUT (Nutrition and Health), FSL (Food Security and Livelihood), WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) and MHCP (Mental Health and Care Practice) programs in collaboration with the respective program managers and technical coordinator(s) as well with sustainable integration of MEAL (monitoring evaluation and learning). The Field Coordinator provides general support, guidance, and serves as focal point during program planning, grant writing, and reporting.

More precisely your main responsibilities will be:

  • Insure implementation the programs in Cox’s Bazar district;
  • Lead on proposal writing and grant reporting;
  • Ensures the excellent management of assigned human resources;
  • Work closely with the Divisional Director and Field Coordinator Operations provide strategic leadership to all Action Against Hunger activities at the base level;
  • Contribute to Action Against Hunger technical country strategy for Cox’s Bazar base;
  • Proactively support ACFs commitments to gender equality, child protection and disability sensitivity.

 
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, YOU SHOULD HAVE:
  • The ideal candidate has a technical mindset and exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to stay organized and provide timely responses to multiple inquiries.
  • Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience working with INGO in the field of program management in emergency and/or early recovering context;
  • Proven work experience in global project management: organization, planning, implementation of the project cycle, implementation and monitoring of financial and budgetary procedures, recruitment and management of teams, reporting, etc.;
  • Experience in managing multi-year development projects funded by UN and European donors;
  • Fluency in English.
OUR BENEFITS INCLUDES:
  • Gross monthly Salary from 187’000 to 214’043 BDT upon experience Festival Bonus: 1 month Gross salary every year;
  • Provident Fund: 7.5% of Basic Salary;
  • Performance Bonus: from 30 % to 80% of monthly Gross salary per year vary from performants;
  • End of Contract Benefits - up to 2 months' Gross salary.
  • Medical coverage: 80% hospitalization coverage medical expenses (max limit BDT 120,000 per year).

PAID LEAVES:

  • 18 days of paid annual leaves per year;
  • 10 days of paid casual leaves per year;
  • 14 days of paid sick leaves per year.

TRAINING OPPORTUNITES:

  • Free and unlimited access to the certifying e-learning platform, Crossknowledge;
  • Technical trainings at HQ Paris or regional level (averagely 1 per year);
  • Participation to external trainings

APPLICATION DEADLINE:

03 OCTOBER, 2019

Only short listed candidates will be invited for interview
CVs will be reviewed on a rolling basis

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