Title: Project Coordinator

Company Name: Waterkeepers Bangladesh administered by the Blue Planet Initiative

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:

• Masters in any of the subjects including environment, policy, governance, geography and political science.
  
• Trained on project management, MEAL, reporting and advocacy.
  
• Overseas degree holders are encouraged to apply.

Experience Requirements:

• At least 7 year(s)

Job Context:

• Job Nature: Full-time
  
• Contract Duration: Contract for 10 months with Waterkeepers Bangladesh (WKB), administered by Blue planet initiative (BPI). Job contract is subject to the availability of donor funding and satisfactory performance.
  
• Contract Starts: Immediate
  
• Reporting to: Project Lead, Anti-pollution Advocacy Project.

Job Responsibilities:

• Coordinating coalition of the CBOs, private sector, CSOs focused for the advocacy on environmental issues and engage government to respond to community voice.
  
• Coordinating reports and policy analysis.
• Promoting enactment of policies and legal frameworks related to environment pollution and SDGs.
  
• Organizing meetings, workshops, seminars, conferences, rally, festivals and campaigns at the community, educational institutions and policy formation levels.
  
• Ensuring event materials/documents/visibility beforehand in collaboration with all concerned
  
• Engaging vulnerable community and media.
  
• Facilitating and coordinating Social media campaign, documentary production, printing and publications.
  
• Managing timebound program schedules, day to day activities, administrating project team and coordinating the consortium members and collaborators.
• Ensuring required communication, correspondence, timely & quality reporting and publication.
  
• Ensuring the implementation of project activities following workplan and M&E plan
  
• To supervise the back up of all files at base level on a regular basis and ensure the digital archiving of these documents.
  
• Reporting/communication
  
• To prepare operation's proposals and drawing up program reports as well as providing all necessary reports timely required by the project/donor.
  
• To establish and maintain working relationships with the consortium members, CSOs, donors and relevant stakeholders.
  
• To participate in meetings (consortium, internal team, donors, authorities and as required)
  
• Organizing meetings relating to his/her field of activity and document the meetings.

Additional Requirements:

• Minimum 7 years of experience in project and program management.
  
• Minimum 2 years of experience on USAID/ UKAID-funded programs/projects is required;
  
• Shall have working knowledge about USG rules and regulations, particularly shall be familiar with the USAID/UKAID program management norms.
  
• Proven experience of managing large projects is required.
  
• Shall have the capacity to write standard reports both in Bangla and English.
• Familiar with financial budgeting and reporting.

Skills:

• Strong skills in project/program management, grant management, and sub agreement management required;
  
• Ability to use Microsoft office software for analysis and report production.
  
• Highly skilled in team coordination, networking, mobile apps use.
  
• Knowledge of USAID/UKAID rules and regulations required;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Bengali required.

Salary:

Monthly Consolidated salary BDT 75,000 and one festival bonus. There is no other benefit applicable.

Application Process:

Application Deadline:  July 25, 2023

Company Information:

Waterkeepers Bangladesh administered by the Blue Planet Initiative (BPI)
Address: House#159, Road#06, Block # Ka, PICI Culture Housing, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207.
Please email to blueplanetbd@gmail.com

About the Organization

Waterkeepers Bangladesh has been working to protect the water and water bodies of Bangladesh including its forests resources through enforcement, fieldwork and community action. We work to achieve this goal through social movement, advocacy and legal measures that ensure water quality protections. Our litigation, advocacy and community teams conduct interconnected activities that serve this mission. Waterkeepers Bangladesh is a regional entity of Waterkeeper Alliance. Waterkeeper Alliance unites more than 300 Waterkeeper Organizations and Affiliates that are on the frontlines of the global water crisis; patrolling and protecting more than 2.5 million square miles of rivers, lakes and coastal waterways on six continents. Our movement works for swimmable, drinkable and fishable waterways worldwide. At present Waterkeepers Bangladesh is conducting operation in Bangladesh to protect its rivers through Buriganga Riverkeeper, Surma River Waterkeeper, Khowai River Waterkeeper,  Pashur River Waterkeeper and Voice of the Old Brahmaputra River, a Waterkeepers Bangladesh Affiliate.

Waterkeepers Bangladesh is administered by Blue Planet Initiative (BPI), a non-governmental and not for profit organization.
The recruitment goals for Blue Planet Initiative are described below:

Always to recruit the most appropriate and experienced members of staff for any vacant position;

To follow fair, transparent and standard process;

To offer equal opportunity to all and specially to promote gender equality and equity;

Proactively seek to employ appropriate female staff, particularly at the senior level;

To determine the position and grade based on the competency analysis (as describe in the section 3.3- Classification of position) and ensure highest possible levels of efficiency, professionalism and achievement, personal integrity, willingness to face challenges and to develop themselves within a changing organization.

To ensure highest level of culturally matched and child sensitive staff appointment.