Role Purpose:

The Programme Coordinator – Health and Nutrition will provide strategic direction and technical leadership for the ongoing projects and contribute to developing new programmes. You will ensure that Concern health and nutrition programmes comply with relevant donor, national, and international standards and Concern guidelines. You will work closely with the Concern team and partners in Bangladesh. You will closely coordinate with the Programme Director, MEAL Technical Advisor, Operation Director and Country Finance Controller to support designing and delivering a high-quality programme. You will also take the lead in representation, collaboration, and coordination with key stakeholders at the national and regional levels. The role also works closely with Concern’s Strategy, Advocacy, and Learning (SAL) unit based in Dublin to enhance program quality and impact.

Main duties & responsibilities:

Technical Leadership, Programme Management and Fund Raising

• Provide technical leadership in the design, implementation, and monitoring of health and nutrition programmes, ensuring compliance with Concern’s Health & Nutrition Strategy, national policies, donor standards, and global best practices.
• Integrate climate resilience and emergency preparedness into health and nutrition interventions for future programming of Concern Worldwide Bangladesh country office
• Under the strategic guidance of Programme Director, identify new funding opportunities that are in line with Concern Bangladesh’s Health and Nutrition Strategy.
• Lead project designs and development of high-quality proposals for health and nutrition programs, bringing on board innovative initiatives that enhance cost-effective approaches and sustainability.
• Contribute to strategic planning, partnership development with a focus on promoting localisation and locally led programming to expand Concern’s health and nutrition portfolio in both development and chronic humanitarian crisis programs in Bangladesh
• Lead and oversee the MAC-P funded RMNCAH project, with emphasis on health systems strengthening, service delivery improvement, and capacity building of staff and partners.
• Manage programme planning, budgeting and ensuring efficient use of resources, accountability, and high-quality documentation under MAC-P funded RMNACH project for donor and stakeholders.
• Lead the technical reviews of field and donor reports and ensure appropriate and high-quality documentation related to the programme.
• Prepare and submit high-quality donor and field reports, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and complies with organizational standard and donor requirements.
• Perform as the Lead of health and nutrition component in any emergency response program under Concern Worldwide.

Learning, Knowledge Management, and Advocacy

• Lead research and advocacy strategies related to health and nutrition programme at the national and local level, working closely with the Technical Advisor - Advocacy, strategic partners, or research organizations.
• Promote cross learning within Concern Worldwide and among partners to improve programme effectiveness, efficiency and impact.
• Develop technical health/nutrition best practices and lessons learn or programme success stories and collaborate with communication team to share internally and externally. 
• Collaborate with the MEAL team to strengthen monitoring and evaluation of the health and nutrition portfolio by standardizing tools, systems, and approaches, and by developing a learning agenda aligned with national priorities and Concern’s global health and nutrition strategies.
• Work with the programme and communication team to ensure the production of necessary materials, including situation reports, fact sheets, and brief notes, and disseminate information internally and externally. 
• Conduct regular technical and programme reviews to assess progress, capture learning, and generate evidence for continuous learning, adaptation and advocacy

People Management

• Supervise and mentor programme staff, fostering professional growth, accountability, and high performance
• Ensure all direct reports fully understand their roles and what is expected of them by setting SMART objectives, monitoring, and evaluating the performance of the staff, including taking decisive actions in the case of poor performance.
• Ensure all direct reports know, understand, and comply with organizational policies, procedures, and standards.

External Representation and Networking

• Maintain strategic links and collaborations with relevant government agencies   development partners, bilateral and multilateral donors, civil society organisations, and the private sector at the national and regional level.
• Represent Concern Worldwide in the different technical platforms/clusters operated by GoB and donors focusing on health and nutrition for development and emergency programs on health and nutrition in Bangladesh.
• Build and maintain networks with research agencies, universities, academia at the national level to build a cohesive environment to showcase learning from concern.
• Ensure technical expertise in health and nutrition is represented in external meetings as appropriate to enhance Concern’s impact in health and nutrition programming.

Accountability

• Ensure the highest standards of accountability through ensuring good communication and information sharing within and outside the programme and enabling staff, beneficiaries, and other stakeholders’ participation at all stages of the project cycle in accordance with the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS).
• Comply with Concern’s policies and procedures (P4, Safeguarding, finance, logistics, HR, security management, etc.).
• Support relevant colleagues and partner staff to ensure that the Feedback, Complaints and Response Mechanism (FCRM) is functional and accessible, and that feedback and complaints are welcomed and addressed.
• Support, where possible, relevant colleagues and partner staff to ensure that information about CHS, FCRM, and safeguarding and required staff behavior is disseminated among programme participants and communities.

Key requirements:

• Bachelor degree in Medicine or in Nutrition with postgraduate qualification in Public Health, Nutrition, Epidemiology, or other health and nutrition-related field.
• 5 years of relevant experience, including 3 years in a similar role with a dual mandate international organization (humanitarian and development).
• Demonstrable experience of designing and delivering high quality health and nutrition programmes in partnership with others (L/NGOs, CSOs, Government etc), proposal development, and programme management.
• Sound understanding of health system and demonstrated experience of health system strengthening in Bangladesh
• Proven experience of external representation, coordination and advocacy
• Experience of delivering health and nutrition focussed emergency response
• Good understanding of climate change impact on health and nutrition and impactful strategies    
• Excellent command of written and spoken English.

Competencies:

Candidates are expected to demonstrate abilities in the following priority competency areas:

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Closing Date of Application: 21 October 2025

Notice: Due to the urgent requirement to fill in the position, we will review applications on a rolling basis within the mentioned period. If you consider yourself suitable, please apply at your earliest.

We encourage all eligible candidates, irrespective of gender, ethnicity or origin, disability, political beliefs, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status to apply to become a part of the organisation. Concern is against all forms of discrimination and unequal power relations and is committed to promoting equality. 

If you feel that your qualification and experience match our requirements, and you have a shared commitment to Concern’s values, please email the completed Job Application Form with photograph, National ID, TIN and all Educational Certificates to recruitment.bgd@concern.net.

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