USAID Host and Impacted Community Resilience Activity (HICRA)
| Organization |
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Friends in Village Development, Bangladesh (FIVDB) |
| Position |
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Coordinator – MEL |
| Location |
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Cox’s Bazar |
Contract Length |
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Open ended |
| Grade |
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III |
Post Type: |
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Regular |
INTRODUCTION:
Cox’s Bazar, Bandarban, Rangamati and Khagrachari districts are among the lowest ranked in Bangladesh for education, skills training, food security, poverty and agricultural productivity. The situation has worsened since 2017, with the Rohingya refugee influx, which has put enormous pressure on the local economies, resulting in loss of livelihoods, depressed local wages, and distorted local markets. Moreover, these districts are prone to chronic and rapid onset disasters.
In response, the USAID Host and Impacted Communities Resilience Activity (HICRA) led by Friends In Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) is taking an integrated approach to improve the overall well-being and resilience of people residing in the communities hosting or impacted by the Rohingya refugee crisis. This includes implementing livelihoods; water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); natural resource management (NRM); and disaster risk reduction (DRR) interventions with an estimated 114,000 households across the four prioritized districts.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The purpose of this assignment is to ensure regional coordination and leadership for monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) activities at the regional level under close supervision of the Senior Manager - MEL. This includes broadly - accurate and comprehensive data collection and analysis, dissemination of results, report on progress towards achievement of activity objectives through coordination with the other technical team members at the regional level and district level MEL units. The position to coordinate and collaborate with the technical team members at the regional and Dhaka level to facilitate and support indicator reporting, achieving targets, methods for collecting information on project activities and assisting with analysis for evidence-based decision making for project improvements.
The Coordinator – MEL will be responsible to contribute in planning, reviewing, and implementing the MEL plan throughout the project. This role involves direct supervision of the District MEL Coordinators and supportive supervision of IP MEL units and coordination with the technical teams. Under the oversight of the Senior Manager - MEL, the Coordinator – MEL will ensure high-quality technical support, including robust planning, progress tracking and reporting, special studies, data quality assessments (DQAs), and necessary reporting associated with monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) according to the MEL plan. The Coordinator – MEL will support HICRA’s collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) initiatives at the regional level, and assist in facilitating learning events by involving appropriate stakeholders. Organizing and facilitating training and workshops, providing need-based technical support, frequent field visits, follow-up activities, effective dissemination of research findings, and tracking adaptive management processes will be some of the prime roles.
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Application Procedure
Application Deadline: November 10, 2024
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