Good Change for the World

Vacancy Announcement

Good Neighbors (1991) is an international humanitarian, development and non-governmental organization with membership in General Consultative Status in the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC). Winner of MDG 2 award in 2007, Good Neighbors Bangladesh (GNB) is operating 17 Community Development Projects (CDP) and 4 Projects with Specific Program (PSP) in 13 districts for child protection, education, health, women empowerment, income generating activities, DRR and Rohingya emergency response activities. Good Neighbors Bangladesh (GNB) intends to recruit suitable personnel for the following positions:

1. Key Position Information
Title of Post Area Manager Employment Type Contractual
Location GN Bangladesh Work Areas Contract Period 2 years
Date of Issue 27 March 2024 Closing Date  8 April 2024

 

2. Basic Requirement:

Education: Post-graduate degree on relevant fields (Social Science, Development Studies, Development Economics, Environmental Science & Disaster Management)

Age: Maximum age 40 years (no need to apply if you are over aged)

Experience: Minimum 5 years Managerial experience (experience with only evidence and relevance will count).

Preference: GN Bangladesh strongly encourages qualified female candidates to apply.

3. Contract Information:

Salary and Others: Consolidated Remuneration Tk 55,000 - 65,000 (per month). Plus 100% festival bonus, 15 days paid leave excluding public holidays and training opportunities for career development.

Contract Period: 2 years (including minimum 6 months’ probation period)

4. Job Assignment in Brief:

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Types of Responsibilities
Details about Job Responsibilities

1.

Primary Responsibilities

Job 1: Quality of Financial Execution Supervision (planning, budgeting & implementation of project, financial analysis and follow-up through regular monitoring & supervision to execute in due time).
Job 2: Purchase, Distribution and Inventory Management Supervision (Ensuring the transparency on procurement management, risk management and program operation)
Job 3: Supervision of Non-sponsorship Fund (NSF). (Identifying the focal problem of working area, developing the project proposal/concept note and taking different initiatives for community patrons).
Job 4: Quality of Child Case Management: Focus Zone and Home Visit. (Supervision of child sponsorship program such as Home visit, APR, ACL & GML completion in due time and sponsored children drop-out control).

2.

Secondary Responsibilities

 
  • Maintaining the efficient networking and partnership with community resource, community patrons, local government and non-governmental organizations.
  • Playing coaching and mentoring role to improve the capacity of respective area’s staffs.
  • Reporting to respective supervisors according to assignment.

3.

Other Responsibilities
  • Preparing and presenting status reports upon monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and annual implementation.
  • Effective staff management and team work to achieve the goal.

5. Knowledge and Skill Requirement:

  • Community development project: Knowledge on the community development project & participatory approaches, sustainable development practices and community empowerment strategies.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Capacity to analyze stakeholder, their engagement and collaboration such as community members, local leaders, government agencies, NGOs, and other relevant organizations in the development process.
  • Needs Assessment and Analysis: Skills in conducting needs assessments and community surveys to identify priority areas for intervention, understand the root causes of issues, and gather data for evidence-based decision-making.
  • Resource Mobilization: Understanding of partnership building strategies, grant proposal writing, donor trends, and other resource mobilization techniques to secure fund for implementing community development projects.
  • Communication, supervision and monitoring: Effective communication knowledge, monitoring and supervision technics to track the progress of community development projects, assess their impact, and make informed adjustments as needed.
  • Conflict Management: Skills in conflict resolution and negotiation to address conflicts and disagreements among stakeholders during the project implementation.

6. Attitude Requirement:

  • Integrity Leadership: Play strong leadership roles keeping ethical standards and integrity.
  • Problem -solving: Require problem-solving capacity instead of delegated to others
  • Organizational growth: Appreciating driving mentality to contribute for the organizational growth
  • Adaptability: Quick adaptive quality with changes and stress are highly expected.
  • Learning attitude: Learning and self-improvement attitude with study. 
  • Team player: A flexible, positive and inspirational team player

Application procedure:

Submission of Application: If all of this sounds like it might be your kind of thing then you should definitely apply by 8 April, 2024. We are requesting you to download the prescribed format http://gnbangla.org/jobs/  from GNB website and send to the email address hrd@gnbangla.org.

[Must mention basic information of yourself, age, total year of experience, education with major subject, expected and current salary amount, possible date of joining, two references (one should be Current/Last Supervisor) in your CV]

Applications without required information, proper subject in email or incomplete application will not be considered.

Please mention the position name “Area Manager” in the email subject line.

Call for interview: If your CV is selected then a recruiter will invite you over phone/email, followed by a couple of written/oral tests as applicable for the recruitment of the position. (Please provide your active email address, mobile number, and/ or contact information)

Only short-listed candidates will be called for assessment.
Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

Address:
Good Neighbors Bangladesh, House 5, Road 2, Block A, Swadesh Shornaly Abashan, Purbachal Sheikh Hasina Sarani, Barua, Khilkhet, Dhaka 1229, IP phone: +88-09613858585
Website: www.gnbangla.org

*Unwanted telephone calls/contacts (before or after recruitment test) will result to disqualification.

Good Neighbors Bangladesh is concerned about the rights of the children and women, and maintains 'zero tolerance' policy on all types of sexual exploitation and abuse.