Senior Program Officer
 

Number of Post: 01
Location of Posting: Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar

Overview

Prottyashi is a voluntary social development organization which is working for developing lives of the disadvantaged and deprived people of the country as well as refugees settled in the country in different development aspects with an aim to eradicate poverty and end hunger from the society ensuring other basic rights for the targeted people. The organization has been working for ensuring basic living standards of the refugees in the humanitarian response since the beginning of the influx through several interventions on livelihood, nutrition, GBV, protection, health, education and other sectors. To ensure efficient program implementation as well as quality program management, Prottyashi has been looking for a Senior Program Officer who will be working under direct supervision of Director (Program) and will be posted in Ukhiya Upazila under Cox’s Bazar District. Senior Program Officer will be working under below mentioned responsibilities and reporting mechanism.

Job Nature: Full time (Permanent Position)

Reporting

  • Senior Program Officer will be reporting to the Director (Program) on the progress of his/her assigned responsibilities.
  • Reporting should be maintained on weekly/monthly basis according to the prescribed format including his/her engagement at different level of responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

  • Supervise and coordinate all the projects and programs of the organization being implemented in humanitarian response through maintaining close communication with the project implementation units in all the areas of operation of the organization.
  • Maintain communication with different Government and Non-government stakeholders relevant to the project interventions and implement organizational strategies to ensure best interest of the organization.
  • Participate in meetings, workshops, events arranged by the different stakeholders in the humanitarian response and present the outputs of the projects before the stakeholders.
  • Track progress of the project activities and make necessary adjustments regularly.
  • Ensure timely implementation of the project activities maintaining quality and maximum cost efficiency.
  • Monitor the project activities through conducting field visits and find out the gaps and challenges in the implementation of the activities.
  • Should conduct field visits for at least 60% work-days in the month to provide implementation support to the project implementation units.
  • Provide solutions to the challenges or gaps identified through immediate situation analysis or discussion with the senior management.
  • Prepare qualitative and quantitative report & documents of the project through observing the field level project interventions.
  • Ensure timely preparation and submission of monthly, quarterly, annual or other event reports with standard quality.
  • Organize monthly and quarterly all project coordination meeting to analyze project progress and make plan for the upcoming periods.
  • Contribute to the program development through developing concept notes and proposals as required.
  • Present the organizational mission, vision, strategic objectives and expertise before the donor agencies to make a positive impression on the organization.
  • Face donor or partner visit as a representative of Prottyashi program management team and ensure satisfactory donor visits to the project implementation sites.
  • Plan for staff capacity development for the projects considering the weaknesses and lacking of the staffs and share with senior management.
  • Implement the plan within anticipated timeframe so that the staffs can utilize their capacity in implementing project interventions within project timeline.

Required Qualification

Educational Qualification

  • The candidate should have Masters/Bachelor degree in any discipline preferably in social sciences/development studies.

Level of Experiences

  • The candidate should have at least 5 years of experience on working in development sector and humanitarian response in challenging development context.
  • At least 3 years of working experience in humanitarian response at National or International NGOs at the project management level in the livelihood, protection, health, education and WASH sectors.

Other Technical Competencies

  • Should have fluency in speaking and writing in English
  • Should have demonstrative capacity of report writing in both Bengali and English.
  • Having experience on data management will be an advantage.

Remuneration Package

  • BDT 80,000-90,000
  • Prottyashi provides competitive compensation package including Contributory Provident Fund, Hardship Allowance, Gratuity, Festival Bonus, Boishakhi Bonus and Staff Welfare Facilities.
 

Last date of application is 31.08.2022 at 5.00pm.

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Interested applicants with relevant background have to apply with a Cover Letter, Curriculum Vitae (CV) along with a recent photograph to career.prottyashi@gmail.com

Company Information

PROTTYASHI
A Voluntary Social Development Organization
Syed Bari, 903/A Omar Ali Matobbar Road (Near Bahaddar Bari)
Chandgaon, Chittagong-4212
Phone: +88-031-658222, +88-031-2550506