Vue d'ensemble

Posted on: 24/11/2015
Desired start date: 21st February 2016
Duration of the mission: 6-12 months depending on funding
Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

“Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.” David Brooks

About us

SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL (SI) is a French humanitarian organization which provides aid and assistance to victims of war or natural disaster. For 35 years, our organization has worked towards meeting the three basic needs - water, food and shelter – of vulnerable and crisis-affected populations, by carrying out emergency programs followed by longer-term reconstruction projects. Whilst fully respecting customs and culture of the assisted populations, SI programs are implemented through the joint expertise of around 200 expatriates and 2000 local managerial staff and employees in 19 countries.

About the mission

SI opened its mission in Bangladesh at the end of 2007, just after SIDR cyclone hit the country. During seven years, SI has implemented programs in emergency response followed by early recovery and reconstruction.

SI’s intervention and strategy in the country is to target the primary needs of crisis affected people in terms of food, water, hygiene, sanitation and shelter whilst working in parallel on mid to long term resilience strategies.

As of 2015, SI is implementing an ECHO-funded FSL/DRR Resilience Program in Satkhira District, Kulna and WASH program in Teknaf (Cox’s Bazar District) in vulnerable areas hosting Rohingya refugees (ECHO and BPRM funds).

Mission organization:

In Dhaka:

• 4 expatriates: 1 Head of Mission, 1 Program Coordinator, 1 Administrative Coordinator;
• 5 national staff: Log coordinator, Deputy Admin Coordinator, Assistant Log-Admin, Assistant Head of Mission, Deputy Program Coordinator;
• Program coordination team: 1 deputy program coordinator, 1 Wash officer (Australian volunteers).

In Satkhira: 12 national staff

In Teknaf:

• 1 expatriates: a Field Coordinator
• 51 national staff

The program coordinator will be the direct line manager of 3 managers (2 people at Dhaka’s prog team level) and 1 program managers in Satkhira (ECHO funds). This should move if new programs should be signed. He/she has also the functional manager for 1 program manager in Teknaf (for both Echo and BPRM funded projects).

About the job

The SI Bangladesh mission is an active and innovative middle scale mission, involved in a wide range of humanitarian and DRR activities. The program coordinator contributes to the implementation of SI strategy in Bangladesh and supports more closely the follow-up of our operations and presence in Cox’s Bazar District and Satkhira.

He/she if the guarantor of the quality, relevance and consistency of the operational strategy and implements programs according to the general mission’s strategy, the needs of the population and the mandate of the organization. He/she coordinates the project cycle and more particularly the operational monitoring of programs implemented in Bangladesh and contributes to the improvement of Solidarités International methods and techniques in Bangladesh.

He/she designs and supervises the implementation of both the contingency & the capacity building plans of the mission with a special focus on cross cutting issues.

He/she supports the Country Representatives in fund raising and donor relations, coordinates the reports and proposals writing process

Together with his/her deputy, he/she actively represents SI in the local, regional & national level coordination platforms as technical focal point for the mission and helps the country director in humanitarian and political contexts’ analysis.

Your profile

Qualification

Master degree in Development or Humanitarian Action or WaSH, or DRR, or FSL, or project management, or any other related educations. It can be balanced by experience if the candidate has not this education’s level.

Experience

• Substantial experience in a senior management position in an overseas INGO environment.
• Solid experience of program implementation in different development or humanitarian fields: WaSH and/or food security and/or livelihood and/or DRR and/or Climate change adaptation and / or community mobilization and/or gender-inclusiveness.
• Experience in dealing with donors and external stakeholders.
• Experience of team management in different contexts and various problematic.
• Experience of budget management.

Technical skill and competence

• Capacity to deal with many different issues, programs, sectors, to self-update and learn very quickly from a highly and constantly evolving environment.
• Strong representation / communication and public relation skills.
• A flexible approach to managing and prioritizing a potentially high workload and multiple tasks with tight deadlines.
• Interest for innovative solution in humanitarian intervention.
• Good knowledge about project cycle management and monitoring tools.
• Confident and proficient in the use of MS Word, Excel and Sphynx (optional).
• Good report writing skills in English.

Personal quality

• Ability to take decisions and work in autonomy.
• Interest for both field and institutional work and capacity to switch from one to another.
• Diplomatic and smooth leadership skills.
• Understanding of and commitment to SI’s mission and values.

Language

• Strong communication skills, with excellent written and spoken English

We offer

SI will offer you:

• accommodation and travel expenses from the expatriate’s home country to the site of the assignment.
• Social and medical cover: Expatriates benefit from an insurance package which reimburses all healthcare expenses (including medical and surgical expenses, dental care and ophthalmological expenses, repatriation) and a welfare system including war risks. Essential vaccination and antimalarial treatment costs are refunded.
• During the assignment, the expatriate is entitled to paid breaks every three months: one week at three and nine months (with a 500 euro allowance) and two weeks at six months (with a plane ticket back home covered by SI.

For further information about SI, please consult our website: http://www.solidarites.org/en/

Contact: Pauline CARTERY, Recruitment & Follow Up Officer