Job Context:

Handicap International-Humanity & Inclusion (HI) has been working in Bangladesh since 1997, focusing on creating sustainable changes to ensure the rights and inclusion of people with disabilities in society.

HI is currently looking for a Senior Project Manager for its “Integrated comprehensive support to persons with disabilities and vulnerable people while strengthening the inclusion capacities of humanitarian actors,” funded by the GFFO project.

Job Location: Ukhiya

Type of Contract: Fixed-Term

Duration of the Contract: As early as possible to 31 December 2025

Line Manager: Area Manager

Reporting to the Area Manager, the Senior Project Manager contributes to the implementation of the mandate and the 10-year strategy of Humanity & Inclusion in the country where s/he is based. S/he is responsible for implementing his/her project. S/he ensures optimal quality and the impact of the project implemented by means of a delegation system with appropriate oversight mechanisms. With all the other HI managers, the senior project manager shares responsibility for the sound management and effective functioning of the global organization.

Special Attention: "You are cordially requested not to apply if the salary range, job location, contract duration, and other terms and conditions mentioned in the advertisement do not match your expectations."

Responsibilities:

Mission 1: Management

• Manager as a role model: embody HI’s values daily, and be a role model.
• Manager as a coach for meaning: understand the strategy, make it explicit, translate it into operational objectives for his or her team, and lead the necessary changes. Give meaning to each management action. Encourage inter and intra-departmental exchanges of practice. Encourage innovation and risk-taking.
• Operational manager: Organize the operational management of his or her team, structure the work around identified processes, steer performance, and facilitate the resolution of problems.
• First HR & Coach: Contribute to the development of his or her staff, creating the conditions for their commitment, professionalism, and attachment.

Mission 2: Strategy and Steering
Contribute to the development of the programme’s operational strategy

• Contribute to programme or country operational strategy (StratOp).
• Draft new project proposals for the continuity or expansion of the project.
• Contribute to the drafting of new proposals for new opportunities, if necessary.

Mission 3: Operational implementation
Responsibility 1: Ensure the implementation of the project, is in line with the logical framework and allocated budget

• Steer the project’s intervention strategy and put forward adjustments if the objectives change or if it is likely that they will not be met.
• Ensure that activities and the associated resources are planned, and implement the action plan.
• Ensure that activities are implemented in line with the project proposal and the allocated budget.
• Ensure project reporting, internally (within the programme) and externally (reporting to funding bodies, authorities, and/or partners).
• Undertake expenditure and manage the project activity-specific budget lines according to the delegation he/she received based on the programme signature delegation table
• Prepare and manage partnerships with the project implementation partners.
• Guarantee the proper archiving of information.

Responsibility 2: Ensure that project implementation complies with the existing frameworks

• Ensure the proper implementation and follow-up of institutional policies (specifically PME, PSEAH, and Age-Gender-Disability policies) and the other HI internal standards.
• Ensure compliance with the terms of the project proposal and the rules applied by the project funding body/bodies.
• Ensure compliance with global technical standards and norms by communicating and by involving the technical specialists and advisors with expertise in the project themes.

Responsibility 3: Ensure project monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning

• Ensure project monitoring, specifically activity progress indicators and the expected outcomes.
• Develop and implement the project evaluation plan.
• Ensure that the project is accountable to the local stakeholders.
• Ensure project learning, taking into account lessons learned from similar previous projects, following the recommendations made throughout the project (from evaluations, support missions, audits, etc.), and capitalizing on the acquired knowledge.

Responsibility 4: Ensure project data management

• Ensure that the appropriate data collection and management tools are in place on the project, in line with global standards.
• Ensure that data related to the project is collected and compiled in the project database.
• Carry out regular checks and make any necessary corrections to the activity database.

Responsibility 5: Coordinate the teams involved in the project

• Facilitate coordination meetings between his/her direct team and the support services located in the area when necessary.
• Ensure that his/her team and the support teams (shared and technical services, in particular) work well together to facilitate the implementation of the project in the country.
• Facilitate the project steering committee.

Responsibility 6: Contribute to external project communication

• Contribute to HI’s external influence by taking part in networks when required.
• Communicate about the project to partners, authorities, and stakeholders when relevant.

Mission 4: Emergency Preparedness and Response

• Lead the emergency preparedness actions in his/her department and, in the event of an emergency, reorganize the priorities of his/her team according to the humanitarian priority, to ensure a quick and efficient response by HI.

Educational Requirements:

• Master’s Degree in Management, Development Studies, Public Health, Social Science, Education, Livelihood, Rehabilitation Science (OT/PT/P&O, SLT), or any other similar /relevant field. "You are cordially requested not to apply if you don’t have the academic qualifications mentioned in the job advertisement."

Additional Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience in humanitarian and development.
• Minimum 4 years experience in project management of a moderate-size project/ consortium.
• 10 years of relevant professional experience, including in a managerial position in the INGO/NGO/development field, will be an added advantage.
• Knowledge of the international human rights frameworks.
• Knowledge of the strategies for fighting exclusion and discrimination.
• Knowledge of the technical issues concerning his/her service sector.
• Full knowledge of at least one profession in his/her sector.
• Producing institutional communication written in the country’s working language.
• Producing clear, concise, and responsible communication suited to the interlocutor (adult or child); adapting communication and messages to an intercultural environment.
• Using active listening techniques and applying them in the appropriate situations.
• Negotiating and managing problems and conflicts.
• Establishing clear frameworks, rules, and limits.
• Creating and maintaining conditions that motivate the target public; mobilizing and supporting different groups of stakeholders (families, communities, local authorities, etc.).
• Planning, implementing, and evaluating activities on his/her project (team and individual).
• Anticipating and adapting to the needs of the beneficiaries and unexpected circumstances.
• Conducting ongoing evaluations of activities and outcomes.
• Promoting participation and cooperation in the activities on his/her project.
• Working as part of a team/network, cooperating.
• Respect for the opinion and enhancement of the skills of others with a view to shared action.
• Giving and receiving constructive feedback, discussing with multidisciplinary teams, working as part of a network, and collaborating.
• Empathy: showing interest in what each person is experiencing and feeling, putting oneself in the other person’s shoes, listening to his/her needs, and being accepting rather than judgmental.
• Resilience to stress and uncertainty.
• Pragmatism, capacity to adapt with agility.

Required Expertise:

• Capacity to maintain close relationships with partners, stakeholders, and beneficiaries
• Cox’s Bazar Context
• Disability Inclusion
• Emergency Preparedness and Response
• Field and Project Supervision
• Multisector Humanitarian Projects
• On-the-job capacity building of staff and community volunteers
• Participating in training (material development, training facilitation)
• Performance Management
• Planning and Monitoring
• Project Budget Management
• Project Development
• Project Evaluation
• Project Implementation
• Project Management
• Project Monitoring
• Remote community settings
• Rohingya Camp Settings
• Safeguarding
• Security
• Support in Field-Level Coordination
• Team Supervision
• Understanding of age, gender & disability

Required Skills:

• Achieving Goals
• Adaptability
• Assessment, and Interviewing
• Collaborating in a Global Organization
• Communication and Coordination
• Conflict Resolution
• Contextual understanding of the community
• Cultural Sensitivity
• Decision-making
• Delegation
• Documentation
• Emergency response
• Empathy
• Employee Management
• Establishing Clear Frameworks, Rules, and Limits
• Frameworks and references
• Giving and Receiving Constructive Feedback
• Global programme management
• Interpersonal Skills
• Intervention strategy
• Interventions adaptation to the community and participant’s needs
• Leadership
• Learning and Development
• Management
• Motivation
• Negotiating and Managing Problems and Conflicts
• Office and collaborative tools
• Organizational Skills
• Orientation of the context
• Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Project Activities
• Problem Solving
• Producing Clear, Concise, and Responsible Communication
• Producing Institutional Communication
• Public Speaking
• Strategic Planning
• Stress Management
• Team Assessment
• Team Management
• Team Supervising
• Teamwork
• Technical Capacity
• Time Management
• Understanding of the multi-sectoral approach of intervention
• Understanding study and research
• Work Under frequently Changing Contexts
• Work Under High Pressure
• Work Under Unstable Contexts

Salary:

TK. 145652 to 162976

Additional Salary Info:

• Special Attention: "You are cordially requested not to apply if the salary range, job location, contract duration, and other terms and conditions mentioned in the advertisement do not match your expectations."
• Salary will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and budget availability.

Compensation & Other Benefits:

• Festival Bonus: 02
• Gratuity/End of Service Benefits
• Leave: Sick leave, Annual leave, Casual leave, Event Leave and Compensatory Leave
• Maternity Coverage for Staff & Dependents
• Medical Coverage for Staff & Dependents including General/Outpatient, Hospitalization, Dental, and Optical
• Mobile Allowances
• Per diem
• Provident Fund
• Staff Group Life Insurance
• Weekly Holiday: 02
• Medical Coverage: Staff and dependents will get general/outpatient, hospitalization, dental, and optical medical insurance facilities as per the HI policy.
• Maternity Coverage: Staff & dependents will get maternity medical coverage facilities per the HI policy.
• Group Life Insurance Coverage: Staff will get the death benefit, accidental benefit, permanent partial disability, permanent total disability benefit, and critical illness benefit as per the HI policy.
• Leave: Staff will get sick leave, annual leave, casual leave, medical leave, and event leave as per HI policy.
• Allowance for Children’s Education: Staff will get an allowance for Children’s Education as per the HI policy.
• National travel cost of child caretaker: Female staff will get a reimbursement for the cost of national travel of the child caretaker as per the HI policy.
• Additional Responsibility (Interim) Allowance: Staff will get an allowance for additional responsibility (interim) as per the HI policy.
• Relocation Allowance: Staff will get an allowance for relocation allowance as per the HI policy.
• Work From Home: Staff will get work-from-home facilities as per the HI policy.

How to Apply:

Job Application Weblink: Senior Project Manager

Special Instruction:

Special Attention: "You are cordially requested not to apply if the salary range, job location, contract duration, and other terms and conditions mentioned in the advertisement do not match your expectations."

As per the HI-Recruitment policy, only eligible and interested candidates should send their NOC (if applicable), cover letter, and resume (only in soft copy) by Monday, 28 April 2025. Only Bangladeshi national candidates are eligible to apply. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Handicap International-Humanity & Inclusion is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified, potential, matched female candidates and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply, and they will be preferred in cases of similar qualifications to other candidates.

HI promotes and upholds the principles of equal opportunities and policies (PSEAH, Child Protection, etc.). HI has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to or exploitation of a vulnerable adult or a child by any of our staff, representatives, or partners. Recruitment for all jobs in HI includes, in particular, criminal record checks and the collection of relevant references. Safeguarding our beneficiaries is our top priority in everything we do.

HI is committed to a safe workplace for everyone to grow professionally regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, or race. HI extends this commitment to equality and Do No Harm to all staff, volunteers, partners, and beneficiaries. The humanitarian principles focus on equity and inclusion, with a solid commitment to these values. A competitive candidate will uphold and implement these values in their personal and professional lives. Any persuasion by the person by phone, email, or other means in this regard will automatically disqualify the candidate.

The selected employee should clearly understand that all final offers of employment are contingent upon a successful reference check. The pre-employment screening will be performed for all selected applicants.