Requirements

Additional Requirements

Minimum of 10 years project management experience in a relevant sector.

Coordination and project management experience

• Coordinating skills with multiple high-level stakeholders (minimal 2 years experience in at least one other organization or project)

• Project manager experience (at least 10 years)

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate with community leaders, sector representatives at CXB and field level, with senior management of other NGOs/INGOs and UN bodies, and with government authorities in camp and in Cox's bazar.

• Strong organizational skills

• Flexibility and adaptability, as well as the ability to plan, take initiative and organize work independently

• Creative thinking and open-minded approach to finding solutions (lifetime experience)

• Working experience in NGOs/INGOs, especially in Monitoring and Evaluation, Data Management, Information Management, Research is a plus

Social skills and team management experience

• Extensive experience of managing multiple (project) managers and/or experience in leading a consortium (experience at least 5 years)

• Strong believer in a continuous learning process for yourself and your team

• Positive attitude and a willingness to learn

• Comfortable working in a cross-cultural environment

• Experience with donor communication and proposal writing

Inclusion and community engagement experience

• Experience in community Engagement to promote active participation and ownership (experience at least 2 years)

• Experience of working in Rohingya Response is preferable (but not mandatory)

• Women empowerment and engagement (lifetime passion)

Other experience and skills

• Fluency in written and spoken English

• Comfortable working in refugee camp settings and spending majority of time in the field

• Experience in Watershed Management, water resources development or landscape planning is highly preferred

• Experienced in Natural Resources Management, Nature based solution, climate resilience is a plus

• Experience with site management and site development with urban and Rural landscape planning is a plus

Responsibilities & Context

About Acted

Created in 1993, Acted is an international non-governmental organization pursuing a dual mandate of emergency response and development interventions in 40 of some of the world’s most vulnerable countries affected by conflicts, disasters, or socio-economic hardship. With a team of 7,000 national staff and 400 international staff, Acted implements 500 projects a year to support more than 20 million beneficiaries, notably in hard-to-reach areas.

Acted goes to the last mile through programs and approaches that look beyond the immediate emergency towards opportunities for longer-term livelihood reconstruction and sustainable development. Guided by the motto “Think Local, Act Global” and it’s 3Zero –Zero Exclusion, Zero Carbon, and Zero Poverty – strategy, Acted puts local territories at the center and provides tailored support to local needs. More on www.acted.org

In Bangladesh, Acted started its activities in 2017 in order to respond to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis in the sectors of Site Management, Natural Resource Management, Community Protection, Information Management, Drain Monitoring & Intervention, SuLMER, Emergency Preparedness Response and CDCS in the Camps of the Kutupalong-Balukhali Expansion Site, Cox’s Bazar.

Key roles and responsibilities

Project Planning

• Develop overall SuLMER project implementation strategy, systems, approaches, tools, and materials, and support the project managers in the WASH team with their strategies

• Keep finding innovative approaches and ideas for the project

• Plan the various stages of project implementation and give direction by prioritizing and organizing activities and resources to achieve projects objectives,

• Ensuring a complete and accurate forecasting of the budget based on the planned activities, and in collaboration with the finance department

• Initiate stakeholder mapping for the SuLMER project and create a plan for actively involving these stakeholders in the project. Maintain the SoP for the SuLMER project for participation of all partners, and make sure the ToRs per partner/unit are also maintained and put into practice.

• Actively involve other Acted departments (HR, Logistics, MEAL) in the project planning, and make sure all four WASH projects are well aligned with the planning of these departments

• Actively involve the stakeholders in the project planning and organise (through UNHCR SuLMER focal) regular meetings with these stakeholders and the ISCG sectors they are representing to ensure their participation and buy-in.

• Ensure all the necessary measures to guarantee safety during activities in the field for the Rohingya and host communities participating in the projects, and monitor the field activities on a regular basis to make sure these measures are in place.

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Skills & Expertise