ActionAid Bangladesh is looking for suitable candidates for the following position:

Project Coordinator - Community Based Protection (CBP)

Project
: Sustainable Solutions and Protection for the Rohingya Community in Camps 10, 11 and 12 funded by UNHCR

Department
: Humanitarian Response

Location of posting
: Cox’s Bazar

Types of contract : Fixed term contract
Duration
: Up to 31 December 2020

Number of position
: 01 (One)

Salary and benefits
: Competitive salary will be offered with admissible benefits such as mobile & modem allowance, medical benefit, group life insurance etc.

Project Overview:

ActionAid is implementing Community Based Protection (CBP) project with UNHCR targeting 88,185 refugees of camp 10, 11 & 12, situated in Balukhali of Kutupalong expansion site in Ukhia, Cox’s Bazaar. The targeted camps have been identified as areas with heightened protection risks. The project includes Women’s Leadership, Accountability and Shifting the Power to communities for transformative change. AAB CBP aims to strengthen and expand the mobilisation of the Rohingya communities through their capacity development also through building their agencies.

Key responsibilities include (not limited to)

• Lead development and implementation of Community based protection programs, including GBV, PSS, and Protection overall.
• Provide technical support to ensure high quality of programming and services, exceeding minimum competencies for staff and minimum standards for activities.
• Conduct and support ongoing monitoring of Protection activities, through frequent visits to office and field sites, to ensure minimum standards for Protection and progress toward targets.
• Identify program gaps, areas of growth, and strategies and support in adapting program design to effectively meet beneficiary needs, the changing context, and other factors.
• Lead and participate in regular strategy and program planning workshops for Protection and the overall organization, including for grant opening, mid-term review, and grant closing.
• Manage development and monitoring of program spending plans, workplans, M&E plans, and procurement and staffing plans to ensure progress against targets and spending by budget.
• Ensuring management of resources for fulfilment of program deliverables and commitments for objectives/indicators and accountability to donor requirements.
• Lead capacity-building strategy for overall Protection department, to ensure strong level of professional development and team-building, including the development of national managers/counterparts and addressing of any team dynamic issues or concerns.
• Build technical capacity of supervised staff and overall Protection team in overall and sub-sectors of Protection, as well as in program management.
• Ensure preparation and compilation of internal and external weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting for Protection programs, in collaboration with Reporting team.
• Assist to development of proposals for Protection programming, in collaboration with proposal team.
• Lead recruitment of new staff and program start-up in new sites as necessary.
• Support program teams to build referral mechanisms to link beneficiaries, particularly vulnerable individuals and groups, to services, through service mapping, referral workshops, and SOPs.
• Ensure appropriate identification/selection, program support, and capacity-building of local partners, including program technical review of partnership agreements.
• Support the coherent and harmonized implementation of community-based protection activities.
• Ensure development of awareness raising sessions on community-based protection services (Sessions on rights, access to rights services and protection threats) and Protection services (stress management sessions, psychosocial support, men self-help sessions...)
• Overall responsibility for ensuring multi-functional spaces/SSWG/WFS are set up and running smoothly in field locations.
• Ensure capacity building of project staff and community leader Community based protection mainstreaming.
• building, recreational activities, and awareness raising
• Assist and monitor project budget management, Financial management   with ensure UNHCR and AAB compliance
• Support to review programme financial documents, including reviewing vouchers and supporting documentation.
• Coordinate with other coordinators to ensure coherence in field protection activities.
• Ensure and supervise monthly volunteer payments in coordination with the DRC admin and finance assistant.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationship with relevant stakeholders including partner agencies, community leaders and service providers
• Advocate for the needs of vulnerable individuals both internally and through coordination mechanisms through evidence-based advocacy
• Maintain an up-to-date service mapping of the service providers operating in the area and ensure that CBP assistants are informed about the available services.
• Manage monitoring and evaluation activities at the field level.
• Pay regular field visit with a focus on ensuring quality.
• Build staff capacity on quality assurance and follow up targeted outcomes.
• Document good practices and lessons learned.
• Contribute to the preparation of the donor reporting.
• Ensure quality monitoring data collection from the field.

Relationships

The person holds this position will be directly reportable to Head of Humanitarian Response, AAB.

Required Educational Qualification and Experiences

Education

• Post-graduation degree in Community Development, Social Sciences, Business Administration or combination of relevant Education and Experience.

Experience

• At least five years of experience in humanitarian and/or development organizations, with significant experience in camp management and/or delivering emergency programs in camp setting;
• A proven record of effective project management in emergencies, including project planning and managing a budget;
• Sound understanding of the concepts behind and practical application of humanitarian codes and standards such as SPHERE, IASC Gender Guidelines, HAP etc.

Required Competencies

• Proven skills in partnership building, influencing and negotiation with a range of humanitarian actors, including governments, UN agencies networks, national/local NGOs and community groups
• Strong skills in inter-personal communications, able to work effectively with multiple stakeholders in a complex, multi-actor environment.
• Strong team player, able to develop and maintain effective working relationships within a distributed and dynamic team.
• Sensitivity to cultural differences and the ability to work effectively across a wide variety of cultural contexts.
• Ability to work in a difficult and stressful environment, and to manage/deal with rapid changes to the operating environment;
• Strong facilitation skills, including the design and management of effective trainings, workshops and meetings with diverse participants.
• Strong English (written and oral).
• Strong skills in written communication, including effective report writing, and oral communication
• Flexible, creative and solution-oriented approach in an innovative environment
• Competence with MS Office applications, including Word, Excel and Outlook.

Application instructions

Only those who meet the above requirements are requested to apply following these
instructions:

• Last date of application is Wednesday, 25 December 2019. Due to emergency, recruitment will be on rolling. The interested candidates are requested to apply before deadline.
• Please Click Here to submit your application.