Team Leader- Field Operations

Responsibilities & Context

Program Brief:

Bangladesh with a mission to improve the quality of life of people and to promote sustainable development. It has 130 branches with 1713 employees in 11 districts across Bangladesh, and we reach our services to reach more than 7.5 million direct beneficiaries in both the humanitarian and development sectors.

Along these 40 years, Prottyashi has contributed significantly to the development of rural and urban communities of Bangladesh through promoting women empowerment, facilitating healthcare and nutrition services, increasing access to basic education and WASH, availing livelihood and food security opportunities for the people, creating awareness on child marriage, combatting human trafficking, introducing approaches to adapt and mitigate climate change impact, ensuring human rights of the people at the local, regional and national level. It is also promoting gender equality through various community engagement programs and working to empowering women and girls by providing them with skills training and economic opportunities to become self-sufficient.

Purpose of the Role:

Team Leader- Field Operations is one of the very exciting roles in Prottyashi’s humanitarian operations in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasanchar. The Team Leader provides a leadership, decision-making and coordinating role on programmatic issues, responsible for the quality and timeliness of the effective implementation of projects in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasanchar.

You will be leading a team of over 500 staff, have the opportunity to lead a total budget in tune of 50-60 crore BDT yearly with further growth.

Highlights of Key Responsibilities

Program Implementation Support:

Support the PCs/PMs to ensure that program implementation is led through structured work-plans & approved monitoring plans based on project proposals & partnership agreements.

Supervise, coordinate, and check the annual/quarterly/monthly planning/progress of field activities; ensure timely flow of information to Project Unit and Sectoral Head/PC/PM as well as to M&E Unit

Plan and conduct regular/special meeting with concerned staff and other sectors and maintaining follow-up for the implementation of the planned activities agreed in the meeting

Monitor, follow-up and supervise the project activities to keep the activities in right track and ensure quality program implementation

Ensure that the implementation team is fully oriented on the project design, DIP, MEAL Plan, LFA, budget and other pertinent details.

Coach, train, and mentor staff with the aim of strengthening their technical capacity, exchanging knowledge within the team, and providing professional development guidance

Work closely with the implementation team/PC/PM to produce analytical donor reports, give technical input and necessary feedback on the donor reports.

Ensure project budgets are run within budget and closed on time by leading Budget Vs Actual meetings and ensuring that expenditures are monitored monthly; with well-structured corrective action is initiated and tracked where required.

Support the MEAL Lead in developing, rolling out and monitoring the use of a program-wide MEAL strategy and tools for the collection and analysis of program information (qualitative and quantitative) to inform all stages of the project cycle to increased shared learning internally and externally.

Ensure timely and high-quality reports followed by a report schedule and as per donor guidelines.

Ensure prompt contribution of program team to meet all GoB compliances at national and local level such as to FD6 and FD7 processes, local level reporting and coordination etc.

Coordinate donor visits, and support field staff in preparing and conducting these visits as necessary.