Protection from Violence Programme Development Manager Bangladesh

What we are looking for

NRC is looking for a Protection from Violence Programme Development Manager to join the Bangladesh mission. The role holder will be responsible for the design, development, and implementation of the Protection interventions in Bangladesh. He/she will provide specialist expertise and strategic advice, as well as be responsible for programme development, technical support, and capacity building.

If you are a resilient and adaptive executive; who is action-oriented, execution-driven, and hands-on, with the ability to meet new challenges and an innovative mindset; with strong interpersonal, networking, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills; and the ability to build constructive relationships with external parties, then this is the role for you!

What you will do

• Strategy, procedures, guidelines and macro logical framework analysis development.
• Protection from Violence development (including thought leadership and coordination, individual protection services, and community safety and violence prevention).
• Funding proposals, project budgets, and donor reports development and management.
• Protection consortium leadership and coordination.
• Project implementation in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements.
• Advocacy support, ensuring protection information and analysis is fed into regular key messaging.
• Capacity Building and training of technical staff.
• Stakeholder liaison and collaboration.

What you will bring

• Protection expertise experience in a humanitarian/recovery context.
• Project management expertise.
• Violence prevention and response expertise.
• Community engagement exposure.
• Complex and volatile context exposure.
• Start-up and scale-up of projects track record.
• Bangladesh, Myanmar, and/or South East Asia, context exposure and knowledge, pertaining to displacement and humanitarian needs will be an added advantage.
• English fluency, both written and verbal.

What makes this position attractive?

• The opportunity to work in the steadily growing NRC mission of Bangladesh that has scaled up since inception in 2018 to respond to the Rohingya influx, and that has an increasingly growing portfolio and funding. NRC interventions are used to increase the acceptance of humanitarian assistance amongst Rohingya and Bangladeshi populations.
• Operations have included Shelter & Settlements, and Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene, responding to health and weather-related emergencies, ensuring education continuity through in-person and digital learning, and scaling-up information counselling for refugees and host Bangladeshis.
• In addition to the existing Rohingya refugee response, NRC’s integrated activities are addressing the impacts of displacement from climate change in Cox’s Bazar, in the North-East and South-West parts of Bangladesh. As of 2022, NRC is working to respond to severe floods in Sylhet. Bangladesh is one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries while also hosting nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees. This is considered a protracted emergency in which displacement and recurrent climate disasters combine.
• Meaningful work that responds to the diverse needs, priorities, and concerns raised by beneficiary communities. The current context is set against a backdrop of continued conflict in Rakhine State, steady attenuation of humanitarian access, and political pressure to repatriate refugees. This is characterised by multiple localised emergencies adversely affecting communities and populations with low levels of resilience, high vulnerability, and acute poverty.
• Female candidates are strongly encouraged to join our work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.

What we offer

• Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh duty station.
• 12-month contract duration, with the possibility of extension based on requirements and funding.
• 40% travel, approximately.
• Grade 9 in NRC’s Salary Scale, with accompanying terms and conditions. NRC offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.
• NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
• We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.

The full Job Description can be found on our website.