District Coordinator

Sightsavers implements projects in over 30 countries in Africa and South Asia working to eliminate avoidable blindness and promote the rights of people with disabilities. We are looking for a District Coordinator to work within the Futuremakers project in Bangladesh.

Job Title: District Coordinator (Futuremakers)

Job Location: Manikganj, Narayanganj, and Tangail districts of Bangladesh

Contract: 18-month fixed contract until the 31st of December 2023

Salary: Local Terms and Conditions apply

About the role:

As a Sightsavers District Coordinator you will work with the ‘Futuremakers’ project team to coordinate the implementation of approved activities with our external partners.

Your duties will include; effective planning, local level launching and liaison, advocacy and communication, monitoring and evaluation, and financial and asset management.

Futuremakers supports disadvantaged young people, especially girls and people with visual impairments, to learn new skills and improve their chances of getting a job or starting their own business.

In 2021, Futuremakers programmes reached more than 304,000 young people, and more than 671,000 young people between 2019 and 2021 across 41 markets.

District Coordinator key duties and accountabilities include:

• Support partners in dealing with partnership agreement (e.g., PFA, PP, budget, roles, and responsibilities, etc.) with Sightsavers.
• Coordinate partner/s in the district to identify potential jobseekers with disabilities, employers and public/private TVET centres for targeted training, sensitisation, and job transition.
• Coordinate partner/s organizing project events, meetings, trainings, workshops, and dialogues in the district as per the project target and ongoing innovation.
• Identify future partners with whom Sightsavers can work to achieve the organization’s strategic priorities of inclusive employment through organisational approaches (both service delivery and advocacy work).
• Coordinate with Accounts Officer of partners and Finance colleagues of Sightsavers on budget preparation, advance, requisition, adjustment, and financial documentation.
• Ensure that partners submit accurate financial reports in a timely manner, and they manage and utilize project resources (financial and human) as per the standard protocol set together.
• Liaison and coordination with DC office, UNO office, DSS office as Sightsavers’ local representative.
• As per the guidance of Sightsavers’ Advocacy and Communication Coordinator, support partner/s in the district to deliver advocacy activities and campaigns for the project.
• Ensure regular project performance monitoring of partners as per the guidance of Sightsavers’ country and global colleagues.

About you

As the successful candidate you will the following skills, knowledge, and experience.

Essential:

• Commitment to Sightsavers’ values and rights based inclusive development approaches.
• Substantial understanding of consistent programming/ advocacy for marginalised communities with demonstrable experience of skills development and job transitions of youths with disabilities.
• Degree in Occupational/Rehabilitation Studies, Development Studies or Gender Studies.
• Knowledge of all aspects of project management at a community level.
• Broad understanding working with donor funded projects.
• Understanding of project monitoring, evaluation and learning.
• Comprehensive knowledge of advocacy and communication.

Desirable:

• Masters in the mentioned fields of study.
• Persons with disabilities with some level of flexibility in requirements.
• Individuals from any fewer representative communities/groups including women.
• Comprehensive knowledge of working with TVET centres.
• Background participation of working within a geographically disbursed team.

This is an involved role, please read the job description for full details

Skills (Special Training or Competence

• Good computer aided writing skills in Bangla and English.
• Strong verbal and written presentation, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Excellent IT skills including familiarity with virtual meetings and online learning platforms.

As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people living with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.