Requirements

Additional Requirements

• 8 years’ experience, with at least 5 years of managerial experience in managing consortium programme, in the relevant field focused on Humanitarian and Resilience activities.
• Proven Skill in statistical software packages. SPSS, NVIVO, Access and Excel are essential.
• Proven experience in managing web-based based MIS.
• Proven skill in using Kobo toolbox for data collection and management.
• Strong commitment to accountability, social justice, promoting gender awareness and equality.
• Ability to work effectively in a culturally diverse organisation.
• Ability and willingness to work in stressful situation and travel away from home and stay in the field.
• Proven record of successfully coordinating complex relations, including matrix relations of several posts that do not directly report to the candidate.
• Proficiency in both Bengali and English.

Responsibilities & Context

Job Summary:

CARE is one of the world’s leading international humanitarian and development organizations, committed to helping people in poor communities improve their lives and alleviate poverty. Founded in 1945, CARE is working over 121 countries to fight global poverty and marginalization. CARE has been active in Bangladesh since 1949 and is one of the largest programs in CARE confederation. Women and girls are at the core of all CARE programs because they represent half of the marginalized group and it is not possible to overcome poverty until all people have equal rights and opportunities. CARE Bangladesh works to implement programs with long-term impacts that result in sustainable changes for the extreme poor and marginalized communities.

CARE Bangladesh’s Humanitarian and Climate Action Program is committed to provide people affected by disasters and conflicts with life-saving assistance, with a special focus on women and girls, who are disproportionately affected by disasters. Our action also includes preparedness and early action, emergency response and recovery, and resilience and adaptation to climate change and equitable development.

The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has selected a CARE Bangladesh led consortium to implement the project titled ‘Nature Based Adaptation towards Prosperous and Adept Lives & Livelihoods in Bangladesh (NABAPALLAB) in two Ecologically Critical Areas (ECAs) – the Sundarbans and Hakaluki Haor. The other consortium members are CNRS, Cordaid, C3ER-BRAC University, Dushtha Shasthya Kendra (DSK), Friendship, Humanity & Inclusion (HI), iDE, and Practical Action. It is a key component of the Bangladesh-UK Accord on Climate Change and will deliver the adaptation outcome of the FCDO’s flagship Bangladesh Climate and Environment Programme (BCEP). The programme will make a significant contribution in Bangladesh to progress against GoB’s policies and priorities e.g., National Adaptation Plan (NAP), Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), commitments to biodiversity conservation, ongoing 8th Five Year Plan, etc. And it will also contribute to UK’s commitment to International Climate Finance (ICF).

Due to environmental sensitivity and high anthropogenic pressures such as overharvesting, overfishing, pollution and illegal logging, the Sundarbans mangrove and the Hakaluki Hoar wetland are at a vulnerable stage with climate change exacerbating the current situation. FCDO’s NABAPALLAB aims to engage biodiversity and natural resource-dependent communities to strengthen the climate resilience of the ECAs, conserve biodiversity, and at the same time, diversify and improve people’s livelihood through innovative nature-based (NBS) and locally led adaptation solutions. It will increase climate resilience of more than 250,000 vulnerable households and ecosystem-based protection and restoration of 5,000km2 area in, especially in the districts of Bagerhat, Satkhira and Khulna in the Sundarbans ECA, and Maulvibazar and Sylhet in Hakaluki Haor. To achieve FCDO’s NABAPALLAB goal, CARE and its partners will work with different ministries specially , Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Department of Forest, Department of Environment (DoE), Ministry of Land, Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), Bangladesh Water Development Board, Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) etc. of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) at the national, regional and local levels, to implement the most appropriate NbS and Locally-led Adaptations (LLA) solutions for the Sundarbans and Hakaluki haor ecosystems.

The Regional Manager MEAL and Documentation based in Kulaura Regional Office, directly reporting to the Head of MEL, NABAPALLAB, Humanitarian & Climate Action Program is responsible for providing technical guidance, vision, and management for successful monitoring evaluation and learning of the programme across the consortium. S/he will be the regional lead and be responsible for the implementation of a robust and functional monitoring, evaluation and learning activities of this programme including using these functions for programme effectiveness and improvements, as well as donor and NGOAB reporting.

The Regional Manager MEAL and Documentation will be responsible for the roll out of Monitoring Evaluation (M&E) and comprehensive Management Information System (MIS) within the programme for progress tracking over key programme indicators, especially FCDO’s ICF and CARE’s Climate Justice standards including Resilience, Gender and Governance markers. S/he will also support Head of MEL to conduct data quality assessment to ensure quality data. S/he will work closely with partners to build staff capacity and install a culture of sharing and learning with other stakeholders. S/he will also assist in managing programme level assessments and evaluations and promote a culture of evidence-based decision making and liaise on a regular basis with all consortium partners regional and field level staff, and CARE Bangladesh Impact, Design, Analytics & Learning (IDEAL) team to ensure strategic alignments and reporting in line with FCDO’s ICF, evaluation standards as well as CARE International 2030 impact indicators.based in Moulavibazar, directly reporting to the Head of MEL, NABAPALLAB, Humanitarian & Climate Action Program is responsible for providing technical guidance, vision, and management for successful monitoring evaluation and learning of the programme across the consortium. S/he will be the regional lead and be responsible for the implementation of a robust and functional monitoring, evaluation and learning activities of this programme including using these functions for programme effectiveness and improvements, as well as donor and NGOAB reporting.

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