Town Manager-UPPRP
United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
Total years of experience :21 years, 1 Months
Major Job responsibilities:
Overall responsibility for the successful implementation of the projects activities i.e. Socio-economic (Education grants, pre-school, agriculture support, apprenticeship grant, small input support etc), settlement improvement (WASH activities, household improvement, drain, dustbin, culvert, plat form, double pit sanitary latrine, footpath construction and tube well installation etc) and Nutrition component in the town and the achievement of the projects outputs within the framework of the approved annual work plan.
Achievement of the projects outputs as measured by the log frame indicators disaggregated to town level.
Responsible for the management of project inputs at the town level including staff, financial resources and equipment.
Coordination with government, donors, NGOs, academic institutions and the private sector.
Capacity building of local government, communities and project staff to achieve the project outputs.
Ensure that extremely poor community members have a voice in community activities and decisions and benefit from project activities and that all community mobilization and development activities are gender sensitive.
General Management
Preparation of annual results based work plans and budgets for approval by the Town Project Board and Project Board
Preparation of quarterly results based work plans and budgets and organization of quarterly reviews and submit quarterly review report
Monitoring implementation of town work plan and budget utilization and preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
Responsible for town level utilization and monitoring of all financial inputs for town level activities including Settlement Improvement and Socio-Economic Funds disbursed to the town, ensuring their timely transfer to the community based organizations and effective utilization.
Preparation and submission of town level monitoring and evaluation reports
Establishment of Town Project Board and ensuring that it meets regularly.
Responsible for the use and maintenance of all project vehicles/motor cycles and other equipment in the town Responsible for preparation of town level surveys to identify all urban poor communities and groups and preparation of town implementation plans
Responsible for ensuring that community action plans are prepared and regularly reviewed
Overall responsibility for development and implementation of all community contracts
Responsible for local procurement or equipment and services under delegated authority from Project Board
Responsible for documentation and of project activities
Liaise with the private sector, training institutions, financial institutions and local commercial and industrial organizations to pro-actively promote economic opportunities for members of the urban poor communities
Coordination:
Represent UPPR in Town Level Coordination Committee if already established and ensuring that community representatives are also members
Coordination of all activities with local government officials and elected representatives including the Mayor of City Corporation or Chairperson of Pourashava
Coordination of project activities with those of other donors, NGOs and government projects in poverty reduction and related fields
Capacity Building:
Organize and manage all training activities and exchange programmes for staff, elected representatives, government counterparts and community members, including selection of participants, and ensuring that training is carried out in accordance with project guidelines.
Management of Project Staff:
Management of all project staff and experts assigned to the town including personnel administration, work plans and performance assessment
Assign workloads to staff and ensure that they report on their activities and complete activities within a given time frame
Major job responsibilities:
Responsible for developing monitoring plan SAP-BD and partner NGO staff.
Provide support in establishing an effective standard MIS system.
Oversee regular data collection from the field.
Prepare feedback for the partner NGOs and SAP-BD to improve performance.
Collect case studies and documents those in a systematic manner.
Responsible for planning field training on M&E for the partner NGO and SAP-BD Staff members.
Major Job responsibilities:
Planning and coordinating of the REAL project
Supervision and monitoring of construction work of the project
Construction seed house and seed store in the project areas.
Compilation of monthly, quarterly field report.
Preparation of annual report
Lead the team consisting 25 nos. employees (Field Coordinators, Accounts Officer, Field Facilitators) engaged in this project.
Maintain liaison and communication between and among Local Administration (DC, UNO), Donors, civil society and other related to the project.
Ensuring Performance management & Financial Management.
Plan and schedule all emergency relief and rehabilitation activities (Food & non-food item, Water and Sanitation and Core Family Shelter construction etc), to implementing the program as it relates to their defined area operation.
Participatory Vulnerability Analysis (PVA) at district level, and district involvement in community PVA to explored the features of vulnerability at district level.
Developing and distributing resource materials to identify present status of Supplementary education materials for Disaster Preparedness and scopes.
PVA with children, teachers, parents and SMC to explored the features of community vulnerability.
Making School Safer to construct physically and structurally safer School building and to initiate community initiatives to make school safer.
Raising awareness on climate change and disaster reduction to aware Students of climate change, particularly at Galachipa context.
Raising awareness on disaster reduction and improving disaster preparedness in communities to aware the community around schools and Union stakeholders of HFA.
Supporting community mobilization & advocacy to support Community initiatives for advocacy.
Maintain liaison and communication between and among the project PNGO’s, Local Administration (DC, UNO), Donors, civil society and other related to the project.
Supervising the field staff engaged in these emergency activities.
Provide information and progress to the donors and the evaluation team appointed by the donors when and where necessary.
Quality control of core shelter house construction activities
Supervision and monitoring of the project
Ensuring Performance management & Financial Management.
Construction of core shelter house construction under Barguna and Patuakhali district
As Senior Program Officer frequently visit fields for monitoring purpose as well as attend the multifaceted training and discussion secession at the field level as per the project plan and schedule.
Collect information from working Union Parishad & Municipalities.
Supervising the field level activities.
Maintain liaison and communication between and among the project PNGO’s, civil society and other related to the project.
Facilitate various session being participated by the local government officials as well as community people and other actors.
Cooperative with the Project Consultant while preparing various resource materials required for the project.
Verify the project expenditure made by the PNGOs as compared to the line item expenses for better implementation of the project
Cooperate with the Project Coordinator to preparing and submitting the deliverables to the donor in time.
Plan and schedule all activities related to implementing the program as it relates to their defined area operation.
Analyze MIS data and use it for planning and implementing the program more efficiently.
Assist in the development of monthly progress reports on operational activities of the team.
Review project implementation guidelines and suggest modifications as need for the improvement of project.
Planning and effective implementation of project interventions for the development of Local Government Authority as an ideal Institution.
Develop different Training Curriculum, Module & Organize /Facilitation of Different Training.
Representation, Liaison & Coordination with Govt. counterparts, NGOs and other Development Organization at District, Upazilla & Union Level.
Conduction of meeting, training and workshop & on the job training to the PNGOs staff.
Ensuring Performance management & Financial Management of PNGOs.
• Conduct road selection, earthwork and structure pre-surveys, monitoring and environmental activities as per project regulation with in defined operational areas.
• Preparation of necessary project related reports, calculations, designs, Thana notifications, follow-up, checking and re-checking of all field activities.
• Conduct re-surveys/monitoring for staff from other operational areas.
• Share technical expertise, training and advice to counterparts (Upazilla LGED officials.)
• Provide constructive feedback and suggestions to the Field Engineer for improvement to all IFFD activities.
• Plan and schedule all activities related to implementing the program as it relates to their defined area operation.
• In collaboration with the field Engineer, analyze MIS data and use it for planning and implementing the program more efficiently.
• Review project implementation guidelines and suggest modifications as need for the improvement of project.
• Planning and effective implementation of project interventions for the development of Local Government Authority as an ideal Institution.
• Develop different Training Curriculum, Module & Organize /Facilitation of Different Training.
• Representation, Liaison & Coordination with Govt. counterparts, NGOs and other Development Organization at District, Upazila & Union Level.
• Conduction of meeting, training and workshop & on the job training to the Govt. Staff & Project staff.
• Ensuring Performance management & Financial Management of both CARE & Partners.
Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in Human Resource Management, Royal University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Bachelor Degree (BSS) in Social Science under National University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Diploma in Civil Engineering under Bangladesh Technical Education Board, Dhaka, Bangladesh and got 1st division with 60% marks.
Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) in Science Group under Dhaka Board, Bangladesh and got 2nd division with 50% marks.
• Responsible for developing monitoring plan and partner NGO staff. • Provide support in establishing an effective standard MIS system. • Oversee regular data collection from the field. • Prepare feedback for the partner NGOs to improve performance. • Collect case studies and document those in a systematic manner. • Responsible for planning field training on M&E and MIS for the partner NGO Staff members.