Consortium Coordinator - Peoples Oriented Program Implementation (POPI)

Founded in 1986, People's Oriented Program Implementation (POPI) is a growing Non-Government Organization (NGO) working across the country. POPI has been at the forefront of country's social and economic endeavor since inception. It envisions a prudent nation free from hunger and poverty where every citizen leads a life with dignity and equity. POPI pursues a mission to work for and with people irrespective of religion, caste, ethnicity, creed, belief, age and gender who are in any form marginalization and exclusion. POPI's programs revolves around six major areas including education, livelihood development, health, rights and governance, DRR & CCA and Financial Services. At present POPI is working in 29 districts across Bangladesh with an effective network of regional, zonal, branch and field offices.

POPI, as the consortium (made up of POPI and DRRA) lead has recently signed an accord with the world-renowned Malala Fund to implement an advocacy project to promote girls' education. The project is supposed to be implemented in 4 divisions for a period of 6 months.

Under the auspices of Malala Fund, POPI is going to recruit an experienced and enthusiastic individual to effectively execute the operations of the said project. Hence, POPI invites applications from confident and committed individuals to immediately fill the following exciting position:

Name of the Position: Consortium Coordinator
Salary: Gross 70,000/- and other admissible benefits as per the project provision.

Job Summary
The Consortium Coordinator will conduct specific advocacy activities for creating an environment conducive to girls' education in the 4 disaster-prone divisions and at the national level for awareness raising and informed decision-making among the concerned individuals and institutions.

Major Areas of Responsibilities:

• Organize seminar at district and division levels
• Organize national level dissemination conference
• Assist in organizing television talk shows
• Organize roundtables with print and electronic media journalists
• Prepare position papers, analytics, fact sheets and PowerPoint presentations
• Communicate with a host of stakeholders including top bureaucrats, academicians, public representatives and policy makers etc.
• Identify resource persons and/or panelists to discuss chosen issues/topics to be disseminated
• Plan, execute and report different events
• Monitor and report project progress
• Ensure effective use of resources
• Perform other duties as assigned

Key Requirements

• The applicant should be a Master's degree holder preferably with Social Science background.
• At least five years of experience with donor supported project
• Well conversant with Microsoft packages and the internet
• Good command over spoken and written English and Bengali
• Relevant experience on advocacy will be an added advantage

Application Instructions
If you feel that your qualification and experience match with the requirements please send your updated CV along with cover letter to: Deputy Director, HR & Admin Department, People's Oriented Program Implementation (POPI), House # 5/11-A, Block# E, Lalmatia, Dhaka-1207 Or E-mail to: [email protected]

Please mark the position applied for on the envelope or in the email's subject line. Any act of persuasion will result in disqualification. Only sort-listed candidates will be called for interview.

Closing date for applications: April 29, 2023