Team leader - flood resistant shelter (FRESH) project

Background

Since the Coastal Embankment Project of South West Bangladesh was implemented back in 1960s, the region has been blighted by regular floods. Over the last twelve years, the problem has become ever more severe. In consortium with a number of other NGOs, Oxfam established the FRESH project to construct shelters and support the region’s people in their preparation for future floods.  As the technical lead on this project, you’ll have a direct impact on its success.

Dimensions

• Managing and Facilitating of DFID- FRESH staff (Oxfam, Consortium and partner staff, including many who line report to others)
• Diverse and complex problem-solving with professional knowledge, understanding of development and humanitarian work.
• Work patterns are not routine and often high pressure.
• Makes complex technical information accessible and usable by non-specialist.

Key responsibilities

• Strategic planning and coordination
• With humanitarian team and other consortium members, design FRESH shelter recovery strategy for the water-logging affected area and communities, integrated with WASH, DRR and with the long-term country programme.
• To ensure that FRESH strategy is being implemented in water-logging affected communities.
• To ensure that "lessons learned" from previous family shelter interventions (SIDR and Aila) is reviewed and taken care of while implementing the current project component.
• Act as technical lead within consortium and provide technical and capacity building support across consortium members
• Project design and implementation
• The role of Team Leader is mainly focused on maintaining standard and quality construction of shelters in the affected area with ensuring that WASH and shelter activities in the selected project areas are implemented in accordance with need assessment and plan of action.
• Provide support to partners in planning, designing and reviewing technical aspects of the project including budget.
• Support preparation of guidelines in local context containing the sketch of the design with surface, bill of quantities and other.
• Monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning, reporting
• To provide technical support in developing MEAL tools to be used by the team and partners to ensure that relevant information is being collected to inform strategy and implementation, to ensure accountability and learning and to ensure that sufficient information is being collected for donor reporting.
• To support the implementation of midterm and final evaluations.
• Lead and facilitate monitoring data collection , compilation, analysing and presenting to Consortium coordinator and other as appropriate for decision making
• Lead baseline and end line survey
• To provide technical leadership in the analysis of the DFID-FRESH consortium monitoring and evaluation data and report writing.
• Staff management and supervision of consultants
• Conduct performance reviews of staff reporting to this position, according to the Oxfam procedures.
• Build the capacity of Oxfam and partner staff and provide guidance and leadership.

Skills and competence

• University degree in Civil Engineering.
• In depth work experience in construction related to water and sanitation / public health
• Proven ability to develop design and estimate for construction work.
• Working experience with government / I/NGOs
• Experience of working on disaster response and risk reduction projects with flood/Cyclone focus
• Excellent communication skills (speaking, reading and writing) and reasonable communication skills in English.
• Proven excellent analytical, conceptual and report writing skills.
• Ability and willingness to undertake travel (15-20 days a month) in challenging geography
• Strong commitment to accountability, social justice, promoting gender awareness and equality.
• Strong project cycle skills
- Assessments, design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and strategic planning skills.
• Financial Proven computer competence.
• Ability to work effectively in a culturally diverse organization