Programme Manager

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The organisation

WildTeam’s vision is a future with more wildlife to enrich people’s lives and more wild places for the magnificent diversity of life on earth. Our mission is to carry out activities to improve the conservation status of key species and habitats in Bangladesh, and to develop partnerships, tools, and platforms to build the capacity of organisations and individuals to carry out effective conservation. Since 2008, WildTeam has worked predominantly in the Sundarbans mangrove forest ecosystem, home to the Royal Bengal Tiger: a flagship species for the ecosystem and symbol of pride for Bangladesh. Here the goal of our TigerTeam work is to see a Sundarbans packed full of tigers, as an indicator of health of the whole ecosystem and its ability to provide benefits to people, climate and nature. To reach this goal we have three key work areas: Social change, Living with Tigers, and Wild Science. WildTeam is a non-profit organisation head-quartered in Dhaka, with Sundarbans offices in Khulna, Sarankhola, Mongla and Satkhira range. For more information, visit www.wildteam.org.bd. 

Role and responsibilities

The Programme Manager is a leadership position responsible for shaping WildTeam’s conservation strategy and delivering WildTeam’s conservation programmes. The successful candidate must be an expert programme manager with a proven record of successful delivery of conservation programmes and their projects. WildTeam is a small, nimble team, and the successful candidate will be passionate about the work of small and medium non-profit organisations, rather a “project worker”, and able to work at the strategic planning level as well as being a hands-on manager and doer. WildTeam works with a wide range of national and international donor, government and NGO partners to develop and deliver its programmes. The successful candidate is expected to be adept at developing and fostering relationships. To join our team, you will share our team’s determination to make game-changing impact for nature, be exceptional at what you do, be strategic, methodical, and have a positive attitude. The position would require you to work from the Dhaka office, with travel to field offices close to the Sundarbans.

Above all, WildTeamers believe that success lies in ensuring that each and every member of our team – including the volunteer network of Sundarbans tiger response teams – feels ownership over the organisation. We expect that the successful candidate to believe in people and treat everyone as an equal. 

Strategy, partnerships and planning

  • Conservation strategy and M&E plan: Review and strengthen WildTeam’s Conservation strategy and M&E plan, following WildTeam’s Conservation Planning and M&E best practices. 
  • Partnership strategy: Develop a partnership strategy, identifying funding and delivery partners, and establishing and managing these partnerships. 
  • Programme and project planning: Breakdown the strategy into programmes and projects with associated project plans including budgets.
  • Monitor, evaluate and reporton progress against the WildTeam Conservation Strategy and M&E plan, providing monthly reporting to the CEO and quarterly and annual reporting to the CEO and Board.
  • Organisational sustainability: Leads on organisational sustainability planning and implementation of that plan.

Project management – work planning and budget control: 

  • Programme and project management: Act as the team champion of programme and project management, ensuring compliance by the whole team to WildTeam’s project management approach to ensure controlled delivery of all WildTeam’s projects. 
  • Maintain control of programme and projects’scope and schedule according to the annual milestones, andby applying programme and project management process and tools. 
  • Maintain control of programme and project budgetsby adhering to the WildTeam financial policies and procedures, ensuring prompt fund requests and expense submission and review of monthly, quarterly and annual plan vs. actual spend reports provided by the Finance team.
  • Workplan maintenance and Status reporting: Maintain workplans, reporting status to the CEO on a weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual basis, scheduling and attending regular status meetings, and raising and resolving and risks and issues promptly with the CEO.

Fundraising and communications

  • Concept notes: Develop concept notes as the foundation for grant applications.
  • Donor relationship development and proposal writing: Work withthe CEO and Grant Writer on donor identification, donor-to-project alignment, donor engagement and grant proposal writing. 
  • Donor reporting:Lead donor reporting, ensuring done in a timely fashion and according to donor requirements.
  • Communications collateral: Support the development of communications collateral e.g. website content, promo media/films, quarterly and annual reports, to support donor recruitment and reporting.

Minimum requirements 

  • Minimum of a Batchelor’s degree in any discipline.  
  • At least 7-10 years of programme management experience with demonstrable ability to deliver complex programmes of work on schedule and budget, and prioritise and manage multiple projects at once. 
  • Experience working in longer term roles in small/medium organisations and not just in short- lived project roles.  
  • Experience developing and implementing innovative solutions to complex challenges. 
  • Proven ability to secure project funding including successful proposal development and maintaining strong reporting relationships with donors. 
  • Computer literacy, including mastery of Microsoft Office Suite. 
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner and an excellent eye for detail. 
  • Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills.  
  • Puts the organisation first, has a strong strategic mindset, and is not driven by projects.
  • Great team player, friendly, and enjoys working in, and motivating, small/medium-sized teams. 

 Desired requirements 

  • Working knowledge of the Bangladeshi conservation sector, with proven exposure and productive networks within government, private and NGO arenas. 
  • Experience founding and or running small/medium sized organisations.

Please send a BRIEF 1-2 page cover letter detailing the below to [email protected], as well as a short CV of no more than 4 pages. 

  1. How do you meet the above requirements? 
  2. What are your salary / package expectations? 
  3. When would you likely be available to begin work? 

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for an interview. Applicants who send only a CV with no covering letter will not be shortlisted.