BRAC
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Summary
- Vacancy: —
- Location: Cox’s Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)
- Salary: Negotiable
- Experience: At least 3 years
- Published: 1 Jun 2025
Requirements
Education
- Bachelor’s in Business Administration, Economics, Development Studies, Social Sciences, or relevant discipline from a reputed university or institute.
- Training or certification in Livelihoods Programming, Labour Market Linkages, or Entrepreneurship Development will get preference.
Experience
- At least 3 years
- The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):
NGO, Development Agency
Additional Requirements
KNOWLEDGE:
• In-depth understanding of local labour markets, especially in humanitarian or displacement contexts.
• Familiarity with skills development frameworks.
• Knowledge of livelihood, protection, and gender-sensitive programming.
• Understanding of refugee policy and operational constraints in the Rohingya response.
SKILLS:
• Strong communication, negotiation, and networking skills.
• Practical skills in community engagement and market mapping.
• Budget tracking and financial monitoring skills.
• Data collection, analysis, and reporting using MS Excel or MIS tools.
• Problem-solving and adaptability under pressure.
COMPETENCIES:
• Strategic thinking and results-oriented delivery.
• Empathy, cultural sensitivity, and respect for humanitarian principles.
• Professional integrity and compliance adherence.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and teams efficiently.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership abilities.
Responsibilities & Context
The Deputy Project Manager – Market Linkage is responsible for coordinating and ensuring sustainable livelihood opportunities for skills training graduates across assigned camps and host community centres. The role focuses on building pathways for self and wage employment, creating strong linkages with local market actors, private sector partners, and community-based initiatives. This position also leads volunteer and participant management, supports coordination with CiC offices, and ensures compliance with administrative and financial procedures in line with project objectives.
Employment Linkage and Market Engagement
- Facilitate self and wage employment for skills training graduates in coordination with private sector actors, NGOs, and community networks.
- Build and maintain partnerships with market actors (e.g. SMEs, local contractors) to create viable livelihood pathways.
- Coordinate career counselling and post-training support (e.g., entrepreneurship, referrals for volunteer roles, apprenticeships).
- Supervise the mobilisation and engagement of institutional participants (volunteers already in jobs) for advanced training.
- Oversee the enrolment of graduates into production centres and support small-scale business setups.
Administration, Coordination, and Volunteer Management
- Submit need assessments, monthly updates, and completion reports to CiC offices across assigned camps.
- Ensure timely and accurate processing of payments for volunteers, labourers, utilities, and training participants.
- Lead recruitment, onboarding, supervision, and performance tracking of volunteers per project guidelines.
- Represent BRAC at camp-level meetings and coordination platforms, especially with CiC, UN agencies, and sectoral working groups.
- Conduct community consultations and ensure continuous feedback is incorporated into programme adaptation.
Monitoring, Budgeting, and Reporting
- Track employment outcomes, follow-up on placed graduates, and document case studies and impact stories.
- Coordinate with M&E team to ensure timely data collection on employment status, income generation, and market engagement.
- Assist with budget planning and financial tracking, ensuring efficient use of self/wage employment resources.
- Contribute to donor reports and programme reviews, ensuring accuracy and timely submission.
Safeguarding Implementation:
- Ensure the safety of Programme Participants, people who come into contact with the organisation and team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) to achieve the programme’s goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
- Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
- Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do so.
Skills & Expertise
Market Development
Compensation & Other Benefits
- Weekly 2 holidays
- Festival Bonus: 2
• Festival Bonus
• Health & Life Insurance
• Paternity/ Maternity leave
• others as per Organisation policy.
Workplace
Work at office
Employment Status
Contractual
Job Location
Cox’s Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)