Project Manager, STRIDES

Business Title            : Project Manager, STRIDES

Report To                  : Project Director, STRIDES

Location                     : Dhaka, Bangladesh

ABOUT FHI 360

FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Our staff includes experts in health, education, nutrition, environment, economic development, youth, research, technology, communication, and social marketing—creating a unique mix of capabilities to address today’s interrelated development challenges. FHI 360 serves more than 50 countries and all US states and territories.

FHI 360 has worked in Bangladesh for more than 45 years. Since 1975, we have taken a comprehensive approach to help transform the country’s health and development landscape. Leveraging a blend of global expertise and local insights, we have consistently strengthened community capacities, enhanced systems, and reinforced institutional frameworks for a sustainable impact. In partnership with the Government of Bangladesh, civil society, academia, and the private sector, FHI 360 Bangladesh delivers integrated programs across critical sectors. Our initiatives have spanned essential health services—including HIV and nutrition, tuberculosis, global health security, and economic participation. 

The U.S. government’s (USG) Global Health Security (GHS) program provides life-saving assistance to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats which pose risks for public health outbreaks that could cost lives. As part of the USG’s GHS program, the STRengthening Infectious disease DEtection Systems (STRIDES) Activity advances cross-sectoral efforts to successfully identify, manage, and respond to infectious disease threats; detect and prevent further outbreaks; and instill confidence and trust in a country’s disease detection and surveillance structures and services.

Position Description:

The Project Manager, STRIDES will provide overall management, coordination, and technical oversight for the implementation of the STRengthening Infectious disease DEtection Systems (STRIDES) Activity in Bangladesh. Reporting to the Project Director, the Project Manager will lead day-to-day project operations to ensure that all activities are executed efficiently, on schedule, within budget, and in compliance with donor and organizational requirements. S/he will oversee project planning, budgeting, implementation, and performance monitoring, while ensuring alignment with STRIDES’ objectives to strengthen infectious disease detection, surveillance, and response systems. The Project Manager will coordinate closely with technical teams, sub-award partners, and relevant government and stakeholder counterparts to ensure integrated, high-quality, and timely delivery of project outcomes. Key responsibilities include supporting the oversight of work plans and deliverables, supporting risk and compliance management, monitoring progress against performance indicators, and facilitating effective communication among internal and external stakeholders. The incumbent will also support adaptive management by promoting learning, documentation of best practices, and continuous improvement in program implementation. The Project Manager plays a central role in ensuring STRIDES contributes to advancing the country’s global health security agenda by strengthening systems to detect, prevent, and respond to infectious disease threats in a sustainable and coordinated manner.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinates and ensures the development of projects from initiation to completion based on the established project scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Develops and manages the project workplan, assigns tasks in workplan in accordance with established project RASCI, and ensures overall progress
• Oversees documentation and reporting, ensures accuracy and presents updates to stakeholders
• Leads stakeholder communication, ensuring alignment and addressing concerns
• Develop and deliver a project workplan encompassing all the details of a project to the team members, including a project RASCI that clearly outlines the roles and responsibilities of every function within the project.
• Coordinate project team members to ensure project objectives and deliverables are met, fostering a collaborative work environment.
• Provide guidance and monitoring for project staff, ensuring clarity over project plans and priorities, and encouraging effective teamwork.
• Develops best practices and tools for project execution and management.
• Evaluates the progress of the project on a regular basis.
• Builds, develops, and grows partnerships with internal and external partners vital to the success of the project.
• Ensures budgets are reflective of the activities in the project workplan and reforecast as changes are made to the workplan and in alignment with the scope of the project
• Manages the operational and tactical aspects of multiple projects in a matrix environment.
• Manages the development of project teams to ensure compliance with policies and procedures; also, to develop and implement process improvement plans.
• Keeps abreast of the latest strategies, tools and terminologies used in project management worldwide to adopt and increase productivity
• Ensure proper donor and organizational approvals are obtained prior to work being completed.

• Proactively identify potential risk that could impact project successes, including financial, operational, technical and external risks.
• Evaluate the likelihood and impact of identified risks and prioritize them based on severity
• Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies, including contingency plans to address potential issues before they arise
• Continuously monitor risks throughout the project lifecycle, updating the risk management plan and tracker as needed, and reporting on risk status to stakeholders
• Manages overall project risks and resolve any issues or risks that materialize, minimizing their impact on the project, and reporting on risks status to stakeholders.

• Establish a communication schedule to update stakeholders including appropriate staff in the organization on the progress of the project.
• Develop a schedule for project completion that effectively allocates the resources to the activities.
• Review the project schedule with project senior management and project staff and revise the schedule as required.
• Execute the project according to the project plan.
• Author reports (i.e., deliverables) on the project for management and for funders.
• Communicate with funders as outlined in funding agreements; ensuring project management dashboard is updated accordingly.
• Oversee the execution of sub-awards and consultants, ensuring all agreements are properly documented and aligned with project goals and donor requirements.
• Leads sub-award design and is responsible for sub-award monitoring.
• Monitor sub awardees to ensure compliance with terms and conditions, including collaborating with finance manager on monitoring financial reporting, and performance obligations.

• Builds, develops, and grows partnerships vital to the success of the project and possible follow-on.
• Identifies partnerships, opportunities, and information to present to management to help achieve strategic goals of the company, project, and potential follow-on.
• Leads aspects of business development and project design efforts within division (such as drafting management section in a proposal), considering lessons learned from current projects.

• Collaborate with the finance manager to determine the resources (time, money, equipment, etc.) required to complete the project.
• Collaborating with finance manager to monitor and approve all budgeted project expenditures in accordance with the workplan and what has been budgeted/forecasted; serves as backstop for approving financial expenditures.
• Collaborate with finance manager to ensure that all financial records for the project are up to date.
•  Ensures financial reports and supporting documentation for funders as outlined in funding agreement.

• Coaches, mentors, and manages Operations, Logistics Officer and Office Services Assistant, and other country program staff to ensure quality, efficiency and compliance with project and company
• Develop tools and techniques for delegating tasks according to the skills of project management office team members and also to evaluate the performance of project management office team members.
• Ensure that all project personnel receive an appropriate orientation to the organization and the project.

• Works independently and with other agencies to build local community acceptance.
• Comprehensive knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures with project management, process development and execution.
• Strong knowledge of project management software and other technologies.
• Strong negotiator and problem solver.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Bangla required.
• Demonstrated project and personnel management skills.
• Ability to influence, motivate, and collaborate with others.
• Ability to adapt and resolve problems/issues to bring project to completion.
• Creating and Managing Systems and Processes.
• Recognizes the need for standardization and balances client and organization needs in systems design.
• Anticipates the effects of process change on people while optimizing task efficiency and simplicity.

• Decisions and actions have serious implications with delays in project schedules and operations and may affect overall business activities.
• Problems are complex and require analysis of situations and data with evaluation of a range of factors.
• Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies to select methods and techniques to obtain results.

• Manages staff, including Operations and Logistics Officer and Office Services Assistant to achieve goals and vision of project from initiation to completion.
• Coordinates project plans, budgets, training, and resources with management to achieve strategic goals.
• Reports to the Project Director.

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Administration, Project Management, International Development, or a related field.
• Professional training or certification in Project Management (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2), Gender, Health, Nutrition, Research, Technology and Youth or related areas will be an added advantage.
• Project Management (PM) Certification preferred.

• Typically requires a minimum of 8+ years of relevant experience with projects management principles and practices, 2+ years of line management experience required.
• Prior work experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency, or private organization, and experience managing United States government funded awards.
• Experience managing and/or supporting complex USG contract/acquisition mechanisms required.
• Familiar with USG rules and regulations.
• International or domestic (US) program development or project management preferred.

• Typical office environment.
• Ability to spend long hours looking at computer screen and doing repetitive work on a keyboard.
• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time.
• Ability to lift/move up to 5 lbs.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work and are subject to modification. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with the job. 

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