Project Coordinator (PC)

Company Name: Institute of Development Affairs (IDEA)

Location: Sylhet (Golapganj)

Job Type: Full-Time

Workplace Type: Full-time

Job ID: IJOB202659820

Project Duration: 01 August 2026 to 31 December 2028

Job Duration: 29 Months

Location: Golapganj Upazila of Sylhet District

Type of Contract: Fixed-Term

Position Overview

The Project Coordinator is responsible for providing overall leadership, coordination, planning, and management of the STEP Project implemented by the Institute of Development Affairs (IDEA), Project funded by SOS-Sweden and Technical support by SOS Children`s Villages International in Bangladesh. The position ensures timely, high-quality, and results-oriented implementation of project activities related to livelihoods, disaster risk reduction (DRR), child protection, community mobilization, and institutional strengthening while ensuring compliance with donor requirements, organizational policies, and government regulations. The Project Coordinator will lead the project team, strengthen partnerships with local stakeholders, and ensure effective delivery of project outcomes for children and vulnerable families in flood-prone communities.

Key Responsibilities

Project Leadership and Management: Lead overall project implementation, develop annual, quarterly, and monthly work plans, coordinate project staff, monitor implementation progress, and ensure achievement of project objectives, outputs, and outcomes within approved timelines and budgets.

• Technical Oversight: Provide technical guidance and quality assurance for project interventions on sustainable livelihoods, disaster risk reduction, child protection, safeguarding, gender equality, and community resilience. Ensure interventions meet project standards and beneficiary needs.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Maintain effective coordination with SOS Children`s Villages Bangladesh, government departments, Union Parishads, community-based organizations, schools, local NGOs, and other relevant stakeholders. Represent IDEA in coordination meetings, technical working groups, and project review forums.
• Community Engagement: Lead community consultations, beneficiary selection and verification, awareness campaigns, social accountability initiatives, and community feedback mechanisms while ensuring inclusive participation of women, children, youth, persons with disabilities, and marginalized groups.
• Team Supervision: Supervise and mentor Project Officers, Community Mobilizers, Community Facilitators, and Community Volunteers. Conduct regular performance reviews, identify capacity-building needs, and promote teamwork and accountability.
• Planning, Monitoring and Reporting: Prepare implementation plans, progress reports, donor reports, event reports, success stories, case studies, lessons learned, and project evaluations.
  
  

Requirements

• Experience: 7 years
• Education: development studies
• Skills: project co-ordination, project coordination, onsite coordination, project scope development, civil society development, safety committee coordination, program coordination, multiple project coordination
  
  

Last Date of Application: 09 September 2026