Purpose of the RoleUnder the direct supervision of the Head of Emergency and Resilience Program, the Program Coordinator will be responsible for ensuring a well-coordinated, consistent and quality implementation of the multi-sectoral DFAT funded program. This program, here on after referred to as the “program” comprises Women’s Protection & Empowerment, Protection & Rule of Law, Child Protection, Emergency Preparedness and Response, Education, Health, and Economic Recovery and Development interventions in compliance with the IRC, donor and GoB policies. The Program Coordinator will be accountable for the overall achievement of the program's deliverables, within the fixed timeframe, and according to the approved budget, including the program monitoring the activities implemented by IRC and local partners. In liaison with the technical sector leads, The Program Coordinator will ensure and maintain alignment with the program goal and be accountable for the cost-effective delivery of the multi-sectoral integrated program. The Program Coordinator will be the focal point with relevant internal and external collaborators and facilitate their collaboration towards successful program implementation. Highlights of Key Responsibilities Strategic Planning and LeadershipUnder the strategic guidance of the Head of Emergency and Resilience Program, participate in meetings with the donor to discuss the program progress and/or adaptation updates, and support in the decision-making on the emerging programmatic and operational issues.Coordinate with the IRC technical sector leads under Protection, Education, Health, and Economic Recovery & Development on the strategic direction and leadership for the program, including evidence based adaptation of the technical sector interventions during the course of the program duration.Monitor and stay up to date on the emerging context-specific factors and risks impacting IRC planning and implementation, e.g. early warning data and actors mapping, and make recommendations to the technical sector leads and the Country Management Team (CMT) as appropriate.Support the program implementation teams to ensure that all program sectors, and the interventions therein, have an inbuilt risk analysis and the mitigation mechanisms to adapt to a change in the context or the Rohingya Crisis Joint Response Plan (JRP), with a crisis management plan.Ensure robust program-wide and sector-level preparedness capacity to respond to the potential future shocks and disasters, with adequate preparedness, risk reduction, and early or timely action.  Management of program staff and program implementationAs the program lead, have matrix staff management responsibility for all the IRC implementation staff, working closely with the technical sector leads, as per IRC management in partnership (MIP) approach. Foster the intervention level integration both within and across the IRC technical sectors in the program, through the implementation team dynamics and intervention delivery by both IRC and local partners. Oversee and coordinate development of intra- and inter-program work plans, monitoring and evaluation plans, spending plans, and communication materials like success stories, case studies, IEC, etc.Oversee the spending and financial management practices of both IRC and local partner implementation teams, including chairing monthly budget plan versus spending analyses for IRC and partners.Ensure proactive and constructive linkages between the program implementation teams and IRC support function teams including Field Operations, Government Liaison, and Finance teams. Ensure collaboration and healthy and constructive working relationships of the program implementation teams with the communications and advocacy, partnerships, grants, and the monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) functions of IRC, including ensuring accountability to affected populations (AAP), gender, diversity & inclusion, protection mainstreaming, and advocacy.Lead the project cycle management processes and provide leadership for the smooth implementation of the program, including kick-off meetings, regular technical review meetings and close-out meetings, engaging both internal and external stakeholders as appropriate.Support the processes for the timely approval of FD-7 and associated needs assessments during program implementation, and the eventual project certification by local authorities, including proactively identifying support needs for both IRC and local partners.Foster program compliance to the donor, with guidance from the IRC Grants team; to the Government of Bangladesh, with guidance from the IRC Government liaison team; and to IRC, as per the IRC policies. Promote and ensure effective implementation of the IRC way, harassment-free workplace policy and safeguarding policy for both IRC and local partner implementation teams. Partnership management Oversee the partnership management processes, in collaboration with the partnerships team and the technical sector leads, to ensure well-planned, timely, coordinated implementation through local partners.Actively promote meaningful partner engagement in program delivery and adaptation, as well as in the Project Cycle Meetings (PCM) processes.Liaise with finance and technical sector leads towards timely funds transfer to partners and proper tailored financial management support for partners.Liaise with the partnerships team to ensure the timely and effective partner monitoring, review, and reflection, on the mutually agreed tailored partner capacity strengthening plans.Ensure collaboration between IRC and partners in the timely identification and constructive resolution of issues. Grants ManagementLead on compliance with the provisions of the donor agreement with IRC in areas such as the program implementation, reporting, financial management, and other risks, for both IRC and partners.Ensure program compliance with contractual narrative and financial reporting requirements of the donor.Proactively conduct program review and monitoring activities to take stock of progress, identify and flag emerging issues, and ensure that they are addressed and the donor is kept abreast of any developments.  Coordination and representationRepresent the program with the donor, sub-national and national level coordination platforms led by ISCG, RRRC, District Administration, National level actors, Technical Sector Working Groups, UN Agencies and government Authorities meetings when needed.Proactively contribute to the IRC in-country and international advocacy initiatives through sharing regular contextual analysis and evidence from the program implementation and developments in the sectors.  Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL):Coordinate with the MEAL team to ensure an operational comprehensive MEAL plan for the program. Ensure that the technical sector quality benchmarks are applied to monitor the quality of implementation. Ensure operational knowledge management and clients’ feedback systems throughout the project cycle.Foster results-based management with data analysis and program responsiveness to emerging trends.