Assistant Officer / Officer - Programme

Job Description

Title: Assistant Officer / Officer - Programme

Company Name: SOS Children`s Village International in Bangladesh

Vacancy: --

Age: At least 26 years

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Salary: Tk. 25000 - 30000 (Monthly)

Experience:

• 1 to 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): College, NGO

• Bachelor/Honors

• Graduation degree in any discipline (preferably in Social Science / Sociology).

• 1 to 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): College, NGO

• Age At least 26 years

• 1 to 5 years’ experience of working with the children and youth groups.

• Have knowledge of child rights & and protection issues and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

• Having strong leadership qualities with excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation and negotiation skills

• Ability to produce high-quality analytical reports and facilitate discussions at national and international levels.

• Adequate knowledge and skills in computer applications, especially MS Office packages & ICT and flexible to work in software.

• Candidates should have a good command of the English language (both written and spoken).

SOS Children's Village International in Bangladesh (www.sos-bangladesh.org) is a non-governmental social devolvement organisation provides care for the children who have lost parental care or who are at risk of losing parental care and deprived of caring family environment. SOS Children’s Village International is probably the largest private child welfare humanitarian organization working more than 130 countries and territories in the world. In Bangladesh, we started our operations in Dhaka in 1972, and since then we have expanded our activities from here to Rajshahi, Khulna, Bagerhat, Chattogram, Bogura, Kurigram, Gazipur and Sylhet.
Our Programmes contribute to delivering on SDGs with a special focus on our target group to improve national social protection system, fighting inequalities, promoting access to quality education, strengthening youth employability and ending violence against children.
Location of Job: Any SOS Location in Bangladesh
Area of Key Responsibilities:

• Support children and youth participants to achieve individual goals through education and skill training.

• To prepare child sponsorship letters in story telling technique, SPO lab video and pictures.

• To prepare village sponsorship letters in story telling technique, SPO lab video and village pictures.

• To prepare sponsorship related child departure text.

• Demonstrate initiative in order to maximize each youth’s achievement and potential.

• Responsible for running the facility smoothly as per the Children’s Village Programme Regulations.

• Encourage youth to enrol into employable education and find suitable technical courses.

• Ensure child & youth safeguarding and rights at every stage in the location level.

• Ensure that agreed work plans are successfully implemented at the location level.

• Organize counselling/training/workshop/meetings for the youth and co-workers as needed regularly.

• Support youths in building reliable and long-term relationship.

• Support the young people to bring up good human being with modest behavior.

• Maintain regular contact with the youths living in boarding houses/hostels and support them according to their needs including maintaining records.

• Responsible for academic performance of the youths, involves accessing the strength, locating suitable schools / colleges / institutions / universities, admission into educational institutions, visiting schools / colleges / institutions / universities, organizing tutorial support.

• Encourage children to enroll into employable education & find out suitable technical courses and to promote life skills & develop leadership qualities and healthy recreations for the children.

• Organize sports/games and recreational activities in structured way.

• Participate in youth activities in the Youth House and community.

• Adherence to the Child and Youth Safeguarding Policy & Code of Conduct and Sexual Misconduct Regulation (PSHEA) of the organization.

• Any other task assigned by the management.

• Residential: BDT 25,000 to BDT 30,000 along with single accommodation.

• Non-Residential: BDT 30,000 to BDT 35,000.