Assistant Project Officer- Health, Nutrition & Surveillance
Job Description
Title: Assistant Project Officer- Health, Nutrition & Surveillance
Company Name: Action Contre la Faim (ACF)
Vacancy: 1
Location: Satkhira
Maximum Salary: Tk. 38874 (Monthly)
Experience:
∎ At least 2 years
Published: 6 Feb 2024
Education:
∎ Bachelor of Social Science (BSS)
∎ Nutrition or any relevant discipline
∎ Nutrition or any relevant discipline
Requirements:
Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 3 months professional experience working in the field level assessments and 6 months in community engagement.
∎ Working experience with surveillance will added value·
∎ Strong understanding and field level experience of stakeholders identification.
∎ Strong understanding and field level experience on data collection.
∎ Experience in working as outreach supervision.
∎ Willing to travel frequently to the field to monitor activities·
∎ Excellent coordination and collaboration skills·
∎ Flexibility and creativity·
∎ Team player with strong capacity to lead Training and staff capacity development skills·
∎ Ability to work under pressure
∎ Knowledge of informatics: Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc
∎ At least 3 months professional experience working in the field level assessments and 6 months in community engagement.
∎ Working experience with surveillance will added value·
∎ Strong understanding and field level experience of stakeholders identification.
∎ Strong understanding and field level experience on data collection.
∎ Experience in working as outreach supervision.
∎ Willing to travel frequently to the field to monitor activities·
∎ Excellent coordination and collaboration skills·
∎ Flexibility and creativity·
∎ Team player with strong capacity to lead Training and staff capacity development skills·
∎ Ability to work under pressure
∎ Knowledge of informatics: Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc
Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Read and ensure a full understanding of ACFs Gender Minimum Standards & Child Protection Policies, asking questions and/or for support when necessary.
∎ Implement all work related activities with a gender, disability and child protection lens, taking into account the different needs, concerns and ideas of our staff and beneficiaries.
∎ Ensure the incorporation of gender equity principles in all policies and activities
∎ Encourage the participation of all genders in meeting and on committees.
∎ Help build an inclusive office environment where people do not feel disadvantaged or judged according to their gender or limited due to manageable disability.
∎ Objective 1: Increase community capability to anticipate, respond and adapt to climate induced health impacts.
∎ Community Engagement: Facilitate community needs assessments to identify health-related vulnerabilities. Engage with partners staffs and community-Based Organizations (CBOs), local institutions, and stakeholders to disseminate project findings and build awareness about climate-induced health risks.
∎ Training and Capacity Building: Conduct capacity-building and training sessions for community members, local institutions, and stakeholders on data collection, supervise partner staffs on early warning dissemination, and functioning Health Info Hubs. On job training for partner staffs to enge empower communities to actively participate in anticipatory actions.
∎ Information Dissemination: Enhance community access to early warning systems by integrating traditional knowledge and modern technologies. Collaborate with disaster management committees to ensure reliable, accurate, and timely forecasts are communicated to vulnerable communities.
∎ Risk Analysis and Surveillance: Contribute to the comprehensive risk analysis of climate-induced health risks. Assist in developing community-led surveillance guidelines for monitoring and tracking disease outbreaks. Work closely with local health authorities to implement surveillance measures.
∎ Protocol Implementation: Support partners for the scaling up of community-based activities related to anticipatory actions on health. Implement draft protocols and frameworks on a larger scale, reaching wider vulnerable communities. Document evidence to support advocacy efforts at the local level.
∎ Objective 2: Evidence based advocacy for scaling up the best practices of community led adaptation to health impacts of climate change.
∎ Best Practice Identification and Documentation: Support program teams for identification and documentation of successful community-led adaptation practices addressing health impacts of climate change.
∎ Advocacy and Stakeholder Engagement: Assist DPM, SPO and Partners Staffs in the advocacy efforts at the community and sub-national level.
∎ Objective ( 3) : Proactively support ACFs commitments to gender equality, child protection and disability sensitivity ·
∎ Read and ensure a full understanding of ACFs Gender Minimum Standards & Child Protection Policies, asking questions and/or for support when necessary.
∎ Implement all work related activities with a gender, disability and child protection lens, taking into account the different needs, concerns and ideas of our staff and beneficiaries.
∎ Ensure the incorporation of gender equity principles in all policies and activities
∎ Encourage the participation of all genders in meeting and on committees.
∎ Help build an inclusive office environment where people do not feel disadvantaged or judged according to their gender or limited due to manageable disability.
Skills & Expertise:
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival Bonus: 1-month basic salary twice per year.
∎ Provident Fund: 7.5% of basic salary.
∎ Gratuity As per organization policy.
∎ Group Life, Hospitalization and OPD as per organization policy.
∎ 18 days of paid annual leave per year.
∎ 10 days of paid casual leave per year.
∎ Up to 01 month of paid sick leave per year.
∎ Up to 26 calendar weeks maternity leave.
∎ Paternity leave, compassionate leave and marriage leave.
∎ Birth allowance and marriage allowance.
∎ Mobile allowance and food allowance.
∎ Free and unlimited access to the certifying e-learning platform Cross Knowledge.
∎ Festival Bonus: 1-month basic salary twice per year.
∎ Provident Fund: 7.5% of basic salary.
∎ Gratuity As per organization policy.
∎ Group Life, Hospitalization and OPD as per organization policy.
∎ 18 days of paid annual leave per year.
∎ 10 days of paid casual leave per year.
∎ Up to 01 month of paid sick leave per year.
∎ Up to 26 calendar weeks maternity leave.
∎ Paternity leave, compassionate leave and marriage leave.
∎ Birth allowance and marriage allowance.
∎ Mobile allowance and food allowance.
∎ Free and unlimited access to the certifying e-learning platform Cross Knowledge.
Workplace:
∎ Work at office
Employment Status: Contractual
Job Location: Satkhira
Read Before Apply:
Action Against Hunger is committed to fostering equal opportunities for individuals of all genders and backgrounds, valuing diversity within its workforce. We strictly prohibit any form of discrimination based on gender, race, age, disability, religion, national origin, color, or any other protected class.
Action Against Hunger maintains a non-negotiable ZERO TOLERANCE policy concerning the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation & Abuse, Child Protection, Gender, and Safeguarding. All Action Against Hunger employees are required to abide by the Charter of Principles and Code of Conduct.
Company Information:
∎ Action Contre la Faim (ACF)
∎ Orin Tower, House # 23, Road # 113/A, Gulshan - 2, Dhaka 1212
∎ Action Contre la Faim | Action Against Hunger is a humanitarian non-Governmental, non-political, neutral and non-profit international organization (INGO) that was established in France in 1979 to deliver aid in countries throughout the world. The aim of Action Against Hunger is to save lives by combating Hunger and Disasters that threaten the Lives of vulnerable Children, Women & Men. Since 2007, Action Against Hunger has been providing assistance to vulnerable populations in Bangladesh in the arena of Nutrition & Health, Mental Health & Care Practices (MHCP), Food Security & Livelihoods (FSL & DRR), and Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WaSH).
Address::
∎ Orin Tower, House # 23, Road # 113/A, Gulshan - 2, Dhaka 1212
∎ Action Contre la Faim | Action Against Hunger is a humanitarian non-Governmental, non-political, neutral and non-profit international organization (INGO) that was established in France in 1979 to deliver aid in countries throughout the world. The aim of Action Against Hunger is to save lives by combating Hunger and Disasters that threaten the Lives of vulnerable Children, Women & Men. Since 2007, Action Against Hunger has been providing assistance to vulnerable populations in Bangladesh in the arena of Nutrition & Health, Mental Health & Care Practices (MHCP), Food Security & Livelihoods (FSL & DRR), and Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WaSH).
Application Deadline: 20 Feb 2024
Category: NGO/Development
Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 20th Feb 2024
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