Assistant Project Officer(General)-Humanitarian & Resilience

Job Description

Title: Assistant Project Officer(General)-Humanitarian & Resilience

Company Name: Islamic Relief Bangladesh

Vacancy: 7

Age: Na

Job Location: Kishoreganj, Kishoreganj (Itna, Mithamain), Mymensingh (Dhobaura), Sherpur (Nalitabari)

Salary: Tk. 51659 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

• Bachelor/Honors

• Bachelor’s degree in Disaster Management or Social Sciences or Development Studies or Public Health or Geography & Environment or a relevant discipline from a recognized university.

• At least 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

Experience (Essential)

• Minimum 3 years’ Working Experience in:
• WASH intervention
• Cash based programming
• Emergency response
• Recovery activities
• Seasonal programs
• Social mobilization
• Work experience in coastal and flood-prone areas

Skills and Competencies:

• Project implementation
• Basic project management
• Community and social mobilization
• Technical knowledge of TW construction
• Technical knowledge of latrine construction
• Activity management
• Planning and analytical skills
• Financial management
• Communication and networking
• Problem solving and decision making
• Conflict resolution
• Interpersonal and behavioral skills
• Professionalism, integrity, positive attitude
• Self-motivation and self-confidence
• Ability to work in line with organizational values
• English and Bangla communication skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening)
• IT skills in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, internet use, and basic troubleshooting • Awareness of personal health, safety, and security
• Willingness to travel and work in remote locations

Desirable

• Experience with INGOs or NGOs
• Additional technical skills related to construction or emergency programming
• Training in DRR, WASH, or humanitarian response
• Experience using data collection or reporting tools
• Exposure to community-based resilience programs
• Additional language skills

Ensure Beneficiary selection according to the IR Principle and guideline & Implementation of the project in target location/s-45%

• Conduct FGD with different stockholders and communities.

• Develop KOBO questionnaires, conduct data screening, and prepare the final list

• Conduct door to door survey to finalize beneficiary.

• Supervise the beneficiary’s identification as per fixed selection criteria and by the methodology fixed by IR/ Consortium.

• Finalize the beneficiary by ensuring endorsement and validation from relevant authorities.

• Overseeing technical aspects of small-scale infrastructure, WASH initiatives in assigned locations, under the guidance of the Project Manager and Technical Coordinator.

• Tasks include identifying suitable sites for WASH Interventions, ensuring participant selection and schemes align with proposal criteria and obtaining necessary approvals.

• Conducting feasibility studies, designing schemes, estimating costs, and facilitating contract processes including preparing Bills of Quantities (BOQ).

• Ensuring compliance with relevant authorities and stakeholders, maintaining quality throughout implementation, monitoring progress, and managing project expenditures.

• Assisting in preparing Disaster Management plan reports and ensuring inclusiveness of marginalized groups throughout project activities.

• Coordinating with team members, participating in assessments and evaluations, and organizing workshops and meetings.

• Engaging in community mobilization within organizational guidelines and adhering to project timelines, budgets, and quality standards.

• Supporting the implementation of Complaints & Feedback Mechanisms, Child Protection, Safeguarding, and Gender Sensitivity measures related to project activities.

• Additionally, supporting the implementation of food security and livelihood activities, planning construction and Cash for Work activities according to project needs, including preparing designs and BOQs.

• Responsible for managing billing pro cesses, conducting technical and environmental surveys, and preparing various IEC materials related to construction work.

• Developing site selection criteria and facilitating hygiene promotion, caretaker training, and awareness sessions for communities at the grassroots level as required by the project.

• Estimating structural interventions and preparing specifications based on the local context and conducting technical and environmental surveys and community consultations to ensure the appropriateness of project activities.

• Preparation of bill & check the bills vouchers of WASH and small scale DRR activities.

Ensure effective monitoring of project intervention-15%

• Supervise construction activities at beneficiary level.

• Prepare business plan at community level and execute it as per proposal and organizational guideline.

• Supervise and monitor each stage of the activities. Ensure that standards and instructions given by the line manager, as well as Islamic Relief Bangladesh procedures,

• Monitor the working progress & ensure the quality of project activities & inform Project Coordinator.

• Support Project Coordinator to conduct different workshops (lesson learn, inception, exit meeting etc.)

Mobilize the community people for Execution of WASH facilities and Cash based Programming-15%

• Conduct hygiene session in connection with project objectives and goal.

• Support to identify feasible site for WASH facilities

• Facilitate caretaker training

• Conduct water quality test of selected parameters using field kits.

• Conduct Technical and environmental survey (pre-survey, post survey etc) as per project requirement.

• Prepare different IEC material related to construction work.

Do effective and appropriate networking and coordination with different stakeholder-10%

• Support to organized inception meeting in different level.

• Formulation of project implementation committee.

• Ensure the NOC after selection of scheme with relevant stakeholder.

• Involve UDMC & other Project implementation teams for implementation of the project

• Coordination & networking with stake holders

• Involve UDMC & other Project implementation teams for implementation of the project.

Project reporting and documentation-10%

• Prepare and submit a planning of the weekly activities to the line manager

• Report back any problems and constraints encountered during the course of the activities and suggest operational solutions.

• Support for the Procurement of materials like requisition, quotation collection etc.

Other Requirements-5%

• Participate & involve with seasonal programs (Ramadan, Qurbani, Winterization etc.) activities.

• Ensure that local purchase and expenditure are done as per Islamic Relief Bangladesh policy.

• Maintain the stock book, inventory and other essential register properly and timely in effective manner.

• Support in procurement of materials like requisition, follow-up etc.

• Take initiatives to ensure security of project staffs and participants during intervention.

• Willing and able to travel frequently for extended periods and to remote areas of the projects.

• Perform any other duties assigned by Supervisor

Mobile bill, Tour allowance/Per-diem, Provident fund, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance coverage (IPD, OPD, Life, DB, CIB), Festival Bonus, Long Service Awards, Leave (Annual, Casual, Sick, TOIL/CTO, Maternity, Paternity) and Gratuity, etc.