Job Description
Title: Assistant Technical Officer
Company Name: Gram Unnayan Karma (GUK)
Vacancy: 1
Age: at most 35 years
Location: Bogura
Minimum Salary: Tk. 35000 (Monthly)
Experience:
∎ At least 2 years
Published: 12 Mar 2025
Education:
∎ Diploma in Civil, Diploma in Textile Engineering, Diploma in Engineering in Mechanical Engineering
Requirements:
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at most 35 years
∎ Minimum 2 years of working experience in loom/ Textile sector.
∎ Relevant working experience with PKSF or any project funded by multi-lateral development partners would be preferred.
∎ Knowledge and Skills
∎ Good computer knowledge (MS Office).
∎ Age Limit
∎ Maximum 35 years of age on the last date of application
∎ Minimum 2 years of working experience in loom/ Textile sector.
∎ Relevant working experience with PKSF or any project funded by multi-lateral development partners would be preferred.
∎ Knowledge and Skills
∎ Good computer knowledge (MS Office).
∎ Age Limit
∎ Maximum 35 years of age on the last date of application
Responsibilities & Context:
∎ The main objectives of the sub-project are as follows:
∎ This sub-project aims to promote resource-efficient, climate-resilient practices to ensure sustainability and reduce environmental impact,
∎ Enhance technical skills and operational capacity of workers and entrepreneurs through advanced training and support,
∎ Improve market competitiveness and access to financial resources for sustainable business growth and ensure safer, healthier work environments through better infrastructure, OHS measures, and modern facilities.
∎ The ‘Assistant Technical Officer (Loom) will work under the direct supervision of the Project Manager and will undertake following duties and responsibilities, which are essential but not limited to:
∎ Assist the Project Manager in implementing project activities.
∎ Assist to identify potential microenterprises (MEs), select appropriate climate-resilient and resource-efficient cleaner production (RECP) practices for MEs and motivate them to adopt those practices.
∎ Provide technical support to MEs at cluster level.
∎ Select MEs for demonstration, set-up demonstration, and follow-up the MEs.
∎ Assist the Technical Officer to prepare training manuals, leaflets, case stories of the sub-project, etc.
∎ Arrange training, field days, meetings, workshops, seminars, fairs, Environment Club meetings as per the project plan.
∎ Explore circular economy, value-added product diversification, new market potentiality.
∎ Assist to produce monthly, quarterly and annual progress report as per the requirement of the management.
∎ Regular field visit at project site, tracking the MEs’ progress in adoption of the RECP practices and reporting;
∎ Maintain linkages with different government departments (i.e. Handloom Board, BISIC, Ministry of Textile and jute, DoE), academicians, value-chain actors (ME owners, inputs sellers, market actors, transport and logistics etc.), private sector companies, etc.
∎ Any other tasks, duties, or specific tasks assigned by the Project Manager and management of the organization.
∎ Assistant Technical Officer
∎ under “Promoting sustainable mini garments through RECP practices” sub-project as a part of the ‘Sustainable Microenterprise and Resilient Transformation (SMART)’ project.
∎ Job Context
∎ Gram Unnayan Karma (GUK) is going to implement a sub-project titled ““Promoting sustainable mini garments through RECP practices” financed by PKSF-World Bank as a part of the ‘Sustainable Microenterprise and Resilient Transformation (SMART)’ project.
∎ The main objectives of the sub-project are as follows:
∎ This sub-project aims to promote resource-efficient, climate-resilient practices to ensure sustainability and reduce environmental impact,
∎ Enhance technical skills and operational capacity of workers and entrepreneurs through advanced training and support,
∎ Improve market competitiveness and access to financial resources for sustainable business growth and ensure safer, healthier work environments through better infrastructure, OHS measures, and modern facilities.
∎ Job Responsibilities
∎ The ‘Assistant Technical Officer (Loom) will work under the direct supervision of the Project Manager and will undertake following duties and responsibilities, which are essential but not limited to:
∎ Assist the Project Manager in implementing project activities.
∎ Assist to identify potential microenterprises (MEs), select appropriate climate-resilient and resource-efficient cleaner production (RECP) practices for MEs and motivate them to adopt those practices.
∎ Provide technical support to MEs at cluster level.
∎ Select MEs for demonstration, set-up demonstration, and follow-up the MEs.
∎ Assist the Technical Officer to prepare training manuals, leaflets, case stories of the sub-project, etc.
∎ Arrange training, field days, meetings, workshops, seminars, fairs, Environment Club meetings as per the project plan.
∎ Explore circular economy, value-added product diversification, new market potentiality.
∎ Assist to produce monthly, quarterly and annual progress report as per the requirement of the management.
∎ Regular field visit at project site, tracking the MEs’ progress in adoption of the RECP practices and reporting;
∎ Maintain linkages with different government departments (i.e. Handloom Board, BISIC, Ministry of Textile and jute, DoE), academicians, value-chain actors (ME owners, inputs sellers, market actors, transport and logistics etc.), private sector companies, etc.
∎ Any other tasks, duties, or specific tasks assigned by the Project Manager and management of the organization.
∎ Employment Status
∎ Full-time
∎ Duration of the Position
∎ Contractual basis (initially one year and extended contract for project period based on performance)
Skills & Expertise:
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Monthly BDT. 35,000/- (with other admissible benefits by the project budget such as festival bonus, mobile/internet bill, transport allowance etc.).
∎ Monthly BDT. 35,000/- (with other admissible benefits by the project budget such as festival bonus, mobile/internet bill, transport allowance etc.).
Employment Status: Full Time
Job Location: Bogura
Company Information:
∎ Gram Unnayan Karma (GUK)
∎ GUK Tower, Banani, Bogura.
∎ Gram Unnayan Karma (GUK is a national level non-government social development organization working throughout the country. The organization has been providing different support and services to the under-privileged people of Bangladesh by implementing microfinance, education, health, agriculture, fisheries, livestock, climate change resilience and market linkage activities to utilize their full potentialities. GUK has establish gGalore Ltd. as sister concern of the organization towards market linkage facility for its beneficiaries by setting up chain superstores that will sale all kinds of consumer goods of established brands as well as the products produced by GUK beneficiaries like garments, grocery items, handicrafts, processed food etc. in its stores, establish outlet and online market place throughout the country.
Address::
∎ GUK Tower, Banani, Bogura.
∎ Gram Unnayan Karma (GUK is a national level non-government social development organization working throughout the country. The organization has been providing different support and services to the under-privileged people of Bangladesh by implementing microfinance, education, health, agriculture, fisheries, livestock, climate change resilience and market linkage activities to utilize their full potentialities. GUK has establish gGalore Ltd. as sister concern of the organization towards market linkage facility for its beneficiaries by setting up chain superstores that will sale all kinds of consumer goods of established brands as well as the products produced by GUK beneficiaries like garments, grocery items, handicrafts, processed food etc. in its stores, establish outlet and online market place throughout the country.
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Application Deadline: 22 Mar 2025
Category: Engineer/Architect
