Camp Focal Point
Job Description
Title: Camp Focal Point
Company Name: Caritas Bangladesh
Vacancy: 07
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ The qualified candidate will have a master’s degree in Development Studies (MDS)/Social Science/Disaster Management/ Political science from recognized university with good academic track record.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 8 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Age: Maximum 40 years (as on 28.2.2022)
∎ Job Nature: Temporary
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Lead WASH coordination meetings at the camp level and act the focal at CiCs meetings or communication.
∎ Lead assessment and identify the gap jointly with the partners and develop the response in coordination with AFA.
∎ Ensure the regular operation and maintenance done by the WASH implementing agencies.
∎ Conduct meetings with Site Managers/CiC to ensure and document all the minutes and track the actions with partners
∎ Based on the need assessment findings, coordinate with key sectors such as shelter, education, nutrition, and health on inter-sectoral camp issues. Provide technical support/guidance of construction and management of institutional WASH facilities are agreed upon and routinely monitor all aspects of WASH.
∎ Report any WASH gaps or overlaps concerning WASH sector standards to sector Coordination team or AFA.
∎ Ensure all the data collection tools used by the partners are relevant and lead to measure the agreed standards and quality.
∎ Strengthen the existing communication line and establish proper networking between the Area Focal Agency and WASH Sector Coordinators and Camp Focal Points.
∎ Providing regular phone and email situation updates with the progress of WASH construction at the camp, including any bottlenecks in scale-up, through the AFA to WASH Sector Coordination Unit.
∎ Conduct regular meetings with WASH partners to ensure they are submitting the sector reports.
∎ Review the 4Ws for the specific camp, provide inputs, and validate it.
∎ Coordinate with all third-party assessments, survey, and ensure the camp is represented with verified data.
∎ Alert relevant sector focal points at camp level (SM, WASH, Health, Shelter, and Nutrition) of any public health-related warnings for disease outbreak.
∎ Participate in camp level meetings actively and ensure all the information, issues and action points raised in the meeting well follow with clear feedback to the implanting partners.
∎ Lead the mapping of the partners, discuss with AFA to sort out any outstanding issues related to the service coverage.
∎ Provide advice to the implementing partners of safety and security issues that may occur.
∎ Conduct capacity assessment within the partners and track any shortfall as a result of partners' presence and ensure the partner communicates their plan
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at most 40 years
∎ At Least 8 Years working experience in development agency, NGO.
∎ Good interpersonal skill, useful in advocacy and positive approaching.
∎ Networking and a good relationship with everyone
∎ Good knowledge in MS Project and excellent in Microsoft excel formulas and data analysis, MS Office is mandatory and any other relevant software
∎ Excellent communication skills and problem-solving skills
Salary: Tk. 108000 (Monthly)
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ As per organizational policy
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 12 Mar 2022
Company Information:
∎ 5 Mar 2022
∎ Caritas Bangladesh
∎ Business : Established by the Catholic Bishops` Conference of Bangladesh (CBCB), Caritas Bangladesh (CB) is a national organization, operating since 1967 to carry out activities promoting integrated social welfare and development. Having its central office in Dhaka, CB has a wide presence across country through its eight Regional Offices in Barisal, Chittagong, Dhaka, Dinajpur, Khulna, Mymensingh, Rajshahi and Sylhet. The focus area of its work includes Charity and compassion, Integrated Development, Disaster Management and Human Resource Development.
Mostly the interventions led by CB are concentrated in the remote rural areas of Bangladesh. Presently it covers 208 upazila (sub-districts). However, during emergencies- natural and manmade disasters - Caritas is operational in any part of the country. CB maintains the spirit of universality and openness to all people of Bangladesh irrespective of caste, creed and religion, but with preferential option for the poor and the marginalized including tribal.
CB is a member of the Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of 165 Caritas Member Organizations over 200 countries and territories.
Category: NGO/Development
: The candidates who are presently working under Caritas Bangladesh should apply through proper channel with approval of the Project/Regional/Central Management.Only short-listed candidates will be called for written test and Interview. Incomplete applications will not be considered, and the organization reserves the right to reject any application or to cancel or postpone the recruitment process for any reason whatsoever. Applicants are requested to visit www.caritasbd.org/ or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Caritasbangladesh2016 to know about Caritas.
