Capacity Building Expert, Y - Moves Project
Job Description
Title: Capacity Building Expert, Y - Moves Project
Company Name: Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK)
Vacancy: 01
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters in Anthropology, Development Studies, Women and Gender Studies /Social Science/Equivalent from any recognized University/Institutions with good academic record.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) is currently looking for Capacity Building Expert for the Y- Moves Project. This project is working for achieving the goal `a dynamic and inclusive civil society working towards advancing young people especially girls` rights to participation, protection and sexual reproductive health in Bangladesh` by contributing its three outcomes1: Increased agency of young people, particularly girls and young women to act as change agents on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) including prevention of SGBV Outcome 2: Civil society, including child and youth led networks, have strengthened capacity and collaboration holding the state accountable on commitments made on SRHR and SGBV at national and district level Outcome 3: Increased responsiveness and positive social norms among government duty bearers and community gatekeepers to implement policies and programs on young people`s rights to SRH and protection from SGBV at national, district and sub-district level. The project will use some strategies to achieve these changes: Strategy 1: Strengthening capacities, Strategy 2: Partnership and collaboration, Strategy 3: Evidence generation and sharing Strategy 4: Social norms change. Y- Moves project is funded by Plan International and implemented by ASK through involving two youth lead organizations named YES BD and YFC Bangladesh.
∎ Job Location: ASK office- Dhaka with extensive travels at different project districts.
∎ Reference: Minimum 2 references
∎ Reportable: Project Coordinator, Y - Moves Project
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Conduct training need assessment, design and customize training modules, curriculums, manuals, other training materials, different project guideline and prepare training completion report;
∎ Facilitate training, meetings, workshop with Youth Organization, CSOs staffs and other potential project stakeholder;
∎ Evaluate and follow up on training, capacity building and advocacy support activities with a view to reinforcing capacities, assessing impact, and building partnerships and networks.
∎ Capacity building of the Youth organizations members and CSOs on the areas of SGBV, SRHR, networking, advocacy, financial management and organization develop;
∎ Consult with other resource persons, CSOs and project staffs to ensure that training, capacity building and advocacy support initiatives are relevant and adapted to the situation and needs of target groups.
∎ Maintain close working relationship with YES BD, YFC and ASK's related departments;
∎ Prepare report on capacity building activities and other project initiatives;
∎ Ensure program operations and activities adhere to legal guidelines and internal policies;
∎ Support project in the design, organize and implement of national level event and advocacy support activities;
∎ Perform any other tasks that may be assigned by the supervisor;
Additional Requirements:
∎ Should have at least 5 years' experience in the related field.
∎ Age at most 40 years (age limit could be relaxed for highly experienced candidate).
∎ The applicants should have experience in the area of NGO sectors.
∎ Knowledge and experience to work on Child Rights and Child Protection, SGBV and SRHR related project.
∎ Experience to prepare training module, guidelines, hand books etc. and training plan, budget and training report.
∎ Willingness to travel at least 50% time across the project areas and organizing/facilitating/monitoring training in district level.
∎ Applicant should have good computer knowledge especially in Microsoft Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint.
∎ Typing skill in BANGAL is must, fluency of typing Bangla and English is essential.
Salary:
∎ Monthly gross salary BDT. 50,000.00 (Consolidated)
Application Deadline: June 15, 2020
Company Information:
∎ Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK)
∎ Business : Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), a national legal aid and human rights organization, was established in 1986. Over the last thirty years ASK has evolved a comprehensive approach to the promotion and protection of legal and human rights. Its strategies promote human rights awareness and community activism; offer legal aid through mediation and litigation, while clients are given psycho-social counseling; investigations into human rights violations and their documentation are supplemented by research which together lead to media campaigns to defend human rights, and public interest litigation for law and policy reform. Being committed to attaining gender equality at every sphere of life, ASK’s activities have special focus on women but providing legal aid to victims/survivors of arbitrary arrest, preventive detention and taking stand against unlawful evictions, extra judicial killings, torture and death in custody, condition of the prisoners and interests of the religious and ethnic minorities very much are its concerns. ASK?s advocacy is carried out both at the national level and international level. ASK’s publication are an important means of disseminating information and knowledge.
For more information about ASK and what we do visit our website at www.askbd.org
Category: NGO/Development
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