Capacity Building Specialist SCORE (Strengthening COVID-19 Response) Project
Job Description
Title: Capacity Building Specialist SCORE (Strengthening COVID-19 Response) Project
Company Name: Plan International Bangladesh
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Rangpur
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's Degree preferably in Public Health or any other relevant subject from a reputed University.
Job Context:
∎ Based in Rangpur;
∎ Duration up to July 2022
∎ The Project:
∎ Plan International Bangladesh has launched a six-month project titled SCORE (Strengthening COVID-19 Response) that provides timely, relevant support to national and local priority COVID-19 response activities, with a particular focus on addressing the vulnerabilities faced by marginalized groups, especially women and girls, in selected district of Bangladesh. As the third wave of COVID-19 is expecting, the SCORE project adopts two inter-related strategies to achieve the ultimate outcome to reduce COVID-19 related mortality and morbidity of target populations, especially for those experiencing marginalization and/or vulnerability. The strategies are: 1) to support local level community response prevention and treatment activities, which build off existing community structures already supporting health and gender equality outcomes with a focus on those most vulnerable and hard-to-reach for COVID-19 prevention and; 2) to strengthen the capacity of both facility-based and community-based health services to prepare for, and respond to, COVID-19 and its related impacts. SCORE will be implemented in all 6 upazilas (Domar, Dimla, Jaldhaka, Kishoreganj, Saidpur and Sadar) under Nilphamari district in Rangpur Division of Bangladesh.
Additional Requirements:
∎ We are looking for an energetic and self-motivated individual with a Master's Degree preferably in Public Health or any other relevant subject from a reputed University. The ideal candidate should have a minimum of three years of relevant working experience in development organisation. Excellent facilitation skills together with highly developed interpersonal communication and negotiation skills is a must. Knowledge of different development initiatives i.e. gender equity, child rights, child protection, COVID-19, SRHR, 8th Five Year Plan, Govt. Health & FP system, SDG etc. will be an added advantage for this position. The incumbent needs to have the basic capable to adopt appropriate tools & methodologies to facilitate disadvantaged children, young people, families and communities.
Salary:
∎ Consolidated Monthly Salary Tk. 90,000.00 to Tk. 100,00.00
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 2 Dec 2021
Company Information:
∎ 24 Nov 2021
∎ Plan International Bangladesh
∎ Business : Founded 80 years ago, Plan International is one of the oldest and largest children`s development organisations in the world. We work in 52 countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas to promote child rights and lift millions of children out of poverty. In 2015, Plan International worked with 100 million children in 85,282 communities. Plan International is independent, with no religious, political or governmental affiliations but having a vision of a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies that respect people`s rights and dignity.
Plan International has been operating in Bangladesh since 1994. Plan International seeks to ensure the rights of children to education, health, safe water and sanitation, protection, youth social and economic empowerment and climate change, environmental degradation and natural or man-made disaster hazards throughout the country.
Category: NGO/Development
