Community Centre (CC) Assistant

Job Description

Title: Community Centre (CC) Assistant

Company Name: HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Bangladesh

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's degree in any relevant subject.

Experience Requirements:
∎ 2 to 3 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ HELVETAS, in partnership with ACTED, is launching an emergency operation to respond to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis in the sector of Site Management and Disaster Risk Reduction in the Camps of the Kutupalong-Balukhali Expansion Site, Cox`s Bazar.
∎ Line Management:
∎ The Community Centre (CC) Assistant will report to and operate under the supervision of the CC/ISC Supervisor.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ The Community Centre(CC) Assistant will be responsible for the following tasks:
∎ Management & Information Sharing:
∎ Supervise community center in absence of community center supervisor.
∎ Be responsible for community center management, cleaning, and overall security of the CC.
∎ Maintain daily reports for both CC and ISC in absence of the supervisor.
∎ Share key messages and information verified by UNHCR staff and the CwC working group.
∎ Ensuring outreach to the community hence promoting the awareness of the community center in the area of operation.
∎ Work closely with the established community structure as well as working with Imams, teachers, women groups, youth groups, and persons with disability, among others.
∎ Implementing different activities among the community people with ensuring the community engagement
∎ Conduct FGD on monthly basis finding new needs of the community.
∎ Oversee Imam and Female Religious Teacher (FRT) Group and facilitate regular meetings with the group members to motivate them to participate in the awareness-raising activities for the community
∎ Administration & Reporting:
∎ Provide logistic support to run CC smoothly, if necessary, contact his/her supervisor for requisition.
∎ Set up a community center at the designated location from 09:00 to 16:00, 5 days a week. Record community center activities in the register book.
∎ Compile reports on community center activity; maintain all activities in the different register books.
∎ Sharing updated weekly and monthly reports from all the community centers on the different activities including the weekly sessions with imams and female religious teachers.
∎ Ensure the imam's and female religious teachers' databases are updated regularly in the camp
∎ Other:
∎ Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the program's goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance, and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
∎ Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
∎ Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure if any reportable incident occurs, and encourage others to do so.

Additional Requirements:
∎ 2-3 years of experience in team management is essential
∎ Fluency in English (writing and speaking) and Chittagong local language (speaking) is a must
∎ High level of competence with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint
∎ Ability to conduct relevant information management and protection training for stakeholders
∎ Ability to work independently and organize a team
∎ Ability to translate various data and documentation from English to Bangla and vice versa
∎ Excellent liaison and communication skills
∎ Good knowledge of humanitarian principals

Salary: Tk. 40000 - 43000 (Monthly)

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 18 Jun 2022

Company Information:
∎ 6 Jun 2022
∎ HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Bangladesh
∎ Business : Helvetas Bangladesh is part of a network of independent development organizations. With head offices in Switzerland, Germany and the USA, Helvetas is working in 29 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. We bring about real change in the lives of over three million disadvantaged people every year. We implement development projects in the areas of water and sanitation, agriculture and nutrition, education, economic development, democracy and peace, and climate and the environment. Helvetas also provides emergency response after disasters.

Category: NGO/Development