Community Focal
Job Description
Title: Community Focal
Company Name: Bangla-German Sampreeti (BGS)
Vacancy: 8
Age: 24 to 35 years
Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)
Experience:
∎ At least 2 years
Published: 24 Jun 2025
Education:
∎ Bachelor/Honors in any discipline
Requirements:
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age 24 to 35 years
∎ Additional Job Requirement: Perform any other duties that may be assigned by management.
∎ Age: Minimum 24 years and Maximum 35 years. Age limits can be considered on the basis of experience candidates.
∎ Experience: 2 + Years working experience on relevant field.
∎ Additional Job Requirement: Perform any other duties that may be assigned by management.
∎ Age: Minimum 24 years and Maximum 35 years. Age limits can be considered on the basis of experience candidates.
∎ Experience: 2 + Years working experience on relevant field.
Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Forming different community support groups to promote mental health and psychosocial well-being
∎ Facilitate orientation to the community support groups to guarantee activities under the guidelines of MHPSS unit
∎ Scheduling weekly activities of the community support groups and monitoring the activities in the field in coordination with the Project Assistant
∎ Support the MHPSS team to guarantee logistics and necessary materials for the community support groups
∎ Facilitate focus group discussions with community members to assess risks, MHPSS concerns
∎ Identify locations in communities for use as safe spaces
∎ Build key relationships with community structures and other service providers
∎ Map local services and coordinate with other humanitarian actors at field level.
∎ Facilitate safety assessments and safety audits
∎ Identify and train community focal points, and also facilitate refresher training or replicate training with community leaders
∎ Facilitate community outreach to disseminate information on available services
∎ Build capacity of Cash for Work Volunteers through on job training and make them able to assist to implement community mobilization activities at community level.
∎ Ensure each MHPSS cash for work volunteers are working following the norms of organization, coach and mobilize them as per need.
∎ Prepares reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing treatment and results data and trends based on MHPSS tools, including a daily update of the KOBO tool.
∎ Conducting focus group discussion for evaluating the MHPSS activities.
∎ Scaling up the presence of MHPSS at community level.
∎ To perform and other duties as may be needed and agreed with the Project Assistant, Senior Project Assistant and MHPSS Officer.
∎ Those who have involved in the Sexual Harassment, Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse they are unfitted to apply for this position.
∎ Others:
∎ Regular user of Computer, E-mail & Internet with skilled and confidentiality.
∎ The incumbent is expected to have excellent fluency in written and oral communication skills both Bangla and English.
∎ If any complex found that, then as early as possible communicate with senior management. Besides this maintain organization rules and regulation and encourage to other staffs.
∎ Key Duties and Responsibilities:
∎ Forming different community support groups to promote mental health and psychosocial well-being
∎ Facilitate orientation to the community support groups to guarantee activities under the guidelines of MHPSS unit
∎ Scheduling weekly activities of the community support groups and monitoring the activities in the field in coordination with the Project Assistant
∎ Support the MHPSS team to guarantee logistics and necessary materials for the community support groups
∎ Facilitate focus group discussions with community members to assess risks, MHPSS concerns
∎ Identify locations in communities for use as safe spaces
∎ Build key relationships with community structures and other service providers
∎ Map local services and coordinate with other humanitarian actors at field level.
∎ Facilitate safety assessments and safety audits
∎ Identify and train community focal points, and also facilitate refresher training or replicate training with community leaders
∎ Facilitate community outreach to disseminate information on available services
∎ Build capacity of Cash for Work Volunteers through on job training and make them able to assist to implement community mobilization activities at community level.
∎ Ensure each MHPSS cash for work volunteers are working following the norms of organization, coach and mobilize them as per need.
∎ Prepares reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing treatment and results data and trends based on MHPSS tools, including a daily update of the KOBO tool.
∎ Conducting focus group discussion for evaluating the MHPSS activities.
∎ Scaling up the presence of MHPSS at community level.
∎ To perform and other duties as may be needed and agreed with the Project Assistant, Senior Project Assistant and MHPSS Officer.
∎ Those who have involved in the Sexual Harassment, Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse they are unfitted to apply for this position.
∎ Others:
∎ Regular user of Computer, E-mail & Internet with skilled and confidentiality.
∎ The incumbent is expected to have excellent fluency in written and oral communication skills both Bangla and English.
∎ If any complex found that, then as early as possible communicate with senior management. Besides this maintain organization rules and regulation and encourage to other staffs.
Skills & Expertise:
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Salary and Benefits: Salary Fixed Taka 30,000/- (Thirty Thousand) per Month.
∎ Salary and Benefits: Salary Fixed Taka 30,000/- (Thirty Thousand) per Month.
Employment Status: Full Time
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)
Apply Procedure:
Hard Copy:
∎ BGS believes that everyone we work with including our staff, program participants, partners, and the communities have the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA). We uphold human dignity and inclusion for all, regardless of age, race, religion, gender, disability, ethnic origin, or socio-economic condition. As an equal-opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from gender-diverse individuals and people with disabilities.
∎ BGS has a non-negotiable policy of ZERO TOLERANCE towards discrimination, harassment and abuse. All employees are expected to abide by the Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) & Child Protection Policy of BGS.
∎ Women are particularly encouraged to apply.
∎ Interested candidates are requested to send their application before 28th June, 2025 to the address below: "Executive Director" Bangla-German Sampreeti (BGS), 4/16 (1st Floor), Block # B, Humayun Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207 or via Email: [email protected]
Company Information:
∎ Bangla-German Sampreeti (BGS)
∎ Baitul Islam Bhaban, 4/16 (1st Floor), Block - B, Humayun Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka - 1207, Bangladesh
∎ Bangla-German Sampreeti (BGS) a national level development organization.
Address::
∎ Baitul Islam Bhaban, 4/16 (1st Floor), Block - B, Humayun Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka - 1207, Bangladesh
∎ Bangla-German Sampreeti (BGS) a national level development organization.
Read Before Apply: Please apply only who are fulfilling all the requirements of this job
Application Deadline: 28 Jun 2025
Category: NGO/Development
