Community Mobilizer, Urban Development Programme (Project Staff)
Job Description
Title: Community Mobilizer, Urban Development Programme (Project Staff)
Company Name: BRAC
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Khulna, Khulna (Khulna Sadar)
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Graduation/Post Graduation preferably in Urban and Regional/Rural Planning, Social Science/Social Welfare/Community Development/Environmental Science or any other relevant discipline from any recognised institute.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Organise and participate in all Asia Resilient Cities (ARC) community-based activities.
∎ Arrange town hall meetings with various community groups to understand problems and constraints faced in making the city resilient to climate change. Project beneficiary selection according to the project criteria and guideline.
∎ Support city project team in mobilising community members as envisaged in the city action plan including participants from left behind communities.
∎ Arrange data walks to share community-based findings back to the community members and collect their feedback.
∎ Arrange group talks and other methods to make the community aware of causal factors of climate change and actions required for prevention, response, and mitigation.
∎ Identify effective communication mechanisms (e.g., mass media, social media) for community awareness messaging.
∎ Contribute to regular team meetings and sharing of knowledge and resources. Perform other related duties as assigned.
∎ Organise orientation and training programmes for various categories of community level workers.
∎ Support coordination and cooperation across relevant stakeholders through systems mapping exercises as well as participatory research.
∎ Facilitate awareness raising and capacity building activities by organising community meetings at community level.
∎ Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme's goals on 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 in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.
Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 3 years of relevant working experience in community-based projects preferably in urban settings.
∎ Excellent verbal and writing skill both in Bangla and English
∎ Strong and effective communication and presentation skills.
∎ Proven skills working with informal and marginalised populations in a respectful, inclusive way.
∎ Substantial experience in field operation and capacity development.
Salary: Negotiable
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival Bonus, Health & Life Insurance and others
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 5 Jul 2023
Company Information:
∎ 26 Jun 2023
∎ BRAC
∎ Business : BRAC is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.
Category: NGO/Development
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