Community Outreach Associate
Job Description
Title: Community Outreach Associate
Company Name: Relief International
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ At least Bachelor degree in legal, gender, law, sociology, Education, Psychology, Criminology or relevant Subject.
Job Context:
∎ As a Community Outreach Associate will be responsible for RI community- based protection mechanism and support SASA! Together methodology, which is the holistic community engagement for social change to create environment where violence against women is never accepted and women can live safe, fulfilling and dignified lives. You will be under supervision of SASA! Together Officer.
∎ Duty Station: Ukhiya
∎ Report to: SASA! Together Officer
∎ Department: Protection
∎ Contract length: Up to 31st December, 2022 (With possibility of Extension subject to funding, program needs and performance of incumbent)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Under the guidance of the SASA! Together Officer, the Community Outreach Associate will be responsible for-
∎ Conduct all community leadership strategy activities under SASA! Together methodology. They will be conducting all activities and also equally support all learning and assessment work to understand the behavioral change impact under different phases of SASA! Together implementation in camps.
∎ Driven and support community-led initiative (e.g.; women support network) for ownership and sustainability to empower women and girls to led community led GBV risk mitigation activities.
∎ Support community-led groups (e.g.; women support network) to plan their activities.
∎ Organize weekly meeting with community-led groups (e.g.; women support network), sports team, and community leaders of SASA! Together methodology.
∎ Be equipped and inspired the core concept of SASA! Together to build capacity of mixed community leaders under SASA! Together methodology.
∎ Maintain regular communication with all community leaders to help them to follow up their work plan under SASA! Together implementation.
∎ Conduct SASA! Together and all other relevant training with community leaders and others
∎ Build leaders’ skills in providing referral and basic responses.
∎ Organize monthly-meeting with community leaders to share, practice, plan and cerebrate.
∎ Create a private electronic group and communicate through electronic check-in.
∎ Plan and conduct in-person visits and drop-ins.
∎ Organize brief complementary training session.
∎ Sample activities, schedule, and complete Community Change Trackers and all relevant L&A tools.
∎ Schedule and conduct L&A feedback sessions with community leaders every quarterly or every 6 months.
∎ Attend any public activities that leaders are professionally involved in.
∎ Organize leaders ‘participation in phase collaboration meeting.
∎ Organize leaders ‘participation in SASA! Together community launch.
∎ Represent RI work in Camp coordination meeting, SASA! Adhoc meeting and other similar coordination platform
∎ Arrange awareness raising campaign and event activities as needed.
∎ Report to SASA! Together Officer weekly.
∎ Ensure monthly database, narrative report and other adhoc report required by GBV Manager
∎ Maintain good coordination/ collaboration with other RI staffs, partner and other stakeholder.
∎ Ensure recognized international best practices and Relief International policies are applied in the work with women, girls and vulnerable persons.
∎ Any other responsibilities as requested by supervisor.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ Experience working with NGO in Cox’s bazar is preferable
∎ Demonstrate knowledge of community-led mechanism
∎ Experience in community mobilization in refugee camps
∎ Demonstrate faith and belief activism, good social changes, holistic engagement and community-led mechanism for ownership and sustainability
∎ Experience and skill work with community member
∎ Demonstrate facilitation skills
∎ Good communication skill
∎ Good knowledge of local context, strongly preferred
∎ Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team and support unexpected task.
∎ Enthusiasm to learn
∎ Optimistic and friendly
∎ Flexibility
Salary:
∎ As per RI National Pay Scale Policy in Bangladesh
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance
∎ Two festival bonuses in a year equivalent to one Gross salary.
∎ Severance (8.33% of the monthly Gross salary) goes with the monthly release of the salary
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 14 Apr 2022
Company Information:
∎ 31 Mar 2022
∎ Relief International
∎ Address : Bangladesh Country Office: Apt- D2, House- 39 (Sheltech Sunshine), Road-37, Gulshan-2, Dhaka- 1212 I Bangladesh.
∎ Web : www.ri.org
∎ Business : Relief International, headquartered in USA, is a leading international non-government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.
Relief International (RI) has been working in Bangladesh since 2004, implementing programs covering emergency response, health, economic opportunity, trafficking in persons, gender equality and youth empowerment. RI has been present in Cox’s Bazar since 2014 where it was implementing a trafficking in persons project in Ukhiya and Teknaf supporting old caseload refugees as well as host communities prior to the large-scale influx. Since 2017, RI has scaled up its operations in Cox’s Bazar to support the emergency response by providing integrated, multi-sectoral programming for refugee and host communities, covering health services, including a 132 bed COVID-19 Isolation and Treatment Center in Ukhiya, child protection, SGBV, complimentary food and livelihoods opportunities to support social cohesion. Relief International is currently implementing a large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, WFP, USAID.RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar.
Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact. Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Category: NGO/Development
: RI Values:We uphold the Humanitarian Principles: humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and operational independence. We affirmatively engage the most vulnerable communities. We value:IntegrityAdaptabilityCollaborationInclusivitySustainabilityQualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.RI Bangladesh has a non-negotiable policy of ZERO TOLERANCE towards Safeguarding. All employees are expected to abide by the Code of Conduct, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) ,Child Protection Policy and Human Trafficking Policy of Relief International.
