Coordinator - COMs (Community Outreach Members) and Religious Engagement

Job Description

Title: Coordinator - COMs (Community Outreach Members) and Religious Engagement

Company Name: ActionAid Bangladesh

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Cox`s Bazar

Salary: Tk. 115281 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Bachelor/Honors

Graduation degree in Disaster Management, Community Development, Social Sciences, Business Administration or combination of relevant Education and Experience.

• At least 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• At least 5 years of experience in humanitarian and/or development organizations with significant experience in camp management and/or delivering emergency programs in camp setting;

• A proven record of effective project management in emergencies, including project planning and implementation and supervision;

• Sound understanding of the concepts behind and practical application of humanitarian codes and standards such as SPHERE, IASC Gender Guidelines, HAP etc .

Technical Skills

• Strong organizational and planning skills.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

• Ability to analyze data and prepare clear and concise reports.

• Fluency in English and Bengali is essential. Knowledge of local languages or dialects is an advantage

Key Competencies

• Passion for sports and its potential to promote social change.

• Cultural sensitivity and understanding of diverse communities.

• Ability to adapt to changing circumstances and challenges.

• Strong ethical principles and commitment to human rights.

Project : Sustainable Solutions and Protection for the Rohingya Community in Camps –Community Based Protection, funded by UNHCR.

Duration of Contract : Up to 31 December 2025, if not extended

Key responsibilities include (not limited to)

Program Management (Time 60%)

• Lead development and implementation of Community based protection programs, including GBV, PSS, and Protection overall through Community Outreach Members – COMs, Imam, and FRT.

• Provide technical support to ensure high quality of programming and services, exceeding minimum competencies for staff and minimum standards for activities.

• Conduct and support ongoing monitoring of Protection activities, through frequent visits to office and field sites, to ensure minimum standards for Protection and progress toward targets.

• Identify program gaps, areas of growth, and strategies and support in adapting program design to effectively meet beneficiary needs, the changing context, and other factors.

• Lead and participate in regular strategy and program planning workshops for Protection and the overall organization, including for grant opening, mid-term review, and grant closing.

• Lead activities of Saturday Solidarity Project, Community level project, and COMs facilitated training, Imam and FRT training & sessions.

• Manage development and monitoring of program spending plans, workplans, M&E plans, and procurement and staffing plans to ensure progress against targets and spending by budget.

• Ensuring management of resources for fulfillment of program deliverables and commitments for objectives/indicators and accountability to donor requirements.

• Lead capacity-building strategy for overall Protection department, to ensure strong level of professional development and team building, including the development of team members/counterparts and addressing of any team dynamic issues or concerns.

• Build technical capacity of supervised staff and protection team and sub-sectors of Protection, as well as in program management.

• Ensure preparation and compilation of internal and external weekly, monthly, half-yearly and annual reporting for Protection programs, in collaboration with reporting team and Project Manager.

• Assist in the development of proposals for Protection programming, in collaboration with proposal team.

• Lead recruitment of new staff and start-up programs in new sites as necessary.

• Support program teams to build referral mechanisms to link beneficiaries, particularly vulnerable individuals, and groups, to services, through service mapping, referral workshops, and SOPs.

• Ensure appropriate identification/selection, program support, and capacity-building of camp level actors, including program technical review of partnership agreements.

• Support the coherent and harmonized implementation of community-based protection activities.

• Ensure development of awareness raising sessions on community-based protection services (Sessions on rights, access to rights services and protection threats) and Protection services (stress management sessions, psychosocial support, men self-help sessions...)

• Work with COMs, Imam and FRT in coordination CG wings, and CC&ISC wings.

• Ensure capacity building of project staff, COMs, Imam & FRT and work for community-based protection mainstreaming as per work plan.

• Submit weekly and monthly plan of wings activities.

• Report in a timely manner on any eventual challenges or delays, loss or damage, faced in the daily implementation of the activities to the Project Manager.

• Coordinate with Local authorities, protection focal, camp actors and Community Focal Points.

Financial management (Time 15%)

• Assist and monitor project budget management, financial management with ensure UNHCR and AAB compliance.

• Support to review programme financial documents, including reviewing vouchers and supporting documentation.

• Ensure quality record keeping system in Camps for COMs, Imam & FRT wings.

• Coordinate with other coordinators to ensure coherence in field protection activities.

• Ensure and supervise monthly volunteer payments in coordination with the admin and finance assistant.

Coordination and representation (Time 15%)

• Attend in camp coordination meetings, protection coordination meeting, and COMs Meeting. Share and respond to questions related to the COMs, Imam and FRT Programme and report back key issues / matters that concern the programme to Project Manager, CBP, AAB;

• Develop and maintain effective working relationship with relevant stakeholders including partner agencies, community leaders and service providers.

• Advocate for the needs of vulnerable individuals both internally and through coordination mechanisms through evidence-based advocacy.

• Maintain an up-to-date service mapping of the service providers operating in the area and ensure that COMs, Imam & FRT are informed about the available services.

• Update Project Manager camp situation, progress, learnings, and challenges.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability Learning, Reporting (Time 10%)

• Manage monitoring and evaluation activities at the field level.

• Pay regular field visit with a focus on ensuring quality and record keeping system.

• Build staff capacity on quality assurance and follow up targeted outcomes.

• Document good practices and lessons learned.

• Contribute to the preparation of the donor reporting.

• Ensure quality monitoring data collection from the field.

• Relationships

• The coordinator - COMs and Religious Engagement will be directly reportable to the Project Manager.

Monthly Gross Salary BDT. 115,281 with other admissible benefits such as

medical benefit, mobile & internet allowance and group life insurance etc