Coordinator – Happy Home (Maternity Replacement)

Job Description

Title: Coordinator – Happy Home (Maternity Replacement)

Company Name: ActionAid Bangladesh

Vacancy: 1

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: Tk. 63310 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 2 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Bachelor of Social Science (BSS)
• Bachelor/Honors

• Bachelor’s in preferably social sciences, gender studies including others under social science arena or combination of significant humanitarian experience in a related area is equally considered.

• At least 2 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Minimum 2 years of experience in programme/project management and design is essential (experience Child protection issue will add values)

Strategic Priority: Women Rights & Gender Equity

Name of the Project: Happy Home Project

About Happy Home

ActionAid Bangladesh supports roughly 100 adolescent girls through our Happy Home initiative. The Home has helped a lot of girls to leave the uncertain and threatening prospect of living on the streets. At Happy Home, we ensure safe and secured living conditions for the girls, healthy meals and hygiene and sanitation along with psychological counselling and recreation. Once the girls are settled in, we admit them in mainstream schools. As an exit mechanism, we also offer vocational skill development training, so that the girls can choose a potential career later.

By the time the girls are 18 years of age, they would have completed secondary schooling and acquired a few vocational skills to be able to make a living on their own. This is when they leave the Home to start small entrepreneurship ventures in a group or take on a job individually, making room for new children to come in. The Home has also served as a drop-in centre for children who come to benefit from daily necessities such as safe water, sanitation, recreation etc. Since 2006, we have helped more than 17,000 girls.

Job Summary

The aim of this position is to design and plan activities required to maintain sound administration in Happy Homes with specific focuses on children. The position requires a clear understanding of the Child Protection Policy in-country aspect, knowledge of rights-based approach and ability to analyse social and legal aspects of violence against girls and children, and relevant existing laws and policies. She should be willing to work with disadvantaged children and must have a clear understanding of developing long-term programme strategy and management of residential childcare centers and have sound skills in reporting and documentation. She must have networking and liaison capacity to build and maintain relationships with relevant stakeholders, Happy Home Ambassadors, Donors, NGOs, INGOs, and organisations for the resource mobilization. The position should have good coordination skills and maintain clear communication between ActionAid Bangladesh and the Home Management team to ensure proper and timely support.  

Key responsibilities include (not limited to)

Technical support:

• Support Happy Home in terms of programmes planning, implementation, and operations.

• Ensure accountability in programme implementation, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation.

• Regularly assess annual work plans, monitor progress on achieving goals and targets, and present recommendations to assist in development planning (individual case files, reports, folders, pictures, stories, registers, charts, etc).

• Ensure compliance of the Child Protection Policy and other relevant Safeguarding Policies in all the management and activities of Happy Homes.

• Manage and strengthen team member’s capacity through sharing knowledge and information and organising trainings.

• Ensure compliance of the Child Protection Policy and other relevant Safeguarding Policies in all the management and activities of Happy Homes.

• Support fundraising through proposal preparation and donor reporting.

• Manage and strengthen team members’ capacity through sharing knowledge and information and organising trainings.

Networking, Partnership Building, and Coordination

• Ensure and support for Happy Home staff for continuous networking and linkages with health service providers, vocational training & job providing organizations, law enforcing agencies, educational institutions, psychosocial support providing institutions, City Corporations, house owner, local stakeholders, Home Management Committee (HH & SKCDC), etc.

• Maintain networking and communication with all government counterparts, development partners, forums, networks, civil society, and private sectors.

• Participate in advocacy meetings, roundtables, training, workshops, and other meetings related to Child Protection issues.

• Donor management while visiting the HH.

• Participate in advocacy meetings, roundtables, training, workshops, and other meetings related to Child Protection issues.

Financial Management

• Ensure results-based implementation, results-based budgeting and systematic quality assurance.

• Provide technical support of financial management issues.

• Monitoring financial dealings and procurement process of partners to ensure policy compliance.

• Organize and conduct meetings, orientation, and workshops for staff and stakeholders.

• Lead the process of gathering information and preparing progress reports (narrative & financial) for internal and external audiences (AAB’s Donor’s).

• Ensure regular audit to ensure effective financial management.

• Identify lessons learned and areas of improvement and future strategic development plan.

• Manage the process of collecting and sharing Change Stories to build knowledge of stakeholders

Reporting and Documentation

• Prepare monthly, quarterly, half yearly report and assist to prepare annual report, develop and edit case stories and other necessary report when needed.

• Draft relevant concept note, ToR and others

• Support team on internal and external resource mobilization.

• Provide relevant documents and information related to WRGE.

• Support PPD team on internal and external resource mobilization.

• Provide relevant documents and information related to HH.

Education and Life Skill Development of Happy Home Girls

• Take the leadership to ensure the proper schooling of the happy home girls.

• Assess the learning growth of the child and prepare periodic assessment sheet.

• Follow-up with the respective educational insititution to monitor the growth of girls.

• Arrange quality tutors for the girls.

• Prepare Annual Calendar for life skill development trainings for happy home girls.

• Monthly Gross Salary will be BDT. 63,310 with other admissible benefits such as medical benefits, group life insurance; mobile allowance and internet allowance etc.