Coordinator - Participatory Rural Appraisal Coordinator

Job Description

Title: Coordinator - Participatory Rural Appraisal Coordinator

Company Name: Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB)

Vacancy: 19

Age: Na

Job Location: Bandarban, Cox`s Bazar, Khagrachhari, Rangamati

Salary: --

Experience:

• At least 5 years

• Master’s degree in Social Sciences or a related field

• At least 5 years

• TEAM/PROGRAMME: USAID HICRA

• LOCATION: TBD Unions within Cox’s Bazar and CHT Districts

• GRADE: VII

• POST TYPE: 4 months with possibility to extend

INTRODUCTION:

• Cox’s Bazar, Bandarban, Rangamati and Khagrachari districts are among the lowest ranked in Bangladesh for education, skills training, food security, poverty and agricultural productivity. The situation has worsened since 2017, with the Rohingya refugee influx, which has put enormous pressure on the local economies, resulting in loss of livelihoods, depressed local wages, and distorted local markets. Moreover, these districts are prone to chronic and rapid onset disasters.

• In response, the USAID Host and Impacted Communities Resilience Activity (HICRA) led by Friends In Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) is taking an integrated approach to improve the overall well-being and resilience of people residing in the communities hosting or impacted by the Rohingya refugee crisis. This includes implementing livelihoods; water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); natural resource management (NRM); and disaster risk reduction (DRR) interventions with an estimated 114,000 households across the four prioritized districts.

ROLE

• The Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) Coordinator responsible for leading a team that will carry out the PRA at the community level which forms part of the process required for HICRA participant selection. This includes using leading teams of technical and frontline staff (field facilitators and community mobilizers) to carry out a series of qualitative PRA tools including community mapping, wealth ranking, etc. followed by a quantitative household survey. The process is designed to identify poor and extreme poor members of the community, along with existing water and sanitation sources, livelihoods engagement and disaster-related risks. The process will be inclusive and equitable to ensure community buy-in. This short term position will lead the process for his/her respective unions, training, coaching and mentoring the frontline staff to conduct the related processes, including piloting and leading several of the PRAs directly with the communities. S/he will also plan and track progress and coordinate closely with the MEL team.

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