Job Description

Title: Documentation Assistant

Company Name: Terre des hommes

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Full-time, Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's in anthropology/social sciences/development studies or similar field

Experience Requirements:
∎ 2 to 3 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Position based in : Dhaka, Bangladesh
∎ Desired date for taking-up duty : January, 2021
∎ Post Type : Full Time
∎ Contract Type : Initially for 7 months which can be extended depending upon the competencies and requirement of the project
∎ Hierarchical and organizational links:
∎ Reports to: Senior Participatory Action Researcher
∎ Coordinates with: CLARISSA Country Coordinator, IDS focal person, MEL coordinator, Senior Social Protection Focal Point, Regional Administrator, Technical Expert and Head of Programme from Tdh, Advocacy Expert, Social Worker etc.
∎ Direct line manager of: N/A
∎ About Terre des hommes:
∎ Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) is the leading Swiss INGO focusing on child rights. It is active in more
∎ than 30 countries with development and emergency projects. Tdh interventions are focused on the three
∎ programs; i.e. Health, Migration and Access to Justice particularly for vulnerable children. Tdh Foundation has a transversal approach towards Child Protection programming and it cuts across all the thematic areas while also has been considered as one of the key value propositions in its business model. The Child Protection expertise within Tdh Foundation aims to develop high quality, evidence-based knowledge and know-how adapted to fragile contexts, conflict zones, and development to improve the protection of children`s rights and their right to protection from all forms of violence (art 19, 34 CRC) in collaboration with and in support of the three core programs. The Tdh Foundation global strategy 2021-2024 specifies that the will have demonstrated that rights-based participation, empowerment, and active involvement of children and communities in defining and implementing responses are essential to improve child protection.
∎ Context: Tdh is working in Bangladesh since 1974, with operations in Kurigram district, Dhaka district and Cox`sBazar district. Currently, Tdh is implementing programms on Health, Access to Justice (social cohesion and conflict resolution) and Migration, integrated by the transversal expertise WASH and Child protection.
∎ Tdh interventions in Bangladesh are both in development and emergency context. Following the massive displacement of more than 800,000 people into Bangladesh since end of August 2017, Tdh has put in place an important emergency response plan to provide relief to the Rohingya refugees, notably on Health, WASH, Child protection and Social cohesion. Alongside, Tdh is implementing CLARISSA project in Dhaka slums aiming to build a strong evidence base and generate innovative solutions to the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) and will explore how to take these solutions to scale. Tdh in Bangladesh has started process of integration of emergency and development approaches and aims to capitalize its institutional learning for further programme expansion and to create critical pathways for evidence based advocacy.
∎ Programme: Child Labour-Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Position Background:
∎ CLARISSA is a consortium partnership programme led by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and implemented in partnership with Terre des hommes, Child Hope UK and Consortium for Street Children to generate a strong evidence base on, and innovative solutions to, the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) in Bangladesh and Nepal. The programme focuses on surfacing key drivers of the worst forms of child labour and developing interventions to counteract them. The primary beneficiaries of the programme are children in the worst forms of child labour and those who are vulnerable to being drawn into it. The families of these children will benefit from greater resilience to shocks, better options for their children's safe and healthy future and less intra-family stress and conflict.
∎ PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH including CHILDREN'S RESEARCH GROUPS will form a core programme approach. The action research process will generate evidence-based activities and innovations and pilots aimed at changing the realities and agency of child labourers and the development and scale up of child focused strategies.
∎ A Child Centred Programme:
∎ Children's agency is at the centre of this programme: The programme supports children to collect child-focused evidence and will generate child-focused and child-identified solutions. It undertakes a Child Rights approach with a strong emphasis on safeguarding. All programme actions take into account and respects the right of the child, as set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
∎ Action Research:
∎ The core driver of innovation in this programme is Participatory and Systemic Action Research.
∎ Action research is a programming modality which combines evidence gathering and learning from action. It is designed to enable diverse groups to meet over a period of time to consider evidence and generate theories of change about interventions; plan and programme innovative solutions; test the solutions in real time, and then evaluate them. In this way action research groups act as engines of new innovation. These cycles of action and reflection continue until a robust model of action is developed, trialed and can be scaled. The programme will link multiple and parallel action research groups to form a sophisticated architecture for adaptive learning and management (systemic action research) and will ensure that children are central to this process. Activities of action research groups will typically be oriented towards self-help and mutual aid activities but will also contribute to the development of local institutional solutions (including those of local NGO's/ employers etc.).
∎ A typical action research process involves multiple meetings over a period of between a year and eighteen months. It is necessary to go through the following phases in building action research groups:
∎ Contextual research to identify the drivers of child labour and consequently the different foci of action research groups;
∎ A series of trust building meetings (which can be accompanied by visits to households, street sites and or work sites);
∎ Local evidence gathering around the specific issues being explored;
∎ Generation of Theories of Change and Actions, and potential indicators of success;
∎ Implementation of actions and monitoring and assessment of intervention outcomes;
∎ Refining actions and developing new actions based on the assessment of the early phase actions;
∎ Bringing significant successes into cross action research learning groups with a view to scaling.
∎ Overall purpose of the role:
∎ The Documentation Assistant will be primarily responsible to oversee and support the CLARISSA Participatory Action Research (PAR) programs where her/his initial role will be to engage and support the Action Research group (ARG) and Child Research Group (CRG) documentation process. She or he will be responsible for assisting and supporting the PAR component of CLARISSA. She or he may also contribute to the formation and facilitation of the group meetings alongside the participatory facilitators as needed.
∎ Duties and Responsibilities:
∎ Document the meetings and other events as assigned by the Senior Participatory Action Researcher.
∎ Write up a detailed record of each meeting including but not exclusively - detail of participants, summary of evidence brought to the meeting and analysis; key lines of argumentation; important quotes - captured verbatim, key decisions taken
∎ Ensure that photographs are taken of flip charts, social maps, and any other relevant data which is not recorded in books or writing paper.
∎ Ensure that data is stored and protected according to IDS and CLARISSA protocols with the assistance of Documentation Officer
∎ Ensure that Participatory Facilitators, Country Coordinators, MEL staff and other relevant stakeholders have timely access to the write ups.
∎ Ensure that written consents to both notes taken and photographs taken are obtained
∎ Ensure documentation of the process of the Children Research Group (CRG) and Action Research Group (ARG);
∎ Work closely with PAR team to facilitate the CRG and CAG meetings as per plan;
∎ Coordinate with participatory facilitators and documenters to ensure that there are no gaps in the notes. Write up those notes into a formal record after each meeting;

Additional Requirements:
∎ 2 to 3 years' experience of documenting and facilitating research activities
∎ Exposure of working with marginalized and disadvantaged communities, preferably in low-resource urban neighbourhoods
∎ Knowledge of safeguarding and risk assessment with vulnerable and marginal groups
∎ Fluency in spoken and written Bangla and English.
∎ Knowledge:
∎ Good understanding of the realities faced by children in the worst forms of child labour and those who are vulnerable to being drawn into it
∎ Strong competence in using MS Office
∎ Personal attributes:
∎ Passion for the programmed approach e.g. participatory approach, child centeredness
∎ Interest in working with children in low resourced areas of Dhaka living in marginalised context
∎ Self-motivated, goal-oriented, flexible, and adaptive manners, enthusiastic, and entrepreneurial attitude
∎ Commitment to team and collaborative working
∎ Comfortable facilitating emergent processes, allowing outcomes to emerge through dialogue and action over time
∎ Willingness to accept new responsibilities as and when those are assigned by the line supervisor.
∎ Others:
∎ Accept new responsibilities as and when those are assigned by the line supervisor.
∎ The post holder is polite, respectful, honest, punctual (and respects deadlines), creative, pacifist, proactive, committed and - during office hours - non-political. S/he is in constant exchange with colleagues and supervisors, communicates problems and enriches discussions. S/he treats people of different religion, age, sex, and economic status appropriate and equally and actively ensures their wellbeing and raises his/her voice when required. S/he is willing to improve own capacities and is open for all topics Tdh is working on to actively contribute to a comprehensive programme implementation.
∎ S/he uses Tdh equipment, vehicles and premises, internet and electricity economically and responsibly. S/he positively represents Tdh to beneficiaries, stake holders and the general public.

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 4 Dec 2021

Company Information:
∎ 28 Nov 2021
∎ Terre des hommes
∎ Address : House 9, Apt. A3 & B3, Road 4, Block F, Banani, Dhaka-1213
∎ Web : www.tdh.ch
∎ Business : Committed to Child Health and Child Relief

Category: Research/Consultancy