Job Description

Title: ECD Officer (Female)

Company Name: Samaj Kalyan O Unnayan Shangstha (SKUS)

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master of Education (M.Ed), Master of Development Studies (MDS), Masters degree in any discipline, Bachelor degree in any discipline
∎ Skills Required: Computer skill, Excellent communication skill, Microsoft Excel, Monitoring and Evaluation, Motivation to others, Reporting and Documentation, Training Facilitation

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s): Early Childhood Development (ECD), Education in Emergency, In education sector specially in ECD field, Non formal education program
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

Job Context:
∎ Samaj Kalyan O Unnayan Shangstha (SKUS) envisions a peaceful, prosperous, and poverty-free society that ensures everyone`s basic needs and rights. SKUS since the 2017 Rohingya refugee influx, SKUS has worked in Cox`s Bazar district with children, adolescents, women, and men. SKUS works to provide access to learning opportunities in a safe and protective environment, offer quality teaching and learning, and increase refugee/host community participation and engagement in children`s education. Based on children`s and adolescents` rights, SKUS has established a quality learning and protection center with support from different international donors, including UN agencies.
∎ SKUS has been implementing a project named Integrated ECD Services and Formal Education (Myanmar Curriculum) for Rohingya Children Aged 3-18 Years with the support of UNICEF. SKUS is looking for a suitable candidate for the immediate appointment of an ECD Officer for the project mentioned above, supported by UNICEF.
∎ Reportable to: Program Manager
∎ Duration of contract: up to August 31, 2024. (Contingent on Donor Extension and government approval.)
∎ Job Location: Ukhiya Cox`s Bazar`.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Responsible for proper implementation of ECD intervention within the project area supervising the daily operation of the ECD centre and quality of activities and effective use of resources at the camp level.
∎ Develop both long- and short-term lesson plans based on the curriculum and supervise the classroom-based activities and provide technical support.
∎ Develops educational programs that adhere to childcare standards, plan lessons for children, and schedule activities that coordinate with lesson plans as well as recreational activities
∎ Monitoring/supervising the learning environment, teaching-learning process, and learners' performance and assessing the learner's competency, and teachers' performance, and providing technical support and guidance.
∎ Update daily attendance for both the children and facilitators/facilitators and ensure the use of facilitators' guidelines, and teaching-learning materials at ECD Centers.
∎ Develop and conduct the different orientations, trainings, meetings, TLC, and different sessions and for the facilitators, staff.
∎ Ensuring the parent's meeting, parenting session, CSG meeting, and other consultation meetings at the community/center level.
∎ Responsible for leading, guiding, and supervising the facilitators, children, caregivers, and animators/volunteers.
∎ Maintains Child Care Center program in a manner that meets set conventional requirements including sanitation, safety, fire, and other regulations ensuring the facility is a safe and joyful place for children to learn and live to provide the best possible experience.
∎ Develops educational programs that adhere to childcare standards, plan lessons for children, and schedule activities that coordinate with lesson plans as well as recreational activities
∎ Develop effective communication and coordination with the CiC office, members of CESG, Parents, and other respective sectors like; CP, Nutrition, Education, SM--), Go/NGO officials, and other stakeholders.
∎ Ensuring the child safeguarding, protection, and PSEA to the children, and staff, and must always report any suspected cases of child abuse and others to the Child Safeguarding and PSEA Focal Point.
∎ You are obligated to participate in any training, meeting, and workshop by the SKUS and other supporting organizations and donor parties.
∎ To review the ECD yearly plan, budget, and prepper field level- monthly/quarterly activity plan, budget, and implementation properly.
∎ Undertakes other responsibilities/duties not outlined above which are commensurate with a role of this nature in the humanitarian sector and which have been discussed and agreed upon between the line manager/superiors and the post holder.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at most 40 years
∎ Only females are allowed to apply
∎ Enthusiastic and Empathetic
∎ Highly approachable, trustworthy and confidential
∎ Demonstrate willingness to improve own knowledge and skills by actively participating in any training sessions and capacity building activities
∎ Commitment to child rights, equality and social inclusion
∎ Conscientious, with an excellent sense of judgment.
∎ Willingness to work in refugee camps and host communities on a daily basis.
∎ Working Condition:
∎ ECD Officer will work under direct supervision of Program Manager .
∎ ECD Officer is required to work at the field office and LC.
∎ She will spend approximately 80% of her/his time in the field/LC.
∎ She may have contact with dissatisfied or abusive individuals
∎ Local candidates will given priorities

Salary: Tk. 65000 - 70000 (Monthly)

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ T/A, Mobile bill
∎ As per projects

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 11 Sep 2023

Company Information:
∎ 3 Sep 2023
∎ Samaj Kalyan O Unnayan Shangstha (SKUS)
∎ Address : 110 Shantinagar, Nilufar Building (1st floor), Dhaka-1217.
∎ Business : SKUS is a non-profit, non-government voluntary organization working since 1995 to improve socio-economic condition of poor and marginalized people to improve socio-economic conditions and remove discrimination and exploitations. SKUS has implementing multidimensional projects on Education, Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Health, Nutrition and family planning, Life skills Education, Women empowerment, Water, Sanitation and hygiene, Safe Motherhood, Vulnerable Group Development, EPI and Primary Health Care Project, Safe migration, Emergency relief, early recovery and livelihood support on various disasters, Emergency Rohingya Response, MHPSS, GBV, Technical and vocational training in different part of Bangladesh with assistance from the government, national and international donor agencies.

Note : SKUS has a zero-tolerance to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of beneficiaries. Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) is everyone’s responsibility and all staff are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct that enshrines principles of PSEA, always (both during work hours and outside work hours). Familiarization with, and adherence to, the Code of Conduct is an essential requirement of all staff, in addition to related mandatory training. All staff must ensure that they understand and act in accordance with this clause.

SKUS also has a zero-tolerance policy on child protection.

Category: NGO/Development

: SKUS has a zero-tolerance policy toward safeguarding, child safeguarding, and PSEA. At SKUS, we believe all people have the right to live their lives free from sexual violence and any abuse of power, regardless of age, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, disability, religion, or ethnic origin.