Field Mobilizer

• 2 to 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Minimum HSC; Bachelor`s degree preferred.

• 2 to 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Age 20 to 30 years

• Experience: 2-3 years’ experience on social service

• Experience in community-based development initiatives or grassroots-level engagement will be an added advantage.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with diverse stakeholders.

• Proven ability to mobilize communities and encourage active participation in development activities.

• Self-motivated, proactive, and capable of working independently as well as collaboratively within a team.

• Previous experience working with Dalit, marginalized, and socially excluded communities will be considered an added advantage.

Project Title: Strengthening Health and Education of Children and their Families of Sundarban in Bangladesh - Phase III

Job Location: Dacope Upazila (Khulna) and Assasuni Upazila (Satkhira)

Job Responsibilities

Overall Responsibilities:

Be the project`s daily link with children, parents, teachers and committees in the villages: mobilizing families, keeping registers, supporting distributions, sessions, camps and gardens, and following up children who are absent or at risk.

Specific tasks include:

• Visit learning centers and villages daily according to the work plan; support teachers in keeping attendance and enrolment registers and consolidate attendance monthly.

• Carry out home visits to families of children absent for more than three consecutive days, and to out-of-school children and adolescent girls; record reasons and actions taken.

• Mobilize communities for LCMC, parent and quarterly meetings, health camps, awareness sessions and workshops; announce events in advance with community leaders.

• Assist in distributions of educational, hygiene, recreational and menstrual-health materials: prepare lists, collect signatures or thumbprints, and report shortfalls.

• Facilitate or co-facilitate monthly awareness sessions on early marriage, SRH, hygiene and nutrition with teachers and peer educators; keep attendance and topic records.

• Help organize health camps: registration, MUAC screening, referral tracking and follow-up of undernourished children; arrange referral transport for severe cases.

• Support homestead gardening: household visits, training follow-up, monitoring cards and supporting lead gardeners.

• Support child protection sub-committees and report any child-protection concern immediately to the Program Officer and CPC focal person.

• Support formation and mentoring of youth-led organizations, and identification of youth for vocational training.

• Collect community feedback, complaints and success stories (with consent); update complaint boxes and information boards.

• Submit weekly and monthly updates to the Program Officer; keep records accurate and up to date.

Working relationships

• Works with teachers, LCMC/CPC/YLO members, parents, adolescents, Union Parishad members and community health workers.

• Salary: Monthly Gross Salary: BDT 20,000 (Twenty Thousand Taka Only)

Other Benefits:

• Other benefits will be provided in accordance with the approved project provisions and organizational policies.

• One festival bonus equivalent to one month`s basic salary, subject to applicable organizational policies.