Field Organizer

Job Description

Title: Field Organizer

Company Name: Center for Natural Resource Studies (CNRS)

Vacancy: 7

Age: Na

Job Location: Bagerhat, Khulna, Moulvibazar, Satkhira, Sylhet

Salary: Tk. 32690 (Monthly)

Experience:

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

• Masters

Graduate degree in science or social sciences. Preference will be given to candidates with degree in Natural Resource Management; Disaster Management, Environment/ Climate Change, Development Studies, Sociology, Statistics, Geography etc. Academic degrees can be relaxed in case of a person with extensive working experience in the similar areas.

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

• Minimum 2 years of working experience in community-led innovation in the context of natural resource management, co-management, ecosystem conservation, climate justice & adaptation/ resilience.

• Familiar with bio-physical and socio-economic conditions in the ecologically critical areas in Sundarbans and Hakaluki Haor.

• Experience in developing and implementing Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and renewable/green energy to address and mitigate climate change challenges will be given preference.

Job Location: Any location of Sundarbans ECA (Khulna, Satkhira and Bagerhat district) and Hakaluki ECA (Sylhet and Moulvibazar District).

Reporting to: Field Manager

No. of Vacancies: 07 (Seven); 06 position for Sundarbans ECA and 01 position for Hakaluki ECA

Contract Type: Full-time

Expected Joining date: October 2025

Contract period: Up to March 31, 2026

Introduction:

The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has selected a CARE Bangladesh led consortium to implement the project titled ‘Nature Based Adaptation towards Prosperous and Adept Lives & Livelihoods in Bangladesh (NABAPALLAB/ নবপল্লব)’ in two Ecologically Critical Areas (ECA) – Sundarbans and Hakaluki Haor. The other consortium members are CNRS, CordAid, C3ER-BRAC University, Dushtha Shasthya Kendra (DSK), Friendship, Humanity & Inclusion (HI), iDE, and Practical Action. It is a key component of the Bangladesh-UK Accord on Climate Change and will deliver the adaptation outcome of the FCDO’s flagship Bangladesh Climate and Environment Programme (BCEP). The programme will make a significant contribution in Bangladesh to progress against GoB’s policies and priorities e.g., National Adaptation Plan (NAP), Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), commitments to biodiversity conservation, ongoing 8th Five Year Plan, etc. And it will also contribute to UK’s commitment to International Climate Finance (ICF).

The Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world, and Hakaluki Haor, a complex wetland system of the Meghna-Surma River basin, play a crucial role in protecting lives and livelihoods in the southwest coast and northeast Bangladesh respectively. With a population of over 4 million and a rich habitat with rare species, including tigers, the Sundarbans` inhabitants are threatened by climate changes due to rising sea levels and frequent cyclones. Over-extraction of forest resources by locals and industrial development in the nearby areas is currently threatening this World Heritage Site. Hakaluki Haor is one of the most extensive marsh wetlands in the country, inhabited by over 200,000 people and 558 animal and bird species and is a breeding ground for fisheries. Due to environmental sensitivity and high anthropogenic pressures such as overharvesting, overfishing, pollution and illegal logging, the Sundarbans mangrove and the Hakaluki Hoar wetland are at a vulnerable stage with climate change exacerbating the current situation.

FCDO’s NABAPALLAB aims to engage biodiversity and natural resource-dependent communities to strengthen the climate resilience of the ECAs, conserve biodiversity, and at the same time, diversify and improve people`s livelihood through innovative nature-based (NBS) and locally led adaptation solutions. It will primarily target communities within the 10 km buffer zone of the ECAs, which are critically exposed and vulnerable to climate change impacts and have a lesser capacity to adapt to such changes. It will increase climate resilience of more than 250,000 vulnerable households and ecosystem-based protection and restoration of 5,000km2 area in, especially in the districts of Bagerhat, Satkhira and Khulna in the Sundarbans ECA, and Maulvibazar and Sylhet in Hakaluki Haor. The project will consider the most marginalised communities, involving stakeholders from multiple strata and ensuring ownership of provided interventions. It will also enhance the capacity of the local government bodies to manage and conserve the ECAs effectively and create an enabling environment to implement relevant government plans and policies related to Eco-System based Adaptation (EBA).

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