Food Security & Livelihood Program Assistant
Job Description
Title: Food Security & Livelihood Program Assistant
Company Name: Relief International
Vacancy: 04
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor degree in any discipline
Experience Requirements:
∎ 1 to 2 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ The FSL Program Assistants will split responsibility by geographical area, and each assistant will be responsible for a defined area and its beneficiaries. They will directly organize and supervise activities at household/community level with the support and under the management of FSL Program Officers. They will be the direct interface between RI and communities.
∎ The FSL Program Assistants will be responsible for selection and verification of project participants (beneficiaries and vendors), community mobilization, distribution of beneficiaries` cards, general project monitoring, support to participant training, contribution to project reporting, and the identification and initial trouble-shooting of field-level implementation problems.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Program Implementation
∎ Play a key role in beneficiary selection: mobilization and identification of targeting committees, communication of targeting criteria to the community and committees, facilitation of the community-based targeting exercise
∎ Mobilize the community for communication on targeting criteria and final beneficiary list: and for any other community activity
∎ Distribute their cards to the beneficiaries
∎ Regularly monitor the e-s transactions in-person at the participating vendors' shops
∎ and monitor whether all beneficiaries can access chosen goods without encountering any issue
∎ Report project progress and challenges to the FSL Programme Officers
Additional Requirements:
∎ This position demands a dynamic individual with a demonstrated ability to work hard and achieve results in a demanding, fast paced and often insecure environment.
∎ At least 6 months of experience in community mobilization and community-based targeting
∎ Minimum 6 months of aid-related international NGO experience in Bangladesh
∎ Experience of working in a stressful environment with tight deadlines
∎ Good writing skills at programmatic level (assessment reports, proposals, guidance notes)
∎ Ability to show initiative, multi-task and provide consistently high-quality work
∎ Able to follow a workplan
∎ Flexible, positive and pro-active attitude essential
∎ Good communication skills in English preferred
∎ Commitment to the aims and principles of Relief International. In particular, a good understanding of the humanitarian mandate and principles.
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Medical allowance, Provident fund, Insurance
∎ Salary Review: Yearly
∎ Festival Bonus: 2
∎ Housing Allowances ( Conditions Apply)
Application Deadline: October 31, 2019
Company Information:
∎ Relief International
∎ Address : Bangladesh Country Office: House: 451 , Road: 8 West, DOHS Baridhara, Dhaka-1206; Head Quarter: 5455 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1280 Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
∎ Web : www.ri.org
∎ Business : Relief International, hedquatered in USA, is a leading international non government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.
Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact.
Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Relief International has been working in Bangladesh since 2004. The Bangladesh portfolio of Relief International has strong focus on emergency response, economic opportunity and livelihoods rebuilding, traficking in persons, sustainable tourism, human rights and protection, refugee crisis response and public health. RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar. RI currently employs over 1000 local and international staffs in Bangladesh.
Relief International is currently implementing large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID/OFDA, EU ECHO.
For more information on Relief International: www.ri.org
Category: NGO/Development
