Gender and Community Participation Coordinator

Job Description

Title: Gender and Community Participation Coordinator

Company Name: HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Bangladesh

Vacancy: Undefined

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Education: a university degree in social sciences, gender studies, gender, social work, public health, or other relevant field or equivalent practical experience.

Experience Requirements:
∎ 4 to 6 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ The Gender and Community Participation Coordinator will support to analyze and assess community participation structures, processes and mechanisms in the Refugee Camp situation and thereby contribute to raising awareness and building capacity for community participation and site management structures where applicable. The assessments and capacity building will help the involved parties to reflect on questions related to roles and responsibilities of both the camp management actors as well as the communities in regard to social inclusion language barriers, information to be provided, gaps in access to information, availability and gaps in complaint handling mechanisms, conflict resolution, etc.
∎ The Gender and Community Participation Coordinator will also support the gender sensitivity aspect and ongoing monitoring activities of the protection mainstreaming and capacity building across Helvetas emergency projects in CXB.

Additional Requirements:
∎ A minimum of 4-6 years experience in the management of protection, women empowerment, community mobilisation projects, including a mature understanding of humanitarian and sustainable livelihoods programming in a variety of livelihoods intervention areas
∎ A minimum of 2-3 years experience in emergency interventions and sound understanding of CCCM
∎ Community development skills, including participatory community assessment and planning techniques, with skills in capacity building of communities and experience of working with livelihoods groups/community-based structures.
∎ Knowledge of and experience in gender and protection mainstreaming; gender responsive and socially inclusive local governance; advocacy on gender & social inclusion; capacity development
∎ Excellent training and facilitation skills ?Experience in vulnerability analysis.
∎ Committed to Equal Opportunities (e.g. gender, race, disability).
∎ Experience of project and personnel management, of monitoring and evaluation, of representation, and of preparing persuasive project reports
∎ The ability to work in implementation capacity
∎ Strong influencing and advocacy skills, political and cultural sensitivity.
∎ Professional level in MS Office package
∎ Fluent in English, Bengali native speaker, Chittagonian desirable

Salary:
∎ The salary and benefits of the above positions would be in accordance with the salary structure of HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Bangladesh and be fixed based on the qualification and experience of the candidate.

Application Deadline: May 19, 2019

Company Information:
∎ HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Bangladesh
∎ Business : HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, an international NGO, works in the domains of rural economy, water and infrastructure, environment and climate change, governance and peace, and skills development and education. Its main activities in about 30 countries consist of the planning and implementation of development initiatives as well as the provision of thematic advisory services.

Category: NGO/Development