Title: Humanitarian Affairs Officer
Company Name: Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Vacancy: 1
Job Location: Dhaka (Kamrangirchar)
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Essential degree in Law, Humanitarian affairs, Political Sciences or related study field
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s):
Advocacy
Job Context:
∎ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in more than 70 countries worldwide. We deliver emergency medical care to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural or manmade disasters. MSF first worked in Bangladesh in 1992.
∎ MSF stands against all forms of discrimination on whatever basis, be it of gender, age, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, political opinion, legal status, or any such arbitrary and false distinction.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ CORE TASKS
∎ Develop the project advocacy strategy, creating actionable objectives and the routes to implement them, in line with community needs and the health priorities outlined in the project plan.
∎ Develop a theory of change position as it relates to MSF Kamrangirchar project activities with a view to longer term vision of advocating best practices in urban health programming.
∎ Act as an interlocutor between project departments to ensure collection, reflection and transfer of health information, research, and community data as it relates to project advocacy areas.
∎ Monitor and compile regular updates on the context as it relates to project activities to increase the leverage capacity and impact of MSF lobbying in line with operational plans.
∎ Draft ad hoc lobbying points and internal/external reports in relation to main medical, preventive, and public health concerns in Kamrangirchar and the wider context.
∎ Advise PC on perception related to positioning and operational strategy with a particular view on increasing local/national visibility and ensuring good acceptance for MSF project presence.
∎ Keep abreast of the national/local customs and legal basis as it relates to affecting advocacy and change agenda.
∎ DATA ANALYSIS
∎ In close coordination with medical/clinical departments, initiate discussion to reflect on and interpret health information, and translate these into advocacy recommendations and practical implementation.
∎ Undertake and regularly review actor mapping and stakeholders’ analysis while providing support to the PC for the management of relations with local authorities.
∎ Provide discourse analysis to inform MSF positioning in terms of political/ operational environment (regulation frameworks, trade and economic developments etc.).
∎ REPRESENTATION – COMMUNICATION
∎ Support networking needs by participating in relevant domestic civil society, professional groups (doctors’/nurses’ associations), INGOs and local academics/universities.
∎ Identify potential partners for coalition building (academic institutions, local NGOs, governmental offices / authorities etc.), prepare planning for long term partnerships building.
∎ Define, draft and review advocacy messages (including communications and dissemination strategies) to raise awareness of medical-humanitarian issues faced in Kamrangirchar.
∎ Collaborate with outreach/community engagement team to improve information sharing, dialogue and exchange of knowledge with the Kamrangirchar community, key influencers, and stakeholders in line with project advocacy strategy.
∎ When needed interact with the international MSF advocacy network to provide updated contextualized content.
∎ Provide recommendations and be a propositional voice for opportunistic communications from operations/health activities’ analysis.
∎ ON REQUEST
∎ Undertake field assessments (in relation to data gathering/context analysis or exploratory missions) and other work-related traveling as required.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Essential previous working experience of at least two years in advocacy related role
∎ Essential experience with MSF or other INGOs
∎ Essential Bengali and English
Salary:
∎ Tk. 83580 (Monthly)
∎ Contract length is twelve months (with possibility of extension)
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Medical allowance
∎ Festival Bonus: 2
∎ Two annual leave days per month worked
∎ Medical insurance for employee and direct dependents
∎ No relocation allowance shall be provided
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 11 Aug 2021
Company Information:
∎ 28 Jul 2021
∎ Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Category: NGO/Development
: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Application documents are non-returnable; please do not submit original documents. Only Bangladesh citizens will be considered for this position. No monetary, goods or service offers, nor favoritism, will be tolerated in a recruitment process. Any illicit solicitations can be reported to the justice system. MSF reserves the right to refuse any candidate having benefited from such acts and will stop collaboration with any workers involved in such acts.
Source: bdjobs.com