Livelihood Officer, PCC- ILPWDVD Project

Job Description

Title: Livelihood Officer, PCC- ILPWDVD Project

Company Name: Protibondhi Community Centre (PCC)

Vacancy: 1

Age: At most 45 years

Job Location: Bhola (Bhola Sadar)

Salary: Tk. 45000 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Master of Science (MSc) in Agriculture

• At least 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Age At most 45 years

Experience Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years in related to the position.
• Animal Husbandry is preferable.

Core Competencies:

• Minimum 5 years of development working experiences in Disability/ Livelihoods / SME / Market Development / Entrepreneurship Development / Climate Change Adaptation / DRR.
• Proven track record with reputed national NGO/INGO institutions.
• Excellent skills in community mobilization and understand team approach.
• Experience in profit analysis and business planning with marginalized group members.
• Excellent training facilitation, coordination, negotiation and documentation skills.
• Understand the roles of different actors in market development and private sector engagement.
• Prior experience working in the context of various donor-funded livelihood/ Climate Change and other development projects.
• Self-reliant, ability to work independently and effectively in a multi-talents environment and willing to work under pressure in remote areas.

Key Assets:

• Good analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to think creatively and encourage colleagues to take initiatives.
• Willing to frequent field visits and door to door service (Minimum – 75%).
• Respectful to human dignity, organizational goals, mission, vision and objectives.
• Excellent analytical and conceptual skills.
• Excellent written and verbal knowledge in both Bangla and English.
• Excellent communication, representation and networking skills.
• Experience in the use of computers as MS Word, MS Excel and PowerPoint.
• Professional, cooperative, efficient and effective working attitude.
• Willing to frequent field visit including remotest project working area.
• Professional, cooperative, efficient and effective working attitude.
• Skilled in motorbike driving and having valid driving license.

Other Competencies:

• Clear understanding and knowledge of Disability / Livelihoods / Disaster Risk Reduction and Multi-Sector Development Approaches.
• Experience in profit analysis and business planning with marginalized group members especially for family with disability and vulnerable poor family.
• Excellent skills in training facilitation, coordination, reporting and documentation.
• Understand the roles of different actors in market development and private sector engagement.
• Having strong mentality to work with the family with disability in remote area.
• Excellent skills in community mobilization and understand team approach.
• Prior experience working in the context of various donor-funded as Disability/Livelihoods/Climate Resilience and other development projects.
• Proven working experience with reputed national NGOs/INGOs.
• Self-reliant, ability to work independently and effectively in a multi-culture environment and willing to work under pressure in remote areas.

Employment Status:

• Contractual (Yearly Renewal): Depends on performance evaluation and funding availability.

Job Context:

• Duty station: Bhola Sadar, Bhola District.
• Reportable to: Project Manager (ILPWDVD Project)
• Language Required: Both English and Bengali
• Duration: Initially 12 Months (Subject to renewal based on performance and availability of fund) with 03 months’ probation period.

Job Responsibilities:

• Linkage with different stakeholders as Livestock’s, Agriculture, Fisheries, Youth Development, Social Welfare, Women & Child Affaires, NGOs, Local Administration, project participants, project staff and smooth implementation of project’s livelihood interventions.
• Facilitate to overall operation and management of Chilling Point/Plant and Dairy Product marketing for benefit of the project participants as well as organization.
• Facilitate to operation and management of social business for the benefit of project participants.
• Develop training module on multiple Income Generating Projects and facilitate IGA training sessions for project participants.
• Facilitate to develop market linkage and value chain between producer and buyers.
• Facilitate to project participants for Small Enterprise Development and Livelihoods for person with disability, Market Linkage and Value chain development.
• Generate applicable IGA for family with disability & vulnerable poor family and facilitate to implement for their source of livelihoods.
• Facilitate to implement climate resilience relevant project intervention.
• Facilitate to project team for selection profitable IGA and its implementation for project participants.
• Facilitate to establish milk collection and aggregation point and its management.
• Select IGA beneficiary, distribution inputs and technical support for smooth implementation of their IGA.
• Regular visit to project participant’s houses and provide technical support to project participants.
• Present in group meeting, ensure group savings, transfer technology and technical skill for smooth Income Generation Project (IGA) interventions.
• Facilitate to project budget development especially relevant to IGA and livelihoods and its incorporation.
• Facilitate to ensure different livelihood support from different sources as GO, NGOs for beneficiary through linkage development with different stakeholders.
• Facilitate to conduct project survey, project phase evaluation and new project development.
• Facilitate to establish livelihood demonstration as Agriculture, Fisheries, Livestock’s and Off Firms activities.
• Facilitate to ensure vaccination for livestock of the project participants through linkage development with local service providers.
• Facilitate to develop monthly, quarterly, half yearly, yearly financial plan and monthly, quarterly half yearly & yearly financial report and submission.
• IGA and livelihood relevant data collection, analysis, explore and provide technical support to project and project participants as per required.
• Implement livelihood activities for target project participants through building effective coordination among internal staffs and external stakeholders.
• Develop sustainable livelihoods sources for the project participants through effective Income Generating Projects development and technology transfer.
• Facilitate to conduct climate resilience training and capacity building of local volunteers.
• Facilitate to evacuation, assessment, relief and rehabilitation intervention (if require).

• Compensation, Risk Allowance & Other Benefits: According to organizational policy.