Livelihood Specialist
Job Description
Title: Livelihood Specialist
Company Name: Education and Development Foundation-Educo
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ An advanced degree in business administration, agriculture is required, any advance degree from foreign university will be highly appreciable.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Department/Project: Program Operations
∎ Report to: Director, Program Operation
∎ Working Conditions: Country Office, Dhaka (with frequent Project visit)
∎ Purpose: Livelihood Specialist will be responsible for overall technical support and mentoring the livelihood team of Educo to ensure systemic solutions that allow those who are poor and marginalized to earn a dignified living as well as explore and build their own solutions and take ownership over their future.
∎ Engagement: S/he will initiate, develop and nurture cordial relations with relevant government bodies, partners, and the wider stakeholder and represent Educo at relevant events/forum to ensure Educo is acknowledged as a trustworthy partner/actor.
∎ Delivery: The Livelihood Specialist will provide technical advice on inclusive, sustainable economic opportunities of programming to increase the livelihood transition opportunities, AIG initiatives. This includes enhancing human capacity skills and opportunities for skills development and increasing employment and self-employment opportunities in target households and/or communities.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum 5 years of working experience International NGO. with professional background in food security, economic development, business management, marketing, resilience and livelihoods
∎ Working experience successfully with government agencies and private organizations engaged in promoting improved livelihoods for households and youth employment, programs
∎ Poverty reduction program, livelihood (related to on-farm, off-farm and self-employment),and Income generating activities,
∎ Strong understanding of gender-aware and gender transformative programming preferred.
∎ Demonstrated ability to work effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders, including national and local government,
∎ Donor-funded development projects focused on livelihoods,
∎ Partnership Management
Salary:
∎ Monthly BDT 90,000 (Ninety Thousand only), subject to deduction of Tax at source; based on salary history and experience.Other Benefits: According to Organizational Human Resources Policy.
Application Deadline: June 1, 2019
Company Information:
∎ Education and Development Foundation-Educo
∎ Business : Educo is a global development NGO with over 25 years of experience acting in favor of children and in defense of their rights. It has been working in Bangladesh since 1999. It gives emphasis on the quality education of the children with integration of health, livelihood and protection initiatives. We currently have geographical presence in 14 thanas/upazilas in 5 districts of the Dhaka Division: Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur in Dhaka division, Mymensingh in Mymensingh Division and Moulvibazar in Sylhet division. Through our programs we reach 17,000 children, 16,000 families/ households, 21 local government institutions and 34,000 community people.
Category: NGO/Development
