Manager – GESI & Safeguarding

Job Description

Title: Manager – GESI & Safeguarding

Company Name: Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO)

Vacancy: 01

Age: At most 45 years

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: Tk. 63438 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 8 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

Postgraduate degree in gender studies, social sciences, human rights, development studies, social work or a related subject.

• At least 8 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Age At most 45 years

•Both male & female are allowed to apply

•At least 8 years in youth and civic engagement, GESI, disability inclusion or safeguarding, with proven case-handling experience.

•Leadership and teamwork;

•Honesty and accountability;

•Clear writing and speaking;

•Sensitivity to gender and social inclusion;

•Safeguarding awareness.

Job Context

ESDO was established in 1988 with the aim of supporting poor and marginalized people affected by the devastating flood and gradually moving towards achieving a broader vision of achieving sustainable, secured, and resilient livelihoods for these poor and marginalized people through improving their overall sustainable development. For the last more than three and a half decades of its development journey, ESDO has set an outstanding example of a sustainable development model for the underprivileged communities of Bangladesh. ESDO has been working in the country's primarily unserved and underserved locations, nurturing a community-focused participatory approach and people's ownership. Consequently, the ESDO's working area has already established an enabling environment. We have made notable achievements in livelihood improvement, food security and nutrition, education, women's empowerment, health, the promotion of children's rights, adolescent and youth engagement, and the rights of ethnic minorities. During this long span, we have adapted to the changing situation and provided the most time-bound effective services, especially to the poor and disadvantaged people. Considering the government's development policies, we are currently implementing a considerable number of projects and programs, including a microfinance program, through a community-focused and people-centered approach to accomplish the government's development agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN as a whole. One of the most dynamic organizations, ESDO, is expanding its development interventions across 422 upazilas under 56 districts of Bangladesh, thereby reaching over 15.73 million impoverished and vulnerable individuals.

“ESDO is recruiting for the Transforming Aspirations, Resilience and Upskilling through Networks for Nurturing Youth Action: Building Youth Agency, Voice & Influence (TARUNNYA) project, supported by the Nagorikata: Civic Engagement Fund (CEF), whose development partners are the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Global Affairs Canada (GAC) and the European Union (EU). This position is conditional and depends on (1) approval of the project by the NGO Affairs Bureau (NGOAB), Government of Bangladesh, and (2) final contracting between ESDO and GFA Consulting Group, the Fund Management Agency of Nagorikata CEF. Appointment will be made only after both conditions are met.”

Working place: TARUNNYA project office, Dhaka (Adabor/Mohammadpur area), with regular travel to partner areas across all eight divisions, including the Chittagong Hill Tracts

Key Responsibilities:

•Set the minimum GESI, accessibility, safeguarding and PSEA standards for partner agreements and service providers.

•Lead inclusion analysis and quarterly Leave No One Behind reviews.

•Arrange safeguarding training, reporting routes, survivor-centred referral and case escalation.

•Check that communications, youth participation and provider practice are safe, respectful and non-discriminatory.

•Support policy dialogue and evidence on inclusive youth participation.

•Watch the inclusion data and point out where groups are being missed.

Others benefit as per project allocation.