Officer/Senior Officer (Advocacy & Knowledge Management)
Job Description
Title: Officer/Senior Officer (Advocacy & Knowledge Management)
Company Name: Islamic Relief Bangladesh
Vacancy: 1
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Master of Arts (MA) in Mass Communication Journalism, International Relations, Master of Development Studies (MDS), Master of Social Science (MSS)
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Ensure comprehensive and effective communication, coordination, and advocacy with different stakeholders within the Humanitarian & Resilience Programme 20%
∎ Be in line with organizational strategic objectives and goals.
∎ Provision of IRB country strategy implementation within programme and projects.
∎ Act as media & communication focal for assigned project/s within the programme.
∎ Ensure IRB and donor visibility within the project.
∎ Ensure effective advocacy, networking, and coordination with national-level stakeholders from the Humanitarian and Resilience Programme perspective.
∎ Ensure appropriate links with national/local/UN authorities, state institutions, civil society, LLA platform/working group, and other relevant stakeholders, including effective coordination and information exchange with them.
∎ Represent the Humanitarian & Resilience Programme in different national-level platforms and institutions.
∎ Assist in liaising with partners, government representatives, donor agencies, and national and international NGOs to ensure smooth implementation of the project.
∎ Support to organize national-level workshops, training, etc. for further Programme development.
∎ Support to strengthen the Humanitarian & Resilience Programme in their capacities and advocacy role in LLA and LAPA.
∎ Generates new ideas and approaches, researches best practices, and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things.
∎ Ensure complaint log and register at the project level.
∎ Practice and promote SPHERE and Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) throughout the project.
∎ Ensure effective Knowledge Management and appropriate documents archiving, according to the project need within Humanitarian & Resilience Programme 30%
∎ Prepare timely reporting of activities according to IRB donor and other applicable timeframes and formats as per the organization and with guidance from the Programme Manager.
∎ Work with the communication team to prepare videos and communication materials on project success stories
∎ Document key changes
∎ Assist Project management team along with other change ambitions teams on knowledge management elements.
∎ Draft and finalize the bulletins, news briefs for media, and newsletters under the guidance of the Programme Team and relevant departments (Advocacy and Communication)
∎ Support to develop advocacy guidelines for scaling up LLA.
∎ Organize advocacy meeting campaigns at the field and national levels on specific issues under projects of change ambitions.
∎ Support to organize national level advocacy meetings collaborating with national daily newspapers and media
∎ Provide guidelines to the field team to organize advocacy campaigns and meetings at the field level and attend the campaign from the country office.
∎ Assist the communication department to develop communication materials on gender equality and women empowerment, labor rights, decent jobs, and other issues.
∎ Capture case studies, lessons learnings, and good practices from the project level for the greater audience both nationally and globally.
∎ Conduct training of project staff, and local stakeholders on advocacy and LLA and CCA topics.
∎ Develop communication materials on LLA issues
∎ Provide communication support at events including preparation of press releases, announcements, and social media posts, and organize photography and videography activities as required
∎ Responsible for writing and editing monthly newsletter, website, success stories, PowerPoint presentations, videos, talking points, and social media content
∎ Compile relevant project data, and prepare documents for creating an evidence base for resilient livelihood, CCA, LLA, and DRR.
∎ Maintaining administrative/financial files and project documentation.
∎ Archive monthly, quarterly, interim, and final narrative reports as per proposal and project needs.
∎ Assure compilation of results, learning, and uptake from all the activities.
∎ Preserve all project-related documents and ensure archiving in the Humanitarian & Resilience Programme department within due time.
∎ Archiving the project documents (hard copy and electronic copy) as per IR guidelines.
∎ Share different information to develop the project with programme team.
∎ Ensure key project information is kept up to date to allow for successful programme management, by measuring, gathering, monitoring, and storage of data including the progress of activities against strategic and specific targets.
∎ Appropriate documentation of project assumptions and theory of change for effective and timely achievement of project goals, outcomes, and outputs.
∎ Support the development of initiatives and partnerships that facilitate knowledge management on resilient livelihoods, CCA, LLA, and particularly, their linkages.
∎ Analyze the impact of the project and promote learning by documentation of best practices. Use this information to support decision-making processes.
∎ Support programme team in development of projects 15%
∎ Support programme team in data analysis and reporting of different need assessments, baseline and end-line surveys, post-distribution monitoring (PDM), and other planned activities such as various workshops and meetings.
∎ Collect primary & secondary information through FGD, CCM, KII, and literature review.
∎ Support programme team in sourcing information and data for project identification.
∎ Support programme team in developing project concept notes, and proposals in a different context.
∎ Policy Brief Develop
∎ Advocacy plan and strategy development
∎ Prepare project documentation and monthly, quarterly and annual reports are compiled and communications material is produced qualitatively within the appropriate time frame, work plans, objectives, and approaches.
∎ Ensure all reporting requirements and project documentation as per donor and project requirements.
∎ Work closely with the Field teams and assist Programme Manager and Project Manager in local-level coordination and representation
∎ Carrying out desktop research, using a range of methods and sources of data, related to inequality and social innovation practices.
∎ Conducting qualitative analysis of data conducted through interviews, focus groups, workshops or other methods.
∎ Carrying out quantitative data analysis of existing secondary data sets and primary quantitative data.
∎ Capacity building initiatives for project participants, key stakeholders, and project staff at program level 10%
∎ Undertake capacity development of staff and other stakeholders including providing guidance to area-based staff on field implementation.
∎ Prepare capacity development materials on CCA, LLA, DRR, and resilient livelihood; provide technical support in conducting capacity-building initiatives, and formulation of policies, strategies guidelines, and tools.
∎ Support the development of initiatives and partnerships that facilitate knowledge-management on livelihoods, poverty alleviation, CCA, LLA, and particularly, their linkages;
∎ Participate and facilitate weekly and monthly project-related awareness-raising and feedback sessions i.e., courtyard meetings at the community level.
∎ Orient key stakeholders on Complaints & Feedback Mechanism (CFM), Child Protection, Safeguarding & Gender Sensitivity issues concerning project activities.
∎ Organize training, workshops, fairs, etc. in different sectors for internal and external stakeholders.
∎ Ensure effective reporting and visibility according to the project need 20%
∎ Produce documents and analyses innovative strategies/best practices/new approaches, formulate case studies, knowledge management, and dissemination.
∎ Identify and record success factors and incorporates best practices into project work.
∎ Assess and identify technical assistance needs regarding technical skills, supervision support, etc., for project components within the programme.
∎ Support in preparing monthly, quarterly, interim, and final narrative report as per proposal and project needs.
∎ Assure compilation of results, learning, and uptake from all the activities.
∎ Update on track System on regular basis.
∎ Ensure all the project visibility materials and organizational visibility in different stages.
∎ Assist with data collection, processing, and analyzing data from the field and produce information/briefs for interventions, strategies, projects, and programmes.
∎ Participate in the design, review, and updating of Detailed Implementation Plans and field activities under the project.
∎ Ensure adherence of the project to the MEAL framework for measuring the impact of the project.
∎ Other Requirements 5%
∎ Participate & involve with seasonal programs (Ramadan, Qurbani, Winterization, etc.) activities.
∎ Ensure that local purchases and expenditures are done as per Islamic Relief Bangladesh policy.
∎ Maintain the stock book, inventory, and other essential registers properly and timely in an effective manner.
∎ Support in the procurement of materials like requisition, follow-up, etc.
∎ Take initiatives to ensure the security of project staff and participants during the intervention.
∎ Willing and able to travel frequently for extended periods and to remote areas of the projects.
∎ Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, exploitation, Fraud, Bribery & Money Laundering to achieve the program’s goals of safeguarding implementation and as well as Act as a key source of support, guidance, and expertise on the safeguarding of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation, Fraud, Bribery & Money Laundering for establishing a safe working environment
∎ Being a member of Islamic Relief as a child-friendly organization, it is the core responsibility and obligation of each staff member to understand and obey the IR Child Protection & PSEA Policy and respond accordingly as and when required.
∎ Perform any other duties assigned by Supervisor.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at most 40 years
∎ Experience in working with: strategic communications, advocacy, knowledge management, journalism, climate or environmental sciences, global development, or a related field
∎ Excellent Reading/Writing/Speaking/Listening skills in English & Bengali
∎ Facilitation Skill
∎ Working knowledge of Microsoft Word/ Excel/Power Point
∎ Coordination/Advocacy/Networking/Communication Skill
∎ Reporting & Documentation
∎ Monitoring & Evaluation Skill
∎ Financial management
∎ Decision-making skill
∎ Conflict resolution skill
∎ Leadership skill
∎ Self-development
∎ Problem-solving skill
∎ Planning, analytical and organizational skills
∎ Ability to work under pressure and manage stress/workload effectively
∎ Supportive, effective, and good team player.
∎ Mental Health Stability
∎ Adaptive Behavioral Skill
∎ Person with disability are encouraged to apply
Salary: Negotiable
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Provident fund, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance, Gratuity
∎ Festival Bonus: 1
∎ Other benefits will be provided as per organizational HR policy
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 25 Dec 2022
Company Information:
∎ 11 Dec 2022
∎ Islamic Relief Bangladesh
∎ Address : Bangladesh Country Office: House # 10, Road # 10, Block-K, Baridhara, Dhaka-1212
∎ Web : islamicrelief.org.bd
∎ Business : Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) - founded in 1984 and based in Birmingham, UK - is an independent humanitarian and development organization. It supports the world’s most vulnerable people in their fight against poverty & sufferings regardless of race, political affiliation, gender, or belief, and without expecting anything in return. It is a signatory to the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
IRW has a presence in 45 countries across the globe. Some funds of the organization come from individual donations and others from institutional donors such as the DFID, EU, SIDA, CIDA/IDRF, Forum Syd, WFP, UNDP, and ECHO.
Islamic Relief(IR) started working in Bangladesh in 1991 in order to help the distressed survivors of the devastating cyclone by providing emergency relief and supporting communities to rebuild in the wake of that cyclone. Initially, it focused on emergency relief & disaster preparedness activities. Later on, it expanded its programs on both humanitarian and development challenges. Now it works in an integrated manner combining emergency humanitarian assistance, short-term work opportunity, shelter support, awareness & training on different DRR, climate change, development, health & hygiene and social issues, cash grant, IGA means, health & nutrition, safe water & sanitation, education, advocacy and linkage with different service providers. As a registered charity, IR is open and transparent; it continually assesses its work and operational methods to improve impact and effectiveness.
Islamic Relief values and commitment to safeguarding: IRB is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity, and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults, and beneficiaries with whom IRB engages. IRB expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records checks. IRW also participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.
In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.
Category: NGO/Development
: For more details on Job information, Please download the job description from our official website (islamicrelief.org.bd). Female Candidates are highly encouraged to apply. However, Islamic Relief Bangladesh considers diversity in the workplace and is a committed equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from all suitable candidates regardless of gender, race, family or marital status, ethnicity, age, disability, class, caste, or religion.
