Title: Outreach Officer
Company Name: BBC Media Action
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Employment Status: Full-time
Job Context:
∎ Reports To : Humanitarian Project Manager
∎ Start Date : ASAP
∎ Overall purpose:
∎ Working closely with the Project Manager, to coordinate the design and delivery of outreach activities for BBC Media Action in Cox`s Bazar both in Rohingya and host communities and ensuring that relationships with external stakeholders, NGOs, and other delivery partners are coordinated and maintained. The successful candidate will also need to work with BBC Media Action`s existing partners to ensure that the outputs are effectively disseminated to the communities.
∎ This position is based in Cox`s Bazar but with frequent travel to partner organisations` locations within Cox`s Bazar and beyond. In general, normal office hours will apply but the nature of the role means that a flexible approach to working time will be necessary.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Develop and maintain operational relationships with NGO and other outreach partners, ensuring that lines of communication and contact points with BBC Media Action are clear, partnerships are of mutual benefit and issues of concern are appropriately flagged.
∎ Co-ordinate a multi-programme setting of outreach activities, ensuring that deliverables are on track, on time and to the required quality standard.
∎ Closely working with project management, production and training and liaison team to design an outreach plan and implement effectively.
∎ Provide timely and accurate forecasting and reporting information for outreach activities and deliverables to the Project Manager.
∎ Work closely with the Project Manager, research and other colleagues to ensure that research activities associated with outreach activities are effectively designed and embedded, as part of the research framework of the overall project.
∎ Provide advice and support to the project team in negotiation and contracting processes with partner organisations.
∎ Work closely with teams across BBC Media Action Bangladesh to ensure that communication with partners is planned, co-ordinated and effective.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Essential= E / Desirable= D
∎ Experience of partnership working, with the confidence and proven ability to deal with a wide range of stakeholders and partners. E
∎ Demonstrable ability to effectively plan, monitor and report on a programme of activities. E
∎ Experience of working in a humanitarian or related setting, with an understanding of the needs of socially excluded groups. E
∎ Well-developed IT skills, including Microsoft Office. E
∎ Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to form and maintain effective working relationships at all levels. E
∎ Excellent written communication skills. E
∎ Excellent spoken English language skills. E
∎ Demonstrable Chittagonian and Rohingya language skills D
∎ Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the proven ability to prioritise, work independently and maintain attention to detail. E
∎ Experience and knowledge of training, group-work facilitation and participatory approaches D
∎ Experience working in a media or communications environment D
∎ Commitment to equal opportunities and health & safety. E
∎ Strong understanding of safeguarding principles and commitment to follow BBC Media Action's Code of Conduct and safeguarding policy E
∎ Strong understanding of rights and gender norms within humanitarian and displacement contexts. D
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 10 Nov 2021
Company Information:
∎ 28 Oct 2021
∎ BBC Media Action
∎ Business : BBC Media Action is the BBC`s international development charity. We use media and communications to reduce poverty and promote human rights in developing countries. We partner with civil society, local media and others to produce creative programmes in multi-media formats which inform and engage audiences around key development issues, and strengthen the media sector through capacity building. Our work is built on insights from our research and engagement with communities, and is focused on three key themes: governance and human rights, health and resilience.
Category: NGO/Development
Source: bdjobs.com