Program Officer
Job Description
Title: Program Officer
Company Name: Action for Social Development (ASD)
Vacancy: 1
Location: Cox's Bazar
Minimum Salary: Tk. 38000 (Monthly)
Experience:
∎ 3 to 5 years
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):NGO
Published: 11 Jun 2024
Education:
∎ Postgraduate/Graduate in Music and Theatre Art, Communication and Journalism, Social Science, or any other relevant discipline from a reputed institution.
∎ Postgraduate/Graduate in Music and Theatre Art, Communication and Journalism, Social Science, or any other relevant discipline from a reputed institution.
Requirements:
Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum Three (3) to Five (5) years of practical experience in managing development projects focusing on awareness and prevention.
∎ Having extensive knowledge and skills in Monitoring and Evaluation frameworks of development organizations.
∎ Experience with the development of awareness messages and tools on anti-human-trafficking and safe migration-related issues.
∎ Experience with the detailed documentation of providing social and economic support services to trafficking survivors or vulnerable and at-risk groups, and detailed reporting mechanisms.
∎ Demonstrate a positive attitude and sensitivity to support vulnerable and at-risk groups and communities.
∎ Strong understanding of gender and diversity issues.
∎ Demonstrate strong interpersonal communication skills in English and Bangla; and
∎ Basic computer proficiency: i.e. MS Office, database management, coordination via email, project-specific management information systems, etc.
∎ Ability to work in a team with good interpersonal skills.
∎ Candidate should have a learning attitude, good behavior, and a proactive attitude.
∎ Ability to prioritize activities to act and decide promptly.
∎ Pro-active and participatory decision-making and problem-solving.
∎ Ability to communicate with people from different cultures and backgrounds.
∎ Ability and experience in working with diverse people/communities at grassroots levels will be given priority.
∎ Strong team player with a well-developed network.
∎ Minimum Three (3) to Five (5) years of practical experience in managing development projects focusing on awareness and prevention.
∎ Having extensive knowledge and skills in Monitoring and Evaluation frameworks of development organizations.
∎ Experience with the development of awareness messages and tools on anti-human-trafficking and safe migration-related issues.
∎ Experience with the detailed documentation of providing social and economic support services to trafficking survivors or vulnerable and at-risk groups, and detailed reporting mechanisms.
∎ Demonstrate a positive attitude and sensitivity to support vulnerable and at-risk groups and communities.
∎ Strong understanding of gender and diversity issues.
∎ Demonstrate strong interpersonal communication skills in English and Bangla; and
∎ Basic computer proficiency: i.e. MS Office, database management, coordination via email, project-specific management information systems, etc.
∎ Required Core Competencies:
∎ Ability to work in a team with good interpersonal skills.
∎ Candidate should have a learning attitude, good behavior, and a proactive attitude.
∎ Ability to prioritize activities to act and decide promptly.
∎ Pro-active and participatory decision-making and problem-solving.
∎ Ability to communicate with people from different cultures and backgrounds.
∎ Ability and experience in working with diverse people/communities at grassroots levels will be given priority.
∎ Strong team player with a well-developed network.
Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Taking effective initiatives to implement project activities in collaboration with other team members.
∎ Support team in developing different awareness materials and tools.
∎ Assist PC to ensure project activities are implemented on time.
∎ Support the communities at risk of human trafficking by identifying and referring them to relevant service-providing organizations;
∎ Day-to-day supervise and monitor the field-level activities of the project team including CTIP activists.
∎ Ensure project visibility through engaging mainstream media and using social media;
∎ Ensure linkage support for communities at-risk of human trafficking to lessen the push factors of human trafficking.
∎ Coordination with other government and non-government service-providing organizations to ensure service through referral.
∎ Assist the Project Coordinator in preparing quarterly and annual narrative reports, financial reports, and variance reports.
∎ Attend regular basis in Government meeting and other coordination meeting in working districts.
∎ Setup files to ensure that all project information is appropriately documented and secured and
∎ Maintain the confidentiality of project documents and organizational regulations and implement them at his/her jurisdiction.
∎ About ASD: Action for Social Development (ASD) is a non-government, non-profit and non-political development organization (duly registered with Dept. of Social Service and NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of Bangladesh) established in 1988. The objective of ASD is to facilitate support for the poor, create solidarity among themselves, and build their capacities and bargaining power for realizing their rights and needs to improve their quality of life. ASD has the unique experience of implementing 75 projects in both urban and rural areas on climate change, emergency response, child rights & child protection etc.
∎ ASD is now accepting applications from suitable, experienced, and interested candidates, for the following job vacancies, to work in a counter-trafficking-focused project implemented by Winrock International and supported by the Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh. Ashshash: For Men and Women Who Have Escapes Trafficking (Phase II) is implemented across some of the most trafficking-prone areas in Bangladesh, including Cox’s Bazar.
∎ Project Background: The main objective of the project is to ensure that “women and men who have escaped trafficking will restore their dignity and wellbeing and become self-sufficient”. The survivors will be provided psychosocial counseling support along with other social services and facilitated opportunities for skills-devolvement and entrepreneurship training. Subsequently, they will be placed in wage-based and or self-employment opportunities for sustained social and economic reintegration into households, societies, and workplaces. Furthermore, Ashshash will reach people across the working areas either directly or indirectly, through various awareness-raising activities on factors that fuel the vulnerabilities of people toward human trafficking, and to ensure its prevention. The four-year-long second phase of Ashshash will provide comprehensive and personalized packages of social and economic services to human trafficking survivors, and work to raise mass awareness on the issue.
∎ Project Title: Ashshash for Men and Women Who Have Escaped Trafficking
∎ Project Duration: June 2024 - August 2026
∎ Job Category: Project Staff
∎ Position Summary: The Program Officer (PO) will work under the direct oversight of Ashshash’s Awareness and Prevention Partner (APP) across Cox’sBazar sadar, Ukhiya, and Teknaf. The PO will assist the Project Coordinator in implementing project activities to ensure that the local communities are aware and trained on preventing human trafficking. The PO will support the project in developing CTC and CTIP activist capacity, and maintain liaison with counter-trafficking activist groups, youth groups, and members of at-risk communities. PO will support overall project activities including community empowerment, capacity development of CTIP activists and change agents, development of awareness materials, and identification and referral of at-risk communities to the services. The PO must ensure compliance with Winrock International’s ‘Code of Conduct’ and ‘Do No Harm Policy’, whilst maintaining privacy and confidentiality of information respective to each survivor.
∎ Job Responsibilities
∎ Taking effective initiatives to implement project activities in collaboration with other team members.
∎ Support team in developing different awareness materials and tools.
∎ Assist PC to ensure project activities are implemented on time.
∎ Support the communities at risk of human trafficking by identifying and referring them to relevant service-providing organizations;
∎ Day-to-day supervise and monitor the field-level activities of the project team including CTIP activists.
∎ Ensure project visibility through engaging mainstream media and using social media;
∎ Ensure linkage support for communities at-risk of human trafficking to lessen the push factors of human trafficking.
∎ Coordination with other government and non-government service-providing organizations to ensure service through referral.
∎ Assist the Project Coordinator in preparing quarterly and annual narrative reports, financial reports, and variance reports.
∎ Attend regular basis in Government meeting and other coordination meeting in working districts.
∎ Setup files to ensure that all project information is appropriately documented and secured and
∎ Maintain the confidentiality of project documents and organizational regulations and implement them at his/her jurisdiction.
Skills & Expertise:
Employment Status: Contractual
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Read Before Apply:
Only short-listed candidates will be called for an interview.
ASD is committed to upholding child rights & child safeguarding and never tolerates child abuser
ASD strictly applies '0' (Zero) tolerance policy for Gender and child abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. So, anyone involved in any kind of abuse, sexual exploitation and harassment is strongly advised not to apply.
Any candidate get involved with any terrorist activities, radicalized & extremist movements or any act of violence is forbidden to apply.
Female with disable and marginalized candidates are encouraged to apply.
ASD and Winrock International management can take any decision regarding the appointment without clarification any notice to others.
Apply Procedure:
Hard Copy:
∎ Interested candidates meeting the above requirements are requested to apply with a complete CV and a cover letter including names of two references with their address and telephone no, recent passport-size photo, to the following address:
∎ Executive Director,
∎ Action for Social Development (ASD),
∎ House # 4/16 (2nd Floor), Block-B, Humayun Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207
∎ Mobile No: 01719-215201
∎ or
∎ Mail to [email protected]
∎ Please mention the name of the post in the subject of the email or at the top side of the envelope.
∎ Only short-listed candidates will be called for an interview.
Company Information:
∎ Action for Social Development (ASD)
∎ 4/16 (2nd Floor), Block-B, Humayun Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207
∎ www.asd.org.bd
∎ Action for Social Development (ASD) is a non-government, non-profit and non-partisan development organization duly registered with Department of Social Service and NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of Bangladesh. ASD was established in 1988 by a group of NGO professionals and social workers with the objective to address the basic problems of the slum dwellers of Dhaka City to ensure their positive and due role in the socio-economic development of the country. Gradually ASD extended its development interventions in other cities and remote rural areas with broader objectives.
facebook: facebook.com/asdngobd,
Telephone: 02-41022337, Mobile: 01719-215201
Address::
∎ 4/16 (2nd Floor), Block-B, Humayun Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207
∎ www.asd.org.bd
∎ Action for Social Development (ASD) is a non-government, non-profit and non-partisan development organization duly registered with Department of Social Service and NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of Bangladesh. ASD was established in 1988 by a group of NGO professionals and social workers with the objective to address the basic problems of the slum dwellers of Dhaka City to ensure their positive and due role in the socio-economic development of the country. Gradually ASD extended its development interventions in other cities and remote rural areas with broader objectives.facebook: facebook.com/asdngobd, Telephone: 02-41022337, Mobile: 01719-215201
Application Deadline: 24 Jun 2024
Category: NGO/Development
Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 24th Jun 2024
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