Program Officer (PO)

Job Description

Title: Program Officer (PO)

Company Name: Rights Jessore

Vacancy: 02

Job Location: Jashore

Employment Status: Part-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master degree in Social science/political science or relevant discipline from a reputed University

Experience Requirements:
∎ 4 to 5 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Rights Jessore is a leading human rights organization in Bangladesh dedicated to protection and promotion of human rights. Since its inception, Rights Jessore has been emphasizing on networking, capacity building of the stakeholders and documentations of human rights violations incidents to create an enabling environment for the prevention and protection of human rights.
∎ Rights Jessore is going to implement a project for promoting good governance and to improve accountability and transparency of the local elected representatives with the financial support of The Asia Foundation. The purpose of the project is to make the local elected representative accountable to the citizens and minimize corruption with the distribution of relief materials and other social safety-net services provided by the local elected representatives and also improve the service to pro poor people delivered by the local representatives. In this regard, Rights Jessore invites applications for the following positions;

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Program Officer will ensure individual plan for selected union by approved project plan and conduct regular field visit.
∎ Program Officer will be responsible for implementation all project activities as per plan at ground level.
∎ Engage with local elected representatives and relevant govt. authorities, civil society, community and women leaders and media professionals in order to ensure effective implementation of project activity.
∎ Assist to other program staff for preparing the union selecting criteria as per project guideline.
∎ Assist to form local non-partisan civil society group in each selected union to run this program smoothly.
∎ Assist to conduct union-wise meeting with the elected representatives and community people.
∎ Assist to prepare Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for signing with the elected representatives to provide financial statement.
∎ Attend monthly staff meeting and maintain good coordination with supervisor to implement activity effectively at ground level.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum 4-5 years experience on project implementation and liaison with multi level stakeholders especially local level elected representatives. Experience on good governance, civil society engagement and participatory management.
∎ Capable to carry out planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the ongoing project, therefore requires frequent field visit.
∎ Having good communication and interpersonal skills and are able to maintain liaison and coordination with local government, donor and stakeholders through teamwork.
∎ Having good computer skills on - MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and using internet.
∎ Experienced in organizing meeting, workshops, seminar with high level stake holders and knowledge on good governance, accountability and transparency and boarder development.
∎ Well-developed skills in priority setting, problem solving and writing.
∎ Able to work in team and good approach with personal commitment.

Salary:
∎ Monthly gross salary BDT 30,000

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Other admissible benefits like one festival bonus and travel allowances.

Application Deadline: 15 Dec 2020

Company Information:
∎ 7 Dec 2020
∎ Rights Jessore
∎ Business : NGO

Category: NGO/Development

: Please write the position applied for at the top of envelop or mention in the subject line of the email. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Any form of persuasion in the selection process will automatically disqualify the candidacy.