Program Officer

Job Description

Title: Program Officer

Company Name: SHUJAN Trust (Shushashoner Janno Nagarik)

Vacancy: --

Age: At least 25 years

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• At least 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Master’s degree required in a related field of study in Education, Political Socience, Social Work, Sociology, Gender & Women Study or other related field;

• At least 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Age At least 25 years

• Minimum 5 years’ work experiences in the development sector of Bangladesh through National/ international NGOs with particular focus on governance issues.

• Sound knowledge in political, communal, and ethnic violence in Bangladesh.

• Solid working experience with the Multi-stakeholder and social Platforms for governance and reforms.

• A socially active person having good networking skills.

• Challenge taker and meet the deadline.

• Expert level competency with Microsoft word, Excel, Power point, and Outlook.

• Excellent command over English and Bangla both verbal and written is necessary.

Organizational Profile

SHUJAN Trust (Shushashoner Janno Nagarik) is a non-partisan citizen’s platform.

The main objectives of SHUJAN are to institutionalize and promote democracy and good governance in Bangladesh. The goals to achieve those objectives are: (a) to make citizens aware, active, vocal, and organized to ensure the rule of law, protection of human rights, equality, justice, transparency, and accountability as well as the practice of democracy at all levels of society; b. To form public opinion and act as a ‘pressure group’ for the desired reforms in all concerned areas and to play the role of auditor and ‘dark watcher’ for the desired changes in all these areas.

SHUJAN’s management principles are neutrality, unity, honesty, transparency, equality, and non-communalism.

The ‘Citizen for Fair Election (CFE)’ started its journey through a press conference on 12 November 2002. Initially, the organization aimed to ensure the process to elect honest, qualified, and public welfare candidates. However, later, the goal was set to establish democracy, development, and good governance in the country. On 21 December 2003, the organization was officially named ‘SHUJAN (Shushashoner Janno Nagarik),’ in line with its goal.

‘SHUJAN’ is now a registered non-partisan organization. But is is not a traditional NGO; rather it is a volunteer-based movement in which citizens themselves invest both their time and money to carry forward its work.

Job Summary

The Program Officer will support the planning, coordination, implementation, monitoring and documentation of SHUJAN’s programs focused on institutional strengthening, democratic participation, civic engagement and accountable governance. The position will work with SHUJAN’s national and local networks, youth and fellowship programs, research and advocacy initiatives, and relevant stakeholders to ensure effective program delivery.

The role will also support capacity building, stakeholder coordination, communication, knowledge management, monitoring and reporting, ensuring that programs are inclusive, participatory and aligned with SHUJAN’s strategic objectives.

Reporting to: Project Manager

Functional Relationship: Chief Executive and Project Manager.

Staff Category: Project Based (3 Years)

Work condition: Office based Job- 25% and Field job/travel- 75%.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support coordination and implementation of programs to strengthen SHUJAN’s institutional capacity, organizational systems and administrative effectiveness.

• Coordinate SHUJAN’s District, Upazila and Metropolitan networks and support local capacity-building, leadership development and democratic engagement initiatives.

• Coordinate ‘SHUJAN Bandhu’ activities, youth-led civic initiatives and leadership/fellowship programs for emerging political and civic leaders.

• Support research, preparation of policy and advocacy materials, and organization of policy dialogues, consultations and stakeholder engagements.

• Monitor program progress, collect and document results, lessons learned and good practices, and prepare regular reports and updates.

• Maintain effective coordination with staff, network members, partners and stakeholders and ensure compliance with organizational policies and procedures.

• Any other tasks as assigned by the management.