Program Officer (Training)

Job Description

Title: Program Officer (Training)

Company Name: SHUJAN Trust (Shushashoner Janno Nagarik)

Vacancy: 1

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 Trainer will design, facilitate and evaluate SHUJAN’s training and capacity-building activities on intellectual and ethical leadership, active citizenship, democratic values, civic rights, inclusive leadership and social accountability. The position will conduct training for master trainers, network leaders, ‘SHUJAN Bandhu’ members and young political leaders, and support youth-led campaigns, fellowship activities and policy dialogues through effective facilitation and mentoring.

Reporting to: Project Manager

Functional Relationship: Chief Executive and Project Manager.

Staff Category: Project Based (3 Years)

Work condition: Office based Job- 50% and Field job/travel- 50%

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and facilitate participatory training sessions on intellectual and ethical leadership, democratic values, active citizenship, civic rights and responsibilities, and social accountability.

• Conduct training for Master Trainers, Sujon district and upazila leaders, Sujon Bandhu members and young political leaders.

• Develop training modules, session plans, presentations, learning materials and other relevant training resources.

• Facilitate the training and learning components of the Young Political Leaders Fellowship Program, including mentoring and support for Social Action Projects.

• Support youth-led citizen campaigns through facilitation, mentoring and capacity-building, both online and in-person.

• Apply interactive and learner-centered training methodologies to ensure meaningful participation and learning outcomes.

• Assess participants’ learning needs and training outcomes and incorporate feedback to improve future training programs.

• Support the organization of policy dialogues, press conferences and roundtable discussions through facilitation, moderation and technical support.

• Document training activities, participant feedback, outcomes, good practices and lessons learned, and prepare relevant reports.

• Coordinate with program teams, resource persons, network leaders and other stakeholders to ensure effective delivery of training and capacity-building activities.

• Any other tasks as assigned by the management.