Job Description

Title: Programme Officer

Company Name: ActionAid Bangladesh

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's degree. Understanding on community assessment, community mobilization and session facilitation skills and training delivery to community groups

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Unit : Local Rights Programme (LRP)
∎ Location of posting : Goran, Dhaka (LRP - 55)
∎ Types of contract : Fixed term contract
∎ Duration of Contract : Up to 31 December 2024 (Have possibility for further extension)
∎ Job Summary:
∎ ActionAid Bangladesh (AAB) Management has made the decision to independently implement its Local Rights Programme (LRP-55). As a result, ActionAid Bangladesh is in the process of hiring a Programme Officer for LRP-55.
∎ The Programme Officer will be responsible for the implementation of the project activities in the LRP-55 working area at South City Corporation area of Dhaka. S/he will be responsible for planning, budgeting, implementing of the LRP-55 project activities under supervision of Programme Manager. S/he will implement LRP-55 activities and report to supervisor the day-to-day progress. Organize different events as per guidance of Programme Manager and collect the evidence, case stories, keeping records of accomplished activities. S/he will represent the project as well as AAB to different levels of stakeholders/organizations.
∎ S/he will be responsible contribute to ensure the collection of quality communication materials from individual children and communities within the deadline. As part of maintaining global Child Sponsorship (CS) data-system, known as SK Database, s/he is accountable for inputting required data in time. S/He is also responsible for preparing CS reports as per the guided format from children and programme participants. S/He also supervise different groups, i.e Community Journalist Group (CJG), Child Forum and activities of Child Space, Youth Groups, RAC, Women groups, adolescent group. Apart from this, s/he will take care of community mobilisation & sensitization to understand rights, facilitate the process of rights claim and develop linkage between Rights holders and service providers.
∎ Relationships: Programme Officer will report to Programme Manager - LRP Implementation.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Planning, budgeting and implementing the project activities:
∎ Prepare planning matrix and budget for LRP-55 by conducting PRRP.
∎ Involve community specially women and young people in LRP programme and implement accordingly the LRP-55 activities.
∎ Assist supervisor to prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual progress report of LRP activities.
∎ Organize staff coordination and progress meeting.
∎ Collect project accomplished related evidence like photos, video clips, case stories and keeping attendance sheets, master rolls, event reports etc.
∎ Implement the systems to monitor the quality of child messages and photographs consulting with the sponsorship unit of AAB.
∎ Organize the community people specially women and young peoples for social movement, advocacy with service providers and other stakeholders.
∎ Facilitate the HRBA process to community groups, young groups, RAC to develop their Community Action Plan (CAP) and claim the community rights.
∎ Supervise the field staff and provide guidance to implement LRP-54 planned activities.
∎ Child Sponsorship Management and Reporting:
∎ Prepare Child Sponsorship budget conducting PRRP and considering the Sponsorship guideline.
∎ Collect periodic Child Massage (CM) of individual children on prescribed CM form and ensure quality of field worker update.
∎ Keeping CM soft copy and send CM pack to ActionAid Bangladesh (AAB) office in due time.
∎ Response to the Supporter's letter and photo to ensure the safeguarding and sponsorship policy.
∎ Identify the child drop out and share to AAB immediately with proper reason and action.
∎ Conduct community sensitization and child focused fun activities for children.
∎ Collection yearly individual child's photo maintaining sponsorship guideline.
∎ Collect new child profiles as per the requirement of global CS database.
∎ Update the MIS system bimonthly through incorporating child's update data and share to AAB.
∎ Operation the Child Space, Child Forum, youth forum, RAC, and Community Journalist Group (CJG)
∎ Formation different community groups like RAC, CJG, Child Forum, Youth groups and support to develop the yearly action plan of groups.
∎ Develop the session plan for Facilitators considering the needs of groups members and support Facilitators for facilitating group session.
∎ Taking initiative for community sensitizing about LRP programme, sponsorship objectives among the group members, parents and local stakeholders.
∎ Identify the facilitators gaps and recommend providing necessary skill development training for ensuring effective group operation and facilitation.
∎ Organize and conduct monthly/quarterly meeting of RAC, CJG, Child Forum, youth group and follow up the progress of group action plan and involvement in LRP programme.
∎ Build good linkage between different groups and service providers of GO/NGOs.
∎ Support groups to take initiative for community mobilization, conduct social movement for claiming community rights.
∎ Acting as editor of CJG Bulletin, drafting and publishing the yearly Trinamul Barta (newsletter).
∎ Generate new and innovative ideas for effective implementation of project activities and sharing among the team members as well as different stakeholder levels.
∎ Taking initiatives to develop personal skills of group members as a leader and groups will revolve as a peoples' organization to serve the community.
∎ Team Management:
∎ Facilitate the team members (Facilitators, Community Organiners) to internalize different conceptual and methodological documents as well as its processes and operation.
∎ Provide accompaniment support to make the team members more confident in order to facilitate the groups.
∎ Assist team members to develop an effective action plan to implement the LRP-55 activities.
∎ Conduct needs assessment of the team members and take initiative to improve the capacity of gaps considering the LRP planning matrix.
∎ Conduct the staff performance appraisal as per HROD policy.
∎ Perform any other responsibilities assigned by supervisor.

Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 3 years progressively responsible work experience in the area of participatory program planning, management, monitoring, sustainable agriculture, food rights, Livelihood development, climate change adaptation, Reflection-Action process and capacity building within a development organization/NGO
∎ Technical Skills :
∎ Good communication skill in Bangla and English both oral and written.
∎ Planning, supervision, implementation, and evaluation of community-based programme interventions on LRP
∎ Strong IT skills, including good knowledge of Excel.
∎ Strong report writing skills.
∎ Ability to analyze, interpret and communicate data.
∎ Knowledge on Child rights and protection
∎ Aware about culture and Gender sensibility
∎ Communication, interpersonal and networking skills.
∎ Confidence, interpersonal and representational skills and strong facilitation skills.
∎ Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

Salary:
∎ Monthly Gross Salary will be BDT. 27,235 with other admissible benefits such as festival bonus, mobile allowance and group life insurance etc

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 24 Jun 2023

Company Information:
∎ 17 Jun 2023
∎ ActionAid Bangladesh
∎ Business : ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency working in over 40 countries, taking sides with poor people to end poverty and injustice together.

Category: NGO/Development