Programme Officer

Job Description

Title: Programme Officer

Company Name: Nagorik Uddyog

Vacancy: 1

Age: At least 25 years

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: --

Experience:

• At least 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies, Social Sciences, Public Administration, or any other relevant field.

• At least 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Age At least 25 years

Experience

• Minimum 3 years of experience in community-based project implementation.

• Experience working with local government and civil society preferred.

• Experience supporting workshops, events, training sessions, and field activities.

Required Competencies

• Strong coordination and facilitation skills.

• Communication and reporting abilities.

• Ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders.

Background

Nagorik Uddyog is a national level human rights and development organization working in Bangladesh to promote social justice, strengthen democratic governance, and advance the rights of marginalized and excluded communities. The organization has designed a project titled ‘DISHA (Designing Inclusive Services through Human-centred Approaches)’ with the goal of strengthening inclusive, citizen-centered, and accountable public and CSO service delivery through mainstreaming the integration of Human Centered Design (HCD), co-creation, and a structured participation approach. The two-years long project will work on strengthening capacities of CSOs and government actors in Human-Centered Design; enabling stakeholders to jointly design and test solutions to real service challenges at local level; developing inclusive, citizen-centered service solutions and participation formats; fostering sustainable collaboration between CSOs, citizens, and government actors; and creating a network of HCD facilitators to apply and replicate the approach.

Job Summary

The Program Officer will support field implementation, stakeholder coordination, activity management, and operational follow-up for the project.

Job Context: (Contractual – Project Based)

Job Location: Dhaka, with field travel as required

Reporting Relationship

• The programme officer will report to the Project Coordinator.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate implementation of field-level project activities.

• Support organization of workshops, training, and consultation sessions.

• Maintain regular communication with local stakeholders and community representatives.

• Prepare activity reports and implementation updates.

• Monitor implementation progress and identify operational challenges.

• Support community mobilization and engagement processes.

• Assist in documentation and reporting activities.

• Ensure field activities are aligned with project objectives and timelines.

• Support execution of project activities according to approved implementation schedules.

• Coordinate participant communication and confirmation for workshops, training sessions, co-creation labs, and consultations.

• Support onboarding and coordination of CSOs, facilitators, LGIs, and community stakeholders.

• Maintain implementation trackers, activity calendars, and follow-up systems.

• Coordinate venue arrangements, workshop materials, participant logistics, and field-level operational requirements.

• Support field visits, stakeholder consultations, citizen engagement activities, and service design sessions.

• Assist facilitators and technical teams during HCD exercises, group work, and co-creation workshops.

• Maintain records of attendance, participant feedback, workshop outputs, and implementation documentation.

• Support collection of stories of change, field observations, and activity photographs.

• Support preparation of activity reports, meeting minutes, presentations, and implementation summaries.

• Follow up with stakeholders on action points and implementation deadlines.

• Salary: Tk. 40000 - 45000 (Monthly) Two yearly bonus (equivalent to one month`s salary)

• Festival Bonus: 2 (Yearly)