Programme Specialist - YEE
Job Description
Title: Programme Specialist - YEE
Company Name: Plan International Bangladesh
Vacancy: --
Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh
Salary: Tk. 147106 - 183883 (Monthly)
Experience:
∎ At least 8 years
Published: 5 Mar 2025
Education:
∎ Relevant academic degree in social science, development studies, or a relevant field;
∎ Relevant academic degree in social science, development studies, or a relevant field;
Requirements:
Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And its girls who are most affected. Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.
∎ Plan International Bangladesh envisions a 2030 where children and youth, particularly girls and young women, are recognized as leaders of change in gender norms and can make decisions about their lives. Our country strategy, launched in July 2020, focuses on empowering girls and young women to be heard, live without fear of violence, and achieve their rights. Our significant achievements to date include gender-transformative actions, humanitarian response to the Rohingya crisis and natural disasters, climate and disaster resilience, building our evidence base, and effective advocacy from local to international levels, as well as evolving our partnership approach.
∎ We are committed to supporting children and youth, especially girls and young women, throughout their journey from childhood to adulthood. Over the next six years, we will amplify and support the role of girls and youth from all identities in a greater social movement. This will enable them to step out of prescribed gender roles, break the poverty cycle, and manage acute shocks and stressors, including those brought about by climate change. To achieve this vision, PIB must ensure a high-quality, high-performing team to deliver world-class programmes.
∎ The programme specialist - Youth Economic Empowerment (YEE) is in a key position in the programme team to implement projects of the YEE programme for Plan International Bangladesh. This role will be responsible for positioning PIB internally and externally and advocating for YEE and issues related to entrepreneurship and employment, especially for young women and gender-diverse communities in both development and emergency contexts. This position will provide support to set programme vision, develop a detail implementation plan and implement in alignment with country's strategy that advances gender equality and transformation in terms of youth economic empowerment in both development and humanitarian crisis. This position is responsible for ensuring children, adolescents, and youth (CAY) have equitable access to, participation in, and benefits from and act as decision-makers for both humanitarian and development programing aligning with the country's strategy.
∎ This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and scaling inclusive projects of the YEE programme and provides technical input to integrated projects to achieve programme outcomes set out in the revised Country Strategy that empower adolescents, and youth, especially girls and young women for systemic change to gender norms and power relationships. The post holder is responsible for ensuring that gender and inclusive approaches are embedded in the YEE programme and YEE by the quality benchmark in the full project cycle management process and generate and use learning. The role holder will be expected to ensure evidence-based intervention in YEE areas, specifically on gender transformative employment and entrepreneurship in Bangladesh.
∎ Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And its girls who are most affected. Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.
∎ Plan International Bangladesh envisions a 2030 where children and youth, particularly girls and young women, are recognized as leaders of change in gender norms and can make decisions about their lives. Our country strategy, launched in July 2020, focuses on empowering girls and young women to be heard, live without fear of violence, and achieve their rights. Our significant achievements to date include gender-transformative actions, humanitarian response to the Rohingya crisis and natural disasters, climate and disaster resilience, building our evidence base, and effective advocacy from local to international levels, as well as evolving our partnership approach.
∎ We are committed to supporting children and youth, especially girls and young women, throughout their journey from childhood to adulthood. Over the next six years, we will amplify and support the role of girls and youth from all identities in a greater social movement. This will enable them to step out of prescribed gender roles, break the poverty cycle, and manage acute shocks and stressors, including those brought about by climate change. To achieve this vision, PIB must ensure a high-quality, high-performing team to deliver world-class programmes.
∎ The Role:
∎ The programme specialist - Youth Economic Empowerment (YEE) is in a key position in the programme team to implement projects of the YEE programme for Plan International Bangladesh. This role will be responsible for positioning PIB internally and externally and advocating for YEE and issues related to entrepreneurship and employment, especially for young women and gender-diverse communities in both development and emergency contexts. This position will provide support to set programme vision, develop a detail implementation plan and implement in alignment with country's strategy that advances gender equality and transformation in terms of youth economic empowerment in both development and humanitarian crisis. This position is responsible for ensuring children, adolescents, and youth (CAY) have equitable access to, participation in, and benefits from and act as decision-makers for both humanitarian and development programing aligning with the country's strategy.
∎ This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and scaling inclusive projects of the YEE programme and provides technical input to integrated projects to achieve programme outcomes set out in the revised Country Strategy that empower adolescents, and youth, especially girls and young women for systemic change to gender norms and power relationships. The post holder is responsible for ensuring that gender and inclusive approaches are embedded in the YEE programme and YEE by the quality benchmark in the full project cycle management process and generate and use learning. The role holder will be expected to ensure evidence-based intervention in YEE areas, specifically on gender transformative employment and entrepreneurship in Bangladesh.
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Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Monthly consolidated salary range for this role is Tk. 147,106.00 to Tk. 183,883.00 (may vary based on experience) along with other benefits i.e. Life Insurance, Hospitalization Insurance coverage along with Out Patient Treatment Benefit.
∎ Monthly consolidated salary range for this role is Tk. 147,106.00 to Tk. 183,883.00 (may vary based on experience) along with other benefits i.e. Life Insurance, Hospitalization Insurance coverage along with Out Patient Treatment Benefit.
Employment Status: Full Time
Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh
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Company Information:
∎ Plan International Bangladesh
∎ House # CWN (B) 14, Road 35, Gulshan-2, Dhaka-1212
∎ Founded 80 years ago, Plan International is one of the oldest and largest children`s development organisations in the world. We work in 52 countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas to promote child rights and lift millions of children out of poverty. In 2015, Plan International worked with 100 million children in 85,282 communities. Plan International is independent, with no religious, political or governmental affiliations but having a vision of a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies that respect people`s rights and dignity.
Plan International has been operating in Bangladesh since 1994. Plan International seeks to ensure the rights of children to education, health, safe water and sanitation, protection, youth social and economic empowerment and climate change, environmental degradation and natural or man-made disaster hazards throughout the country.
Address::
∎ House # CWN (B) 14, Road 35, Gulshan-2, Dhaka-1212
∎ Founded 80 years ago, Plan International is one of the oldest and largest children`s development organisations in the world. We work in 52 countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas to promote child rights and lift millions of children out of poverty. In 2015, Plan International worked with 100 million children in 85,282 communities. Plan International is independent, with no religious, political or governmental affiliations but having a vision of a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies that respect people`s rights and dignity.Plan International has been operating in Bangladesh since 1994. Plan International seeks to ensure the rights of children to education, health, safe water and sanitation, protection, youth social and economic empowerment and climate change, environmental degradation and natural or man-made disaster hazards throughout the country.
Application Deadline: 11 Mar 2025
Category: NGO/Development
