Job Description

Title: Project Coordinator

Company Name: Action for Social Development (ASD)

Vacancy: 1

Location: Cox's Bazar

Minimum Salary: Tk. 50000 (Monthly)

Experience:
∎ 5 to 8 years

Published: 11 Jun 2024

Education:
∎ Postgraduate/Graduate in Music and Theatre Art, Mass-Communication and Journalism, Social Sciences, or any other relevant discipline from a reputed institution.
∎ Postgraduate/Graduate in Music and Theatre Art, Mass-Communication and Journalism, Social Sciences, or any other relevant discipline from a reputed institution.

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum Five (5) to Eight (8) years of practical experience in leading managing development project focusing on awareness and preventions.
∎ Having extensive knowledge and skills in Monitoring and Evaluation frameworks of development organizations.
∎ Experience with development of awareness massages and tools on anti-human-trafficking and safe migration related issues.
∎ Experience with the detailed documentation of providing social and economic support-services to trafficking survivors or vulnerable and at-risk groups, and detailed reporting mechanisms.
∎ Demonstrate positive attitude and sensitivity to support vulnerable and at-risk groups, and communities.
∎ Strong understanding of gender and diversity issues.
∎ Demonstrate strong interpersonal communication skills in English and Bangla and
∎ Basic computer proficiency: i.e. MS Office, database management, coordination via email, project-specific management information systems, etc.
∎ Ability to work in a team with good interpersonal skills;
∎ Candidate should have learning attitude, well behavior and proactive attitude;
∎ Ability to prioritize activities to act and decide promptly;
∎ Pro-active and participatory decision-making and problem-solving;
∎ Ability to communicate with people from different cultures and backgrounds;
∎ Ability to work with diverse community and grassroots peoples with close communication will be given priority.
∎ Strong team player with well-developed network.
∎ Minimum Five (5) to Eight (8) years of practical experience in leading managing development project focusing on awareness and preventions.
∎ Having extensive knowledge and skills in Monitoring and Evaluation frameworks of development organizations.
∎ Experience with development of awareness massages and tools on anti-human-trafficking and safe migration related issues.
∎ Experience with the detailed documentation of providing social and economic support-services to trafficking survivors or vulnerable and at-risk groups, and detailed reporting mechanisms.
∎ Demonstrate positive attitude and sensitivity to support vulnerable and at-risk groups, and communities.
∎ Strong understanding of gender and diversity issues.
∎ Demonstrate strong interpersonal communication skills in English and Bangla and
∎ Basic computer proficiency: i.e. MS Office, database management, coordination via email, project-specific management information systems, etc.
∎ Required Core Competencies:
∎ Ability to work in a team with good interpersonal skills;
∎ Candidate should have learning attitude, well behavior and proactive attitude;
∎ Ability to prioritize activities to act and decide promptly;
∎ Pro-active and participatory decision-making and problem-solving;
∎ Ability to communicate with people from different cultures and backgrounds;
∎ Ability to work with diverse community and grassroots peoples with close communication will be given priority.
∎ Strong team player with well-developed network.

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Manage and support the Project team and provide professional and technical support to project staff and other relevant stakeholders.
∎ Complete management of project implementation and activities based on the operational plan to achieve the project’s target within set timelines.
∎ Confirm that project activities are implemented in a timely manner and comply with donor requirements.
∎ Day-to-day supervision and monitoring of key activities by the project team and CTIP activists.
∎ Ensure the project’s visibility through engagements with mainstream media outlets and by using social media platforms.
∎ Ensure linkage support for communities at-risk of human trafficking to lessen push/pull factors.
∎ Coordination with other governmental and non-governmental service providing organizations to facilitate services via referrals.
∎ Prepare quarterly and annual narrative reports, financial reports, and variance reports.
∎ Develop and implement procurement plans and provide audit responses in a timely and accurate manner.
∎ Actively provide support to Winrock and donor in conducting periodic monitoring, baseline, mid-line, and final evaluations.
∎ Attend regular Governmental and other coordination meetings on a regular basis in the working district.
∎ Organize performance appraisal of staffs as per their job descriptions, and design necessary action plans for staff-capacity development, for implementation.
∎ Setup files to ensure that all project information are appropriately documented and secured and
∎ Maintain the confidentiality of project documents and organizational regulations for implementations.
∎ About ASD: Action for Social Development (ASD) is a non-government, non-profit and non-political development organization (duly registered with Dept. of Social Service and NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of Bangladesh) established in 1988. The objective of ASD is to facilitate support for the poor, create solidarity among themselves, and build their capacities and bargaining power for realizing their rights and needs to improve their quality of life. ASD has the unique experience of implementing 75 projects in both urban and rural areas on climate change, emergency response, child rights & child protection etc.
∎ ASD is now accepting applications from suitable, experienced, and interested candidates, for the following job vacancies, to work in a counter-trafficking-focused project implemented by Winrock International and supported by the Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh. Ashshash: For Men and Women Who Have Escapes Trafficking (Phase II) is implemented across some of the most trafficking-prone areas in Bangladesh, including Cox’s Bazar .
∎ Project Background: The main objective of the project is to ensure that “women and men who have escaped trafficking will restore their dignity and wellbeing and become self-sufficient”. The survivors will be provided psychosocial counseling support along with other social services and facilitated opportunities for skills-devolvement and entrepreneurship training. Subsequently, they will be placed in wage-based and or self-employment opportunities for sustained social and economic reintegration into households, societies, and workplaces. Furthermore, Ashshash will reach people across the working areas either directly or indirectly, through various awareness-raising activities on factors that fuel the vulnerabilities of people toward human trafficking, and to ensure its prevention. The four-year-long second phase of Ashshash will provide comprehensive and personalized packages of social and economic services to human trafficking survivors, and work to raise mass awareness on the issue.
∎ Project Title: Ashshash for Men and Women Who Have Escaped Trafficking
∎ Project Duration: June 2024 - August 2026
∎ Job Category: Project Staff
∎ Position Summary: The Project Coordinator (PC) will work under the direct oversight of Ashshash’s Awareness and Prevention Partner (APP) across Cox’s Bazar Sadar, Ukhiya, and Teknaf. The PC will lead and manage project activities from the viewpoint of local communities to effectively raise awareness and ensure the prevention of human trafficking. The PC will maintain close-collaboration with Ashshash’s Sustainable Reintegration Partners (SRPs), district-specific governmental institutions, counter-trafficking activist groups and youth groups, and members of at-risk communities. He / She will lead the overall project activities including community empowerment, capacity development of CTIP activists and change-agents, development of awareness materials/content/tools/mediums, and identification and referral of at-risk community members with local services. Accordingly, the PC will demonstrate advocacy initiatives with governmental and non-governmental offices. The PC must ensure compliance with Winrock International’s ‘Code of Conduct’ and ‘Do No Harm Policy’, whilst maintaining privacy and confidentiality of information for each survivor.
∎ Job Responsibilities
∎ Manage and support the Project team and provide professional and technical support to project staff and other relevant stakeholders.
∎ Complete management of project implementation and activities based on the operational plan to achieve the project’s target within set timelines.
∎ Confirm that project activities are implemented in a timely manner and comply with donor requirements.
∎ Day-to-day supervision and monitoring of key activities by the project team and CTIP activists.
∎ Ensure the project’s visibility through engagements with mainstream media outlets and by using social media platforms.
∎ Ensure linkage support for communities at-risk of human trafficking to lessen push/pull factors.
∎ Coordination with other governmental and non-governmental service providing organizations to facilitate services via referrals.
∎ Prepare quarterly and annual narrative reports, financial reports, and variance reports.
∎ Develop and implement procurement plans and provide audit responses in a timely and accurate manner.
∎ Actively provide support to Winrock and donor in conducting periodic monitoring, baseline, mid-line, and final evaluations.
∎ Attend regular Governmental and other coordination meetings on a regular basis in the working district.
∎ Organize performance appraisal of staffs as per their job descriptions, and design necessary action plans for staff-capacity development, for implementation.
∎ Setup files to ensure that all project information are appropriately documented and secured and
∎ Maintain the confidentiality of project documents and organizational regulations for implementations.

Skills & Expertise:

Employment Status: Contractual

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Read Before Apply:

• Only short-listed candidates will be called for interview.

• ASD is committed to upholding child rights & child safeguarding and never tolerate child abuser

• ASD strictly applies '0' (Zero) tolerance policy for Gender and child abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. So, anyone involved in any kind of abuse, sexual exploitation and harassment is strongly advised not to apply.

• Any candidate gets involved with any terrorist activities, radicalized & extremist movements or any act of violence is forbidden to apply.

• Female with disable and marginalized candidates are encouraged to apply

• ASD and Winrock International management can take any decision regarding the appointment without clarification any notice to others.

Apply Procedure:

Hard Copy:
∎ Interested candidates meeting the above requirements are requested to apply with a complete CV and a cover letter including name of two references with their address and telephone no, recent passport size photo, to the following address:
∎ Executive Director,
∎ Action for Social Development (ASD),
∎ House # 4/16 (2nd Floor), Block-B, Humayun Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207
∎ Mobile No: 01719-215201
∎ or
∎ Mail to job.asdbd@gmail.com
∎ Please mention the name of the post in the subject of email or at the top side of the envelope.

Company Information:
∎ Action for Social Development (ASD)
∎ 4/16 (2nd Floor), Block-B, Humayun Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207
∎ www.asd.org.bd
∎ Action for Social Development (ASD) is a non-government, non-profit and non-partisan development organization duly registered with Department of Social Service and NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of Bangladesh. ASD was established in 1988 by a group of NGO professionals and social workers with the objective to address the basic problems of the slum dwellers of Dhaka City to ensure their positive and due role in the socio-economic development of the country. Gradually ASD extended its development interventions in other cities and remote rural areas with broader objectives.
facebook: facebook.com/asdngobd,
Telephone: 02-41022337, Mobile: 01719-215201

Address::
∎ 4/16 (2nd Floor), Block-B, Humayun Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207
∎ www.asd.org.bd
∎ Action for Social Development (ASD) is a non-government, non-profit and non-partisan development organization duly registered with Department of Social Service and NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of Bangladesh. ASD was established in 1988 by a group of NGO professionals and social workers with the objective to address the basic problems of the slum dwellers of Dhaka City to ensure their positive and due role in the socio-economic development of the country. Gradually ASD extended its development interventions in other cities and remote rural areas with broader objectives.facebook: facebook.com/asdngobd, Telephone: 02-41022337, Mobile: 01719-215201

Application Deadline: 24 Jun 2024

Category: NGO/Development