Project Coordinator (PC)

Job Description

Title: Project Coordinator (PC)

Company Name: Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK)

Vacancy: 1

Age: At least 17 years

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: Tk. 65000 (Monthly)

Experience:

• 5 to 7 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• 5 to 7 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Age At least 17 years

Experience Requirements:

• Working Experience: Must have at least 5-7 years of experience including 2 years of experience as Project Manager / Coordinator.

• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): Working experience in Program in a National / International NGO.

• Training design and facilitation and Capacity Development of Community.

• Work experience on child protection system and prevention online and offline sexual abuse and exploitation issues.

Additional Requirements

• Able to work under pressure and willing to frequent travel in the project working area.

• Knowledge in community development, ability to work under timeline, strong partnership development skills, facilitating participatory training, conducting the workshop, brainstorming sessions, focus group discussions, simulation, seminars, meetings, strong interpersonal skills, team-building capacity, problem-solving skills.

• Good writing and speaking skills in English and Bangla.

• Must have computer skills in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SPSS.

Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) is a prominent human rights and legal aid organisation in Bangladesh. Since its establishment in 1986 ASK has dedicated itself to safeguarding and advancing human rights of vulnerable communities and promoting gender and social justice. ASK places particular emphasis on achieving gender equality across all aspects of life and focuses its strategies on protecting omens rights. Simultaneously the orgnisation upholds civil and pollical rights by providing legal aid to victims of/survivors of arbitrary arrest, preventing detention, extra judicial killings, torture and death in custody and interests of religious and ethnic minorities. Advocacy is a crucial aspect of ASK’s work and is carried out at the national, regional and international levels. The organization is going to implement a project titled ‘Speak up! Empowering CSOs to protect children and youth's freedom of expression by capitalizing on the opportunities and addressing the challenges of the digital space in Bangladesh’ at Dhaka and Gazipur district. The project will be implemented with the support of ‘Terre des Hommes Netherlands (TdH NL).’ ASK is going to recruit the ‘Project Coordinator’ for the mentioned project.

Position Name : Project Coordinator (PC)

Project Name : ‘Speak up! Empowering CSOs to protect children and youth's freedom of expression by capitalizing on the opportunities and addressing the challenges of the digital space in Bangladesh’

Responsibilities :

Project Planning and Implementation: The project coordinator position is the overall responsible to prepare detailed planning and budgeting of project activities and implement as per plan and ensure the quality of the project activities by providing technical and supervisory support. Particularly the responsibilities are- a) Provide management guidance and ensure smooth and timely start-up and implementation of project activities. b) Strengthen operational and technical capacity of local and national level CSOs c) Organize and facilitate capacity building events, dialogue, sharing meeting with the government authorities and relevant stakeholders, d) Support Upazila and District DSS functioning the Child Welfare Board and CBCPC, e) Assist project staffs in planning, implementing and review of project activities, ensuring adherence to technical standards, learning, and good practices.

Coordination & Communication: a) Communication and coordination with project team and management. b) Coordination, liaison & networking with government representatives especially with Department of Social Service, local elected bodies, law enforcement agencies, Child Welfare Board, Community Based Child Protection Committee-CBCPC, national and international NGOs and other service providers. c) Regular visit at project areas.

Develop Training and Session guideline and materials: a) Play leadership role in developing training module and session guidelines in a working team, b) Develop materials for training and session, c) Develop IEC materials according to project plan.

Finance and Administrative: a) Maintain compliance, rules and regulations (financial and administrative) of the development partner organization and ASK, b) Support to Finance and Admin section in financial and logistics management, c) Support to Finance and Admin section in financial visit/audit.

Monitoring & Evaluation: a) Ensure MEAL system in place at project level in line with guideline and structure developed jointly with TdH NL, b) Support the project monitoring focal to develop tools including an M&E plan and ensure proper use of those for M&E. c) Coordination of baseline and final evaluation process, d) Ensure all components of the project is monitored and the results are evaluated in line with the indicators.

Facilitate the local and national level advocacy process: a) Conduct local and national level advocacy initiatives through coordination with key stakeholders, b) Linkage with multi-stakeholders for referral mechanism, c) Regular communicate with key stakeholders and service providers to strengthen the referral system, d) Facilitate joint action with CSOs, CBCPC members, Community influential, Child Welfare Board (CWB), Law Enforcing Agencies, District Legal Aid committee, Local Elected Bodies (LEBs), and other Government officials for strengthening the Child Protection System in the working area.

Reporting & Documentation: a) Prepare monthly, quarterly, half annual, annual and project completion report of the project, b) Ensure quality of the process and learning documentation.

Others: Be able and willing to respond to natural disasters or emergency situations, when needed and any other task assigned by Supervisor and /or Senior Management of ASK.

Tenure of Services Contract: 3 (Three) months’ probation period. After successful completion of the probation period, based on the performance of the staff and recommendation from the supervisor, the post may be continued till the project’s lifetime.

• 2 days weekend

• Office time, Annual Leave, Increment & other facilities will be applicable as per ‘Recruitment and Human Resource Management Policy’ of Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK).