Project Development Officer

Job Description

Title: Project Development Officer

Company Name: CARE Bangladesh

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's degree with psychological back ground from any recognized public or private institution.

Experience Requirements:
∎ 3 to 4 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Position Title: Project Development Officer -Counseling under Comprehensive prevention programs for people who inject drugs and their partners
∎ Location: CARE Bangladesh Dhaka Office
∎ Duration: Duration of the Contract will be up to November 30, 2020

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Job Summary:
∎ CARE is one of the world's leading international humanitarian and development organisations, committed to helping people in poor communities improve their lives and alleviate poverty. Founded in 1945, CARE is working across 95 countries to fight global poverty and marginalization. CARE has been active in Bangladesh since 1949 being one of the largest country offices of CARE. CARE works to help people achieve social and economic well-being, while being among the best in their fields. CARE put women and girls at the center of our work because we know that we cannot overcome poverty until all people have equal rights and opportunities. CARE Bangladesh is currently shifting towards a program approach, where it has developed longer-term impact visions to have more sustainable changes in the lives of the extreme poor and marginalized.
∎ The incumbent shall be responsible to lead the overall counseling activities implementation of the PWID Project of CARE Bangladesh. Being responsible person the PDO-Counseling has to uptake planned monitoring and supervision visit all CDIC/DIC for effective and quality implementation of counselling program. S/he has to give special focus on Oral Substitution Therapy (OST) program (Methadone Maintenance) operating under comprehensive Drop -In-Centre (CDIC). She will also be responsible for providing guidance to Counsellors and Sub-Assistant Medical Officers (SACMO) regarding Pre and Post-test HTS counselling for ART, OST enrollment, detox patient selection and routine counseling. He/she will work for capacity building of the relevant DIC staffs on counseling, motivation and effective communication with PWIDs and their family members. He/ she will also be responsible for supervising behavioral and psychological data collection and documentation as designed for the C-DIC. The incumbent will make field visit and home visit of HIV positive clients & OST clients as per need and direction of the intervention. She will be responsible for reporting and documentation regarding counselling. She will provide direction regarding different psychiatry referral. S/he will ensure programmatic & functional coordination and consultation with the relevant Project Development Officer (PDO) and Senior Technical Officer (STO). The PDO-Counsellor will work under direct supervision of Technical Coordinator - QA/QI of PWID project and also in consultation with Technical Coordinator-Program. The incumbent will generate updated knowledge and good practice of counseling related with drug abuse and HIV/AIDS from internal and external organization and accordingly reflect in program implementation. S/he will maintain necessary coordination, collaboration, networking with CTC, SCI, DNC, NASP, private institutes and other stakeholders as guided by supervisor.

Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 3 - 4 years working experience on drug counseling and HIV/AIDS issue with any at risk population but will give preference on working with People Who Inject Drugs (PWIDs) and vulnerable for HIV/AIDS.
∎ Conceptually sound in planning, designing, implementing, analyzing, monitoring and reporting on the public health field.
∎ Able to work in any challenging situation and with most-at-risk-population like People Who Inject Drugs (PWIDs).
∎ Good communication, coordination, collaboration and networking ability with different organization, Institutes, GoB, I/NGOs and UN agencies.
∎ Strong skills in written and verbal communication in English and Bangla.
∎ Skilled in MS Office software (MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-outlook) and Internet use.

Application Deadline: December 28, 2019

Company Information:
∎ CARE Bangladesh

Category: NGO/Development