Project Manager

Job Description

Title: Project Manager

Company Name: Barishal Youth Society-BYS

Vacancy: 01

Job Location: Barishal (Barishal Sadar)

Employment Status: Full-time

Experience Requirements:
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s): Should have worked within communities

Job Context:
∎ The Nook Manager acts as both administrative manager and learning facilitator of the Nook. He or she coordinates the day-to-day running of the Nook together with the learners and ensures that a safe, inclusive learning environment is being created in which learners are encouraged and supported to pursue any learning goal of their own choice and make continuous progress in expanding their skills and knowledge through working on their learning goals. The Nook Fellow reports to Ed of Barishal Youth Society (BYS) as well as to the IFNB representatives.
∎ Nooks are `schools without teachers` in marginalised communities that provide everyone with free access to technology, tools, resources and information to design and pursue their own education. Nook Fellows will be co-leading this grassroots-education initiative alongside and with our learners. They will be working with a community of 50-100 Learners at one time to pursue their own, hands-on projects; help establish the idea of self-designed learning in the local community; facilitate and encourage discussions among the community on a broad variety of topics and issues; and – ultimately – enable local community members to run the space on their own and create a truly sustainable, community-led form of education that helps underprivileged individuals to pursue and catch their dreams, and marginalised communities to prosper and grow.
∎ Nook Fellows are self-confident, expressive and communicative individuals between 22 and 30 years old who have the commitment to live and grow with a local community for 12-18 months. Rather than a mere job, they see the fellowship as a community experience and a way to solve a community problem as well as work towards substantial change in the education sector. They are interested in self-designed and project-based learning, have an in-depth understanding of the concept of and approach towards self-designed learning (developed through in-house training), and have a hands-on attitude to learn with the Nook Community and support learners in their various projects.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ The Nook Fellow must successfully perform the following tasks -
∎ 1. Keep the Nook open in the set hours
∎ 2. Ensure the Nook is clean and safe
∎ 3. Maintain equipment and keep inventory
∎ 4. Ensure every learner gets equal and ample access to the Nook
∎ 5. Co-create a safe, inclusive, and open learning space together with the learners
∎ 6. Facilitate activities and sessions to help building a community of learners in the Nook (games, field trips and excursions, sports events, movie nights, team-building activities, …)
∎ 7. Create a monthly budget for equipment, materials and other monetary requirements, and send to the DEFY Ops team
∎ 8. Receive funds and make purchase according the monthly budget
∎ 9. Conduct the induction program for self-designed learning at the nook every three months
∎ 10. Conduct goal-setting sessions and monitor and assist with progress of learners in achieving their individual learning goals throughout
∎ 11. Conduct outreach to engage more new learners from the community
∎ 12. Conduct periodic workshops and community events, including internal and external review sessions after each goal cycle
∎ 13. Organise internal events such as workshops, skill sessions, or new experiences relevant to the Nook and its learners by inviting outside guests and creating a network of outside facilitators
∎ 14. Regularly fill data sheets and assist with conducting surveys and other forms of research for impact assessment
∎ 15. Assist BYS and Project DEFY team in any operations, communications and impact- related work
∎ 16. Create social media and blog posts from nook
∎ 17. Collect profile and other information about the learners
∎ 18. Actively participate in the weekly held Nook Forum
∎ 19. Receive guests and any stakeholders who come to visit the Nook
∎ 20. Successfully complete the training programme
∎ 21. Write and share reports on external training visits

Additional Requirements:
∎ Experience:
∎ - Should have built maker-projects using technology
∎ - Should have worked with/in communities, especially in rural settings and/or urban slums within the country
∎ - Should have experience in education or related areas through creative and non- conventional endeavours.
∎ Traits :
∎ - Should belong or be deeply immersed in the local community
∎ - Should be very approachable, such that people are able to easily talk to her
∎ - Able to mobilise people for a common purpose
∎ - Excited to take on new challenges and proactively find solutions to address them
∎ - Understands the challenges of education, and is willing to challenge mainstream education
∎ - Is hands-on and likes working on the ground, and willing to get hands dirty
∎ - Creative thinker and a hungry learner, eager to learn new skills and knowledge outside the own comfort zone
∎ Skills :
∎ - Should have basic project management skills like making budgets, bill keeping
∎ - Able to communicate with clarity in both Bangla and English
∎ - Experience in community-building and doing outreach
∎ - Able to curate and run a community of learners
∎ - Able to build projects with basic technologies
∎ - Very good with digital communication, social media, digital tools like MS Office / Google apps
∎ - Very proficient in English Bangla

Salary: Tk. 30000 (Monthly)

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 16 Aug 2021

Company Information:
∎ 6 Aug 2021
∎ Barishal Youth Society-BYS
∎ Address : 6th floor, Hashem Cottage, Major M.A. Jalil Sarok, 8200 Barishal, Barishal Division, Bangladesh.
∎ Web : www.bysbd.org
∎ Business : Barisal Youth Society-BYS, founded on 1st July 2014, is the largest youth-led organization
based in Barishal, Bangladesh. This platform shelters young underprivileged girls and pledges to
restore their rights.

We aim at achieving gender equality by working closely with girls who are victims of child
marriage, molestation, domestic violence, and marital rape by raising awareness and ensuring
quality education.

Over 10,000 members and 800 volunteers are actively working with BYS in several projects that
mostly focus on providing financial education aid alongside health equipment that guarantees
menstrual hygiene. We are strictly ensuring the equal participation of both male and female in
leadership.

We stopped 290 early marriages and empowered hundreds, including sex-workers, towards a
better future.

Category: NGO/Development