Project Officer
Job Description
Title: Project Officer
Company Name: Concerned Women for Family Development [CWFD]
Vacancy: 01
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Post Graduation in Social Science from any recognized university.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ CWFD emerged from an emotional response to help women in need of reproductive health care counseling. The organization, originally named "Concerned Women for Family Planning (CWFP), started its voluntary activities in 1974 to help the refugees coming to Dhaka city after the devastating famine of 1974. The organization was registered in 1975 with the Directorate of Social Welfare. It formally launched its project activities in 1976 with only five female staff to cover an area of Dhaka city slum comprising around 50,000 people. For more information, please visit our website www.cwfd.org
∎ Vision Statement: Empower women, youths, and adolescents to achieve gender equality and social justice within family and society.
∎ Mission Statement: CWFD is a non-political, non-profit voluntary organization run by women of Bangladesh to support, promote and protect the interest of women in Bangladesh by providing community-based health care, empowering the community to exercise their rights to eliminate social injustice, creating economic opportunities, empower underprivileged youth of urban and rural population and develop human resources for a positive social change.
∎ Expected Programme Output(s): Adolescents and youth will have increased access to gender-transformative, SRHR life skills and lifesaving awareness-raising with specific focus on prevention of child marriage.
∎ Programme background: Concerned Women for Family Development will receive funds from United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to implement Adolescents and Youth Programme. This programme aims to provide adolescents with access to information and services that strengthen their ability to make informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health and protect their wellbeing. Gender specific, GBV focused, structured, short-term life skills education programme (Girl Shine) will be delivered to adolescents and young women ages (10-19years). Mental health, healthy coping strategies and psychosocial support are prioritized through these activities. Specific focus will be given to adolescent girls who are at risk of and affected by child and forced marriages. Adolescent girls and young women will be provided tailored menstrual hygiene kits and education on menstrual health management. The latter will focus on overcoming taboos in regards to menstrual health and challenge social and gender barriers such as imposing movement restrictions for menstruating girls. UNFPA will also ensure life skills sessions are delivered to adolescent boys through the Gender Equity Movement in Schools (GEMS) curriculum.
∎ CWFD also implements a national humanitarian programme with funding support from UNFPA. As part of this, CWFD is working with UNFPA to implement the national humanitarian response, the A&Y unit received funds which will be implemented in the Noakhali District.
∎ Along with strengthening community awareness, UNFPA will work on increasing the motivation of parents and older adolescent girls in preventing child marriage. Incentives will be provided to the households of older adolescent girls as a means of continued motivation for preventing this harmful practice against girls. Furthermore, Kishori (adolescent girls) Resource Centre will be established in the Noakhali district to organize adolescent girls` empowerment training, supports the local government in preventing child marriage, and conduct behavior change communication activities. Girls already married or in the union will be supported through SRHR services to help them avoid early and repeated pregnancy.
∎ Name of the position: Project Officer
∎ No. of Vacancies: 01
∎ Duty station: Dhaka (With frequent field visits)
∎ Job Duration: May 2023 to December 2023
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Line of responsibility: The Project Officer will be directly reportable to the Programme Manager.
∎ Planning and implementation of project activities
∎ Provide support to the Programme Manager to arrange different types of training, meeting, and orientation.
∎ Provide support to the Programme Manager to Conduct the orientation training.
∎ Guide Technical Officers to mobilize the community leaders and other influential persons
∎ Provide support to the Programme manager to prepare a budget and different training module
∎ Keep in coordination with Kishori Resource Centre (KRC) management.
∎ Support in organizing GEMS Sessions.
∎ Arrange a campaign program and facilitate different types of sessions.
∎ Invite and ensure the participation of the listed targeted people.
∎ Frequent travel to program area/s
∎ Establish and maintain liaison/coordination with the GO, NGO, Adolescent leaders, Community groups, and Health service providers.
∎ Documentation and preparation of different events and project reports.
Additional Requirements:
∎ At least three years' experience; preferably in Menstrual Health Hygiene, Gender, Sexual Reproductive Health, and Rights, Child Marriage Project related experience
∎ Should have experience in community mobilization, communication, liaison, and collaboration with the Health Service Providers of GOs and NGOs.
∎ Good communication skills
∎ Good knowledge of communication, liaison, and collaboration.
∎ Good problem-solving ability.
∎ Comfortable in public speaking.
∎ Skilled in report preparation at the different stages of the project
∎ Good skills in computer operation, especially with MS Office (MS-Word, Excel, Powerpoint, internet, and email applications);
∎ Strong English proficiency both in speaking and writing
∎ Willing to work in a pressure situation
Salary:
∎ BDT 43,200/- per month (including all other benefits).
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 29 Apr 2023
Company Information:
∎ 16 Apr 2023
∎ Concerned Women for Family Development [CWFD]
Category: NGO/Development
: Interview Date: Probable interview is on the 1st week of May 2023 in CWFD Headquarters, Dhaka. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted about the date and time through e-mail/over the cell phone.
Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 29th Apr 2023
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