Project Officer- Livelihood and Business Development

Job Description

Title: Project Officer- Livelihood and Business Development

Company Name: Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB)

Vacancy: 1

Age: At least 25 years

Job Location: Sunamganj (Bishwamvarpur, Chhatak), Sylhet (Companiganj , Jaintapur)

Salary: Tk. 55000 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Diploma in Agriculture
• Bachelor/Honors
• Masters

• At least 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Age At least 25 years

Knowledge:

• Agriculture

• Climate Change Adaptation

• Resilience

• Community capacity building initiatives

• Resilient livelihood

• Having knowledge on gender, environmental and social compliance issues

Skills:

• Ability to work under minimal supervision and have impact on input on program indicators.

• Excellent organization, coordination, report writing, and team management skills.

• Strong and effective communication and presentation skills.

• Advocacy skill with local and national stakeholders.

Competencies:

• Having respect for different community groups and gender.

• Project implementation and capacity-building competencies

• Coordination capabilities

• Report writing capacity

Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) is going to implement the “strengthening local leadership to promote resilience, recovery and effective response for the vulnerable communities in Sylhet region and other districts in Bangladesh Project” funded by USAID through Save the Children. Project Duration- October 2024 to December 2024.

The “Project Officer- Livelihood and Business Development” will oversee and implement initiatives focused on restoring livelihoods and strengthening community resilience to hydrometeorological hazards. This role involves coordinating cash grants, skill development programs, and awareness campaigns while enhancing early warning systems and disaster response strategies. The “Project Officer- Livelihood and Business Development” will collaborate with local disaster management committees and stakeholders to ensure effective risk assessments, training, and resource mobilization for sustainable community development. H/She will report to the Project Coordinator.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure technical support to the field facilitators, regular field visit and follow-up the activities.

• Providing Training/Orientation/Refreshers to the programme participants.

• Dissemination of agricultural technologies and business development to the farmer’s field.

• Programme participants selection according to the criteria. Preparation and cost benefit reports and other project reports.

• Perform awareness raising and capacity building activities

• Distribution of cash grants and IEC materials for climate adaptive activities

• Managing relationships with most vulnerable HHs, Youth, Volunteers, School Children and other stakeholders to ensure delivery of the programme outputs at field level

• Develop strategic partnership and networks with the relevant stakeholders at field level.

• Provide support in overall implementation, monitoring and reporting of field level programme activities

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.

• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.

• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

• Need to implement the initiatives in the hard to reach areas

• Implementation of activities within the time frame

• Maintaining compliance and ensuring quality of the project activities.

• Weekly 2 holidays,Mobile bill

As per the project policy of FIVDB and the budgeted provision of this project.