Psychosocial Officer, Ulta-Poor Graduation

Job Description

Title: Psychosocial Officer, Ulta-Poor Graduation

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Rangpur

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Pass Graduate, preferably in Environment, Disaster, Economics, Business studies, social science.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Ultra-poverty is the most extreme form of poverty. People living in ultra-poverty are forced to make impossible decisions every day, such as choosing between food, medicine or clean water. BRAC`s Ultra-Poor Graduation Programme is a comprehensive set of interventions aimed to enable households to progress along a pathway out of poverty. BRAC is the pioneer of the global Graduation approach, and is supporting the Government of Bangladesh to eliminate ultra-poverty completely from the country by 2030. Join us to build a more inclusive society, where no one is forced to live in ultra-poverty. Working at brac is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world, we are building it. Join us to find the way.
∎ JOB PURPOSE: Implementation of each and every programme activities for the targeted ultra-poor people including people with disabilities to enhance their enterprise related skill, life skill towards disability-inclusive and sustainable graduation. The Psycho-social Officer will ensure provision of psycho-social support to ultra-poor people including people with disabilities to contribute to ultra-poverty graduation processes by directly providing psycho-social support, conducting referral and mobilising local resources, building capacity of Programme Organisers and working closely with both Rehabilitation Officers and Programme Organisers. Also regularly communicating and consulting with the technical expert.
∎ SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES
∎ 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.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Coordinate the process of identification for ultra-poor people including people with disabilities with psycho-social support needs and assess the type of psycho-social needs for them.
∎ Plan and conduct the sessions with individual, family and group counseling. Ensure the motivation of participants, including people with disabilities for entry or continuation in employment, with regular follow up, based on priority.
∎ Identify psycho-social referral linkages and refer ultra-poor people including people with disabilities to basic and specialized health and other social services, based on their needs and participate in the roll-out and use of a referral system.
∎ Raise awareness at community level on psycho-social issues and advocate towards local government and other stakeholders, in collaboration with Disabled People's Organisations, for the inclusion of selected participants including people with disabilities within different physical and mental health and other socio-economic development programmes in the working area.
∎ Identify and network with other partners active in psychosocial issues in the region and maintain good relations with other relevant stakeholders.
∎ Participate on behalf of UPG programme in workshops, seminars and meeting related to psychosocial support activities under the supervision of the Branch Manager (UPG)
∎ Capacity building of community workers on theoretical and practical skills related to psycho-social support and its contribution to poverty graduation process via active involvement in delivering trainings, workshops and provision of continuous on the job support.
∎ Regularly provide basic training on psychosocial support for other UPG programme staff and contribution to annual appraisals of community workers.
∎ Contribute to the preparation of participants follow-up plan, business plans and rehabilitation plans in collaboration with the Programme Organiser and Rehabilitation Officers, based on the psycho-social needs of the person with a disability.
∎ Monitor the psycho-social progress of the person with a disability in terms of their inclusion in employment and contribute to re-planning of household/business plans.
∎ Contribute to indicators and graduation/quality of life index tracking related to the progress of participants towards graduation/quality of life.
∎ Maintain and update documents related to psycho-social assessments, plans and progress updates
∎ Contribute to the collection of case studies (both success and failure) to monitor progress of targeted people with disabilities, especially the most critical types of disabilities.
∎ Support the production of communicational materials and its content related to psychosocial support. Also ensure close collaboration with the Programme Organiser at every step of the graduation cycle.
∎ Develop different MIS reports, proper documentation and follow administrative rules of programme and organization

Additional Requirements:
∎ Good oral and written communication skills in Bengali and English.
∎ Excellent stakeholder management skills.
∎ Knowledge on documentation and reporting.
∎ Sound knowledge in MS office - Word, Excel and writing in English and Bangla as well.
∎ Clear understanding of poverty dynamics, geographical and community context, different culture etc.
∎ Analytical ability and problem-solving skills.
∎ At least 01 year of work experience in extreme poverty and disability.

Salary: Negotiable

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival Bonus, Health and life Insurance and others as per policy.

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 17 Jun 2022

Company Information:
∎ 8 Jun 2022
∎ BRAC
∎ Business : BRAC is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.

Category: NGO/Development