Title: Senior Officer (Advocacy & Networking)
Company Name: Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies - BILS
Vacancy: 01
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters in Social Science
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Project Name: Securing Rights of Women Domestic Workers in Bangladesh (SRDW)
∎ Job nature: Full Time (Contractual)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Identifying the areas of advocacy, and planning and designing the advocacy events for the identified areas.
∎ Carry-out the advocacy events i.e. workshop, seminar, submission of memorandum, lobby meeting etc.
∎ Design and publish advocacy and campaign materials ((Poster, Booklet, Brochures, Flyers, Leaflets and TVC etc.).
∎ Conduct regular lobby/advocacy and campaign with key stakeholders of the project
∎ Support BILS advocacy team to carry-out advocacy on domestic workers issues.
∎ Carry-out media advocacy and advocacy/campaign through social media.
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∎ Facilitate 'Domestic Workers Rights Protection Network-DWRN' in its activities to protect the domestic workers and strengthen the network.
∎ Develop networking with the project stakeholders and maintain liaison with the stakeholders
∎ Assist Project Coordinator to prepare project report.
∎ Write periodic and final reports with on the advocacy area of the project,
∎ Articulation of grassroots realities from the workers' rights perspectives, documentation of policy demands and undertake advocacy actions at national & local level.
∎ Assist Project Coordinator in building broad-based platform
∎ Documentation of evidences of workers' rights violation and good practices, developing communication material and publications.
∎ Participate in conferences, seminars, workshops, training sessions and meetings representing project if assigned.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum 5 years related job experience for Advocacy & Networking in same functional area.
∎ Standard Computer literate with advanced skill of related software.
∎ Must have excellent command on English and Bangla and ability to prepare official correspondences independently.
∎ Sound understanding on national and global context with theoretical understanding on social change process.
∎ Proven working experience on policy influence, reform or policy formulation works with government/non-government/private sectors.
∎ Excellent information gathering, presentation, reporting and public speaking skills in Bengali and English.
∎ Efficient time management skill, willingness to work within tight deadline and ability to work in complex and diverse working environment.
∎ An understanding of gender and diversity and the ability to apply this within policy and advocacy work.
∎ Excellent interpersonal communication skill, problem solving skills, strong value based commitment to right based approach.
Salary:
∎ Negotiable as per budget allocation within BILS Salary Structure Grade-D: Scale Tk. 35,000 - 86,000 per month.
Application Deadline: October 22, 2019
Company Information:
∎ Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies - BILS
∎ Address : House # 20, Road # 32 (Old), 11 (New), Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka- 1209
Category: NGO/Development
Source: bdjobs.com