Title: Senior Programme Officer - GP Global Secretariat
Company Name: ActionAid Bangladesh
Vacancy: 01
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ A Bachelor's degree in social sciences, development studies or a related discipline.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Directorate : Programme, Policy & Campaigns
∎ Priority/Unit : Young People
∎ Project Name : Global Platform (GP) Project
∎ Types of contract: Contractual
∎ Duration : Up to 31 December 2023, if not extended
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Support to develop plans, coordinate yearly activities and support to implement youth-led actions in GP networks
∎ Support to develop detailed activity plans in cooperation with the focal persons of AAB and AADK, setting up timelines and necessary mechanism.
∎ Take active initiative to implement the plan for achieving intended objectives.
∎ Coordinate with the other GPs for implementation of actions, developing documents and sharing of learnings.
∎ Take initiative for linking the Global Platform effort from local to national and international level as part of promoting localized youth hub model across the GP countries.
∎ Support Global Platforms for youth led climate action from planning to implementation.
∎ Coordinate with youth programming of AAB and Global Platform Bangladesh to ensure the involvement of GP Global Secretariat unit with youth led action on the targeted areas and issues.
∎ Collaborate in the country level plan on youth programming for team coordination and harmony.
∎ Support to carry forward discussion with AAB and AADK (GP secretariate) about the potential future collaboration.
∎ Convene and facilitate the meetings
∎ Plan and facilitate monthly meetings and knowledge sharing sessions in collaboration with GP Secretariate staff and engaging with the other GPs.
∎ Arranging meetings both online and in-person to implement the action plans as and when required.
∎ Maintaining regular correspondences with AAB and AADK for the effective implementation of the intervention.
∎ Facilitate regular follow up intervention.
∎ Reporting and sharing the learnings
∎ Document the learnings and share learnings and experiences of the envisaged intervention with other countries in the cooperation.
∎ Extract learnings and best practices and ensure it is shared at bi-monthly or monthly meetings,/ webinars or seminars.
∎ Coordinate with the youth programming and global platform Bangladesh for the production of the Best Practice Materials (e.g. video, training, infographic, short reports, etc.) in cooperation with AADK.
∎ Ensure the outcomes of the interventions can be used and showcased in a shared language with the parties in concern.
∎ Support to Global Platform Bangladesh
∎ Support to roll out GP Networking interventions at Global Platform Bangladesh and localised youth hub.
∎ Support in the GPB training facilitation and youth hub activities
∎ Relationships
∎ S/he will report to the Manager - Young People of ActionAid Bangladesh. S/he has to maintain functional relationships with his/her peers in the team, strategic and organisational priority team, and project management team.
Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 3 years of work experience in a developmental organization, particularly working with the movements of young people and/or support for youth-led change.
∎ Required Competencies:
∎ Desirable:
∎ Knowledge and experience on:
∎ supporting youth-led action,
∎ directly working with activists and/or social movements
∎ facilitating intercultural networks
∎ Experience of facilitating youth networks, organizations etc.
∎ Experience with Global Platforms will be an asset
∎ Technical :
∎ Excellent communication skills.
∎ Excellent skills in working with young people and building youth leadership.
∎ Excellent facilitation and advisory skills.
∎ Online facilitation and networking skills - connecting people around joined actions
∎ Excellent written and spoken Bengali and English.
∎ Ability to work independently and foster a team spirit.
∎ Ability to work in a multi-cultural organization and teams
∎ Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines.
∎ Gender-sensitive and familiar with Human Rights-Based Approach; and
∎ Excellent knowledge and use of the internet, social media, and software packages (i.e. MS Office, etc) and Zoom.
Salary:
∎ Monthly Gross Salary will be BDT. 75,705 with other admissible benefits such as festival bonus, provident fund, gratuity, medical benefit, group life insurance, mobile & internet allowance etc, as per HROD Policy
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 12 Jun 2022
Company Information:
∎ 4 Jun 2022
∎ ActionAid Bangladesh
∎ Business : ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency working in over 40 countries, taking sides with poor people to end poverty and injustice together.
Category: NGO/Development
Source: bdjobs.com