Title: Social Media Monitoring Officer
Company Name: Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK)
Vacancy: 1
Age: at most 35 years
Location: Cox's Bazar
Experience:
∎ At least 5 years
Published: 10 Mar 2025
Education:
∎ Applicant must have a University degree or equivalent qualification in sociology, gender studies, political science, economics, development studies or legal studies and human rights or other closely related subjects in social sciences;
∎ (must have master’s degree in any of the abovementioned fields)
∎ Applicant must have a University degree or equivalent qualification in sociology, gender studies, political science, economics, development studies or legal studies and human rights or other closely related subjects in social sciences;
∎ (must have master’s degree in any of the abovementioned fields)
Requirements:
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at most 35 years
∎ Minimum 5 years’ experience on relevant responsibilities
∎ Able to monitor conversations across social media platforms and online discussion forums
∎ Generate reports and and analyze user engagement metrics
∎ Experience in project management of multi-year, large-scale donor-funded projects;
∎ Understanding the Cox’s Bazar dialect is a requirement for the ideal candidate
∎ Experience in similar projects will get preference;
∎ Good communication and interpersonal skill;
∎ Good computer skills on Microsoft Office Tools, especially MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint;
∎ Proficient spoken and written English language skills and the capacity to produce quality reports independently;
∎ Age limit: Age at most 35 years (Age may be considered for experienced candidate)
∎ Minimum 5 years’ experience on relevant responsibilities
∎ Able to monitor conversations across social media platforms and online discussion forums
∎ Generate reports and and analyze user engagement metrics
∎ Experience in project management of multi-year, large-scale donor-funded projects;
∎ Understanding the Cox’s Bazar dialect is a requirement for the ideal candidate
∎ Experience in similar projects will get preference;
∎ Good communication and interpersonal skill;
∎ Good computer skills on Microsoft Office Tools, especially MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint;
∎ Proficient spoken and written English language skills and the capacity to produce quality reports independently;
∎ Age limit: Age at most 35 years (Age may be considered for experienced candidate)
Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Reporting to: Advisor, ASK
∎ Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) was established in 1986 as a national legal aid and human rights organization. Initially its work was limited to providing free legal services to the disempowered particularly women, working children and workers.ASK has evolved a more comprehensive approach to the promotion, protection and prevention in the area of legal and human rights. ASK's strategies to promote human rights awareness and community activism; offer legal aid through mediation and litigation while survivors are given psycho-social counseling; investigations into human rights violations and their documentation are supplemented by research which together lead to media campaigns to defend human rights, and public interest litigation for law and policy reform. ASK has implemented different projects in Cox's Bazar and is currently working to promote women's participation in peace building and social cohesion among Rohingya and the host community. DW Akademie (DWA), together with its three co-applicants, Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), EngageMedia (EM) and Digital Resilience Asia (DRA), have built a strong consortium that is based on their solid track record in relevant fields. ASK is a CSO with a strong focus on human rights, legal aid and access to the Rohingya camps located in Bangladesh. With its sound expertise in facilitating digital and in-person dialogue, working with media partners from Bangladesh and Myanmar – both in-country and in exile – as well as its long experience in youth work and interacting with civil society and its dense networks on the ground, the consortium is in a unique position to respond with innovative digital approaches to the objectives and priorities of the project for conflict prevention, peace building and crisis preparedness in South Asia and Myanmar.
∎ Digital Spaces for Dialogue proposes to conduct digital dialogues between young people aged between 18 and 30 from various ethnic groups in Myanmar and Bangladesh, including exile communities in third countries. In the process, it will sustainably build the capacities of CSOs focusing on youth engagement and youth in the target areas to promote dialogue, communicate about peace issues, and link young people with media and decision makers. The objective is to empower the target groups to use innovative digital tools for peacebuilding and to contribute to giving a voice to youth in the public discourse about peace and conflict issues in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
∎ Monitoring relevant social media platform for coordinating and stimulating dialogue/discussion among the participants.
∎ Facilitating the dialogue and discussion of the participants on social media to achieve the goal of the project.
∎ Promoting issue-based discussion among the participants in social media.
∎ Conducting local-level advocacy initiatives through coordination with key idea lab participants;
∎ Build relationships with individuals, social groups, institutions, and organizations;
∎ Plan, coordinate and facilitate the project;
∎ Conduct periodic performance monitoring, including reassessments, to ensure quality is maintained and milestones are met;
∎ Assess and participate in necessary collaborative efforts;
∎ Prepare the programme reports in assistance of Project Coordinator;
∎ Arrange different types of meetings and seminars with other stakeholders;
∎ Maintain communication with facilitator, idea lab group members and individuals;
∎ Mandatory visiting working areas or field for project purposes if required;
∎ Experience in preparing international periodic reports will be highly appreciated;
∎ Reporting to: Advisor, ASK
∎ Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) was established in 1986 as a national legal aid and human rights organization. Initially its work was limited to providing free legal services to the disempowered particularly women, working children and workers.ASK has evolved a more comprehensive approach to the promotion, protection and prevention in the area of legal and human rights. ASK's strategies to promote human rights awareness and community activism; offer legal aid through mediation and litigation while survivors are given psycho-social counseling; investigations into human rights violations and their documentation are supplemented by research which together lead to media campaigns to defend human rights, and public interest litigation for law and policy reform. ASK has implemented different projects in Cox's Bazar and is currently working to promote women's participation in peace building and social cohesion among Rohingya and the host community. DW Akademie (DWA), together with its three co-applicants, Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), EngageMedia (EM) and Digital Resilience Asia (DRA), have built a strong consortium that is based on their solid track record in relevant fields. ASK is a CSO with a strong focus on human rights, legal aid and access to the Rohingya camps located in Bangladesh. With its sound expertise in facilitating digital and in-person dialogue, working with media partners from Bangladesh and Myanmar – both in-country and in exile – as well as its long experience in youth work and interacting with civil society and its dense networks on the ground, the consortium is in a unique position to respond with innovative digital approaches to the objectives and priorities of the project for conflict prevention, peace building and crisis preparedness in South Asia and Myanmar.
∎ Digital Spaces for Dialogue proposes to conduct digital dialogues between young people aged between 18 and 30 from various ethnic groups in Myanmar and Bangladesh, including exile communities in third countries. In the process, it will sustainably build the capacities of CSOs focusing on youth engagement and youth in the target areas to promote dialogue, communicate about peace issues, and link young people with media and decision makers. The objective is to empower the target groups to use innovative digital tools for peacebuilding and to contribute to giving a voice to youth in the public discourse about peace and conflict issues in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
∎ Job Responsibility:
∎ Monitoring relevant social media platform for coordinating and stimulating dialogue/discussion among the participants.
∎ Facilitating the dialogue and discussion of the participants on social media to achieve the goal of the project.
∎ Promoting issue-based discussion among the participants in social media.
∎ Conducting local-level advocacy initiatives through coordination with key idea lab participants;
∎ Build relationships with individuals, social groups, institutions, and organizations;
∎ Plan, coordinate and facilitate the project;
∎ Conduct periodic performance monitoring, including reassessments, to ensure quality is maintained and milestones are met;
∎ Assess and participate in necessary collaborative efforts;
∎ Prepare the programme reports in assistance of Project Coordinator;
∎ Arrange different types of meetings and seminars with other stakeholders;
∎ Maintain communication with facilitator, idea lab group members and individuals;
∎ Mandatory visiting working areas or field for project purposes if required;
∎ Experience in preparing international periodic reports will be highly appreciated;
Employment Status: Full Time
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Read Before Apply:
Reference: 2 (Two) References
Interested candidates are requested to send their CVs along with a cover letter addressed to Advisor of Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), 2/16, Block - B, Lalmatia, Dhaka, through email to: [email protected]
Apply Procedures: Email Only
"Female candidates are encouraged to apply". Only short-listed candidates will be called for an interview.