Job Description

Title: Technical Expert, Self-Employment

Company Name: PROTTYASHI

Vacancy: 01

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Post-Graduate/Graduate in Social Sciences/Developmental Studies/Engineering or any other relevant discipline from a reputed institution.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Location of Posting: Cox`s Bazar (With extensive field visits as required)
∎ Contract Duration: Initially for 01 Year with possibility of further extension depending on the performance and funding availability.
∎ Reports To : Project Manager, Ashshash Project, Prottyashi
∎ PROJECT BACKGROUND:
∎ Winrock International - Ashshash (Phase-II), is funded by the Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh. The project will support human trafficking survivors with sustainable social and economic reintegration into their respective communities, and also provide support-services that will ensure their wellbeing and self-sufficiency. The survivors will be provided psychosocial counseling support along with other social services, and facilitated opportunities for skills-devolvement and entrepreneurship training. Through which, the economic empowerment of the survivors will also be ensured in the forms of wage-based and self-employment, and other income generational opportunities. The main objective of the project is to ensure that "women and men who have escaped trafficking will restore their dignity and wellbeing, and become self-sufficient". Furthermore, Ashshash will reach people in the project`s working areas; either directly or indirectly, through awareness-raising activities on factors that make people vulnerable to human trafficking, and to ensure the prevention of human trafficking.
∎ The four-year-long second phase of Ashshash will provide comprehensive and personalized packages of service-provision to the survivors of human trafficking in Bangladesh. The project will be implemented in ten of the most trafficking-prone areas across the country.
∎ Prottyashi as an implementing partner will be responsible to implement the project in Cox`s Bazar District with the technical support of Winrock International through forming a project implementation team. Prottyashi will be implementing the project being responsible to timely implementation of the project interventions through mobilizing its human resources and utilizing its local expertise. To implement the project, Prottyashi is seeking suitable candidates for 1 Technical Expert, Self-Employment position to accomplish the below stated responsibilities:
∎ POSITION SUMMARY:
∎ The Technical Expert, Self-employment will lead and implement the overall activities related to economic empowerment services through entrepreneurship training and business development services for trafficking survivors across Cox`s Bazar District. This includes, but not necessarily limited to, working with the project team to deliver comprehensive career counselling, soft skills, entrepreneurship training, Business development service (BDS) support for ensuring sustainable Self-employment with follow-ups. The technical expert will also maintain records, contribute to monitoring and evaluation as well as adhere to donor policies and procedures.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Demonstrate complete understanding on the factors and criteria (within local contexts and as per WI's guideline) based on which potential human trafficking survivors will be identified and enrolled with the project;
∎ Ensure timely and high-quality implementation of economic empowerment activities according to the approved document and plan;
∎ Ensure comprehensive career counselling session to each survivor with the support of social services team to develop their economic empowerment plan;
∎ Provide entrepreneurship development training to the selected survivors using Ashshash developed training modules;
∎ Develop business plan and ensure business attachment training in the local areas to each survivor.
∎ Provide Business Development Services (BDS) to each survivor, that includes linkage with backward and forward market, linkage with banks offering low interest credits lines and ensuring access to finance, production skills, etc. to develop sustainable enterprise;
∎ Arrange entrepreneurs conference/Trade fair in district and national level engaging establish buyers and others related stakeholders;
∎ Ensure 6-month follow-up support to each employed survivor to retain in the business through counselling, guidance, coaching, etc.
∎ Engage with the employers, sector experts, financial institutions and other private sector stakeholders to devise and facilitate the execution of training and employment in line with program goals;
∎ Demonstrate knowledge and understanding to develop the capacities of local institutions that will provide direct and indirect support-services to the survivors, if need be;
∎ Identify and map opportunities for other forms of income-generation within the working areas, based on the contexts/demands of the areas, and skillsets and qualifications of the survivors;
∎ Demonstrate sensitivity towards the survivor's trafficking contexts, gender-specific issues, and residual trauma, when communicating with the survivors;
∎ Demonstrate the ability to develop close interpersonal relationships with each survivor, in a case-sensitive manner;
∎ Demonstrate the ability to uphold Prottyashi and Winrock International's 'Code of Conduct' and 'Do No Harm' policy, whilst working directly with the survivors to ensure their successful reintegration;
∎ Demonstrate the ability to uphold confidentiality of information when working with each survivor;
∎ Ability to support the Prottyashi and WI Ashshash's program teams with detailed information on each survivor, their contexts, and preferences;
∎ Ability to maintain detailed case-systems for each survivor (i.e. case studies) to make and publish reports, and support the Prottyashi and WI program teams with prompt assessment of survivors' contexts;
∎ Provide support to ensure baseline, mid-line, and final evaluations are conducted accurately, considering Prottyashi's and the donor/partner's requirements; and
∎ Other duties, as assigned.
∎ Organizational values and norms towards Safeguarding and PSEA
∎ Prottyashi is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation, abuse, lack of integrity, and financial misconduct, and expects staff to promote the welfare of children, young people, and adults at all times. Prottyashi expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our Code of Conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate this commitment are recruited to work with us.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Knowledge on case management or management systems from donor-centric organizations will be an added preference;
∎ Knowledge on Monitoring and Evaluation frameworks from donor-centric organizations will be an added preference;
∎ Minimum three (03) years of practical experiences in managing economic empowerment through sustainable enterprise development for vulnerable groups/communities at grassroots-levels;
∎ Experience with entrepreneurship development training, business development services and self-employment support to the vulnerable beneficiaries.
∎ Experience with detailed case management systems and reintegration services for human trafficking survivors, or vulnerable and at-risk groups;
∎ Experience with the detailed documentation of providing social and economic support-services to trafficking survivors or vulnerable and at-risk groups, and detailed reporting mechanisms;
∎ Demonstrate positive attitude and sensitivity to support vulnerable and at-risk groups, and communities;
∎ Strong understanding of gender and diversity issues;
∎ Demonstrate strong interpersonal communication skills; and
∎ Basic computer proficiency: i.e., MS Office, database management, coordination via email, project-specific management information systems, etc.
∎ Candidates need to be highly motivated and committed to Prottyashi's vision, mission, and long-term development work to significantly improve the lives of the most vulnerable and marginalized. Candidates must be capable of displaying great learning agility, and support, and encourage knowledge sharing across projects, for the ultimate benefit of all of Prottyashi's mission-wide initiatives.

Salary:
∎ Salary and benefits: Per month Gross Salary BDT 30,000 with contribution provident fund+ monthly Bonus provision BDT 2,500 = 32,500/-

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 5 Dec 2023

Company Information:
∎ 29 Nov 2023
∎ PROTTYASHI
∎ Address : Syed Bari, 903/A Omar Ali Matobbar Road (Near Bahaddar Bari) Chandgaon, Chittagong-4212
∎ Business : A Voluntary Social Development Organization

Category: NGO/Development

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