Job Description
Title: Technical Officer-Gender Justice & Livelihood
Company Name: Uttaran
Vacancy: 1
Location: Cox's Bazar
Minimum Salary: Tk. 60000 (Monthly)
Experience:
∎ At least 5 years
Published: 26 May 2025
Education:
∎ Masters
∎ Masters in Gender studies, Social Science or Business Administration or in relevant discipline.
∎ Masters in Gender studies, Social Science or Business Administration or in relevant discipline.
Requirements:
Additional Requirements:
∎ Experience
∎ Minimum 5 years of experience.
∎ Proven experience working with NGOs/CBOs on GBV prevention, protection systems, and livelihood intervention, prioritizing women’s empowerment.
∎ Become familiar with referral systems, community protection structures, and conflict-sensitive approaches.
∎ Proven experience in activity planning, implementation, budgeting, staff management, and report writing.
∎ Experience in working with government line departments
∎ Experience in delivering training for a variety of state and non-state actor audiences (local NGOs, government authorities, etc.)
∎ Skills
∎ Strong decisions making ability and motivational skill especially with rural communities
∎ Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information.
∎ Ability to work under pressure and complete deliverables on time.
∎ Fluent in local or Rohingya language.
∎ Strong management skills including the ability to provide strategic guidance, technical oversight, mentor staff, build strong teams, develop work plans, and manage budgets and project expenditures
∎ Excellent communication and report-writing skills in English
∎ Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other computer skills
∎ Women candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
∎ Experience
∎ Minimum 5 years of experience.
∎ Proven experience working with NGOs/CBOs on GBV prevention, protection systems, and livelihood intervention, prioritizing women’s empowerment.
∎ Become familiar with referral systems, community protection structures, and conflict-sensitive approaches.
∎ Proven experience in activity planning, implementation, budgeting, staff management, and report writing.
∎ Experience in working with government line departments
∎ Experience in delivering training for a variety of state and non-state actor audiences (local NGOs, government authorities, etc.)
∎ Skills
∎ Strong decisions making ability and motivational skill especially with rural communities
∎ Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information.
∎ Ability to work under pressure and complete deliverables on time.
∎ Fluent in local or Rohingya language.
∎ Strong management skills including the ability to provide strategic guidance, technical oversight, mentor staff, build strong teams, develop work plans, and manage budgets and project expenditures
∎ Excellent communication and report-writing skills in English
∎ Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other computer skills
∎ Women candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Provide capacity-building training for LSPs (off-farm & on-farm) and project participants on gender justice, women’s leadership, and livelihood programming.
∎ Support the identification of harmful social norms, community barriers, and opportunities through participatory methods.
∎ Encourage joint initiatives with community leaders, youth groups, and local authorities to build social cohesion.
∎ Develop plans for organizing National/international days, including 16 Days of Activism, International Women’s Day, National & International Disaster Preparedness Day, etc.
∎ Assist the supervisor in preparing quarterly, half-yearly, and annual reports as per the project design.
∎ Collect good pictures and case stories in the field for documentation.
∎ Identify and assess potential women entrepreneurs within target communities.
∎ Design and facilitate training on entrepreneurship, business planning, business development and financial management.
∎ Support the development of small enterprises including market linkage facilitation.
∎ Coordinate with local government, private sector actors, and financial institutions to ensure access to services and resources for women entrepreneurs.
∎ Provide ongoing mentoring and technical assistance to monitoring officer.
∎ Conduct regular field visits to monitor implementation progress, verify data quality and provide feedback for improvement.
∎ Facilitate participatory community monitoring and feedback mechanisms to ensure accountability and responsiveness.
∎ Ensure documentation of best practices, lessons learned, and case studies to support knowledge sharing and learning.
∎ Ensure alignment with gender equality, inclusion, and safeguarding principles in all project activities.
∎ Collaborate closely with program, communications, and finance teams to ensure data-informed decision-making and compliance.
∎ Provide support at the community level for organizing events, workshop, meeting and training when required.
∎ Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
∎ Uttaran is a national development organization working in the coastal region of Bangladesh since 1985 to uphold rights and entitlements and to improve the socio-economic condition of the poor and disadvantaged. Uttaran facilitates in getting access to and control over resources by the poor and disadvantaged to improve agricultural productivity and economic empowerment.
∎ Project Background:
∎ Uttaran with the assistance of Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation is implementing Nari Shakti Samaz Shakti (NSSS) project. The objective of the project is to establish a gender-transformative enabling environment that empowers women and marginalized groups to foster safer, inclusive, and resilient communities in the vulnerable contexts of Cox’s Bazar. The project focuses on protecting women and girls aged 10–35 in both host and refugee communities by enhancing resilience, reducing disaster vulnerabilities and creating alternative livelihood opportunities.
∎ Job responsibility:
∎ Provide capacity-building training for LSPs (off-farm & on-farm) and project participants on gender justice, women’s leadership, and livelihood programming.
∎ Support the identification of harmful social norms, community barriers, and opportunities through participatory methods.
∎ Encourage joint initiatives with community leaders, youth groups, and local authorities to build social cohesion.
∎ Develop plans for organizing National/international days, including 16 Days of Activism, International Women’s Day, National & International Disaster Preparedness Day, etc.
∎ Assist the supervisor in preparing quarterly, half-yearly, and annual reports as per the project design.
∎ Collect good pictures and case stories in the field for documentation.
∎ Identify and assess potential women entrepreneurs within target communities.
∎ Design and facilitate training on entrepreneurship, business planning, business development and financial management.
∎ Support the development of small enterprises including market linkage facilitation.
∎ Coordinate with local government, private sector actors, and financial institutions to ensure access to services and resources for women entrepreneurs.
∎ Provide ongoing mentoring and technical assistance to monitoring officer.
∎ Conduct regular field visits to monitor implementation progress, verify data quality and provide feedback for improvement.
∎ Facilitate participatory community monitoring and feedback mechanisms to ensure accountability and responsiveness.
∎ Ensure documentation of best practices, lessons learned, and case studies to support knowledge sharing and learning.
∎ Ensure alignment with gender equality, inclusion, and safeguarding principles in all project activities.
∎ Collaborate closely with program, communications, and finance teams to ensure data-informed decision-making and compliance.
∎ Provide support at the community level for organizing events, workshop, meeting and training when required.
∎ Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
Skills & Expertise:
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Salary: 60,000 bdt per month
∎ Compensation & other benefits
∎ As per Uttarans Policy and Project Design.
∎ Salary: 60,000 bdt per month
∎ Compensation & other benefits
∎ As per Uttarans Policy and Project Design.
Employment Status: Contractual
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Apply Procedure:
Hard Copy:
∎ Please send your resume/CV with a photograph latest by 31th May via bdjobs online application. Only properly complete applications will be considered for short-listing and will be contracted for the Interview
∎ Join Uttaran to make a difference in the lives of poor and disadvantaged communities in Bangladesh!
∎ Note - Uttaran is dedicated to creating a secure and equitable environment that is free from all forms of discrimination and harassment. This applies to employees, partner organizations, participants, and other stakeholders, who are all entitled to be treated with respect and dignity and have equal opportunities at every level. Regardless of age, sex, gender, religion, ethnicity, color, physical and mental ability, we believe that everyone has the right to live free from sexual abuse, exploitation, and harassment. To achieve this goal, we have a zero-tolerance policy towards any conduct that is incompatible with the objectives of Uttaran, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. All candidates who are selected for a position with Uttaran will be expected to adhere to our safeguarding policies, code of conduct, child protection guidelines, and other procedures. They will be subject to rigorous reference and background checks, which may involve verifying their academic credentials, employment history, and obtaining police verification if deemed necessary. Additional information may be required from selected candidates to facilitate the background check process.
∎ Uttaran`s contact address is House # 32 (Flat-B1), Road # 10/A, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1209, and our website is www.uttaran.net.
Company Information:
∎ Uttaran
∎ House # 32 (Flat-B1), Road # 10/A, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1209
∎ www.uttaran.net
∎ Uttaran is a national development organization working in the southwest Bangladesh since 1985 to uphold rights and entitlements and to improve the socio-economic condition of the poor and disadvantaged. Uttaran facilitates in getting access to and control over resources by the poor and disadvantaged to improve agricultural productivity and economic empowerment.
Address::
∎ House # 32 (Flat-B1), Road # 10/A, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1209
∎ www.uttaran.net
∎ Uttaran is a national development organization working in the southwest Bangladesh since 1985 to uphold rights and entitlements and to improve the socio-economic condition of the poor and disadvantaged. Uttaran facilitates in getting access to and control over resources by the poor and disadvantaged to improve agricultural productivity and economic empowerment.
Read Before Apply: Please apply only who are fulfilling all the requirements of this job
Application Deadline: 31 May 2025
Category: NGO/Development
