Technical Officer/Gender Promoter (Female)
Job Description
Title: Technical Officer/Gender Promoter (Female)
Company Name: Concerned Women for Family Development [CWFD]
Vacancy: 04
Job Location: Noakhali (Noakhali Sadar)
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's Degree from any recognized university.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ CWFD emerged from an emotional response to help women in need of reproductive health care counseling. The organization, originally named as "Concerned Women for Family Planning (CWFP), started its voluntary activities in 1974 to help the refuge coming to Dhaka city after the devastating famine of 1974. The organization was registered in 1975 with Directorate of Social welfare and formally launched its project activities in 1976 with only 5 female staff to cover an area of Dhaka city slum comprising around 50,000 people. For more information, please visit our website www.cwfd.org
∎ Vision Statement: Empower women, youths and adolescents to achieve gender equality and social justice within family and society.
∎ Mission Statement: CWFD is a non-political, non-profit voluntary organization run by women of Bangladesh to support, promote and protect the interest of women in Bangladesh by providing community-based health care, empower community to exercise their rights to eliminate social injustice, creating economic opportunities, empower under privileged youth of urban and rural population and develop human resources for a positive social change.
∎ Expected Programme Output(s): Adolescents and youth will have increased access to gender-transformative, SRHR life skills and lifesaving awareness-raising with specific focus on prevention of child marriage.
∎ Programme background: Concerned Women for Family Development will receive funds from United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to implement Adolescents and Youth Programme. This programme aims to provide adolescents with access to information and services that strengthen their ability to make informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health and protect their wellbeing. Gender specific, GBV focused, structured, short-term life skills education programme (Girl Shine) will be delivered to adolescents and young women ages (10-19years). Mental health, healthy coping strategies and psychosocial support are prioritized through these activities. Specific focus will be given to adolescent girls who are at risk of and affected by child and forced marriages. Adolescent girls and young women will be provided tailored menstrual hygiene kits and education on menstrual health management. The latter will focus on overcoming taboos in regards to menstrual health and challenge social and gender barriers such as imposing movement restrictions for menstruating girls. UNFPA will also ensure life skills sessions are delivered to adolescent boys through the Champions of Change (CoC) curriculum.
∎ CWFD also implements a national humanitarian programme with funding support from UNFPA. As part of this, CWFD is working with UNFPA to implement the national humanitarian response, the A&Y unit received funds which will be implemented in the Noakhali District.
∎ Along with strengthening community awareness, UNFPA will work on increasing the motivation of parents and older adolescent girls in preventing child marriage. Incentives will be provided to the households of older adolescent girls as a means of continued motivation for preventing this harmful practice against girls. Furthermore, Kishori (adolescent girls) Resource Centre will be established in Noakhali district to organize adolescent girl`s empowerment trainings, supports local government to prevent child marriage, and conduct behavior change communication activities. Girls who are already married or in union will be supported through SRHR services to help them avoid early and repeated pregnancy.
∎ Name of the position: Technical Officer/Gender Promoter
∎ No. of Vacancies: 04 (Female)
∎ Duty station: Noakhali
∎ Job Duration: May, 2023 to December, 2023
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Line of responsibility: The Technical Officer will directly be reportable to the Field Manager.
∎ Planning and implementation of project activities in the assigned areas Liaison/coordination with all concern. Prepare monthly work plan of the assigned working areas based on quarterly plan.
∎ Provide support the Field Manager to arrange different types of training, meeting, orientation.
∎ Provide support the Field Manager to Conduct the Youth Leader orientation training.
∎ Mobilize the community leaders and other influential persons of the project areas.
∎ Conduct orientation session with the community leaders and other influential persons on the project brief.
∎ Keep coordination with Kishori Resource Centre (KRC) management.
∎ Support in organizing GEMS Sessions.
∎ Arrange campaign program and facilitate different type of sessions.
∎ Invite and ensure participation of the listed target people.
∎ Establish and maintain liaison/coordination with the GO, NGO, Adolescent leaders, Community groups, Health service providers.
∎ Documentation and preparation of different project reports.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Only females are allowed to apply
∎ At least 2-year experience; preferably in Menstrual Health Hygiene, Gender, Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights, Child Marriage Project related experience
∎ Should have experience in community mobilization, communication, liaison and collaborating with the Health Service Providers of GOs and NGO.
∎ Good communication skill
∎ Good knowledge on communication, liaison and collaboration.
∎ Good problem solving ability.
∎ Comfortable in public speaking.
∎ Skilled in report preparation at the different stages of the project
∎ Good skills in computer operation especially with MS Office, (MS-Word, Excel, Power point, internet and email applications);
∎ Willing to work in pressure situation
Salary:
∎ BDT 26,400/- per month (including all other benefits).
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 29 Apr 2023
Company Information:
∎ 16 Apr 2023
∎ Concerned Women for Family Development [CWFD]
Category: NGO/Development
: Interview Date: Probable interview is on the 1st week of May 2023 in CWFD Headquarters, Dhaka. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted about the date and time through e-mail/over the cell phone.
Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 29th Apr 2023
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