Job Description

Title: Union Facilitator -USAID's Community Nutrition and Health Activity (CNHA)

Company Name: Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB)

Vacancy: 44

Location: Habiganj (Azmireeganj , Baniachong ...

Maximum Salary: Tk. 22000 (Monthly)

Experience:
∎ At least 3 years

Published: 7 Aug 2024

Education:
∎ Higher Secondary, Bachelor/Honors

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ Higher Secondary education with relevant experience. A bachelor's degree in social science or any relevant subject area will be regarded as an added value.
∎ Minimum 3 years of working experience in community mobilization, field facilitation, and SBC activities, preferably in the field of health, family planning, and nutrition.
∎ Experience in data collection using paper-based and digital tools/applications.
∎ Commitment to promote Gender, Equity, and Diversity Inclusion (GEDI) related concepts, ideas, and best practices.
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Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Plan, implement, and monitor project activities in the assigned unions as per the guidance of the Project Officer.
∎ Work closely with front line health and family planning service providers to facilitate the delivery of equitable and quality health and nutrition services, including the introduction of Community Score Card (CSC), mGMP, and other innovative solutions.
∎ Guide volunteers to ensure quality implementation of project activities through providing supportive supervision, on-the-job training, and demonstration.
∎ Facilitate and monitor community mobilization and awareness activities such as household visits, individual/group sessions, support group sessions, etc.
∎ Ensure proper maintenance and documentation of volunteers' work schedules, timesheets, leave, and payments. Promote an equitable, women-friendly, gender-sensitive work environment.
∎ Facilitate field visits conducted by any CNHA team or donor. Support data collection (Paper-based and online) as per project need.
∎ Ensure proper record keeping and registration of project participants, required services, and follow-up. Documentation and preservation of disaggregated intervention records as per MEL plan and DQA standard.
∎ Safety, Security, and Safeguarding: As part of this role, the job holder will be expected to adhere to and support FIVDB 's safety and security-related policies and systems as part of their day-to-day duties and comply, at all times, with safety & security protocols and directives, including reporting.
∎ Staff must maintain situational and self-awareness and be aware of the safety - security-related consequences of their actions upon themselves, their team, and the organization.
∎ FIVDB is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior 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 always.
∎ FIVDB expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our Code of Conduct. This is a high priority to ensure that only those who share and demonstrate this commitment are recruited to work with us.
∎ Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB), is a Bangladeshi non-governmental organisation founded in 1979 under the Societies' Registration Act, 1860. The organisation is also registered with the NGO Affairs Bureau and the Micro Credit Regulatory Authority, of the Government of Bangladesh.
∎ FIVDB's societal vision is that of 'a vibrant society based on justice, equity, democracy and environmentally sound principles'. It works with the mission to give the disadvantaged women, men and children greater voice, reduce their vulnerability, increase their use of citizenship rights and help them enhance their quality of life. To that end FIVDB pursues educational, social and economic capacity building and social organization processes. It works to strengthen social protection and safety networks and participates in national and international outreach and advocacy. The organization combines grassroots service delivery, social mobilization and advocacy in its work and works in collaboration with communities, civil society, the Government and private sectors.
∎ CARE Bangladesh, a non-profit international development organization, is implementing a five-year-long project, "USAID’s Community Nutrition and Health Activity (CNHA)”. CARE, with its consortium partners icddr,b, mPower, Jhpiego, and Viscom, will implement this project both at national and sub-national levels, and [NGO Name] will work at the local level to execute the field activities under Kishorgonj Cluster and in the selected upazilas (all unios) of Sunamgonj, Habigonj, Netrokona and Kishorgonj districts.
∎ Under CNHA, the consortium will work with different departments of the ministries, especially the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) at the national, regional, and local levels, to improve nutrition status by strengthening the community health system and support the effective implementation of the Second National Plan of Action for Nutrition (NPAN2). This will work at multiple levels of local government institutions, specifically with the nutrition coordination committees at the district and upazila levels focusing on the community health system and strengthening the Core Team approach and local nutrition-governance mechanisms. The project will facilitate developing solutions emerging from communities, government departments, and the private sector. The CNHA will replicate proven best practices to scale up innovative local governance models for better nutrition by transforming the Union Development Coordination Committee (UDCC) into nutrition outcomes. Digital solutions related to health and Nutrition services are key strategies for improving nutrition. The project intends to impact several of the core challenges selected districts face in the North (Rangpur Cluster), Haor (Kishoreganj Cluster), Padma Basin (Madaripur Cluster), and Coastal Belt (Patuakhali Cluster) of Bangladesh.
∎ FIVDB, a local partner of this project, is hiring Union Facilitators for project implementation. The Union Facilitator will be responsible for the overall implementation of project activities in the assigned unions. Under the supervision of the Project Officer, S/he will closely work with government health and family planning service providers, frontline supervisors, and volunteers for timely and quality implementation of planned activities.
∎ Specific Roles and Responsibilities:
∎ Plan, implement, and monitor project activities in the assigned unions as per the guidance of the Project Officer.
∎ Work closely with front line health and family planning service providers to facilitate the delivery of equitable and quality health and nutrition services, including the introduction of Community Score Card (CSC), mGMP, and other innovative solutions.
∎ Guide volunteers to ensure quality implementation of project activities through providing supportive supervision, on-the-job training, and demonstration.
∎ Facilitate and monitor community mobilization and awareness activities such as household visits, individual/group sessions, support group sessions, etc.
∎ Ensure proper maintenance and documentation of volunteers' work schedules, timesheets, leave, and payments. Promote an equitable, women-friendly, gender-sensitive work environment.
∎ Facilitate field visits conducted by any CNHA team or donor. Support data collection (Paper-based and online) as per project need.
∎ Ensure proper record keeping and registration of project participants, required services, and follow-up. Documentation and preservation of disaggregated intervention records as per MEL plan and DQA standard.
∎ Safety, Security, and Safeguarding: As part of this role, the job holder will be expected to adhere to and support FIVDB 's safety and security-related policies and systems as part of their day-to-day duties and comply, at all times, with safety & security protocols and directives, including reporting.
∎ Staff must maintain situational and self-awareness and be aware of the safety - security-related consequences of their actions upon themselves, their team, and the organization.
∎ FIVDB is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior 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 always.
∎ FIVDB expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our Code of Conduct. This is a high priority to ensure that only those who share and demonstrate this commitment are recruited to work with us.
∎ III. Reporting to: Project Officer IV. Working Conditions: The Union Facilitator is based at the union level of CNHA working upazilas, with 100% of the time in the field.

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Weekly 2 holidays, Mobile bill
∎ Salary Review: Yearly
∎ As per the project policy of FIVDB and the budgeted provision of this project.

Employment Status: Full Time

Job Location: Habiganj (Azmireeganj , Baniachong, Lakhai), Kishoreganj (Astagram, Hossainpur, Itna, Mithamain), Netrokona (Durgapur, Khaliajhri, Madan), Sunamganj (Dakshin Sunamganj, Derai, Dowarabazar, Tahirpur)

Read Before Apply:

FIVDB affirms the 'ZERO' tolerance approach against sexual exploitation and abuse. And is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, lack of integrity, and financial misconduct, and expects staff to promote the welfare of children and adults at all times. FIVDB 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. FIVDB is an equal-opportunity organization and any kind of persuasion will be construed as automatic disqualification. Females are encourage to apply and only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview. Join us on our Facebook page for more updates: www.facebook.com/fivdbngo

Company Information:
∎ Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB)
∎ Khadimnagar, Sylhet-3103
∎ FIVDB is a development organization, established in 1979. Its major operation cover 7 major districts and concentrates round in the north-east of Bangladesh. It mission is to give disadvantage women, men and children greater voice, reduce their vulnerability, increase use of citizenship rights and help them enhance their quality of life.

Address::
∎ Khadimnagar, Sylhet-3103
∎ FIVDB is a development organization, established in 1979. Its major operation cover 7 major districts and concentrates round in the north-east of Bangladesh. It mission is to give disadvantage women, men and children greater voice, reduce their vulnerability, increase use of citizenship rights and help them enhance their quality of life.

Application Deadline: 15 Aug 2024

Category: NGO/Development