Upazila Coordinator (Livelihood)
Job Description
Title: Upazila Coordinator (Livelihood)
Company Name: Shushilan
Vacancy: 1
Job Location: Khulna (Dacope, Koyra)
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters in any discipline. Academic qualification flexible for experienced candidate.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s):
LIvelihoods
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):
NGO
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Lead the Upazila project team to manage the project activities as per plan
∎ Conduct an assessment for job market, industry's trade-skill gap and skill providers at local level
∎ Identification and selection of targeted people from poor and extreme poor households to participate in a transformation process for vocational and skill training and decent job
∎ Organize participants to receive trade specific vocational and skill training from vocation training institute and skill training providers
∎ Establishing linkage between skill provider, skilled people, local job providers for employment/apprenticeship through the agencies
∎ Organize follow up the vocational training and post job monitoring support to employees and employers
∎ Establish link with govt. line department, private sector actors and local service providers to ensure availability of services, technology and inputs in the local market
∎ Prepare selection criteria and organize the beneficiaries' selection accordingly
∎ Organize to provide grant and input support to the marginal and landless farmers for resilient farming through group farming or collective farming practice
∎ Support to link poor and extreme poor farmers with forward market through contract farming in 6 unions and develop staff capacity accordingly
∎ Influence and advocacy with local govt. institutions and relevant govt. department to ensure better targeting and coverage of social safety net for extreme poor
∎ Continue liaison and coordination with other Upazila coordinators for achieving the common targets.
∎ Supervise and monitoring the interventions, analysis the progress, and prepare plan to improve the gap areas at Upazilla level
∎ Support in staff appraisal and take Initiatives and actions on building the capacity of project staffs
∎ Maintain regular liaison and communication with higher authority, govt. sectors, NGOs, INGOs, LGIs and other stakeholders.
∎ Support in audit, donor visit, consultant for baseline survey, evaluation, audit etc.
∎ Participate staff meeting, staff coordination meeting and participate other project and organization related meeting
∎ Capture documentation, best practices and lesson learnt and share with supervisor
∎ Support to introduce innovations in project planned interventions
∎ Support to prepare Monthly, Quarterly, Six Monthly, yearly narrative report as per project design and submit to focal person
Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 05years relevant job experience with NGO/development sector.
∎ Capacity in project management at Upazila level
∎ Team building capacity
∎ Computer literacy, including the ability to use Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
∎ Practicing gender and cultural diversity
∎ Experience in working as part of a team
∎ Strong planning/organizational skills
∎ Willing to work with partially flexible work hours
∎ Able to operate virtual platform like Skype/Zoom/Team etc
∎ Able to drive motorcycle and will have valid driving license
Salary: Tk. 46000 - 51000 (Monthly)
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 19 Aug 2021
Company Information:
∎ 11 Aug 2021
∎ Shushilan
∎ Address : Head Office: 155, Jalil Shorani, Commercial Cum Residential Area, Rayermohol Boyra, Khulna-9000
∎ Web : www.shushilan.org
∎ Business : Shushilan - a non-profit organization has been working in the field of Socio-economic development, Education & ICT and Health & Nutrition Program, Disaster, Climate Change and Environmental Resource Management, Human Rights and Good Governance and Sustainable Peoples Organization in Bangladesh since 1991.
Category: NGO/Development
: Shushilan, a national NGO of Bangladesh is going to implement 'Enhancing resilience of coastal communities and improving income of extreme poor households in Khulna district of Bangladesh' funded by KOIKA and supported by Concern Worldwide. To implement the project Shushilan is inviting applications from the competent and qualified persons for the mentioned position.
