Upazila Job Placement Officer, EARN (Project Staff)

Job Description

Title: Upazila Job Placement Officer, EARN (Project Staff)

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka, Rangpur

Salary: --

Experience:

• At least 5 years

• Bachelor/Honors

• At least 5 years

• Bachelor degree; preferably in BBA (Major in Business Management), Development Studies or relevant field. 
  

• Minimum five (5) years of experience working in the field of Post-Training wage employment for the youths, engage with the employers, sector experts and other private sector stakeholders.
  
  This position is open for Bangladeshi nationals only.
  
  BRAC believes that everyone we work with including our staff, programme participants, partners, and the communities have the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA). We uphold human dignity and inclusion for all, regardless of age, race, religion, gender, disability, ethnic origin, or socio-economic condition. As an equal-opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from gender-diverse individuals and people with disabilities. Selected candidates will have to go through a rigorous reference and background checking process which may include police verification.

Context:
The primary purpose of this role is to facilitate successful wage employment of trainees at different formal and informal workplaces, implementation of employer engagement events, job fairs and internship placements for achieving the job placement target of the project.

Major Responsibilities:

• Support trainee identification and selection using standardized tools.

• Assist in local market scanning to identify in-demand trades and validate them with stakeholders.

• Identify non-traditional trades suitable for female trainees with employment opportunities.

• Conduct regular employer surveys to identify job opportunities and future skill demands; maintain an updated employer database.

• Build and maintain relationships with employers through regular engagement.

• Facilitate MoU signing with employers for internship placements.

• Match trainee profiles with employer requirements and support placement or referrals.

• Organize job fairs, expos, and entrepreneurship events at district and national levels.

• Conduct post-placement satisfaction surveys and prepare reports to improve training and placement outcomes.

• Identify local mentors to support youth entrepreneurs and interns.

• Assist in preparing profiles of potential youth for DYD seed financing.

Safeguarding Responsibilities:

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.

• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.

• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Festival Bonus, Health and Life Insurance, and others as per policy.