Title: Volunteer - PROTIC II
Company Name: Oxfam
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ A bachelor's degree in any social or environmental science or related disciplines. Those who have appeared in the finals but results pending can also apply.
Job Context:
∎ Job type: Volunteer
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Participatory Research and Ownership with Technology, Information, and Change (PROTIC) is a collaboration between Monash Faculty of Information Technology and Oxfam with a vision to develop deployable Digital Citizenship strategies, tools, and techniques considering culture, language, socio-economic factors for the two marginalized communities: fisherfolk and domestic workers in Bangladesh to be enabled through Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT). The word 'PROTIC' means a sign or symbol in Bengali, therefore articulating a symbol of development and progress, a sign of digitization, a token of recognition (of community voice), and an image of action research. PROTIC II is the second phase of PROTIC- a five-year international development project that was dedicated to articulating the impact of societal digital transformation initiatives on disadvantaged and low-literacy communities.
∎ The position holder will have the opportunity to be capacitated in qualitative and spatial research through working with Monash University, Australia.
Additional Requirements:
∎ We are looking for a research student or early-career professional who is agile and have the capacity to work with fisherfolk communities, and have prior experience in qualitative research, preferably with training or experience to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications and tools.
∎ Understanding of ICT integration in natural resource rights and climate justice context.
∎ Experience in voluntary work, social research, and social activism.
∎ Engagement with marginalized vulnerable communities.
∎ Excellent analytical writing skills in Bangla and English.
∎ Knowledge of mixed method research with interpersonal communication skills.
∎ Analysis of qualitative data using the thematic application (e.g., NVivo and ATLAS.ti or any).
∎ Technical skills in ESRI ArcGIS Suite and experience in providing GIS support to research projects
∎ Value alignment for environmental justice, rights-based approach and feminist principles.
Salary:
∎ We will provide an inspirational remuneration for food and local conveyance purpose (BDT. 1000/= for each working day).
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ This role will give you an opportunity to make a difference in private sector engagements, to act as key contributor to Oxfam, to work with a group of passionate people that are specialists in their relative fields.
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 25 Feb 2023
Company Information:
∎ 19 Feb 2023
∎ Oxfam
∎ Business : Oxfam employs more than six thousand people in 90 countries who share a commitment to work together to end poverty and suffering. It is committed to ensure diversity and gender equality within the organization and welcomes applications from women, person with disability and under-represented groups. Oxfam does not discriminate against applicants or employees based on their HIV/AIDS status. The organization has been working in Bangladesh since the War of Independence and has established a permanent country office in 1972. Since then it has responded to all major emergencies in the country. Oxfam's current program focuses on Economic Justice & Resilience, Gender and Women?s Leadership and Humanitarian Capacity Building and Response.
Category: NGO/Development
Source: bdjobs.com