Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO)

Summary

Vacancy: 52
Age: 20 to 40 years
Location: Gaibandha, Joypurhat …
Minimum Salary: Tk. 22000 (Monthly)
Experience: At least 3 years
Published: 3 Aug 2024

Requirements

Education

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.

Experience

At least 3 years

Additional Requirements

Age 20 to 40 years

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.

Responsibilities & Context

‘USAID’s Community Nutrition and Health Activity (CNHA)’ funded by USAID, and implemented by CARE Bangladesh, aims to sustainably impact the nutrition and health of women and children in their first 1000 days of life. The activity will strive to achieve its goal by contributing to the areas of Strengthened community health systems to deliver nutrition, family planning, and health services; improving household nutrition and health behaviors; enhancing leadership and governance for improved nutrition; resilience of communities and households to potential nutrition shocks increased.

Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO) started its journey in 1988 with a noble vision to stand in solidarity with the poor and marginalized. Being a peoples’ centered organization, ESDO envisioned for a society which will be free from inequality and injustice, a society where no child will cry from hunger and no life will be ruined by poverty. Near about three decades of relentless efforts to make this happen, ESDO has embraced new grounds and opened up new horizons to help the disadvantaged and vulnerable people to bring meaningful and lasting changes in their lives. During this long span, ESDO has adapted with the changing situation and provided the most time-bound services especially for the poor and disadvantaged. A community focused and people centered approach has been adapted by ESDO while consideration was given to the national policy and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as its guiding principle. ESDO is one of the most dynamic organizations expanding its development interventions across 331 upazilas under 54 districts of Bangladesh covering over 10 million poor and vulnerable people.
As partnership with CARE Bangladesh, ESDO is implementing the USAID’s Community Nutrition and Health Activity (CNHA) at Rangpur, Kurigram, Gaibandha and Joypurhat District. ESDO is inviting applications from interested qualified candidates for the position. Supervisor’s Position: Project Officer 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 Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO) will work at the local level to execute the field activities under North West Zone (Rangpur) Cluster and in the selected upazilas (all unios) of Rangpur, Kurigram, Gaibandha and Joypurhat 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.
The number of posts may be more or less as required.

Job Responbilities:

The Union Facilitator will be responsible for the overall implementation of 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.

Compensation & Other Benefits

As per project allocation

Workplace

Work at office

Employment Status

Full Time

Job Location

Gaibandha, Joypurhat, Kurigram, Rangpur

Job Highlights

Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO), a local partner of this project, is hiring Union Facilitators for activity implementation.

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