Action for Social Development (ASD)

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Summary

Vacancy: 1
Location: Cox’s Bazar
Minimum Salary: Tk. 38000 (Monthly)
Experience: 3 to 5 years
Published: 11 Jun 2024

Requirements

Education

Postgraduate/Graduate in Music and Theatre Art, Communication and Journalism, Social Science, or any other relevant discipline from a reputed institution.

Experience

3 to 5 years
The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):
NGO

Additional Requirements

Minimum Three (3) to Five (5) years of practical experience in managing development projects focusing on awareness and prevention.
Having extensive knowledge and skills in Monitoring and Evaluation frameworks of development organizations.
Experience with the development of awareness messages and tools on anti-human-trafficking and safe migration-related issues.
Experience with the detailed documentation of providing social and economic support services to trafficking survivors or vulnerable and at-risk groups, and detailed reporting mechanisms.
Demonstrate a positive attitude and sensitivity to support vulnerable and at-risk groups and communities.
Strong understanding of gender and diversity issues.
Demonstrate strong interpersonal communication skills in English and Bangla; and
Basic computer proficiency: i.e. MS Office, database management, coordination via email, project-specific management information systems, etc.

Required Core Competencies:

Ability to work in a team with good interpersonal skills.
Candidate should have a learning attitude, good behavior, and a proactive attitude.
Ability to prioritize activities to act and decide promptly.
Pro-active and participatory decision-making and problem-solving.
Ability to communicate with people from different cultures and backgrounds.
Ability and experience in working with diverse people/communities at grassroots levels will be given priority.
Strong team player with a well-developed network.

Responsibilities & Context

About ASD: Action for Social Development (ASD) is a non-government, non-profit and non-political development organization (duly registered with Dept. of Social Service and NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of Bangladesh) established in 1988. The objective of ASD is to facilitate support for the poor, create solidarity among themselves, and build their capacities and bargaining power for realizing their rights and needs to improve their quality of life. ASD has the unique experience of implementing 75 projects in both urban and rural areas on climate change, emergency response, child rights & child protection etc.

ASD is now accepting applications from suitable, experienced, and interested candidates, for the following job vacancies, to work in a counter-trafficking-focused project implemented by Winrock International and supported by the Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh. Ashshash: For Men and Women Who Have Escapes Trafficking (Phase II) is implemented across some of the most trafficking-prone areas in Bangladesh, including Cox’s Bazar.

Project Background: The main objective of the project is to ensure that “women and men who have escaped trafficking will restore their dignity and wellbeing and become self-sufficient”. The survivors will be provided psychosocial counseling support along with other social services and facilitated opportunities for skills-devolvement and entrepreneurship training. Subsequently, they will be placed in wage-based and or self-employment opportunities for sustained social and economic reintegration into households, societies, and workplaces. Furthermore, Ashshash will reach people across the working areas either directly or indirectly, through various awareness-raising activities on factors that fuel the vulnerabilities of people toward human trafficking, and to ensure its prevention. The four-year-long second phase of Ashshash will provide comprehensive and personalized packages of social and economic services to human trafficking survivors, and work to raise mass awareness on the issue.

Project Title: Ashshash for Men and Women Who Have Escaped Trafficking

Project Duration: June 2024 – August 2026

Job Category: Project Staff

Position Summary: The Program Officer (PO) will work under the direct oversight of Ashshash’s Awareness and Prevention Partner (APP) across Cox’sBazar sadar, Ukhiya, and Teknaf. The PO will assist the Project Coordinator in implementing project activities to ensure that the local communities are aware and trained on preventing human trafficking. The PO will support the project in developing CTC and CTIP activist capacity, and maintain liaison with counter-trafficking activist groups, youth groups, and members of at-risk communities. PO will support overall project activities including community empowerment, capacity development of CTIP activists and change agents, development of awareness materials, and identification and referral of at-risk communities to the services. The PO must ensure compliance with Winrock International’s ‘Code of Conduct’ and ‘Do No Harm Policy’, whilst maintaining privacy and confidentiality of information respective to each survivor.

Job Responsibilities

Taking effective initiatives to implement project activities in collaboration with other team members.
Support team in developing different awareness materials and tools.
Assist PC to ensure project activities are implemented on time.
Support the communities at risk of human trafficking by identifying and referring them to relevant service-providing organizations;
Day-to-day supervise and monitor the field-level activities of the project team including CTIP activists.
Ensure project visibility through engaging mainstream media and using social media;
Ensure linkage support for communities at-risk of human trafficking to lessen the push factors of human trafficking.
Coordination with other government and non-government service-providing organizations to ensure service through referral.
Assist the Project Coordinator in preparing quarterly and annual narrative reports, financial reports, and variance reports.
Attend regular basis in Government meeting and other coordination meeting in working districts.
Setup files to ensure that all project information is appropriately documented and secured and
Maintain the confidentiality of project documents and organizational regulations and implement them at his/her jurisdiction.

Skills & Expertise

Interpersonal Skills

MS OFFCIE

Employment Status

Contractual

Job Location

Cox’s Bazar

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