Requirements

Additional Requirements

Required Educational Qualification and Experience

• At least 03 years of professional experience in national or international organizations in coordinating livelihood projects.
• Understanding and appreciation of cultural nuances and preferences within the Rohingya and Cox's Bazar host communities.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders.

Technical Skills

• Professional writing and speaking capacity in English and Bangla, i.e. preparing monitoring report, field visit report, event report, case study/story, press release, content writing, etc.
• Proficient with MS office suite
• Able to take decision in a timely manner, priorities and multi-task work seamlessly.

Responsibilities & Context

Job Summary

PROTTYASHI, a social development organization has been working for the development of disadvantaged population of the country since its establishment with an aim to ensure everyone to live with dignity and prosperity. PROTTYASHI reaches the community with basic needs and supports to save lives and facilitate all the people of the community to live with equal value and priority. PROTTYASHI works for the disadvantaged portion of the population in community addressing their pressing needs following the strategies contextually viable and environmentally sustainable. PROTTYASHI has been actively supporting the refugee population in the humanitarian response in Cox’s Bazar as one of the first responders since August 2017. PROTTYASHI has been vigilantly supporting these crises affected population to accomplish its promised commitment towards humanity and people in distress.

To ensure improved food security for the refugee population helping them to meet nutritional requirement in an environmentally sustainable manner, PROTTYASHI is going to implement “Green skills Development” Activity of WFP Cox’s Bazar Resilience Programme in selected refugee camps. PROTTYASHI invites applications for the vacant position titled- Project Officer for the Project and encourages the persons enthusiastic to contribute to the increased resilience of the humanitarian crisis affected refugee population in Bangladesh. This position will be responsible for ensuring the project interventions are timely implemented maintaining project standards and quality.

Reporting

Project Officer will report to Project Manager of PROTTYASHI. S/He has to maintain functional relationship with his/her peers, project teams and organization’s other priority teams. S/He must be able to communicate with other teams and units both program and operational of the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide support and monitor the implementation of project activities according to the workplan and scheduled timeline.

• Monitor project activities through regular visit in the field to ensure quality of the project deliverables and mobilize the field supervisors.

• Provide technical support to the direct beneficiaries in case of arising any complication in the field.

• Support in the facilitation of project activities such as inception meetings at targeted camps to officially launch the program.

• Maintain necessary coordination with key stakeholders, including CiC, site management officials, camp leaders, and community representatives.

• Coordinate regarding the establishment and renovation of 3 Green Skills Development (GSD) training centers in selected camps.

• Ensure the training centers function as hubs for community mobilization and resilience-building activities.

• Guide field supervisors to facilitate the implementation of homestead gardening for 12,000 refugee households across 9 camps.

• Manage training sessions on specialized agricultural techniques, ensure distribution of agricultural inputs, and monitor cash-for-work initiatives.

• Track beneficiary participation, attendance, and cash transfers, ensuring proper cash disbursement for each training session attended.

• Ensure agricultural inputs like seeds, bamboo, manure, and nets are provided per seasonal requirements.

• Support in the facilitation of poultry farming training, cooking demonstration, introduction of advanced agricultural technologies, such as PVC pipe gardening

• Coordinate in the establishment and operation of an upcycling center to reduce waste and promote income generation

Organizational values and norms towards Safeguarding and PSEA

PROTTYASHI is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct and expects staff to promote the welfare of children, young people and adults at all times. PROTTYASHI expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our Code of Conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate this commitment are recruited to work with us.