Requirements

Additional Requirements

Required Educational Qualification and Experience

• Minimum of 2-5 years of experience in nutrition sensitive or community-based nutrition programs.

Technical skills

• Knowledge of local dietary habits and food culture.

• Skill of photography

• Must have professional writing and speaking capacity in English and Bangla, i.e. 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- Senior Officer (Cooking Demonstration) 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 leading the nutrition sensitive interventions of the project to make the targeted people aware on maintaining a balanced diet.

Reporting

Senior Officer (Cooking Demonstration) will report to Project Manager. 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 work plan and scheduled timeline.

• Organize and facilitate community-based cooking demonstrations to promote nutritious, affordable, and culturally appropriate meals.

• Develop training modules, recipes, and IEC (Information, Education, and Communication) materials for beneficiaries.

• Demonstrate meal preparation techniques that meet daily household nutrition requirements.

• Work closely with program participants to influence positive eating habits and food preparation techniques.

• Encourage participants to share acquired knowledge with other members of their communities, ensuring wider dissemination of nutrition-sensitive practices.

• Promote proper hygiene, safe food handling, and storage practices during cooking demonstrations.

• Build the capacity of local women’s groups, caregivers, and community volunteers in improved cooking methods and meal planning

• Engage local leaders to enhance community participation and sustainability of nutrition programs.

• Track attendance, feedback, and impact of cooking demonstrations

• Maintain records of participants, recipes used, and improvements in dietary habits.

• Ensure availability of cooking utensils, ingredients, and other materials required for demonstration sessions.

• Ensure culturally appropriate and locally available food items are used in the demonstrations.

• Document success stories and best practices to share with stakeholders and donors.

• Work with government agencies, NGOs, and donors to align cooking demonstrations with broader food security and nutrition initiatives.

• Monitor the efficient use of funds and resources allocated for cooking demonstrations.

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.