ADD International Bangladesh

About ADD

ADD International is a UK based International Development Agency working with Disabled People’s Organizations in  Asia and Africa. ADD International Bangladesh Country Program started in 1994 and gradually expanded to 27 districts of Bangladesh during the 23 years of tenure. About 150 DPOs at local and national level are attached directly or indirectly with ADD Bangladesh including 30,000 different types of women and men with disabilities. ADD Bangladesh contributed in the areas of awareness rising and capacity building of the PWDs at the remote rural areas including disaster prone areas and urban slums. Organizing PWDs into self-help group leading to creating Disable Peoples’ organization(DPO) at the Union, district level and creating of national level network of the DPOs are some key milestone work of ADD. Also, ADD works for facilitating DPO movement for the rights of PWDs.

ADD International Bangladesh (Action on Disability and Development) in partnership with National Grassroots Disability Organization (NGDO) and National Council of Disabled Women (NCDW) with financial support from European Union will be implementing a three years project titled Promoting Representation and Participation of Persons with Disabilities in Local Governance and Development in Bangladesh as a Strategy for their Social, Political and Economic Empowerment (PRPDLG). The project will be implementing in Patuakhali by ADD, Bogra by NGDO and Rangpur by NCDW. The project will be recruiting some positions to be filled up immediately by ADD and its partner NGDO and NCDW.

Job Profile: Program Officer, Capacity Building (1 post in ADD field office in Patuakhali, 1 post in NGDO field office in Bogra and 1 post in NCDW field office in Rangpur)

Project: Promoting Representation and Participation of Persons with Disabilities in Local Governance and Development in Bangladesh as a Strategy for their Social, Political and Economic Empowerment (PRPDLG)

Job Purpose

The major purpose of the position is to assess capacity of the DPOs, their members, project staff members, develop training module and materials and facilitate training at the field level as per an annual training calendar for the project. The position will be directly linked and worked with DPOs and other local level stakeholders.

Main Duties and Responsibilities
  • DPO Capacity assessment and Training needs assessment
  • Developed Training modules and materials
  • Facilitate training for various participants (DPO members, UP Representatives, project staff members) and writing training reports
  • Organize local level events on disability rights, liaison with LGIs and government officials
  • Organize local level issue based campaign and advocacy as appropriate and priority set in the project
  • Assists FC in day to day program management and office work
  • Prepare project progress report at the field level
  • Maintain data base and tracking
  • DPO/SHG visits and collecting evidence of good practice and learnings and write on those.    

Personal Competencies
  • Strong background experiences and good understanding on training cycle
  • Good facilitation skills, good understanding of Disability Rights and legal instruments, National and International declarations and emerging issues on disability
  • Good understanding about DPOs and working attitude with PWDs
  • Ability to identify and articulate/present programme/project work at various forums  
  • Ability to work in team and adopts a team style which adds value to work and reinforces good working practices.
  • Have proficiency in facilitation skills
  • Cross-culturally adept and gender/child protection sensitive

Knowledge, Skills and Experiences

Qualifications

Master’s degree in Development Studies/Social Science or in any other relevant discipline from a reputed University.

Essential

Experiences

Professional experience in national development NGOs for at least 2- 3 years in similar positions, previous working experiences with EU projects in similar position will be added value. Working with disable people organization is added value

Essential

Knowledge, skills and abilities

Extensive knowledge and understanding on national disability issues, national and global disability rights  legal instruments, working procedures of LGIs
Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work well as a part of a team and to interact
Good analytical writing skills in both Bengali and English 
Advance computer skills including working with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and others as appropriate.

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Desirable

ADD is an equal opportunity organization, Person With Disability having required qualification and experiences are encouraged to apply. Women fulfilling the criterion are also encouraged to apply. Please apply by January 31, 2018 with cover letter explaining your suitability, CV (not more than 3 page), recent photograph and equal opportunity form to be filled up to apply to info@add-bangladesh.org . In the subject line please mention the position which you apply for and also mention the post for ADD/ NGDO/ NCDW. Please do not apply for more than one position/ post which may cause disqualification. Any persuasion resulting disqualification in the process.

Only shortlisted candidate will be invited for an interview.