Educo is a global development and humanitarian NGO based in Barcelona, Spain with 30-year working experience in 18 countries. We work with children and their environment to promote just and equitable societies that guarantee their rights and well-being. We envision A world where all girls and boys have access to educational environments and fully enjoy their rights and a dignified life. We are a member of ChildFund Alliance, one of the largest global networks of child-focused development organizations working to create opportunities for children and youth, their families and communities.
Since 1999, in Bangladesh we have been implementing development programs in the marginalized urban and rural areas and with time we expanded our works to broader geographical areas. Currently, Educo Bangladesh is implementing large number of development and humanitarian projects which are funded by different internal and external donors; like KOICA, EU/UNOPS, ChildFund Alliance, ADEY, Barnfonden, AECID, Mango etc. in various districts of Bangladesh. Know more about EDUCO
Currently, we are looking for a ‘Project Officer - Sponsorship’
Name of Position |
Number of Vacancy |
Job Location |
Project Officer-Sponsorship |
01 |
Satkhira, Bangladesh |
Report to |
Contract Duration |
Working Conditions |
Project Manager- Sponsorship |
Initially 02 Years (Contract will be extended based on performance and availability of funds) |
S/he will be based in Satkhira with frequent field visits in the project areas |
The Project Officer – Sponsorship is responsible for implementing child sponsorship operations at the field level in line with Educo’s Sponsorship strategy and standards. This position will work as a voice of Educo Bangladesh in the field level.
The Project Officer – Sponsorship maintains continuous engagement with children, families, schools and authorities, community groups/ representatives, partner NGOs, field level teams and local government bodies to ensure the effective implementation of sponsorship activities at the field level.
The Project Officer – Sponsorship will maintain liaison with the country office and respective supervisor.
- Ensures sponsorship activities are carried out with quality, accuracy with maintaining deadlines
- Timely management of children gathering with the Educo’s general programs.
- Ensure timely delivery of correspondence materials for maintaining good relation between children and Sponsors.
- Monitoring reports, case stories, and feedback regularly that reflect field-level progress and sponsor impact.
- Ensure child monitoring and tracking through individual child’s family/home visit periodically, while ensuring children participation in development programs and sponsorship activities at community level.
- Ensure strict compliance with child safeguarding standards and the effective use of digital data systems (EduKids) for efficient management, tracking, and reporting.
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Key Areas of Accountability |
Essential Tasks |
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1 |
Manage sponsorship communication items |
- Prepare schedule for activity through Communication with the Project Manager-Sponsorship and community volunteers
- Distribute Authorization and Admission form and fill them up with prescribed quality
- Archive student profile and progress report and other documents
- Identify challenges and sensitize the community through close coordination with stakeholders, community volunteer and field staff of partner
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20% |
2 |
Update data of Active and Sponsored children in software (EduKids) |
- Collect the student profile and ensure accurate data and photo within the deadlines
- Entry Data in the corporate software within the deadlines
- Track children and collect drop out status, migration and special incidence of children
- Take instant initiative for the absent students during activities
- Take instant initiative for correspondence and collect response from children
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40% |
3 |
Communication with other departments and partners |
- Collect best practices and success stories of the children to share with relevant department for enhancing visibility and sponsorship loyalty.
- Covering up Educo’s general programs through reporting for loyalty building.
- Ensure partners engagement for benefit tracking and involvement of the projects.
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10% |
4 |
Reporting and compliance |
- Provide time to time repot to supervisor according to requirement.
- Maintain documentation on Sponsorship audit issues
- Ensure timely dispatching of communications materials.
- Archive Children photos and information in the prescribed directory
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10% |
5 |
Manage Community Volunteer |
- Assign community volunteer for collecting information and photos of children in Sponsorship activities in field level
- Ensure quality of collected photos and information of children collected from field
- Capacity building of the community volunteers to perform quality sponsorship activities.
- Assign community volunteer for monthly children tracking (Absence, migration, dropout, death etc.) in field level
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20% |
Postgraduate of Social Science and relevant subjects from reputed university.
Position requires both Bangla and English at Intermediate level
| Experience and Requirements |
- Minimum 3-4 years of working experience in similar position in any national or international development organization preferable in child rights-based organization.
- Experience to work on different database
- Excellent interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving capacity
- Ability to adapt the international strategy in the local context
- Understanding of Educo’s Mission, Vision, Values, and Principles
- Ability to follow procedures and work cooperatively with team members
- Broadly focused but with the capacity to pay attention to details
- Have skill to prioritize tasks and to understand the situation
- Capacity to balance work-life
- Positive attitude, sensible and clear understanding of gender perspective
- Experience in Data entry
- Basic Knowledge of Photography
- Good facilitation skill
Monthly Gross Salary: |
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BDT 60,076/- (Taka Sixty Thousand and Seventy-Six) only. |
| Other Benefits: |
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Group Insurance, Leave Encashment and Mobile Allowance. |
Educo is committed to prevent violence and maltreatment to children by fostering a safeguarding culture in which interactions with children promote their dignity and favor their comprehensive development and wellbeing in a safe and protective environment. Educo will ensure to "do no harm" to children and to be a child safe organization.
For Educo, accountability means fulfilling our responsibility to listen and respond to the opinions and needs of our stakeholders in the decisions we make and the activities we undertake, with the aim of increasing our impact and ensuring the responsible use of resources.
- Three (03) non-relative referees must be included in the CV. These referees must include the most recent or current- immediate supervisor & HR/P&C personnel; one other professional.
- Recent Formal Photograph (Passport Size) must be included in CV
- Please go through the job contents carefully before applying.
Interested candidates only who meet the requirements are requested to apply through the below link-
Apply Here…
Application Deadline: December 10, 2025 (Wednesday)
WOMEN ARE HIGHLY ENCORAGED TO APPLY |
N.B. As a Child-Centered Organization, Educo is committed to Child protection, and has developed a Child Safeguarding Policy, together with a Code of Conduct. All employment is conditional upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks. Before induction, any new staff should read and sign Educo’s Code of Conduct.
- ethnicity, location, color, gender, class, and religion.
- Educo has ZERO TOLERANCE towards harassment, abuse and discrimination. Educo employees are expected to abide by the Code of Conduct, PPSEAH (Policy on Protection Against Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment), Child Safeguarding Policy, Anti – fraud and Corruption Policy and People and Culture Policy of Educo.
- Any persuasion during recruitment process will result in disqualification of candidature.
- Internal and external applicants shall be treated equally in the entire selection process.
- Educo never charges any FEE/COST/DONATION at any stages of recruitment and selection process. There is no cost involved with applying for any position. Any solicitation of job application/selection costs should be regarded as fraudulent.
- For this recruitment and selection process, Educo reserves Full Authority to take any decision as required.
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