Project Officer (Safe Migration)
 

Number of Post: 01

Location of Posting: Chattogram

Contract Duration: Contract will be 30 June 2023 with possibility of further 1 years depending on the performance and funding availability.

Job Summary
Prottyashi, A social development organization has been working for the development of disadvantaged population of the country since its establishment and currently is going to implement a project to ensure safe, orderly and regular migration for the returnee migrants, migrant workers, potential migrants and their family members with the funding and technical support of Helvetas Bangladesh. Prottyashi invites applications for the vacant position titled- Project Officer (Safe Migration) for “Strengthened and Informative Migration Systems (SIMS)” Project.

Reporting
Project Officer (Safe Migration) 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

  • Organize and supervise the activities related to promote safe migration in targeted 8 upazilas through direct field engagement.
  • Support upazila coordinators and social mobilizers to select project beneficiaries e.g. returnee migrants, migrant households, potential migrants and their families.
  • Facilitate pre-employment orientation (PEO) for the potential migrants along with the upazila coordinator and social mobilizers.
  • Maintain communication and coordination with DEMO and TTC to avail pre-departure orientation (PDO) for the targeted beneficiaries.
  • Ensure co-facilitation of pre-departure orientation (PDO) in TTC for the project beneficiaries.
  • Facilitate awareness raising events e.g. courtyard sessions, awareness campaigns etc. at the union level to aware the people on safe migration.
  • Coordinate popular theatre shows and videos to be organized at the community level to disseminate messages on safe migration among the community people.
  • Sensitize community leaders and representatives on safe migration through capacity development approach.
  • Maintain communication and coordination with relevant public and private sector stakeholders at the union, upazila and district level to ensure safe migration.
  • Organize training for the personnel from TTC and DEMO on increasing their capacity to better manage the issues/challenges related to safe migration.
  • Prepare database of agents and sub-agents in the project locations to sensitize them on ensuring safe migration.
  • Map skill training service providers in the project locations and develop professional relation with them.
  • Sensitize the mapped skill providers to contribute to ensure safe migration through arranging meetings and workshops with them.
  • Develop and facilitate signing MOUs with the relevant skill training service providers on providing skill training to the project beneficiaries at a feasible cost.
  • Adhere to the organizational values, norms and practices towards safeguarding, PSEA and code of conduct.

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. Prottyahi 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.

Required Educational Qualification and Experience

  • Bachelor/Master's degree in social sciences from any reputed university.
  • At least 05 years of professional experience in national or international organizations in the relevant job responsibilities.
    Technical Skills
  • Must have professional writing and speaking capacity in English and Bangla, i.e. field visit report, event report, case study/story, content writing, etc.
  • Proficient with MS office suite
  • Able to take decision in a timely manner, priorities and multi-task work seamlessly

Candidates need to be highly motivated and committed to Prottyashi’s vision, mission, and long-term development work to significantly improve the lives of the most vulnerable and marginalized. Candidates must be capable of displaying great learning agility, support and encourage knowledge sharing across projects, for the ultimate benefit of all of Prottyashi mission wide initiatives.

Salary and benefits: Monthly Net Salary will be 43,110 BDT with other admissible benefit such as Contributory provident fund & Bonus.

Last date of application is 10/04/2023

Or

Interested applicants with relevant background have to apply with a Cover Letter, Curriculum Vitae (CV) along with a recent photograph to career01.prottyashi@gmail.com

Note:

  • Prottyashi aims to attract and select a diverse workforce ensuring equal opportunity to everyone, irrespective of race, age, gender, HIV status, class, ethnicity, disability, location and religion.
  • Women are particularly encouraged to apply.
  • Any personal persuasion/phone-call will result in disqualification of candidature. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria.
  • Prottyashi has a non-negotiable policy of ZERO TOLERANCE towards discrimination, harassment and abuse. All employees are expected to abide by the Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse & Child Protection Policy of Prottyashi.
  • Internal and external applicants shall be treated equally in the entire selection process.
  • To ensure transparent processes during recruitment, internal candidates should discuss potential applications with their Line Managers to ensure endorsement of their applications by respective Line Managers.
  • There is no cost involved with applying for positions with Prottyashi. Any solicitation of job application costs should be regarded as fraudulent.