Vacancy Announcement

Position: Master Trainer

Number of Position: Three (3)
Project Title: Community-based capacity building initiatives for service providers strengthening sexual and reproductive health and rights of early married girls, adolescents, and young people
Duty Station: Dhaka with frequent travel to the project area in Sadar Upazila, Dinajpur
Project Period: From 01 April 2021 to 31 March 2022

Background:

Terre des Hommes Netherlands prevents child exploitation, rescues children from exploitative situations and ensures that these children can continue their development in a safe environment. Terre des Hommes Netherlands in Asia focuses within the Child Exploitation Theme on Sexual Exploitation of Children, the Worst Forms of Child Labour, Child Trafficking and Migration, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and on Child Protection in Humanitarian Crisis. As part of its multi-year strategic plan Terre des Hommes Netherlands plans to increase its support to comprehensive Programs addressing Child Exploitation in Asia.

In Asia, Terre des Hommes Netherlands works in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. We support children who are victims of exploitation with education, psychosocial support, legal assistance, care, job opportunities and medical care. We launch public and media campaigns to create awareness on the problem and carry out local research into the extent and nature of abuse and exploitation.

Terre des Hommes Netherlands is registered as an INGO with the NGO Affairs Bureau of Bangladesh Government. Bangladesh Country Office of Terre des Hommes announces its vacancy for the position of Master Trainer for the “Community-based capacity building initiatives for service providers strengthening sexual and reproductive health and rights of early married girls, adolescents, and young people” project, funded by Nuffic. This project is focused to improve SRH rights and quality of relevant services for EMGs, adolescents, and young people through tailor-made training. To achieve this, the project will develop a sustainable trainer team at TDHNL and partners’ level who in turn will provide training and their best support to the community and institutions to be equipped with knowledge and skills on SRHR.

Brief Description of Community-Based Capacity Building Project on SRHR:

For early married girls (EMGs) below 18 years, adolescents (10-19) and young boys and girls (young people) (15-24), Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) remains a taboo subject. As such, these groups in Bangladesh enter their reproductive years remaining poorly informed about Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) issues, without adequate knowledge and access to SRH-related information and services. This has detrimental effects on their sexual and reproductive health and well-being. Moreover, with the onset of COVID-19, currently, violence within the community and individual households have risen, and most importantly the fear of getting married off early is increasingly present. Thus, they require complete SRHR and emotional well-being, comprehensive sexual education (CSE), gender equality, and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) training to enhance their capacities. Considering this fact, TdH-NL in partnership with James P Grant (JPG) School of Public Health, BRAC University (Technical partner) and Pollisree (Implementing partner) is going to implement this project in Dinajpur District (Sadar Upazila) due to weaker existing programmes and services in this district for EMGs, adolescent and young people’s SRHR . There is an urgent need for providers to have their skills strengthened so that the SRH knowledge, information and services reach out to adolescents, EMGs, young people, and vulnerable groups. Considering the problems and challenges, the project intends to increase the agency and capacity of EMGs, adolescents, and young people to address their unmet needs, and providers will be better equipped to work with them in a holistic and empathetic way.   

Objectives:

This position is responsible to support in overall Training and Capacity Building at the level of community, institution and partner organization level complying with the results of the project, policies and guidelines of Terre des Hommes Netherlands and Government of Bangladesh. The Master Trainers will receive a series of ToT/Short Course/Blended Learning courses from JPG, who in turn will further facilitate the training of trainers (ToT) at the Pollisree, DGFP and DGHS levels to develop a sustainable trainer’s pool. They will also provide training to the community (EMGs, adolescents, young boys and girls, spouse and family members of EMGs and changemakers) and institutions (Upazila and Union level health institutions of DGFP and DGHS) to be capacitated them with improved knowledge and skills on SRHR.

Location: This is a national position based in Dhaka and will require frequent field visits to the project areas at Sadar Upazila in the Dinajpur district of Bangladesh.

Job Nature: Contractual.

Position in the organization: The Master Trainers will be part of the Capacity Building team of the country programme of Terre des Hommes Netherlands, and directly reportable to the Coordinator (PME & Fund Raising), TdH-NL BD Country Office.
 
Job Responsibilities:

Result Areas

Result 1: Building Operational Performance

  • Organize, coordinate and contribute to conduct training need assessment of targeted beneficiaries, stakeholders and project partner along with JPG School of Public Health
  • Coordinate and contribute to develop and modify the training curriculum, modules, schedules, related handouts and other materials on:
  • Sexuality, SRHR and emotional well-being;
  • Behavioural Change Communication (BCC) and ensuring victim appropriate communication;
  • Advocacy, leadership, and negotiation skills;
  • Gender equality, and sexual and gender based violence (SGBV); and
  • Child safeguarding.
  • Develop ToT/training strategy, plan, and ensure implementation of ToT/trainings for target beneficiaries, stakeholders and partner organization and prepare reports with quality
  • Utilize innovative tools and methods during the training session
  • Conduct effective induction and ToT to the Trainers’ pool of Pollisree, DGFP and DGHS and awareness session/orientation with beneficiaries and relevant stakeholders.
  • Draft and manage training budget
  • Design and implement training follow up mechanism and ensure need based support and guidance to the partner organization, targeted beneficiaries and stakeholders
  • Maintain regular coordination with the implementing partner and provide strategic guidance for effective implementation of the planned activities according to the action plan and budget

Result 2: Growing Sustainable Impact

  • Monitor and document results and impacts of the training and prepare reports for the internal and external audience.
  • Contribute in planning/designing/implementing process of baseline survey of this project along with JPG School of Public Health
  • Contribute in conducting and facilitating Meeting/Workshop/orientation/dialogue related to the sexuality, SRHR and SGBV issues with internal and external audience of the project along with targeted beneficiaries and stakeholders
  • Assist in developing capacity building plan/strategy of TDH NL Bangladesh country office
  • Supervise regular periodic verification of activities with action plan of the project and prepare reports
  • Maintain database of the training participants and maintaining/updating in regular interval
  • Collect and collate the partner’s quarterly and annual reports
  • Documentation of relevant works

Result 3: Claiming Our Role as Recognized Expert

  • Participate in different workshops, meetings, seminars, training/ToT sessions and represent the organization
  • Give inputs in developing project documents, such as, communications and training materials, contents and training calendar, reports and presentations, etc.
  • Preparing and disseminate various reports (when required) for the internal project staffs/senior management and external stakeholders
  • Regularly tracking training learnings, best practices and challenges, and contributing in conducting reflection and learning sessions with the various stakeholders.
  • Any other task assigned by the supervisor

Required Background (Education, Knowledge and Experience)

Education: Master’s degree in Public health/Health Economics/social science/development studies/economics/or related discipline.

Knowledge & Experience:

  • 7 years of experience as Trainer/Master Trainer/Training Manager/Capacity Building Manager in SRHR and related projects in any international/national NGOs
  • Practical experiences and skills in developing and facilitating training on SRHR and SGBV issues
  • Experience in working with programmes/projects/issues related to SRHR and Emotional Well-being, Gender Equality, Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV)/Comprehensive Sexual Education/Advocacy and Negotiation Skills
  • Having skill social media campaign and website content development
  • Proficient in MS Office packages (Especially, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint)
  • Competence in developing training module, guideline, handouts, and using appropriate and innovative tools, techniques, methods during training sessions
  • Hands on experience of project cycle management (PCM), result framework and Logical framework
  • Excellent leadership and negotiation quality
  • Excellent presentation, communication and report writing skills.
  • Accustomed to frequent travel at project area

Language Skills: Excellent proficiency in both speaking and writing English is most desirable.

Competence Profile:


A. Showing initiative: Showing the initiative to take action and get the job done before asked from the personnel.
      Level 2: Handles extra duties on own initiative outside own job description, identifies problem areas in task execution and makes improvement proposals.
     B. Planning & Organizing: The effective alignment of activities, time and resources to achieve objectives.
Level 1: Plans and organizes own work in a logical way.
  C. Performance Orientation: Focused on setting goals and active achievement of results. 
              Level 1: Works in a goal-oriented manner and within a framework aimed at achieving results.
       D. Cooperation: Can contribute to a collective result, even when there is no personal benefit at stake.
              Level 2: Work together at your own initiative to make a contribution to the achievement of shared objectives.  

Salary & Benefits:

Salary Range: BDT 80,000 – 90,000 per month (Consolidate)

Other Benefits: Field Travel Allowance and Perdiem.

Applications:

Applications are invited from competent and confident incumbents interested to take challenges of the above job responsibilities. Only short-listed candidates will be invited for the interview. The position is open for any gender identity and candidates meeting the above requirements.

Please apply through email to bangladesh@tdh.nl with the following:

  • Curriculum Vitae (with a passport size photo) including your current and expected salary   
  • Motivation Letter clearly demonstrating how you meet the qualifications for this position

Application Deadline: 2nd July 2021 by 05:00 pm Bangladesh time.