ActionAid Bangladesh is looking for suitable candidate for the following position:

COMs (Community Outreach Members) Coordinator

Unit                                    :               Humanitarian Response

Location of posting            :               Cox’s Bazar

Contract Duration              :                Up to 31 December 2021

Number of position           :                01 (One)

Salary and benefits             :              Monthly Gross Salary will be BDT. 110,544 with other admissible benefits (such as mobile & internet allowance, medical benefit, group life  insurance etc)

Job Context 

 ActionAid is implementing Community Based Protection (CBP) project with UNHCR targeting 88,185 refugees of camp 10, 11 & 12, situated in Balukhali of Kutupalong expansion site in Ukhia, Cox’s Bazaar. The targeted camps have been identified as areas with heightened protection risks. The project includes Women’s Leadership, Accountability and Shifting the Power to communities for transformative change.

AAB CBP aims to strengthen and expand the mobilisation of the Rohingya communities through their capacity development also through building their agencies.

Key responsibilities include (not limited to) 

    Program Management

• Lead development and implementation of Community based protection programs, including GBV, PSS, and Protection overall.
• Provide technical support to ensure high quality of programming and services, exceeding minimum competencies for staff and minimum standards for activities.
• Conduct and support ongoing monitoring of Protection activities, through frequent visits to office and field sites, to ensure minimum standards for Protection and progress toward targets.
• Identify program gaps, areas of growth, and strategies and support in adapting program design to effectively meet beneficiary needs, the changing context, and other factors.
• Lead and participate in regular strategy and program planning workshops for Protection and the overall organization, including grant opening, mid-term review, and grant closing.
• Lead activities of Saturday Solidarity Project, Community level project and COMs facilitated the training.
• Manage development and monitoring of program spending plans, work plans, M&E plans, and procurement and staffing plans to ensure progress against targets and spending by budget.
• Ensuring management of resources for the fulfillment of program deliverables and commitments for objectives/indicators and accountability to donor requirements.
• Lead capacity-building strategy for overall Protection department, to ensure a strong level of professional development and team building, including the development of national managers/counterparts and addressing of any team dynamic issues or concerns.
• Build technical capacity of supervised staff and overall Protection team in overall and sub-sectors of Protection, as well as in program management.
• Ensure preparation and compilation of internal and external weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting for Protection programs, in collaboration with Reporting team.
• Assist in the development of proposals for Protection programming, in collaboration with the proposal team.
• Lead recruitment of new staff and program start-up in new sites, as necessary.
• Support program teams to build referral mechanisms to link beneficiaries, particularly vulnerable individuals, and groups, to services, through service mapping, referral workshops, and SOPs.
• Ensure appropriate identification/selection, program support, and capacity-building of local partners, including program technical review of partnership agreements.
• Support the coherent and harmonized implementation of community-based protection activities.
• Ensure development of awareness-raising sessions on community-based protection services (Sessions on rights, access to rights services, and protection threats) and Protection services (stress management sessions, psychosocial support, men self-help sessions.)
• Overall responsibility for ensuring multi-functional spaces/SSWG/WFS is set up and running smoothly in field locations.
• Ensure capacity building of project staff and community leader Community-based protection mainstreaming.
• building, recreational activities, and awareness-raising.

Financial management

• Assist and monitor project budget management, financial management to ensure UNHCR and AAB compliance
• Support to review program financial documents, including reviewing vouchers and supporting documentation.
• Coordinate with other coordinators to ensure coherence in field protection activities.
• Ensure and supervise monthly volunteer payments in coordination with the admin and finance assistant.

    Coordination and representation

• Develop and maintain an effective working relationship with relevant stakeholders including partner agencies, community leaders, and service providers.
• Advocate for the needs of vulnerable individuals both internally and through coordination mechanisms through evidence-based advocacy
• Maintain an up-to-date service mapping of the service providers operating in the area and ensure that CBP assistants are informed about the available services.

  Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability Learning, Reporting

• Manage monitoring and evaluation activities at the field level.
• Pay regular field visits with a focus on ensuring quality.
• Build staff capacity on quality assurance and follow-up targeted outcomes.
• Document good practices and lessons learned.
• Contribute to the preparation of the donor reporting.
• Ensure quality monitoring data collection from the field.

Relationships

COMs (Community Outreach Members) Coordinator will report to Project Coordinator. S/He must maintain functional relationship with his/her peers, greater programme team including project teams and organization’s priority teams. S/He must be able to communicate with other teams and units both programme and operational.

Required Educational Qualification and Experience 

• Master's degree, preferably in International Development/ Law/ International Relation/ Social Sciences/ Development Studies
• At least 5years of experience in humanitarian and/or development organizations with significant experience in camp management and/or delivering emergency programs in camp setting.
• A proven record of effective project management in emergencies, including project planning and implementation and supervision.
• Sound understanding of the concepts behind and practical application of humanitarian codes and standards such as SPHERE, IASC Gender Guidelines, HAP etc.

Technical Skill

• Proficiency in local language will be an advantage.
• Strong skills in inter-personal communications, able to work effectively with multiple stakeholders in a complex, multi-actor environment.
• Sensitivity to cultural differences and the ability to work effectively across a wide variety of cultural contexts.
• Ability to work in a difficult and stressful environment, and to manage/deal with rapid changes to the operating environment.
• Proficient with MS office suite
• Able to take decision in a timely manner, prioritize and multi-task seamlessly.
• Orientation to gender sensitivity.
• Ability to work under extreme pressure and meeting deadlines.
• Team player with strong experience in multi-cultural and multi-ethnic environments.

Application instructions

Only those who meet the above requirements are requested to apply following these instructions:

Last date of application is Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Please click here to submit your application. 

ActionAid Bangladesh aims to attract and select a diverse workforce ensuring equal opportunity to everyone, irrespective of race, age, gender, sexual orientation, HIV status, class, ethnicity, disability, location and religion. Any personal persuasion/phone-call will result in disqualification of candidature.

ActionAid Bangladesh has a non-negotiable policy of ZERO TOLERANCE towards child abuse, exploitation and child labor and expects all employees to abide by the Child Protection Policy of ActionAid Bangladesh.

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