COMs (Community Outreach Members) Coordinator
Job Description
Title: COMs (Community Outreach Members) Coordinator
Company Name: ActionAid Bangladesh
Vacancy: 1
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's degree, preferably in International Development/ Law/ International Relation/ Social Sciences/ Development Studies
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Unit : Humanitarian Response
∎ Contract Duration : up to 31 December 2021
∎ 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.
∎ 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.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ 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.
Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 5 years 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 Skills:
∎ 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.
Salary:
∎ Monthly Gross Salary will be BDT. 110,544 with other admissible benefits such as mobile & internet allowance, medical benefit, group life insurance etc
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 29 Jun 2021
Company Information:
∎ 21 Jun 2021
∎ ActionAid Bangladesh
∎ Business : ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency working in over 40 countries, taking sides with poor people to end poverty and injustice together.
Category: NGO/Development
Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 29th Jun 2021
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