Title: M&E and Documentation Officer-Humanitarian
Company Name: Concerned Women for Family Development [CWFD]
Vacancy: 1
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Post graduate from any recognized university preferably in statistics.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ CWFD emerged from an emotional response to help women in need of reproductive health care counseling. The organization, originally named as "Concerned Women for Family Planning (CWFP), started its voluntary activities in 1974 to help the refuge coming to Dhaka city after the devastating famine of 1974. The organization was registered in 1975 with Directorate of Social welfare and formally launched its project activities in 1976 with only 5 female staff to cover an area of Dhaka city slum comprising around 50,000 people. For more information, please visit our website www.cwfd.org
∎ Vision Statement: Empower women, youths and adolescents to achieve gender equality and social justice within family and society.
∎ Mission Statement: CWFD is a non-political, non-profit voluntary organization run by women of Bangladesh to support, promote and protect the interest of women in Bangladesh by providing community-based health care, empower community to exercise their rights to eliminate social injustice, creating economic opportunities, empower under privileged youth of urban and rural population and develop human resources for a positive social change.
∎ Expected Programme Output(s): Adolescents and youth will have increased access to gender-transformative, SRHR life skills and lifesaving awareness-raising with specific focus on prevention of child marriage.
∎ Programme background: Concerned Women for Family Development will receive funds from United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to implement Adolescents and Youth Programme. This programme aims to provide adolescents with access to information and services that strengthen their ability to make informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health and protect their wellbeing. Gender specific, GBV focused, structured, short-term life skills education programme (Girl Shine) will be delivered to adolescents and young women ages (10-19 years). Mental health, healthy coping strategies and psychosocial support will be prioritized through these activities. Specific focus will be given to adolescent girls who are at risk of and are affected by child and forced marriages. Adolescent girls and young women will be provided with tailored menstrual hygiene kits and education on menstrual health management. The latter will focus on overcoming taboos in regards to menstrual health and challenge social and gender barriers such as imposing movement restrictions for menstruating girls. UNFPA will also ensure that life skills sessions are delivered to adolescent boys through the Champions of Change (CoC) curriculum.
∎ CWFD also implements a national humanitarian programme with funding support from UNFPA. As part of this, CWFD is working with UNFPA to implement the national humanitarian response, the A&Y unit received funds which will be implemented in the Noakhali District titled: "Urgent Support to Women and Girls in Noakhali District and Bhasan Char (Island): Sexual and Reproductive Health and Gender Based Violence prevention and response service"
∎ Along with strengthening community awareness, UNFPA will work on increasing the motivation of parents and older adolescent girls in preventing child marriage. Incentives will be provided to the households of older adolescent girls as a means of continued motivation for preventing this harmful practice against girls. Furthermore, Kishori (adolescent girls) Resource Centre will be established in Noakhali district to organize adolescent girl`s empowerment trainings, support local government to prevent child marriage, and conduct behavior change communication activities. Girls who are already married will be supported through SRHR services to help them avoid early and repeated pregnancy.
∎ Job Duration: Up to 31 December 2023 and maybe extended depending on availability of fund.
∎ Job Summary: The M&E and Documentation Officer is responsible to support smooth implementation of the A&Y Programme activities by proper M&E and Documentation an effective reporting system. He/she will work under the direct supervision of the Project Coordinator of CWFD. In addition, s/he needs to maintain close contact with the Technical Officers. His/her place of posting will be at the CWFD Headquarter, Dhaka. He/she will spend around 50% time in the field.
Salary:
∎ BDT 50,000-58,579/- per month (including all other benefits).
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 7 Nov 2023
Company Information:
∎ 1 Nov 2023
∎ Concerned Women for Family Development [CWFD]
∎ Business : The Concerned Women for Family Development (CWFD), is a non-government and non political voluntary Organization established in 1976 and registered with NGO Affairs Bureau of registration No. 72of dated 22 April 1981.
Category: NGO/Development
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Source: bdjobs.com