Senior Officer-Climate and Resilience

Job Description

Title: Senior Officer-Climate and Resilience

Company Name: Practical Action - Bangladesh.

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters degree in any discipline
∎ Masters/bachelor's degree in development studies, International Relations, Disaster Science and Management, Environmental Management, Urban, Regional, and Rural Development Planning, Geography and Environment, Meteorology, Gender Studies, Agriculture, or any relevant discipline.

Experience Requirements:
∎ 5 to 9 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ #Research and Knowledge Management (45 %)
∎ support the thematic lead with systems analysis, ToC development, influence, and knowledge planning for climate resilience.
∎ He/she will work to capture, develop, promote, and disseminate knowledge pertaining to the programming areas.
∎ Oversee the work of the research associates and knowledge officer.
∎ Conduct policy and practice research, analyze data systematically synthesize data.
∎ Conduct literature review, develop data collection tools, questionnaire,
∎ Lead and conduct field visits for community mobilization, conduct FGDs, KIIs, stakeholder consultation workshops.
∎ Analyze data, synthesize findings, write reports.
∎ Develop research findings, project reports, policy papers, policy briefs, technical briefs, research abstracts, blogs, articles, summary/solution briefs with data/ stories captured from field.
∎ Conduct knowledge and communications needs assessments for the project to reach internal and external stakeholders.
∎ Supports the line manager and relevant project teams with weekly/monthly progress reporting, evaluation, studies, research, literature review, preparing annual donor reports, presentations among others.
∎ Work with line manager to ensure the learnings coming from the field is captured and shared with others to enable its wider uptake at national level
∎ Organize and attend knowledge sharing events, participate in-country external events
∎ Read, stay up to date with climate and resilience debates to inform the above activities.
∎ Support meetings with the preparation of reading materials, agendas, minutes, and reports (such as weekly team meetings, external meeting, events)
∎ Supports the project team on a range of projects and administrative functions as required.
∎ Develop work plan to capture knowledge and evidence round the year and ensure capacity development initiatives for partners on documentation and knowledge capturing.
∎ Visit field periodically to work with field staff and partners to capture knowledge and prepare initial draft of the innovative knowledge products as well as to support them in doing so.
∎ Coordinate with Climate and Resilience team within Practical Action for inputs in the drafted knowledge products and research work and ensure that all inputs are incorporated in the final document.
∎ Work closely with climate and resilience program, advocacy, and thematic team to use the research findings and knowledge products to meet advocacy objectives.
∎ #Dissemination of Project Knowledge, Advocacy and Influencing (20%)
∎ Coordinate dissemination plan and delivery of the knowledge products which includes sharing outputs to relevant internal team and external stakeholders.
∎ Add all planned outputs to the knowledge plan in knowledge pipeline including amendments of dates and production status.
∎ Lead effective distribution research findings using appropriate dissemination techniques including online social media.
∎ Identify how research findings, knowledge products can be reformatted (including translation) for different audiences and other communication channels; lead the work in coordination with project and communication team.
∎ Liaise with communication team in production of relevant material as well as managing project related internal/external events, stakeholder consultations.
∎ #Engagement in Country Climate and Resilience Project Management Activities (30%)
∎ Provide support to line manager and climate and resilience project team in implementing any relevant project planning, reporting, implementation, advocacy and influencing activities.
∎ Maintain and update implementation plans for the assigned work package.
∎ Identify continuous improvements and lessons learned from field visits and day to day work.
∎ Ensure support in hosting visitors both in the office and fields.
∎ #Organizational Policies, Safeguarding and Code of Conduct (5%)
∎ Ensure that all involved acting on the organisation's behalf is aware on Safeguarding Policy, Diversity and Dignity in the Workplace Policy, Code of Conduct, Fraud policy and Whistleblowing policy.
∎ Ensure beneficiaries whom we work with are aware of the safeguarding policy including the reporting lines as appropriate.
∎ Be responsible that anyone acting on our behalf has signed up to the Safeguarding and Code of Conduct policies.
∎ Ensure our ethics and values, as set out in our Code of Conduct and related policies, including safeguarding, are embedded in team culture, and well modelled by others. Ensure that reporting structures are well promoted and respond to all concerns appropriately.
∎ Responsible for gender responsive behaviour in all actions and decisions. Ensure non-discriminative behaviour based on gender, age, sex, race, ethnic background, culture, disability, nationality, religion and marital status, and is sensitive and adaptable to gender and social inclusion.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age 18 to 65 years
∎ Seven years of experience in research, documentation, knowledge management in the development sector with a strong focus on climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, cascading and systemic risk analysis, early warning systems, food systems, food security, gender transformation among others.
∎ Experience in producing and managing professional content for development professionals and policy makers in Bangladesh particularly related to climate resilience.
∎ Proven experience in action research and engagement projects, content preparation,
∎ Proven experience in writing research publications, knowledge materials including blogs, media articles.
∎ Strong English and Bangla writing and editing skills including translation of documents from English to Bengali or vice versa.
∎ Strong communication skills and fluent in spoken and written English and Bengali
∎ Knowledge of the development interface and practitioner audience.
∎ Should be interested in technology-based resilience work.
∎ Ability to share ideas and motivate people for sharing their knowledge.
∎ High levels of demonstrated skills in prioritizing tasks and meeting deadlines.
∎ Experienced in teamwork and managing relationships.
∎ Proactive and able to handle assignments with minimum supervision.
∎ Willingness and enthusiasm to work in challenging and difficult situations, remote locations.
∎ Willingness and enthusiasm for working with multidisciplinary team.
∎ Willingness to visit project sites to collect data, success stories as well as to support project staff in implementing project and knowledge activities and plans.

Salary: Tk. 75926 (Monthly)

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ T/A, Mobile bill, Medical allowance, Provident fund, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance, Gratuity
∎ Salary Review: Yearly
∎ Festival Bonus: 2

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 10 Jan 2024

Company Information:
∎ 28 Dec 2023
∎ Practical Action - Bangladesh.
∎ Address : House # 28/A, Road # 5, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1205
∎ Business : Practical Action is an international development organisation putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.

We treat all applications for employment on their merits and do not take into consideration any factors that are not relevant to the job such as gender, race, religion, ethnic or national origin, caste, tribe, belief, age, marital status, pregnancy, caring responsibilities, sexual orientation, or disability. Practical Action is committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults and as such candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks including criminal checks and terrorist financing.

We’re a global change-making group. We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.

Category: NGO/Development

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