Contract Duration: Contract Duration: Initially till 31/12/2024 with possibility of extension depending on the performance.

Job Summary

PROTTYASHI, A social development organization has been working for the development of disadvantaged population of the country since its establishment with an aim to improve quality of life of those disadvantaged groups of people. PROTTYASHI has implemented the phase 1 of “Strengthened and Informative Migration Systems (SIMS)” project to ensure safe migration for the aspirants, access to justice for the aggrieved migrants and productive remittance management for the Left behind Family Members (LBFMs) of migrant workers in Chattogram District in partnership with Helvetas Bangladesh. Currently, PROTTYASHI is going to implement phase ll of the SIMS project to expand its best practices among wider population of the Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar District. PROTTYASHI invites applications for the vacant position titled- Project Officer (Safe Migration) for “Strengthened and Informative Migration Systems (SIMS)” Phase ll Project and encourages the persons enthusiastic to contribute to this objective to apply.

Reporting

Project Officer (Safe Migration) will report to Project Manager. S/He has to maintain functional relationship with his/her peers, project teams and organization’s other priority teams. S/He must be able to communicate with other teams and units both program and operational of the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Organize and supervise the activities related to promote safe migration in targeted 8 upazilas through direct field engagement.
• Support upazila coordinators and social mobilizers to select project beneficiaries e.g. returnee migrants, migrant households, potential migrants and their families.
• Facilitate pre-decision making orientation for the potential migrants along with the upazila coordinator and social mobilizers.
• Maintain communication and coordination with DEMO and TTC to avail pre-departure orientation (PDO) for the targeted beneficiaries.
• Ensure co-facilitation of pre-departure orientation (PDO) in TTC for the project beneficiaries.
• Facilitate awareness raising events e.g. courtyard sessions, awareness campaigns etc. at the union level to aware the people on safe migration.
• Coordinate popular theatre shows and videos to be organized at the community level to disseminate messages on safe migration among the community people.
• Sensitize community leaders and representatives on safe migration through capacity development approach.
• Maintain communication and coordination with relevant public and private sector stakeholders at the union, upazila and district level to ensure safe migration.
• Organize training for the personnel from TTC and DEMO on increasing their capacity to better manage the issues/challenges related to safe migration.
• Prepare database of agents and sub-agents in the project locations to sensitize them on ensuring safe migration.
• Map skill training service providers in the project locations and develop professional relation with them.
• Sensitize the mapped skill providers to contribute to ensure safe migration through arranging meetings and workshops with them.
• Develop and facilitate signing MOUs with the relevant skill training service providers on providing skill training to the project beneficiaries at a feasible cost.

Organizational values and norms towards Safeguarding and PSEA

Prottyashi is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation, abuse, lack of integrity, and financial misconduct, and expects staff to promote the welfare of children, young people, and adults at all times. Prottyashi expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our Code of Conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate this commitment are recruited to work with us.