Community Organizer

Contract

This is a UNV Community Volunteer contract. This kind of contract is known as National UN Volunteer. It is normally only for nationals. More about UNV Community Volunteer contracts.

The Livelihoods Improvement of Urban Poor Communities (LIUPC) Project of UNDP Bangladesh (also previously known as National Urban Poverty Reduction Programme-NUPRP) builds on the experiences of the DFID, UNDP and GoB funded Urban Poverty Reduction Project-UPPR (2007-2015), one of the largest urban poverty reduction intervention in the world which established a community based approach to reduce urban poverty working with more than 2,500 Community Organizations in 23 Pourashavas (Municipalities) and City Corporations.

LIUPC will be implemented over a period of five years (2017-2022) and will cover up to 25-36 Pourashavas and City Corporations. LIUPC is to provide support towards contributing to balanced, sustainable growth and reduction of urban poverty in Bangladesh. LIUPC will work nationwide and cover poor people living in slums and informal settlements in Pourashavas and City Corporations in Bangladesh. LIUPC will initially focus on 11 Pourashavas and City Corporations in Phase-1 and Phase-2 will be initiated for the remaining Pourashavas and City Corporations upon successful completion of Phase-1. This programme will contribute “To ensure a sustainable improvement in the livelihoods and living conditions of 4 million poor people living in urban slums/informal settlements”.

The Local Government Division (LGD) of Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives and UNDP will be the Implementing Partners.

In each town the Town Manager will lead the Programme Team comprising of programme staff and staff from the local government institutions.

Under the overall supervision, control and guidance of the Town Manager and with direct day-to-day supervision by the Infrastructure & Housing Experts of NUPRP and Close collaboration with Slum Development Officer/Town Planner of Municipality/City Corporation the National UNV Community Organizer will undertake the following but not limited to tasks: 1. Assist Implementation of Settlement Improvement Fund • Assist CDC to preparation of SIF community contract. • Effective communication with CDC, Cluster and Infrastructure & Housing Expert/ Engineer to prepare the community contract. • To assist the community organization to effective communication with the vendor or supplier during the SIF community contract implementation. • To ensure that the SIF contract will implement as per the approved design and proposal with quality control. • Formation the Community purchase committee and provide training to increase the capacity of Community purchase committee. • Assist the community to need based survey, progress monitoring for the infrastructure and house to house survey etc. • To assist the I&H Expert for planning, implementation and progress monitoring for the SIF infrastructure. • Assist to coordination with Community purchase committee and Social audit committee • Assist the community to operation and maintenance the infrastructure properly

2. Organized the Poor and Extreme Poor urban community & Conduct capacity building activities for Community Organizations • Facilitate Federation/Clusters/CDCs to conduct their regular monthly meeting • Facilitate capacity building training, Meeting, workshop or Seminar for the CDCs/Clusters/ Federation leaders, Social Audit Committees, Purchase Committees and elected representatives. • Organize exchange/Learning visits for community members, Local Government representatives • Form Social Audit Committee (SAC) and conduct capacity building training and orientation • Form Community Purchase Committee (PC) and conduct their capacity building training and orientation

3. Assist to capacity building • Facilitate Community Mobilisation activities and develop community organizations at urban poor settlement areas in the city • Support in identification of urban poor communities and extremely poor groups • Facilitate the preparation of Community Action Plans (CAP) by the community organizations and ensure CAP report • Prepare community mobilization report in the prescribed formats and submit to supervisor and update the report periodically.

4. Facilitate Savings & Credit operation activities with urban poor peoples into his/her assigned areas to improve their capacity • Facilitate the development and monitoring of savings and credit groups in the community in accordance with project guidelines • Support Community Organizations to resolve community conflicts regarding Savings & Credit activities • Facilitate CDCs, Clusters/Federation to conduct Annual Profit calculation of Savings & Credit operation and its proper distribution & management

5. Facilitate effective implementation of Socio Economic Fund (SEF) grants and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) • Orient CDCs/Clusters leaders to establish selection criteria and identify interested beneficiaries for SEF grants • Facilitate in preparing socio-economic development contracts for poverty reduction by the communities • Support to Community Facilitator to planning and implementing awareness session regarding Nutrition and Stop Early Marriage and Violence Against Women & Girls (VAWG).

6. Facilitate proper implementation of Nutrition activities at urban poor communities • Support in identification of Nutrition target groups (i.e. Pregnant women, Lactating mother, < 2 years children) • Facilitate the process to provide conditional nutrition grants support for under 2 children

7. Organize and facilitate assessment, monitoring and Evaluation with urban poor peoples at city level • Support in urban poverty assessment, CCVA , study and research initiated by the programme at city/town • Support in outreach and data collection of PG members registration process • Facilitate the preparation of participatory urban appraisal surveys with the communities to determine the socio-economic and climate resilient development needs of the poor communities

8. Maintain effective communication, coordination with programme beneficiaries and others key stakeholders under the programme at city level • Maintain regular communication and coordination with project staffs, Councilors, LGIs officials and others key stakeholders of the project and provide need base support.

• Accountability • Adaptability and Flexibility • Building Trust • Client Orientation • Commitment and Motivation • Commitment to Continuous Learning • Communication • Ethics and Values • Integrity • Planning and Organizing • Professionalism • Respect for Diversity • Working in Teams

• One year of relevant experience or more in urban community development or urban poverty reduction programmes in either donor, NGO or the government sector is desirable. • Experience in working with local communities, society partners, municipal government officials. • Demonstrate working experience in the field of community mobilization, settlement improvement, socio economic development, training and capacity development.

Bangladesh is divided into eight administrative divisions, each named after their respective divisional headquarters: Barisal, Chittagong, Dhaka, Khulna, Mymensing, Rajshahi, Rangpur, and Sylhet. Divisions are subdivided into districts (zila). There are 64 districts in Bangladesh, each further subdivided into upazila (subdistricts) or thana. Bangladesh's climate is tropical with a mild winter from October to March, and a hot, humid summer from March to June. A warm and humid monsoon season lasts from June to October and supplies most of the country's rainfall. Power outage is common at any time of the day without prior announcement. There is easy access to schools, health facilities, markets, foods and good accommodation at almost all places. There are available local means of transportations. Colleagues in the office are useful resources in providing information on accommodation, shopping etc. The UNV and project office can also be an additional resource in providing relevant information for living in Bangladesh. The local UNDSS will provide the needed information regarding security.

The UN Community Volunteers for this assignment will only be entitled for monthly living allowance. The assignment doesn't include any learning allowance and health insurance. The selected Community Volunteers will be required to submit proof of their own health insurance (“certificate of good health”) prior to final recruitment.