Training Officer - The Hunger Project

Name of Position: Training Officer

Reporting to: Training and Capacity Building Expert

Functional Relationship: Programme Director, Deputy Programme Director, and other technical and field staff of the Programme.

Staff Category: Project Based

Place of posting: Dhaka

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Organizational Profile

The Hunger Project (THP) is a global, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. The Hunger Project in Bangladesh was founded in 1991 to foment a volunteer-based movement for overcoming hunger and poverty sustainably. THP in Bangladesh is currently the largest volunteer-based organization in the country, with over 150,000 volunteers working toward self-reliance.

In Africa, Asia and Latin America, The Hunger Project empowers millions of women and men to end their own hunger. The Hunger Project has pioneered low-cost, bottom-up, gender-focused strategies in each region where hunger persists. These strategies mobilize clusters of rural villages to create and run their own programs that achieve lasting progress in health, education, nutrition and family income.

Multi-stakeholder Initiative on Peace and Stability (MIPS), is a five-year long Programme of THP. The Programme is funded by FCDO. The Programme will primarily contribute to defuse political, communal and ethnic violence. The Programme activities also relate to engage local peace volunteers and peace groups in violence prevention and conflict resolution, as well as ensure the participation of women and youth and their representation in governance structures at local level, including in CHT. The Programme will also contribute to improve political and civic space with a more collaborative and tolerant politics at local level.   

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Job Summary

The Training Officer will be responsible for assisting the Training and Capacity Building Expert in training design, training plan and manual development of the project in collaboration with IFES. S/he will work closely with Training and Capacity Building Expert to implement the entire training program. S/he will also be involved in assisting the effort of the Training and Capacity Building Expert's trainers' development and training/workshop facilitation. The position is based in THP-BD Dhaka Office and reports to the Training and Capacity Building Expert. S/he will also require to collect necessary information about the stakeholders' recommendations to the Programme and the contextual changes at the ground to support the Programme Director to make the Programme to be adaptive with appropriate training and capacity building events and implementation strategies.

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Duties and Responsibilities:

• Contribute in preparing training plan, training calendar and work together with the Training and Capacity Building Expert for contributing effectively in achieving Programme goal.  
• Contribute Training and Capacity Building Expert in conducting training need assessment as necessary over the staff and the stakeholders including women and youth. 
• Assist Training and Capacity Building Expert to prepare/revise training module/ materials as necessary including on peace and social justice.
• Assist Training and Capacity Building Expert to organize training/ TOT and other capacity building events as necessary for the Programme staff and other stakeholders of the Programme.  
• Work with the Training and Capacity Building Expert to conduct training/ TOT and other capacity building events as necessary for the Programme staff and other stakeholders of the Programme.
• Assist Training and Capacity Building Expert to conduct training evaluation and writing training report incorporating pre-test and post-test results to demonstrate the immediate results of the training.  
• Impart field visit to document the effectiveness of the training, document case studies and identify best practices.
• Manage super functional working relationship with the Programme stakeholders and improve the Programme effectiveness for achieving Programme goal.   
• Contribute to prepare presentation, Programme brief and other necessary materials including various communication materials incorporating relevant BCC issues.
• Any other tasks as assigned by the line manager for achieving Programme goal.

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Requirement for the position

Educational Qualification
Master degree in Law/ Governance or any other disciplines related to Social Science.
Good command over English and Bangla both verbal and written is necessary. 

Other Qualification and Experiences

• Minimum 5 years' work experiences in the development sector of Bangladesh through National/ international NGOs with particular focus on training on governance issues.
• Solid experience in design and conduction of training need assessment, training materials development, organizing training and conduction of training and documenting training results. 
• Sound knowledge in political, communal, and ethnic violence in Bangladesh.
• Solid working experience with the Multi-stakeholder Platforms for governance and reforms.
• A socially active person having good networking skills.
• Challenge taker and meet the deadline.
• Expert level competency with Microsoft word, Excel, Power point, and Outlook.

Work condition 

Office based Job- 50% and Field job/travel- 50%

Compensation:
 Negotiable

How to Apply:

Interested candidates are requested to send application through the prescribed job application FORM ((To download the form please copy the url: https://thpbd.org/english-2/career-opportunity) to [email protected] by 17 June, 2023.

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Those who applied to this position earlier need not to apply again.

Only properly complete applications will be considered for short-listing. Short-listed applications will subsequently be called for written and interviews.
Any personal persuasion/phone call will result in disqualification of candidature.

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The Hunger Project strongly follows ZERO TOLERANCE policy towards Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse (SHEA), Child Protection Policy and other relevant safeguarding policies and expects all employees to abide by the Safeguarding Policies and Code of Conduct of The Hunger Project.

The Hunger Project aims to attract and select a diverse workforce, ensuring equal opportunity for everyone, irrespective of race, gender, sexual orientation, class, ethnicity, disability, location and religion