Context :

All over the world girls are at risk because of their young age and their gender. They are at risk of being denied the opportunity to access a secondary education, to gain the skills and training they need to work and to exercise control over their sexual and reproductive health. They are at risk of being married before the age of 18. They are at risk of violence and harassment from men and boys in every space they occupy, including their home, their school, their refugee camp and their city.

Plan International Bangladesh implemented the SIDA framework to strengthen civil society during 2014 to 2019 that was very successful in strengthening a National Children Task Force to monitor Child Rights as well as to create alternative reports to United Nations Agencies.

Based on the development made in this phase, Plan International Bangladesh will start the next phase that is called the Y-MOVES program that will contribute to building a dynamic and inclusive civil society working towards advancing young people especially girls’ rights to participation, protection and sexual reproductive health in Bangladesh. It is based on the premise that adult civil society actors in Bangladesh need to work in partnership with young peoples’ organizations/platforms to effectively influence government stakeholders to implement policies and programmes that cater to the needs of young people on issues of SRHR and protection from SGBV. At the same time, by gaining capacities to influence decision makers through collective actions, these civil society actors including the young people’s organizations and platforms themselves will become a stronger voice and key drivers of change in promoting SRHR and protection rights of young people.

ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT GIRLS RIGHTS AND ENDING GENDER INEQUALITY?

DO YOU HAVE THE COMPETENCY TO LEAD AND IMPLEMENT PROJECT THAT CONTRIBUTE IN BUILDING A DYNAMIC AND INCLUSIVE CIVIL SOCIETY BY WORKING TOWARDS ADVANCING YOUNG PEOPLE ESPECIALLY GIRLS’ RIGHTS TO PARTICIPATION, PROTECTION AND SEXUAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN BANGLADESH?

IF YOUR ANSWERS ARE YES, THEN THIS IS THE JOB FOR YOU

The role :

As a Y-MOVES Project Manager, you will be responsible for overall execution of project including supervision of operational processes and budget implementation in collaboration with partner organizations aligning with Plan’s operational and programmatic requirements. You will be the focal person for undertaking youth and girl’s led collective action on SRHR and GBVs and capacity building initiatives to advocate in governance spaces against SRHR and GBV. Also, the Project Manager will ensure on time report generation maintaining quality and accuracy as well as report protocols, audit and donor compliance

What we’re looking for :

We are looking for a passionate team member with positive team spirit who has – skill and experience in in successful delivery of design and development projects that includes introducing a sustainable changes in system. A Postgraduate degree holder with five years’ experience in the similar role, preferably in development field.

About Plan International :

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Plan International envisages a world in which all children and young people realise their full potential, a vision now shared by the 193 Heads of State and Government who adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in September 2015.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. This is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. Its girls who are most affected.  Plan International’s new Global Strategy aims to transform the lives of 100 million girls by implementing an integrated programme and influence approach.

Please click on Role Profile Y-MOVES Project Manager for more details regarding the job.

Location: Bangladesh Country Office, Dhaka

Duration of contract: upto 30th June, 2024

Closing date: 15 June 2019

Only Bangladeshi nationals are eligible to apply

Please note that only applications and CVs written in English will be accepted.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy.

As an international child centred community development organisation, Plan International is fully committed to promoting the realisation of children’s rights including their right to protection from violence and abuse. That means we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. We must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

Plan International operates an equal opportunities policy and actively encourages diversity, welcoming applications from all areas of the international community.