Officer - EPR (Emergency Preparedness & Response)

Full time on site
Officer - EPR (Emergency Preparedness & Response)
Job Description

Requirements

Education
  • Bachelor/Honors

University degree (flexible in terms of person having working experience in Rohingya Response)

Experience
  • At least 3 years
  • The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):
    NGO
Additional Requirements
  • Minimum 3 years of working experience

  • Minimum 1 years of working experience in emergency projects

Technical Skills

  • Proficiency in the local language will be an advantage.

  • A clear understanding of protection issues, CCCM, human rights, DRR, and self-resilience

  • Experience working in emergency responses targeting vulnerable people

  • Able to take decisions in a timely manner, prioritize and multi-task seamlessly.

  • Orientation to gender sensitivity.

  • Ability to work under extreme pressure and meet deadlines.

  • Team player with strong experience in multi-cultural and multi-ethnic environments.

  • Proficient with MS office suite, KOBO collect, SPSS


Responsibilities & Context

Project : Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) Project, Funded by UNHCR

Types of contract : Fixed term contract

Duration of Contract : Up to 31 December 2025 (if not extended)

Job Context: Over 1 million Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Citizens (with the majority comprising women and children), took shelter in camps in Cox’s Bazar in southern Bangladesh in August 2017. The Government of Bangladesh, together with national and international partners, has been proactively responding to this crisis through extensive humanitarian response. The government allocated 2,000 acres of land that is apportioned into different camps as temporary settlements for the Rohingya people. There is a coordinated effort to provide critical life-saving assistance i.e. food, nutrition, shelter, water, health & hygiene, psycho‐social support and counselling, and basic education services to the Rohingya people living in the camp and host community settlements.

ActionAid is going to implement site management activities in different camps in Teknaf. As an agency engaged in Rohingya Crisis Response since September 2017, ActionAid has the experience in coordinating with a range of camp actors, including the Rohingya and their representatives, and in facilitating the site management role in Rohingya camps.

The major activities related to site management are identifying critical humanitarian needs and addressing those through coordination & collaboration with different stakeholders; anchoring information management also, complaints and feedback mechanism; linking community with different service providers; facilitating camp operations and DRR actions.


Compensation & Other Benefits

Salary and benefits : Monthly Gross Salary will be BDT. 80,560 with other admissible benefits such as mobile & internet allowance, medical benefit, group life insurance etc

Employment Status

Full Time

Job Location

Cox's Bazar (Teknaf)