Working as Livelihood Life Skills Specialist in Bangladesh

Role overview

The ideal candidate for this post will be responsible for promoting life-skills development and livelihood support for adolescents and young women and men in the community.

Skills, qualifications and experience

The ideal candidate will require;

• Technical experience in promoting life-skills development and livelihood support for adolescents and young women and men
• Proven people-management and people interaction skills, to produce cohesive action and highlevel outputs
• Good understanding of capacity building and training, and building of effective and efficient teams
• Experience working with limited resources within a challenging environment.
• Vocational training experience
• Excellent communication (speaking and writing) skills
• Able to work well with a variety of individuals in a challenging cross-cultural setting.

The desirable qualities below would allow for greater cross-learning and easier communication between team members
• Humanitarian Work experience and UN experience is an added advantage
• Sexual Reproductive Health skills will be an added advantage.
• Experience in Organisational Development and Strengthening.

Besides these skills, you need to be open-minded, respectful, resilient and adaptive to new situations. It is important that you can facilitate positive change, build sustainable working relationships and are willing to seek and share knowledge.

For further information about this job, download here the detailed job description.

Terms & conditions

VSO will cover and support you in all preparations: training, visa, work permit, registration in-country, flights, vaccinations, anti-malarial treatment, PEP treatment, medical and security clearance. In-country VSO will provide induction and support in placement, arrange secure accommodation (often shared with another VSO professional), full medical insurance (including repatriation cover), medical indemnity insurance, work-related travel costs and a living allowance which will enable you to live a basic but healthy lifestyle, but which is not sufficient to cover ongoing commitments at home.

What we do at VSO

Our programs focus on the areas of health, education and livelihoods, with an increasing emphasis on resilience building, social accountability, gender and social inclusion. We believe progress is only possible when we work together and that strong partnerships are crucial to delivering positive change. That’s why we work with over 500 partner organizations, from local and national governments to businesses, NGOs, funders, charities and community groups. Currently, over 30% of our people are recruited from within the country in which they work, and we continue to grow the share of community and national volunteers involved in our programs. We also send increasing numbers of volunteers from one developing country to another. However, our vision has remained the same; to build a world without poverty.

The experience of a placement is a one-of-a-life-time experience and will benefit you in multiple ways. You will have the chance to learn to work with people from different cultural backgrounds. There is often the opportunity to develop your teamwork-, leadership- and management skills. This can be helpful for career opportunities after your placement.

The environment of development work is changing continuously. Our recruiter knows the actual vacancies abroad. If you have any questions about our current programs and where we currently operate, don’t hesitate to contact Kelly.