Oasis: for people & community - Bangladesh

Categories: Communications, Fundraising, Administration
Duration: 6 months +
Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ideal Start Date: Spring 2011

Purpose of the role:

• To communicate and market the work of Oasis Bangladesh to create ongoing partnerships with funders and potential funders.
• To communicate and market the business and products of Oasis Transformation Ltd (OTL) to including business investors and customers
• Oasis Bangladesh is developing both Business(OTL) and Community Projects (OCP). This role would give experience in both our Community Programmes (Children at Risk and Anti-trafficking) and our Fair-Trade Company.

The Successful Applicant Will:

• Develop and disseminate cohesive messages about the positive impact of Oasis that reflect our vision, mission and values and lead to an increased income for and awareness of Oasis Bangladesh
• Manage and develop any brands within Oasis Bangladesh and OTL Manage and deliver the Oasis Bangladesh marketing strategy to meet changes in needs and new audiences and good long term relationships with alumni (eg ex-volunteers and students)
• Develop creative donor acquisition and development tools.
• To develop marketing strategies and resultant sales globally of products made by OTL. (For information, we currently export bamboo products into the UK and Europe)

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Categories: Fundraising, Marketing, Administraion
Duration: 6 months +
Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ideal Start Date: Spring 2011

Purpose of the role:

To raise income and grow commitment to Oasis Bangladesh, so that the work and projects are financially sustainable.Oasis Bangladesh is developing both Business and Community Projects. This role would give experience in both our Community Programmes (Children at Risk and Anti-trafficking) and our Fair-Trade Company.

The Successful Candidate Will:

•  To plan, develop and manage the implementation of a comprehensive income generation strategy for Oasis Bangladesh to ensure budgeted income targets are met.
• To develop and implement a strategy to generate new income streams.
• To generate and increase funding through regular giving, grant proposals, appeals and other creative forms of fundraising activity

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Catagories: Business, Management
Duration: 12 months +
Location: Dhaka and rural Bangladesh
Ideal Start Date: Spring 2011

This vacancy is with Oasis Transformation Limited, a new Fair Trade company that is committed to excellence, innovation, social justice and environmental responsibility. The company employs people from marginalised communities in which Oasis is working, and draws on renewable resources in Bangladesh in a way that is positive for the environment.

The Successful Applicant Will:

• You will be responsible for providing Technical and Managerial support to a rural agro/light engineering manufacturing business based in rural Bangladesh.
• To be successful in this role you will have at least 2 years experience in a technical / manufacturing environment, and an appreciation of environmental issues.
• You will need to be highly self-motivated, with a flexible/mature approach and possess excellent inter-personal, organisational, communication and IT skills.

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Categories:Education/Training, Community
Duration: 1 year +
Location:Bangladesh
Ideal start date: Spring 2011

Oasis Bangladesh aims to facilitate transformation through an integrated approach involving both business and community programmes. In Dhaka, our Duaripara Family Centre works with 100+ girls at risk of commercial exploitation providing support education, community health and economic development. We intend to replicate our work in other local slums. Our anti-trafficking programme facilitates the repatriation of trafficking survivors, ensuring they receive suitable reintegration support, education and training. We also co-ordinate STOP THE TRAFFIK in Bangladesh, including the education initiative “START FREEDOM”, raising awareness of trafficking amongst high-school children. We run a fair trade manufacturing company (OTL) in Northern Bangladesh - an area where there is a high risk of trafficking - and we wish to develop community programmes in this area. We are now looking for an Education and Children at Risk Advisor to play a strategic role, giving input across all of Oasis Bangladesh’s projects in both Dhaka and Nilphamari.

The successful applicant will:

• Work across Oasis Bangladesh’s projects, giving input on education and children’s issues, developing suitable resource materials, training staff, planning and implementing new components and facilitating cohesion and communication between the different initiatives.
• Advise the Duaripara teachers on lesson planning, delivery and evaluation, providing mentoring and training. Formalise the structure and content of the Duaripara “catch-up”, school-support and life-skills programmes and step-by-step holistic assessments.
• Design and pilot a replicable model for working with children and families in new slum communities, based on the expertise and experience in Duaripara
• Advise on appropriate education and training for returning trafficking survivors.
• Be involved in the roll-out of “START FREEDOM” in both English-medium and Bangla-medium schools, giving input into the resource materials, networking with schools, NGOs and other community groups, providing training for teachers and piloting student forums.
• Research the educational needs and opportunities in the Nilphamari communities where OTL employees live and help design and develop new community projects there.
•  Have a background in education and previous community development experience.
• Be a key member in a wider team developing business and community initiatives working with children at risk and other vulnerable groups

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Categories: Education/Training
Duration: 3 month +
Location: Bangladesh
Ideal start date: Spring 2011

In Bangladesh, Oasis wants to see young people leading, growing and impacting the lives of others through both business and community based projects. Having a good grasp of the English language is really important for both Oasis staff and for the children and young people we are working with. Opportunities exist for people to facilitate English language learning amongst adults and children in individual tuition and classroom settings.

The successful applicant will:

• Provide spoken and written English tuition to a wide age-range both for individuals and group sessions
• Happy to work with adults and/or children from a variety of backgrounds
• Be an enthusiastic team player working in a growing team involved in a number of community projects and business initiatives
• Have suitable qualifications and/or aptitude to work abroad for a short time

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