Reintegration Counsellor
International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD)
Total years of experience :6 years, 3 Months
Public-Private Sector Partnership (PPP) for Reintegration in Bangladesh, RRF
• Referring returnees to the appropriate PPP partners for service and action
• Following-up on referrals to operationalize PPP case response and referral pathways
• Maintaining database of the MRC clients, MRC website, Facebook and Instagram accounts
• Conducting awareness raising (online & offline) and community outreach events on return and reintegration
• Preparing and submitting monthly quantitative and qualitative reports of MRC
Improving Migration Management in Bangladesh, MIGRAP Initiative
• Conducted capacity building training, workshops and courtyard meetings targeting LGIs, CSOs, media, academe, and other stakeholders
• Provided face-to-face, over the phone and online counselling, advice, guidance, referral and information to various clients
• Monitored awareness raising campaign in the academic institutes
• Supervised more than 30 Campus Ambassadors (CA) deployed at different educational institutes
• Supported in organizing events in different institutions in partnership with MEWOE and BMET
• Assisted the MRC Coordinator in preparing progress reports, work plans and budget etc.
• Worked as a first point of contact of MRC Bangladesh for vendors regarding the development of IECs and AV materials
• Coordinated all the stakeholders involved in the AV production, IEC and visibility materials development works
• Developed knowledge products and IEC materials on migration
• Scripted, proofread, edited, reviewed and finalized IEC, AV and visibility materials contents and layout developed by vendors
• Maintained and populated MRC website, Facebook and other social media accounts
•Rigorously reviewed literature
• Successfully conducted in-depth interviews with government officials and stakeholders
• Accurately transcribed field interviews
• Assisted in writing research report
• Acted as a first point of contact of GIZ for external stakeholders regarding community radio campaign
• Assisted in preparing campaign macro plan, action plan, spending projection, outreach number calculation and meeting minutes etc.
• Provided creative contribution to the script development process of the radio show ‘Khola Janala’
• Monitored field level media campaign activities by visiting community radio station
• Precisely translated Proactive Letters (PAL) from Bengali to English
• Accurately filled in SUF forms of over four thousand children using database software ‘ASISt’ and updated to the server
• Accomplished record room reconciliation and maintained the record room logbook data up-to-date
• Conducted baseline survey using ‘Tangerine’ Software on a tablet PC
• Collected raw data of school children from twenty schools in Sylhet region
Honors