LABONI RAHMAN

Content Development and Editorial Management

• Lead the content development, including editorial management for the Communications unit of ActionAid Bangladesh (AAB).
• Develop, curate, and review content for the annual report, country strategic paper, publications, newsletter, brochure, program briefs, branding materials, and thought-leadership pieces. Provide support with design and coordination with relevant stakeholders, consultants, and agencies.
• Ensure editorial support in content development and guide the communications unit working on the Rohingya Response Programme.
• Conduct post-content analysis to identify areas for improvement and implement necessary changes.

Strategic Communication, Branding, and Knowledge Management

• Develop communication strategies for the country office.
• Implement branding guidelines that enhance brand visibility by strengthening the practice of these guidelines.
• Capture and communicate experiences, best practices, lessons learned, and evidence-based results through reports, stories, videos, blogs, website content, and social media posts.
• Increase Facebook followers by 10%, significantly enhancing social media visibility. Position the country website as second in Google search results, improving online accessibility and presence.

Communication Materials and Knowledge Packages

• Package research into communication products for donors, policymakers, development organizations, the private sector, and others.
• Develop content and communications materials packages for AAB's 40th anniversary, including storybooks, audio-visuals, podcasts, and souvenirs.
• Develop, curate, and review content, promotional and branding materials for the emergency response team, AAB’s flagship campaigns, knowledge-sharing events, and different international observances.

Visual Storytelling and Field Work

• Conduct periodic field visits with photographers and videographers for visual storytelling of AAB's impact at the grassroots level and to amplify our clients' voices.

Capacity Building, Collaboration, and Management

• Conduct capacity development sessions for team members, improving communication skills within the team, resulting in improved content quality.
• Participate in cross-functional activities, including collaboration with HR for hiring.
• Increase international visibility through collaboration within the ActionAid Federation in different global campaigns like 'Fund our Future'.
• Manage, guide, and delegate the communications unit as needed.

• Drafted programmatic content for Request for Proposal (RFQ) called by donor agencies like UNICEF and USAID and coordinate proposal team on RFP.

• Generated ideas for program interventions.

• Maintained proposal milestones schedules like review dates, meetings, and due dates.

• Engaged in proposal sections coordination, final formatting, assembly, and packaging.

• Worked on the USAID-funded Ujjiban project, focusing on Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) in areas such as family planning, maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH), adolescent health, child marriage prevention (CMP), nutrition, and tuberculosis (TB).
• Worked on USAID's Breakthrough ACTION project, addressing COVID-19.
• Supported a UNICEF-funded project aimed at strengthening the capacity of frontline workers in Rohingya Refugee camps.
• Coordinated on behalf of CCP Bangladesh with the Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) platform, a COVID-19 initiative by WHO, UNICEF, and IFRC.
• Performed specialized program and communications processes and activities to develop, prepare, execute, and disseminate program and knowledge management, communication interventions, and campaigns for target groups.
• Initiated and implement campaigns for adolescents and youths to promote positive health behaviors and CMP.
• Documented project activities with photos, audio-visuals, and interviews.
• Developed knowledge and communication materials such as case studies, success stories, learning briefs, factsheets, publications, and social media content.
• Conducted desk reviews, suggest ideas, and provide coordination support to ensure the timely and effective delivery of campaign materials and media products.
• Developed proposal, conduct research and Training Need Assessment (TNA), prepare concept note, develop Public Service Announcement (PSA) for frontline workers working in Rohingya camp.
• Developed monthly project reports based on the updates from project implementation and disseminate them to project staff and donors.
• Established and maintain effective working relationships with Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) members to coordinate communications efforts between CCP Bangladesh and RCCE partners and identify opportunities to collaborate/integrate processes and activities.

• Managed seven Private Training Providers (PTPs) in Sudokkho. Sudokkho was a skill training, and employment program in Bangladesh which was implemented by Palladium in consortium with Swisscontact and British Council.
• Provided PTPS technical support, ensure quality, and implement Competency-Based Training and Assessment (CBTA) following the National Technical Vocational Qualification framework.
• Assessed new Private Training Providers (PTP) partnership opportunities.
• Prepared and conducted pre-grant workshops and due diligence.
• Conducted training needs assessment of PTPs and formulated technical assistance plans.
• Facilitated the implementation of the technical assistance plan, staff capacity development, improvement of training facilities, and the orientation of PTP in the use of Sudokkho training materials.
• Facilitated monitoring and result measurement and assisted the PTPs in applying the project's monitoring tools and contributing to data verification.
• Facilitated skills assessment of trainees.
• Coordinated between external consultants and partners.

• Produced program documents for internal and external distribution, including reports, concept notes, meeting minutes, PowerPoint presentations, etc.
• Developed communication materials such as case studies, success stories, learning briefs, posters, and newsletters.
• Established and coordinated the dissemination system for tracking all required project deliverables and documents.
• Established regular communication with partner NGOs to assist in implementing project interventions and assist them in mobilizing adolescent groups.
• Entered programmatic data at SAP software periodically.
• Generated ideas to select adolescent groups and engage them in the project’s interventions.
• Assisted the monitoring and evaluation team with the E-MIS System rollout.
• Acted as the point of contact and communicated project status adequately to relevant members between A2H and other projects.
• Kept detailed project documentation of coordinating areas.

• Produced three dissemination event reports on a study focusing on the sectoral diagnosis of gender equity. This study highlighted the challenges women face and proposed new policies to encourage them to pursue careers in various sectors, including education, energy, transportation, and urban development. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded the study, which was conducted by the Center for Gender and Social Transformation department at BIGD, BRAC University.

• Assisted to develop a donor mapping table and reviewed/update all data and developed research on donor priorities (emerging) cross-referenced with Plan Bangladesh's emerging CSP thematic priorities.
• Supported mapping for corporate strategy.
• Managed grants pipeline and grant management.
• Researched policies, and strategies for proposal development.
• Provided writing support on new proposals and prepared a narrative budget for proposals.
• Organized meetings and workshops.
• Communicated with partner organizations regularly for updates.
• Tracked, updated reporting schedule, and collected reports on time.
• Ensured filing and management of documents.