OHR Staff & Personnel

We are pleased to have some most qualified, committed and passionate minds and expertise in saving the humans-trendsetting leaders, bold explorers, planners, pioneering researchers and community behaviors well-known field demonstrators who envision for impact oriented and sound results in communities. Our programs are led by those who speak the local languages, know about the culture and understand the unique challenges of each community. More than 95 percent of our national staff is from the localities where they work. Their hard work and personal commitment to success helps uplift their neighbors from issues and consequences of violence and human abuses.

OHR is a unique and creative body – always acknowledging the role, participation and involvement of youth, women and gender in seeking appropriate solutions and implementations of the projects in communities. Challenges have been faced and resulted in motives change for well-resulted projects; community’s perceptions have been changed out through advocacy and educations. All could possible towards the sustainable community change if adhered and committed with OHR staff and working styles.

Organizational structure:

OHR has two tiers organizational structure which based on democratic system and participatory procedures for decision making and running day-to-day business of the organization. The Board of Directors (BoD) is the strategic apex of the organization, which guides the organization in making strategic decisions for overall interventions.

The General Assembly elects the Board of Directors (BoDs) from its strength for the period of five years to execute the constitutional policy of the organization. The Board of Directors governs the organization and provides guidance and vision to the organization. All programs in OHR are directed and supervised by the Executive Director who is responsible for the efficient and effective functioning of the organization as per the rules and regulations of the constitution and the organizational policies. The Executive Director assisted by senior management including a Deputy Director, Program Coordinator, Operations Coordinator and the hierarchy of supporting staff for smooth and quality implementation of programmatic activities of the organization.

As an organization, OHR ensures participation of all stakeholders and staff members in discussions and decision making at program and community level. OHR encourages participatory decision-making and consultation with all stakeholders. Community and partner organizations are invited to participate in institutional decisions during program reviews and strategic planning for pre and post interventions. OHR also makes all efforts to ensure gender equality both at staff and beneficiary level. The two tiers of organization are actually the two departments operating under the supervision of Executive Director i.e. Program Coordinator and Operations Coordinator. The sub-sections are elaborated in sequence below:

Program Coordinator:

Program Coordinator is the entity for supervising, executing and directing the key organizational program thematic sectors; and Program Coordination and Communication. These thematic sectors have been strategically organized under the commands of program specialist units who operate separately and implement and respond accordingly with the approval of the Executive Director.

Each thematic sector has a professional program specialist who is supported by the program coordinator, project managers and project implementing officers, field demonstrators and supporting staff through appropriate reporting mechanism. The program coordination and communication department is advised and reported by the Monitoring and Evaluation officers and assistants on the ground collected real information on projects, issues and risks, and further shared with the program units for the successful implementation and management of programs and projects.

OHR is proud on the practically experiences and ground familiar field demonstrators, surveyors, mobilizers and enumerators who access to target, vulnerable, poor and critically affected communities in the country under the specific designed criteria for each task. Further the supporting staff assists them in securing and reaching to the target locations.

Operations Coordinator:

Operations Coordinator is managing and supervising the organizational administration, human resources, logistics and finance departments. All these departments are bound to work through the consensus and approval of Executive Director. The application of policies, administrative rules, financial documentation and logistic procurement is undertaking through documented approval of the Executive Director.

Finance & Administration System:

The finance, human resources management and administration of OHR is based on clearly defined standard financial and administrative & HR system and procedures. The section of administration and finance ensures the program/project budget in line with the defined work plan. The section is responsible for coordinating logistics, HR and financial support for the program/project activities of the organization. The financial management of the organization is based on the principles of transparency and accountability. It is devised and followed by a well-defined and documented accounting system and carries out annual audit of the finances.

Finance Manager is the key pillar to organizational finances management, with the inputs of finance officer, field finance and accountant. However the administration is operated by Admin & HR Manager with the support of HR Officer, Admin Officer, Logistic & Procurement officer and fresh internees from universities and research institutes. The organization is committed to provide opportunities to students, researchers and trainees of apprenticeships throughout the year.

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