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Summary
- Vacancy: —
- Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh
- Published: 9 Sep 2024
Requirements
Education
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Social Science/ Social Work/ Education/ Human Rights/ Economics or degree in equivalent subject
Additional Requirements
- At least 3 years’ experience of implementing child protection programs, preferable social work, or education, in humanitarian or development settings.
- Previous experience on protection monitoring, case management, supervising and coordinating a team in a cross-cultural setting preferred.
- Demonstrated understanding of working with children and particularly vulnerable children.
- Previous experience in emergency preparedness and response preferred.
- Previous experience in capacity building and mentoring of staff preferred
Competencies: Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Relevant language skills in Bangla and Chittagong required. English desirable
- Personal qualities: Great teammate, flexible, network-builder, able to handle pressure well. Strong communications and analysis skills
- Commitment to IRC values, including child protection
Language Preference
- People who are familiar in local dialects and local language will get preference
Responsibilities & Context
Country: Bangladesh
Job Title: Senior CP Officer
Department: Child Protection (CP)
Contract length: Till 31 August 2025 (with possibility of extension subject to funding, program needs and performance of incumbent)
Work Location: IRC-Bangladesh, Ukhiya Office
Reporting to: Senior CP Manager
Expected Start Date: At Earliest
Purpose:
Purpose of the Role:
Child protection senior officer position will support to implement “Strengthening Child Rights Monitoring Mechanism (CRMM)” project in 15 camps under Ukhiya and Teknaf upazilas of Cox’s Bazar district. Child protection senior officer will continue monitoring, verified, document, report serious children’s rights violations cases, and referral for required support in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar.
Position Objectives
- To oversee and ensure implementation of “Strengthening Child Rights Monitoring Mechanism (CRMM)” project activity according to IRC guidelines, work plans, and project timelines.
- To liaise and collaboration with community-based structures and other relevant stakeholders to identify CRV cases and ensure appropriate services through referral or direct support
- Support to verification of child rights violations incidents in appropriate way and capacity building of front-line volunteers relevant stakeholders and raising awareness on child rights
Technical Quality:
- Ensure monitoring serious child rights violence incident, verification, documentation and provide support to appropriately refer and document cases
- Assist to quality operationalization of the IRC’s child rights violence monitoring interventions in Cox’s Bazar, ensuring that needs and priorities for programming and standards are in line with the context, needs, and gaps on the ground
- Support program and M&E activities as requested to support quality programming, analyze child rights violence data, verified and produce child rights violation incident reports, verification, including regular field monitoring visits, referral and daily/weekly and monthly reports as required
- Ensure capacity building of community volunteers, community-based protection structure and mass awareness initiatives among key community stakeholders, parents, and children on child rights violations incident monitoring and safe referral
- Work closely with community people, children, parents and caregiver and key stakeholders, understand field situation, needs, facilitate regular consultation with them and identify programming idea for child rights violence monitoring and reporting mechanism
Program Implementation:
- Work closely with CP technical manager to achieve project results and take support to implement program intervention with quality
- Regular monitoring of the program and providing necessary supervision support to the team. monitoring child rights violence incident, verification, reporting, documentation and shared with IRC
- Facilitate training and orientation with community volunteers, community people, children, parents and caregiver on CRV/child protection concerns to build capacity, identify incident of child rights violation in the ground
Staff Supervision & Development:
- Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and providing oversight and guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions.
- Ensure timely completion and submission of monthly timesheets, probations reviews and annual performance reviews.
- Ensure support and ongoing capacity building opportunities for program team including community volunteers on CRV incident monitoring and technical skills.
Grant Planning & Implementation:
- Supports implementation and adherence to grant work plans, spending plans and monitoring and evaluation plans.
Coordination & Representation:
- Actively develop and maintain effective working relationships with protection actors, community structures, groups in the field, including government actors, UN agencies, international and local NGOs, UNO, Upazila chairman & members, DSS, MoWCA and other relevant actors.
- Regularly attend relevant coordination meetings at field level
Program Development:
- Contribute to the development of the CP program strategic direction for responding to children harmed and at risk of being harmed
- Coordinate with other IRC sectors staff (e.g. Women’s Protection and Empowerment, Protection Rules of Law, Health, Nutrition, etc.) at field level
Other Duties:
- Consistently and dedicatedly monitor/assess the safety and security of field teams; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to IRC management and liaising with community leaders and other external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for IRC programs
- Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs
Compensation & Other Benefits
Competitive Base Pay with Fringe Benefits (As per IRC National Pay Scale in Bangladesh)
Employment Status
Full Time
Job Location
Anywhere in Bangladesh