Adolescent Officer
Job Description
Title: Adolescent Officer
Company Name: YPSA - Young Power in Social Action
Vacancy: 03
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters preferably in Women’ studies, social work, social sciences, human rights, management, humanities, or other relevant area or the equivalent in professional work;
Experience Requirements:
∎ 2 to 3 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Job location: Ukhiya and Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar
∎ Duration: 1st July 2021 to 31st December 2021 (Possibility for extension)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Technical Quality Reinforce adherence to the GBV guiding principles and women-, girl- and survivor centered support
∎ Ensure support for prevention of adolescent girls, including psychological first aid (PFA), safe referrals and information sharing, adheres to best-practice principles when working with women and girl survivors of GBV
∎ Align with internal and inter-agency Protection against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) policies and procedures, reporting SEA through the specified mechanisms
∎ Oversee the use of the case management system across the organization.
∎ Extract, analyze, and manipulate data from the case management system for the purpose of presenting it to senior management
∎ Provide continuous technical support to partner staff on case management for vulnerable women and girls
∎ Staff Supervision and Development:
∎ Directly supervise, and provide ongoing mentoring and support to the case workers as they provide services to women and girls. This will include: survivor-centered PFA, referrals, information sharing on services and support, service mapping and service quality audits when not deployed to an emergency to ensure accurate information.
∎ Hold daily planning and debriefing sessions case workers in particular to gain learning and feedback from the WPE team.
∎ Mentor and support staff professional development and foster a positive team spirit to encourage innovative and quality programming
∎ Identify training needs for the WPE team and partner staff and support the organization and facilitation of training to meet those needs, in collaboration with the Senior Officer/IWC Supervisor/IWC Manager
∎ Implementation:
∎ Work closely with WPE staff and partner staff to design activities that respond to needs and priorities identified by women and adolescent girls
∎ Prepare and maintain/update detailed work plan(s) that support and achieve activities
∎ Develop and support the implementation of service mapping and service quality audits
∎ Conduct regular field visits to support the implementation of activities with WPE case workers giving supportive feedback and guidance as part of the mentoring process
∎ Give guidance to the case workers in making safe, confidential and timely referrals to services in line with the survivor-centered principles
∎ Ensure the whole team is adhering the formal GBV referral pathways and are providing feedback to you on the functioning of this for action and forwarding to the Senior Officer/IWC Supervisor/IWC Manager
∎ Ensure quality referrals between the MMT Health team, Emergency Child Protection and Emergency WPE Officers for the coordinated, confidential and safe support to women and girl survivors of GBV according to the internal MMT referral procedures
∎ Monitoring, Reporting & Administrative Support:
∎ Ensure that all data collection (paper and electronic) reporting tools are used accurately on every day, and are then provided on schedule to relevant staff (i.e. M&E Officer)
∎ Monitor daily/weekly data collection to ensure that the data is managed in safe and ethical ways
∎ Prepare and submit weekly and monthly work plans in a timely manner, and incorporate supervisor feedback as requested
∎ Compile weekly data and narrative activity report for submission
∎ Ensure that all relevant financial, supply chain, human resources and other administrative documentation is accurately completed and submitted
∎ Coordination & Representation:
∎ Identify concerns related to and support adherence to GBV referral protocols by all relevant organizations and agencies; report up to the Senior Officer/IWC Supervisor/IWC Manager
∎ Maintain effective working relationships with relevant partners including community-based protection mechanisms and other service providers (in particular the Protection Emergency Response Units) to work collaboratively for a quality survivor-centered response
∎ Represent the YPSA WPE team in camp-based coordination forums, giving updates on WPE activities, wider guidance on survivor-centered approaches and advocating for the safety and well-being needs of women and girls in the response
∎ Deliverables
∎ Technical support to WPE team and partner staff
∎ Implementation
∎ Monitoring and reporting
∎ Staff supervision and development
∎ Coordination and representation
Additional Requirements:
∎ Only females are allowed to apply
∎ At least 2-3 years of experience needed in the field of Gender and/or GBV
∎ Professional experience in counseling and implementing activities for women and girls or proven engagement in women’s rights/groups is desirable, not essential.
∎ Competencies: Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
∎ Education in women’ studies, social work, social sciences, other relevant field or work experience
∎ Experience in GBV with a specific focus in supporting women and girl survivors of male violence
∎ Experience in supervising GBV staff – highly desirable
∎ Understanding of the impact and dynamics of men’s violence against women and girls, and a strong interest in working on women and girls’ protection and empowerment
∎ Demonstrated commitment to women’s empowerment and protection through current/ previous volunteer or paid work
∎ Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality and respect for clients all times is essential
∎ Experience facilitating trainings and workshops and mentoring others
∎ Positive and professional attitude, including ability to lead and work well in a team setting
∎ Strong ability to organize work, meet deadlines, maintain composure, prioritize work under pressure, coordinate multiple tasks and maintain attention to detail
∎ Personal qualities: Works well in and promotes teamwork, comfortable in a multi-cultural environment, flexible and able to handle pressure well
∎ Excellent communication and observation skills, including ability to create trust, support, respect and interact with survivors of all ages, background and diversity
∎ Strengths in listening, empathy, flexibility, and creativity
∎ Familiarity with principles of monitoring and evaluation. Experience in writing brief narrative reports
∎ Computer literacy, including Microsoft Word and Excel
∎ Good working knowledge of language spoken by population in need, plus English language
∎ Language Preference - People who are familiar with local culture and local dialects will get preference
Salary: Tk. 40000 (Monthly)
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 26 Jun 2021
Company Information:
∎ 19 Jun 2021
∎ YPSA - Young Power in Social Action
∎ Address : House # F 10 (P), Road # 13, Block # B Chandgaon R/A, Chittagong - 4212
∎ Web : www.ypsa.org
∎ Business : YPSA (Young Power in Social Action) www.ypsa.org is an organization for sustainable development working in greater Chattogram division since 1985 with a vision to build a society without poverty where everyone’s basic needs and rights are ensured. YPSA is implementing with the support from Democracy International (DI) a project title “Promoting Peace and Justice (PPJ)” in Kutubdia, Cox’s Bazar Sadar, Chakoria, Pekua, Moheshkhali, Ramu, Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazilla and its 71 Union under the Cox’s Bazar district and Sandwip, Patiya, Satkania, Rangunia, Fatikchari Upazilla and its 88 Union under the Chattogram district
Category: NGO/Development
: YPSA is an equal opportunity employer and sensitivity for child protection and gender. Only short listed candidates will be contacted. Any persuasion or lobby will be treated as disqualification for an applicant. The smokers are discouraged to apply for the position.YPSA HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENTNote: Emergency 02334470996 from 10 am to 5 pm excluding govt. holiday
Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 26th Jun 2021
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