Assistant Technical Officer (Senior Case Worker), Child Protection, HCMP

Job Description

Title: Assistant Technical Officer (Senior Case Worker), Child Protection, HCMP

Company Name: BRAC.

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelors/Masters Degree in any relevant subject

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Identify capacity building need’s training for camp-based case workers
∎ Organize weekly case management meeting with all case workers
∎ Meet regularly with Child Protection Groups; follow up on identified cases of vulnerability (which may include separation from adult relatives, mental or physical disability), abuse, neglect, child marriage, trafficking, etc.
∎ Ensure each child is able to access the necessary services (medical, nutrition, police, legal, etc.) via the referral pathway.
∎ Provide appropriate support to the affected children (especially in cases of separated or unaccompanied children
∎ Conduct family tracing to reunified children separated from their parents or other relatives, which may include liaising with local authorities and/or other child protection agencies operating.
∎ Report to Protection Technical Advisor any identified trends or common risks and recommend steps to address or mitigate them where possible.
∎ Identify any issues with the referral pathway and work with relevant CP staff and local authorities to address them.
∎ Work in close collaboration with the community mobilisers to strengthen our relationship with the community and to strengthen the referral system.
∎ Work with the child protection team to ensure close links between case management and our work with community-based child protection mechanism.
∎ Ensure constant and transparent communication and collaboration with relevant stakeholders, including community members, community leaders and families.
∎ Ability to work under pressure; be flexible in challenging situation; excellent interpersonal and communication skill both in English and Bangla; Excellent report writing skills are other pre requisites.
∎ Submit weekly case management reports and ensure that information is kept up to date.
∎ Coordinate with other agencies offering case management services to children on referral and transfer of cases.
∎ Build positive and effective relationship with the beneficiary and community people
∎ Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programmer’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
∎ Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
∎ Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Knowledge:
∎ Knowledge on Case Management, supervision, tracing and data collection processes
∎ Knowledge on coordination, monitoring, data collection, analysis, report writing, presentation preparation, and safeguarding.
∎ Skills:
∎ Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with stakeholders in a sensitive environment.
∎ Effective communication and presentation skills.
∎ Have computer skills with all Microsoft Office programs (MS Word, Power Point, and Excel).
∎ Excellent influencing, negotiating and communication skills.
∎ Excellent organization, and coordination skills.
∎ Competencies:
∎ Demonstrated ability to think technically, prioritize and meet deadlines in a complex and challenging environment; must be culturally sensitive.
∎ Ability to operate in a complex organization, across functions and work on own initiative and collaboratively as part of diverse teams.

Salary: Negotiable

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance
∎ Festival Bonus: 2

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 4 Nov 2021

Company Information:
∎ 1 Nov 2021
∎ BRAC.
∎ Address : BRAC 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh

Category: NGO/Development

: BRAC believes that everyone we work with including our staff, partners, programme participants and the community has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation. We uphold human dignity and inclusion rights for all, regardless of age, race, religion, gender, disability, ethnic origin or socio-economic condition. As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from women and gender-diverse individuals. We welcome persons with disabilities to apply. We nurture a culture where all individuals have the opportunity to realise their potential. Any personal persuasion will result in disqualification of candidature.