Assistant Technical Specialist, Legal, Protection, Bhasan Char, HCMP

Job Description

Title: Assistant Technical Specialist, Legal, Protection, Bhasan Char, HCMP

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Noakhali (Hatiya)

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• At least 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO,Development Agency

LLM or Post Graduation or equivalent degree in any relevant subject from any UGC approved reputed University and institution

• At least 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO,Development Agency

• Strong writing skills and experience in writing donor reports and proposals and grant management

• Ability to organize and prioritize work and competing tasks, meet deadlines and maintain composure

• Demonstrated experience in successfully leading team in a dynamic, challenging and changing context, including experience with remote management

• Excellent communication, listening and observation skills, including ability to create trust, support, maintain confidentiality, respect of all ages, background and diversity

• Enrollment under Bangladesh Bar Council

Provide response and prevention services to ensure access to justice through direct interventions impacting the lives of women, girls, men and boys, diversified gender and mainstreaming in other response programming and operational areas.

• Provide leadership to the project team and oversee successful implementation by coordinating with Project manager in BC and Cox’s bazar and coordination of Legal response and prevention programs to support vulnerable people in camps, urban areas and hard to reach areas

• Update and maintain a consolidated master program data and indicator tracker on a weekly basis to ensure accuracy and completeness of the data provided

• Follow up on the roll out of case management and core competency assessments and supervision tools with team to monitor comprehension of and ability to apply key concepts

• In collaboration with the Project Manager develop work plans, oversee implementation or program, and track indicators to measure progress

• Ensure compliance of program operations with guidelines and BRAC’s global programming principles

• In collaboration with the Project Manager and M&E team, develop and undertake assessments as required by the program work plan, as well as relevant monitoring and evaluation to inform additional programming needs and design

• Supervise the provision and quality of trainings for local partners and staff on Legal rights, basic counseling, case management, Mediation and other key resources for partners, community members, and service providers;

• Coordinate with cox’s bazar team to ensure technical supports and guidance for Cases, engage in capacity building process, reporting, budgeting and others.

• Provide ongoing technical support, mentoring and guidance to project staff and partners to ensure programming meets best practice and guiding principles;

• Actively contribute to the creation and implementation of Protection sector strategy to meet the needs of survivors, including response to emergencies as they arise

• Undertake field monitoring visits to assess progress and identify technical quality and implementation issues, provide solutions and implement modifications and improvement plans as required

• Prepare program updates in close collaboration with senior staff to identify key achievements and challenges in program implementation.

• Undertake other relevant tasks as requested by Project Manager

• With input from the Protection team, on regularly reflecting on: progress, stories of change and success, emerging good practices; and areas that are not working, falling short; document what is being learnt and continue to build on this learning; action planning to address, adjust and change our programming and approaches

• Follow up cases in Noakhali court and track accordingly.

• Monitor the Legal officer and Associate Legal Officers.

• Closely coordinate with authorities, CICs, APBN and other stakeholders.

• Provide guidelines and advise on filling cases.

• Attending advocacy meetings with external partners

• Attending camp coordination meetings in areas BRAC is active

• Conduct regular legal consultations with refugee community to ensure feedback on services

• Ensure ongoing monitoring and evaluation of projects on site through regular filed visit.

• Assist Project Manager to manage budget and expenses of project activities.

• Develop work plans on monthly basis and work with program coordinator to ensure that the curriculum meets professional standards.

• Update database of all the staffs in the respective zone of responsibility.

• Monitor the field operation of all the Legal Assistance Centers and report daily to project manager

• Provide frontline support to staffs in relation to material, administrative and logistical needs to enable their work efficiently.

• Provide technical and managerial supervision to the staffs including giving guidance, advice on their work, maintain attendance record and monitor and evaluate their performance.

• Prepare all relevant weekly, bi-weekly report and monthly as well for partner and sectoral use of HCMP-BRAC

• Responsible for all kinds of documentation and branch level billing.

• Working in budget preparing, review team and keep following up the expenditures.

• Ensure the safety of Programme Participants, people who come into contact with the organisation and team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) to achieve the programme's goals of 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 and encourage others to do so.

• Mobile bill,Weekly 2 holidays
• Festival Bonus: 2

• Paternity/ Maternity leave

• Free Accommodation

• Health and Life Insurance

• Others as per organisation policy