Assistant Technical Specialist, Legal, Protection, Bhasan Char, HCMP
Job Description
Title: Assistant Technical Specialist, Legal, Protection, Bhasan Char, HCMP
Company Name: BRAC
Vacancy: --
Location: Noakhali (Hatiya)
Maximum Salary: Negotiable
Experience:
∎ At least 5 years
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):NGO, Development Agency
Published: 18 Feb 2025
Education:
∎ LLM or Post Graduation or equivalent degree in any relevant subject from any reputed University and institute.
Requirements:
Additional Requirements:
∎ 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
∎ 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
Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Provide leadership to the project team and oversee successful implementation by coordinating with Project manager (PM) 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 PM 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 PM 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;
∎ Contribute in implementing 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.
∎ 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.
∎ Attending advocacy meetings with external partners
∎ Conduct regular legal consultations with refugee community to ensure feedback on services
∎ Assist Project Manager to manage budget and expenses of project activities.
∎ 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.
∎ Responsible for preparing relevant reports for stakeholders, documentation and branch level billing.
∎ Working in budget preparing, review team and keep following up the expenditures.
∎ In coordination with Project Manager, Programme Manager, Programme Coordinator, Programme Head, PDDR and Grants Unit, contribute to the development of proposals and concept notes for expanding Protection portfolio
∎ Prepare internal and external reports within agreed deadlines using BRAC and donor formats
∎ Manage the project budget; oversee all budget expenditures and ensure they are allowable and allocable according to BRAC and donor regulations; review monthly Budget vs. Actual and expenditure sheets, feed corrections
∎ Ensure that program implementation is in line with the technical proposals, project timelines and budgets
∎ Collaborate with field team and other operations staff to ensure programming is properly supported and that all activities are conducted according to BRAC Administration, HR, Logistics, Finance and other policies and procedures
∎ Coordinate with BRAC’s Protection Clusters and other departments as required to ensure effective and collaborative working relationships
∎ Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all relevant stakeholders including community members, NGOs, government authorities and UN agencies;
∎ Participate in internal coordination meetings as required and liaise with BRAC's other programs as needed to ensure effective collaboration, program integration, and mainstreaming of risk mitigation for the best possible outcome
∎ Coordinate and follow-up with partner organizations and other project stakeholders as required
∎ 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.
∎ 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.
∎ Grant Management and Reporting
∎ Safeguarding
Skills & Expertise:
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival Bonus: 2
∎ Paternity/ Maternity leave
∎ Free Accommodation
∎ Health and Life Insurance
∎ Others as per organisation policy
∎ Paternity/ Maternity leave
∎ Free Accommodation
∎ Health and Life Insurance
∎ Others as per organisation policy
Workplace:
∎ Work at office
Employment Status: Contractual
Job Location: Noakhali (Hatiya)
Read Before Apply:
BRAC believes that everyone we work with including our staff, programme participants, partners, and the communities have the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation. We uphold human dignity and inclusion 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 gender-diverse individuals and people with disabilities
Selected candidates will have to go through a rigorous reference and background checking process including police verification
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Company Information:
∎ BRAC
∎ BRAC 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
∎ brac is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.
Working at brac is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world, we are building it. Join us to find the way.
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∎ BRAC 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
∎ brac is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.Working at brac is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world, we are building it. Join us to find the way.
Application Deadline: 28 Feb 2025
Category: NGO/Development
