Child Protection Case Management Officer
Job Description
Title: Child Protection Case Management Officer
Company Name: Relief International
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor degree (Social workers, Psychology, Education, Nurse, Public health, relevant Degree)
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ As CP Case Management Officer, you will be responsible for overseeing of CP case management and ensure maintain of confidential filing system. You will provide guidance on case management to community volunteer caseworkers and provide direct support to complicated cases.
∎ Reporting to: CP Case Management Coordinator
∎ Department: Protection
∎ Expected Start Date: January 1, 2020.
∎ Contract length: Up to December 31, 2020.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Identify capacity building needs training for community volunteers caseworkers
∎ Organize weekly case management supervision and coaching with community volunteer workers
∎ Ensure each child is able to access the necessary services (medical, nutrition, police, legal, etc.) via the referral pathway.
∎ As needed (especially in cases of separated or unaccompanied children), provide appropriate dignity or comfort items to affected children.
∎ Conduct family tracing to reunite children separated from their parents or other relatives, which may include liaising with local authorities and/or other child protection agencies operating.
∎ Entry data and ensure quality of case management data through CPIMS+ system
∎ Report to Child Protection Case Management Coordinator 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 RI's CP staff and local authorities to address them.
∎ Work in close collaboration with the CPA 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
∎ 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
∎ Any other responsibilities as requested by supervisor
Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ Experience working with NGO in Cox's Bazar is preferable
∎ Extensive experience working in child protection programming or relevant experiences
∎ Extensive experience in CP case management
∎ Strong background and skills in facilitating trainings, coaching and mentoring others
∎ Familiarity with CP minimum standard
∎ Competency in Microsoft Office suite, including Word and Excel
∎ Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and negotiate clearly and effectively at all levels, taking into account cultural and language difficulties
∎ Enthusiasm to learn
∎ Optimistic and friendly
∎ Flexibility
Salary:
∎ As per RI National Pay Scale Policy in Bangladesh.
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Medical allowance, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance
∎ Salary Review: Yearly
∎ Two festival bonuses in a year equivalent to one basic salary.
∎ Severance (8.33% of the monthly basic salary) goes with the monthly release of the salary.
Application Deadline: December 19, 2019
Company Information:
∎ Relief International
∎ Address : Bangladesh Country Office: House: 451 , Road: 8 West, DOHS Baridhara, Dhaka-1206; Head Quarter: 5455 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1280 Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
∎ Web : www.ri.org
∎ Business : Relief International, hedquatered in USA, is a leading international non government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.
Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact.
Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Relief International has been working in Bangladesh since 2004. The Bangladesh portfolio of Relief International has strong focus on emergency response, economic opportunity and livelihoods rebuilding, traficking in persons, sustainable tourism, human rights and protection, refugee crisis response and public health. RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar. RI currently employs over 1000 local and international staffs in Bangladesh.
Relief International is currently implementing large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID/OFDA, EU ECHO.
For more information on Relief International: www.ri.org
Category: NGO/Development
