Child Protection Officer

Job Description

Title: Child Protection Officer

Company Name: Relief International

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master Degree (Social workers, Education, Psychology, Nurse, Public health, relevant Degree)

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ As Child Protection Officer, you are response for oversee chid protection activities in all CP community centres to mobilise community around the protection and well-being of all children, parent/ caregiver and driven child protection community-based mechanism to support community-led child protection. Contributes towards achieving the program goal of respond to the child protection needs in refugee camps and host communities.
∎ Reporting to: Child Protection Coordinator
∎ Department: Protection
∎ Expected Start Date: January 1, 2020
∎ Contract length: Up to December 31, 2020.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Supervises the Child Protection Associates and provide leadership in the monitoring, evaluation, assessment and learning of CP community centres, refugee and host community on a regular basis, ensuring that activities are implemented in an appropriate manner.
∎ Provides CP coordinator/Protection Program with detailed information regarding activities on a monthly basis (beneficiaries attendance with breakdown by gender and age, activities carried out, issues affecting programme delivery, material needs)
∎ Provides training and on-the-job supervision of CP national staffs
∎ Ensures that Child Protection Policy and standards are understood and met and ensures a safe and child-friendly atmosphere in the Child Friendly Space
∎ Support establishment of community-based child protection mechanism and adolescent group/leader
∎ Develop monthly work plans in advance and present to CP coordinator and Protection Program Manager
∎ Ensure recognized international best practices and Relief International policies are applied in the work with children.
∎ Upon the request of supervisor, represent the Child Protection program in external meetings and workshops.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ Experience working with NGO in Cox's bazar is preferable
∎ Demonstrate strong knowledge of child protection minimum standard, community-based child protection mechanism, mental health and psychosocial support, gender sensitivity, participatory approach.
∎ Previous experience managerial and supervisory
∎ Good knowledge of local context, strongly preferred
∎ Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team and support unexpected task.
∎ 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