Community Based Child Protection Advisor

Job Description

Title: Community Based Child Protection Advisor

Company Name: Plan International Bangladesh

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ University degree in social work, psychology, anthropology, public health or related field.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Extensive experience working planning, implementing and monitoring community based protection service provision
∎ Good knowledge and understanding of humanitarian principles and established international child protection minimum standards.
∎ Experience in implementing programs focusing on: working with vulnerable children, social work with children and families, working with child survivors of violence, children outside of parental care, psychosocial support, etc.
∎ Proven coordination skills, including consensus building, conflict management, project management skills (ex: monitoring and evaluation), effective communication and collaboration, meeting management, etc.
∎ Proven experience of providing training and capacity building on community based protection related technical areas with a variety of audiences.

Application Deadline: January 4, 2020

Company Information:
∎ Plan International Bangladesh
∎ Business : Founded 80 years ago, Plan International is one of the oldest and largest children`s development organisations in the world. We work in 52 countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas to promote child rights and lift millions of children out of poverty. In 2015, Plan International worked with 100 million children in 85,282 communities. Plan International is independent, with no religious, political or governmental affiliations but having a vision of a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies that respect people`s rights and dignity.
Plan International has been operating in Bangladesh since 1994. Plan International seeks to ensure the rights of children to education, health, safe water and sanitation, protection, youth social and economic empowerment and climate change, environmental degradation and natural or man-made disaster hazards throughout the country.

Category: NGO/Development