COMs Officer (CODEC EPRC PROJECT)

Job Description

Title: COMs Officer (CODEC EPRC PROJECT)

Company Name: Community Development Centre-CODEC

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Cox`s Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)

Salary: Tk. 40000 - 40000 (Monthly)

Experience: --

Published: 2026-01-13

Application Deadline: 2026-01-18

Education:

Requirements: --

Skills Required:

Additional Requirements:

Responsibilities & Context:

Community Development Centre (CODEC) invites application for the COMs Officer for implementing `Education and Protection for Refugee Community (EPRC) Project` funded by UNHCR, located at Ukhiya & Teknaf Cox’s Bazar)

Position Title: COMs Officer-

C. Key areas of performance /Responsibility /Accountability:

• Supervise, guide, and support COMs Volunteers to ensure effective implementation of outreach activities.

• Prepare and coordinate daily and weekly activity plans for COMs Volunteers based on camp context and priorities.

• Ensure volunteers disseminate accurate, timely, and life-saving information to the community as per approved messages.

• Monitor volunteer performance and provide regular feedback, coaching, and technical support.

• Ensure Age, Gender, and Diversity (AGD) principles are reflected in volunteer recruitment, deployment, and activities.

• Coordinate and oversee community awareness sessions, household visits, group discussions, and issue-based messaging.

• Ensure dissemination of information related to protection, health, WASH, services availability, rights, and assistance processes.

• Maintain records of awareness sessions, topics covered, attendance, and community responses.

• Support COMs Volunteers in identifying PSNs, including persons with disabilities, elderly, children at risk, and other vulnerable individuals.

• Ensure timely referral of identified PSNs to appropriate service providers through established referral pathways.

• Track and document PSN identification and referral outcomes.

• Support community members to raise concerns, feedback, and complaints through the Community Feedback Mechanism (CFM).

• Mobilize community members and volunteers to participate in consultation meetings, FGDs, and community-led discussions.

• Coordinate Saturday Solidarity Project (SSP) activities, ensuring proper community engagement, mobilization, and documentation.

• Facilitate meetings with visitors, government representatives, UN agencies, and national/international NGOs when required.

• Coordinate closely with CODEC teams and UNHCR counterparts to ensure alignment and effective implementation.

• Maintain an updated database of COMs Volunteers, including recruitment details, profiles, training records, and attendance.

• Ensure proper documentation of awareness activities, PSN identification, referrals, SSP activities, and community feedback.

• Provide daily updates and weekly activity reviews to the Technical Officer COMs

• Prepare and submit weekly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, and annual reports as per organizational requirements.

• Submit work plans and accomplishment reports to the Technical Officer COMs.

• Uphold CODEC’s Code of Conduct, safeguarding, PSEA, child protection, confidentiality, and “Do No Harm” principles at all times.

• Perform any other duties assigned by the Supervisor or Organization in line with project objectives.

Safeguarding & PSEA:

• S/he should abide by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)`s six core principles on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) policy.

• Ensure the safety of team members (in respect to Prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse - PSEA) from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the program`s goals on safeguarding implementation.

• Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.