Project Area Coordinator

Job Description

Title: Project Area Coordinator

Company Name: Breaking the Silence (BTS)

Vacancy: 1

Age: At least 40 years

Job Location: Gazipur (Kashimpur)

Salary: Tk. 44000 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): College, NGO

• Master of Social Science (MSS)

• Master`s Degree in relevant disciplines.
• Educational qualifications will be relaxed for the relevant experienced applicants.

• At least 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): College, NGO

• Age At least 40 years

• Able to work under pressure and willing to frequent travel to Field in the Project Area.
• Knowledge in community development, ability to work under timeline, facilitating participatory training, conducting the workshop, brainstorming sessions, focus group discussions, simulation, seminars, meetings, strong interpersonal skills, team-building capacity, problem-solving skills.
• Good writing skills in English.
• Must have computer skills in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Experience to drive Motorcycle and have valid motorcycle driving license.

Experience Requirements:

• Must have at least 3 years of experience in equivalent position of the relevant Filed.
• Applicants should have experience in with Program in a National NGO.
• Work experience on child protection system and community development at slum/rural community. areas will give priority in selection process.

Job Context:

Breaking the Silence is a non-profit, voluntary organization registered with the Department of Social Services (Registration No. 05037, Date: 17 September 2000) and NGOAB (Registration No. 1642, Date: 20 May 2001). The organization works to establish child rights, prevent child abuse and child sexual abuse, prevent child marriage, accelerate child-friendly good governance, improve the quality of education at the primary and pre-primary level, prevent violence against women, empowering children and women. The organization is implementing a project titled “Community-Based Child Protection Mechanism for the Children of Garment Worker’s in Bangladesh” at Kashimpur, Gazipur City Corporation and Mirpur, Dhaka . The project is funded by the Garcia Foundation and supported by Terre des Hommes Netherlands. BTS is going to recruit a ‘Project Area Coordinator ’ for the mentioned project. The position’s desk office will be at Kashimpur in Gazipur City Corporation.

Reporting to: Project Focal

Project Name : Community-Based Child Protection Mechanism for the Children of Garment Worker’s in Bangladesh” (CB-CPM PLUS)

Job Location: Kashimpur in Gazipur City Corporation.

Working Station: Ward 1,2,3 at Kashimpur in Gazipur City Corporation.

Job Responsibilities:

Child protection team management and programme implementation:

• Directly manage the Project Field Officers and ECD Facilitators who are responsible for children and Youth groups, awareness session with the parent’s groups and awareness raising, ensuring that they achieve their objectives and intended program results.
• Facilitate establishing ECD center in the slum areas. Enhance capacity of the center management committee and SMC.
• Conduct performance reviews for staff; support them to set performance objectives and monitor progress.
• Plan, monitor and evaluate project progress, ensuring timely and quality project delivery, flagging any issues to the line manager.
• Provide coaching, mentoring and capacity building support to the Project Field Officers and ECD Facilitators.
• Represent the organization in the community and to community leaders and actors, collaborating with other sectors.
• Ensure all child protection concerns identified are communicated in timely manner for response to the Project Focal.
• Ensure adherence to the Child Safeguarding Policy and reporting procedures.

Strengthen Community based child protection:

• Responsible for strengthening sustainable child protection through community engagement and structures.
• Lead in the establishment and running of CBCPCs together with Project Field Officers and ECD Facilitators, ensuring monthly meetings are taking place and minutes are documented.
• Manage and deliver trainings for CBCPCs & Children and Youth groups
• Oversee awareness raising activities, including the development of key messages, session plans and monitoring activities.
• Ensure the effective running of child and youth groups.
• Experienced in organizing and facilitating trainings, workshops and meetings with government officials and community peoples.
• Strengthening and coordination mechanism with relevant stakeholders and Govt. Offices.

Supervision and management of child protection cases and relevant services:

• Supervise Project Field Officers, ECD Facilitators and other relevant actors on the identification, assessment, documentation, case planning, service provision and referral (to relevant services) and follow-up of at-risk children and families.
• Support outreach and awareness raising activities to identify vulnerable children
• Support the development of appropriate child protection information materials.
• Support the respective project officials (Program focal of the organizational, Project Coordinator and other officials) in the ongoing capacity building of Project Field Officers and ECD Facilitators.
• Oversee to ensure emergency need-based support to the vulnerable children through referral.
• Share information on field-level successes and challenges with the supervisor.
• Ensure that major challenges are flagged early, and addressed in an appropriate way.

External and internal coordination and representation:

• Support on and keep up-to-date a map of existing services to which children and families can be referred to. Build collaborative relationships with organization and service providers at the field level and support Project Field Officers and ECD Facilitators to ensure effective referrals and collaboration.
• Work in close collaboration with CBCPC member, Community influential and LEBs to strengthen our relationship with the community and to strengthen the referral system.
• Ensure internal referral mechanisms (with other sectors) are in place and cases are appropriately managed and followed up when referred
• Ensure constant and transparent communication and collaboration with relevant stakeholders, including community members, community leaders and families.

Data management and data protection principles:

• Ensure that Project Field Officers and ECD Facilitators respect confidentiality and follow ethical guidelines.
• Ensure that files, registers and computer databases are used in an appropriate and correct manner and ensure Project Field Officer adhere to Information Sharing and Data Protection Protocol
• Ensure accurate case files are completed and that case management forms are utilized appropriately.

MEAL and Reporting:

• Work closely with the monitoring and evaluation team, provide support to develop and implement appropriate monitoring, evaluation and learning systems for child protection interventions, ensure links to report requirements.
• Provide timely and quality inputs to meet reporting requirements and timeline.
• Support in preparing quality and timely reports for donors and Senior Management with relevant materials.
• Ensure good practices are captured, documented and disseminated at project level and thematic programme level.
• Prepare monthly report, quarterly report, half yearly report and annual report.

Finance and Administrative:

• Maintain compliance, rules and regulations (financial and administrative) of organization,
• Support to Accounts and Admin section in financial and logistics management,
• Support to Accounts and Admin section in financial visit/audit.
• Support HR related activities and properly maintain personal file of the employees.

Others:

• Any other duties that may be assigned by the management of organization. Be able and willing to respond to natural disasters or emergency situations when needed.

• Gross Salary: Taka 44000/ ( Forty Four Thousand) per month
• 2 days weekend
• Bonus (One month equivalent salary)
• After confirmation the job 5% salary deduction from Basic salary for depositing BTS Staff welfare fund.
• Office time, Annual Leave, Increment & other facilities will be applicable as per `Recruitment and Human Resource Management Policy` of Breaking the Silence.