Job Description

Title: Project Coordinator

Company Name: Breaking the Silence (BTS)

Vacancy: 1

Age: at most 50 years

Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)

Minimum Salary: Tk. 70000 (Monthly)

Experience:
∎ At least 5 years

Published: 9 Mar 2025

Education:
∎ Master of Social Science (MSS)
∎ Candidates Masters with studies in psychology, gender or women’s studies, social work, business studies or other relevant/related studies, and /or professional experience in counseling and implementing activities for women and girls or proven engagement in women’s rights/groups – highly desirable.
∎ Candidates Masters with studies in psychology, gender or women’s studies, social work, business studies or other relevant/related studies, and /or professional experience in counseling and implementing activities for women and girls or proven engagement in women’s rights/groups – highly desirable.

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at most 50 years
∎ Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 years of experience in implementing child protection programs, preferably social work or education, in humanitarian or development settings.
∎ Previous experience supervising and managing a team in a cross-cultural setting
∎ Demonstrated understanding of working with children particularly vulnerable children
∎ Previous experience in emergency preparedness and response
∎ Demonstrated experience in capacity building and mentoring of staff
∎ Demonstrated experience in grant management and proposal writing.
∎ Additional Requirements:
∎ Good computer skills such as MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
∎ Capable of applying skills and knowledge in a range of capacities, including direct implementation, advisory functions, coordination functions, training, and the transfer of technical knowledge
∎ Personal qualities: Great Teammate, flexible, network-builder, able to handle pressure well.
∎ Fluency in English and Bangla required. Fluency in Chittagong is desirable.
∎ Female, PWD and Ethnic Minority applicants are encouraged to apply.
∎ Job Location:
∎ Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazila, Cox’s Bazar District
∎ Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 years of experience in implementing child protection programs, preferably social work or education, in humanitarian or development settings.
∎ Previous experience supervising and managing a team in a cross-cultural setting
∎ Demonstrated understanding of working with children particularly vulnerable children
∎ Previous experience in emergency preparedness and response
∎ Demonstrated experience in capacity building and mentoring of staff
∎ Demonstrated experience in grant management and proposal writing.
∎ Additional Requirements:
∎ Good computer skills such as MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
∎ Capable of applying skills and knowledge in a range of capacities, including direct implementation, advisory functions, coordination functions, training, and the transfer of technical knowledge
∎ Personal qualities: Great Teammate, flexible, network-builder, able to handle pressure well.
∎ Fluency in English and Bangla required. Fluency in Chittagong is desirable.
∎ Female, PWD and Ethnic Minority applicants are encouraged to apply.
∎ Job Location:
∎ Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazila, Cox’s Bazar District

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Coordination and communication:
∎ Communication and coordination with the project team and management.
∎ Coordination, liaison & networking with government representatives especially with ‘RC and CIC Service, local elected bodies, law enforcement agencies, Child Welfare Board, Community Based Child Protection Committee-CBCPC, national and international NGOs, and other service providers.
∎ Represent BTS in field base multi-agency and overall interagency cluster where appropriate;
∎ Regular visits to project areas.
∎ Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and providing oversight and guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions;
∎ Support the PM in reporting to donors through both formal and informal briefings, annual and semi-annual reports, and maintain ongoing dialogue.
∎ Coordinate and supervise the CP intervention by planning, monitoring, and evaluating project activities following IRC grant agreements and quality standards.
∎ Project Planning and Implementation:
∎ Ensure the quality, effective, and efficient management of Child Protection (CP) projects at all stages of the project cycle both through staff management and technical supervision.
∎ Contribute and feed into the project design stage through facilitating and coordinating internal and inter-agency technical needs assessments, drawing lessons learned from previous or external interventions, staff and community consultations (including with children
∎ Contribute to project development through narrative writing in concept notes and proposals, log frame indicator and target, budget, work plan, procurement, and monitoring & evaluation plan development.
∎ Lead on implementation of project activities through following up on work plans, expenditure, procurement, progress against indicators, and capacity needs.
∎ Prepare detailed planning and budgeting of project activities and implement them as per the plan
∎ Provide technical and supervisory support to ensure the quality implementation of the project activities
∎ Participate in the planning of new project proposals and the implementation of assessments for new projects based on the strategy approved by the Delegation.
∎ Coordinate and supervise the CP intervention by planning, monitoring, and evaluating project activities by IRC grant agreements and quality standards.
∎ Assure that child protection standards are understood and applied and support the Team Leaders in establishing a clear referral system
∎ Coordinate to conduct baseline and end-line study and Service mapping,
∎ Organize and facilitate capacity-building training for the project staff,
∎ Organize and facilitate capacity-building events, dialogue, and sharing meetings with the government authorities and relevant stakeholders,
∎ Support Upazilla and RC & CIC, functioning the Child Welfare Board and CBCPC,
∎ Assist program staff in planning, implementing, and reviewing project activities, ensuring adherence to technical standards, learning, and good practices.
∎ Coordinate and supervise the CP intervention by planning, monitoring, and evaluating project activities by IRC grant agreements and quality standards.
∎ Manage the case management component by ensuring proper referrals and follow-. Up
∎ Prepare, in coordination with key staff, work plans with clear objectives and achievement benchmarks, long-term and short-term priorities, implementation plans, financial projections, and evaluation tools;
∎ Update, in collaboration with the team, the outputs of the program and propose adjustments if necessary for ongoing activities.
∎ Constantly updates the PM on the project progress or on any modifications that need to be taken regarding the implementation process;
∎ Ensure the best use of resources and support the Financial Officer in the preparation of sound budgets and monitoring project expenses;
∎ Prepare, in coordination with key staff, work plans with clear objectives and achievement benchmarks, long-term and short-term priorities, implementation plans, financial projections, and evaluation tools;
∎ Develop Training and Session guidelines and materials:
∎ Play a leadership role in developing training modules and session guidelines in a working team.
∎ Develop materials for training and sessions.
∎ Capacity building of the staff on both CP technical competencies and professional competencies and receiving regular feedback on their performance with recommendations for improvement.
∎ Finance and Administrative:
∎ Maintain compliance, rules, and regulations (financial and administrative) of the development partner organization and BTS,
∎ Manage the recruitment process for any position in the team, including drafting technical tests, and interview questions and following up on screening, shortlisting, interviews, and offers with HR.
∎ Support to Finance and Admin section in financial and logistics management,
∎ Support to Finance and Admin section in financial visit/audit.
∎ Support all financial and accounts-related documentation.
∎ Monitoring & Evaluation:
∎ Ensure the MEAL system is in place at the project level in line with guidelines and structure developed jointly with the Development Partner,
∎ Support the project monitoring focal to develop tools including an M & E plan and ensure proper use of those for M&E.
∎ Coordination of baseline and final evaluation process,
∎ Ensure all components of the project are monitored and the results are evaluated in line with the indicators.
∎ Facilitate the local-level advocacy process:
∎ Linkage with multi-stakeholders for referral mechanism,
∎ Regular visit the RC & CIC, Upazila, and District administration office and ensure communication with them,
∎ Facilitate joint action with other actors to strengthen the Child Protection System in the working community.
∎ Reporting & Documentation:
∎ Prepare monthly, quarterly, half-annual, annual, and project completion reports of the project,
∎ Ensure quality of process and learning documentation.
∎ Constantly updates the Program Manager on the project progress or any modifications that need to be taken regarding the implementation process.
∎ Safeguarding Focal Point:
∎ To play the role of ‘Child Safeguarding Focal Point’ in the mentioned project
∎ Child Protection/ Safeguarding
∎ Promote inclusion and equal access for every child, paying particular attention to the most vulnerable and at-risk children and children with disabilities
∎ Always maintain strict confidentiality regarding information and data of beneficiaries
∎ Ensure Child Protection Minimum Standards are mainstreamed into all the PSS activities
∎ Report serious cases of abuse committed against children to the CP Project Manager/coordination team. Strict confidentiality must be respected.
∎ e) Fully comply with the BTS Code of Conduct and ensure the Child Safeguarding Policy is always
∎ Others
∎ Be able and willing to respond to natural disasters or emergencies, when needed, and any other task assigned by the Supervisor and /or Senior Management of BTS.
∎ Tenure of Services Contract:
∎ 3 (Three) months probation period. After successful completion of the probation period, based on the performance of the staff and recommendation from the supervisor, the post may be continued till the project’s lifetime.
∎ 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 going to implement a project named ‘Integrated Services for Peace, Resilience and Empowerment for Rohigya and Host Communities(INSPIRE)” at Ukhiya and Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar districts. The project will be implemented by the support of IRC. BTS is going to recruit a ‘Project Coordinator ’ for the mentioned project the position’s desk office will be at Ukhiya in Cox’s Bazar District.
∎ Position Name : Project Coordinator,
∎ Department/ Progrm : Child Protection
∎ Reproting to : Project Manager
∎ Organization Name : Breaking the Silence (BTS)
∎ Project Name : Integrated Services for Peace, Resilience and Empowerment for Rohigya and Host Communities (INSPIRE)
∎ No. of Vacancy : 1 (One)
∎ Job Description /
∎ Responsibilities :

Skills & Expertise:

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Gross: Taka 70,000/= Per Month
∎ 2 days weekend
∎ Office time, Annual Leave, Increment & other facilities will be applicable as per 'Recruitment and Human Resource Management Policy' of Breaking the Silence.
∎ Gross: Taka 70,000/= Per Month
∎ 2 days weekend
∎ Office time, Annual Leave, Increment & other facilities will be applicable as per 'Recruitment and Human Resource Management Policy' of Breaking the Silence.

Workplace:
∎ Work at office

Employment Status: Full Time

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

Read Before Apply:

Only short-listed candidates will be called for assessment.

Qualified and interested candidates are requested to apply with updated CV.

The person accused of child and women abuse, violation of safeguarding policy, terminated for any kind of fraud, active political activist or supporter and the peoples who are involved in militancy/terrorism in any way are requested not to apply.

Breaking the Silence reserved the authority to accept / reject any application and to add / relax the terms of the recruitment notice.

The authority reserves the right to cancel the appointment of a candidate at any time after his appointment if he has given false information or concealed the truth in any case.

Apply URL::

Apply Procedure:

Company Information:
∎ Breaking the Silence (BTS)
∎ Plot # 2/4, Lalmatia, Block-G, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207
∎ www.breakingthesilencebd.org
∎ 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. It also contributes to achieving the relevant Sustainable Development Goals. The organization has been implementing various programs to prevent child abuse and child marriage, empowering children and women, creating opportunities for children to participate in the decision-making process of local government and strengthening the social accountability process. Moreover, in response to any natural and social disaster, the development partner in collaboration with the government as a partner in the program. BTS ensures the involvement of children and women from the disabled and disadvantaged communities in all programs. The organization has been facilitated national-level advocacy initiatives to scale up the good practices and models all over the country and contribute to review or formulate new laws and policies regarding child and women rights.

Address::
∎ Plot # 2/4, Lalmatia, Block-G, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207
∎ www.breakingthesilencebd.org
∎ 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. It also contributes to achieving the relevant Sustainable Development Goals. The organization has been implementing various programs to prevent child abuse and child marriage, empowering children and women, creating opportunities for children to participate in the decision-making process of local government and strengthening the social accountability process. Moreover, in response to any natural and social disaster, the development partner in collaboration with the government as a partner in the program. BTS ensures the involvement of children and women from the disabled and disadvantaged communities in all programs. The organization has been facilitated national-level advocacy initiatives to scale up the good practices and models all over the country and contribute to review or formulate new laws and policies regarding child and women rights.

Application Deadline: 15 Mar 2025

Category: NGO/Development