Project Officer

Job Description

Title: Project Officer

Company Name: Breaking the Silence (BTS)

Vacancy: 5

Age: At most 45 years

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

Salary: Tk. 52800 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 3 years

• Masters Degree in Social Science or relevant disciplines

• At least 3 years

• Age At most 45 years

• Age : Age limit Maximum 45 years

Experience Requirements:

• Must have at least 3 years of experience as a Project Officer.

• Working experience in Program in a National NGO.

• Training design and facilitation and Capacity Development of Community

• Experience in Child Protection System and Community Development will give priority in selection process

Additional Requirements

• Knowledge in community development, ability to work under timeline, strong partnership development skills, 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 and speaking skills in English and Bangla.

• Must have computer skills in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SPSS.

• Able to work under pressure and willing to travel to project locations

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 ‘Responsive Emeregency Assistance for Communities in Humanitarian Crisis (REACH) under the Funding support from the United Nations for the Coordination of Humanitarian response (UNOCHA) and Technical Supported by IRC. The project focuses on Through its Child Protection and Protection and Rule of Law (PRoL) program, IRC delivers integrated protection interventions in targeted camps. These include structured curricula such as Psychosocial Support (PSS) and Safe Healing and Learning Spaces (SAFE), community-based child protection programming, adolescent programming, individual protection case management, Individual Protection Assistance (IPA), Cash for Protection, and wider community-based protection activities.. BTS is going to recruit a ‘Project Officer’ for the mentioned project and the position’s desk office at Ukhiya in Cox’s Bazar District.

Project Name : Responsive Emeregency Assistance for Communities in Humanitarian Crisis (REACH)

Job Location : Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazila in Cox’s Bazar District

Job Purpose:

The Project Project Officer position is responsible for coordination of the project to ensure effective and timely implementation in line with approved plans, donor requirements, and organisational standards. She/he will oversee planning, execution, monitoring, and reporting, while guiding the project team, engaging key stakeholders, and ensuring quality delivery of interventions aimed at strengthening community-based child protection at host and camp in Cox’s Bazar District.

Job Description / Responsibilities:

• Child protection program implementation, team management and capacity building:
• Support to ensure quality child protection program implementation in assigned camp
• Support and manage the Volunteers who are responsible for organizing and implementing the day-to-day field-level activity.
• Ensure quality implementation of Adolescent program e.g. formation and strengthen adolescent club, conduct monthly meeting, capacity building, led initiatives, risk mapping.
• Establish and strengthen community-based child protection committee (CBCPC) in assigned camp, conduct monthly meeting, capacity building.
• Prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly multipurpose based activities plan in coordination and collaboration with his/her line supervisor.
• Conduct different structured curricula-based sessions e.g. life skills, PSS, positive parenting in camp and also support community volunteers to conduct different sessions, meetings and community outreach sessions as per work plan adhering child safety, active participation.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and capacity-building support to volunteers.
• Ensure children are safe and in a protective environment within MPC center and conduct different session, meetings and engaging in recreational activity.
• Facilitate “Now I am Stronger” (NIS) sessions using age-appropriate, interactive, and participatory approaches, ensuring adherence to NIS guidelines and standards while promoting children’s psychosocial well-being, resilience, and life skills.
• Referring to beneficiaries with special needs to respective service providers according to predefined referral pathways with proper documentation.
• Supervision and management of child protection intervention:
• Supervise and coach volunteers 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 to IRC case management team to identify new child protection concerns and referral following inter agency case management guideline
• Support outreach and awareness-raising activities to identify vulnerable
• Support the respective project officials in coordination and collaboration with Project Manager, MEAL officer, Finance and Admin Officer, in the ongoing capacity building of volunteers
• Promote and facilitate volunteers' access to support for vulnerable children and their families.
• Share information on field-level successes and challenges with the Project Manager.
• Ensure that major challenges are flagged early and addressed appropriately.
• 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
• Build collaborative relationships with organizations and service providers at the field level and support volunteers to ensure effective referrals and collaboration.
• Work in close collaboration with CBCPCs to strengthen our relationship with the community and to strengthen the referral system.
• Ensure constant and transparent communication and collaboration with relevant stakeholders, Camp in Charge (CIC), Majhi, including local elected bodies, community members, community leaders, and families.
• Represent the organization in the community and different platforms & actors related to Child Protection.
• MEAL and Reporting:
• Work closely with the MEAL officer, provide support to develop and implement appropriate monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems for child protection interventions, and ensure links to report requirements.
• Provide timely and quality inputs to meet reporting requirements and timelines.
• Support in preparing quality and timely reports for donors and Project manager with relevant materials.
• Ensure good practices are captured, documented, and disseminated at the project level and thematic program level.
• Support to monthly reports, quarterly reports, half-yearly reports, and annual report preparation.
• To ensure appropriate monitoring and evaluation systems are in place, support staff in all monitoring processes;
• To refer beneficiaries with special needs, and follow up on the referred cases' conditions in collaboration with the Assistant Project Officer and Project manager
• Finance and Administrative:
• Maintain compliance, rules, and regulations (financial and administrative) of the development partner organization and BTS,
• 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.
• The authority reserves the right to cancel the appointment at any time after the appointment if the employee has given false information or concealed the truth in any case.
• The authority reserves the right to cancel the appointment at any time without any prior notice and benefits if it is proven the employed person accused of child and women abuse, violation safeguarding and Code of Conduct Policy active in direct political activity and involvement in militancy/terrorism in any way.
• Undertake any other additional responsibility as deemed by the Project Manager
• Will be prepared to respond to any emergency situation of the organization.
• Accountability, Safeguarding and PSEA: Project Officer-CP will ensure accountability, Child Safeguarding and PSEA, donor compliance issues for the REACH project. Project Officer-CP is responsible for ensuring that safeguarding standards are fully integrated and implemented across all project activities, providing oversight, guidance, and accountability to uphold protection and child protection principles.
• Others: Any other duties that may be assigned by the management of organization.

Employment Status: Full-time

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.

• Gross: Taka 52,800.00 (Fifty Two Thousand Eight Hundred only ) 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.