Job Description

Title: Project Officer (PO)

Company Name: Breaking the Silence (BTS)

Vacancy: 2

Age: at most 40 years

Location: Dhaka, Satkhira

Minimum Salary: Tk. 36010 (Monthly)

Experience:
∎ At least 3 years

Published: 18 Mar 2025

Education:
∎ Master of Social Science (MSS)

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at most 40 years
∎ Experience Requirements:
∎ Working Experience: Must have at least 3 years of experience in equivalent position of the relevant Field.
∎ Applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): Working experience in Program in a National / International NGO.
∎ Work experience on child protection system and prevention online and offline sexual abuse and exploitation issues.
∎ Additional Requirements
∎ Able to work under pressure and willing to work at slum 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 and speaking skills in English and Bangla.
∎ Have computer skills in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
∎ Experience Requirements:
∎ Working Experience: Must have at least 3 years of experience in equivalent position of the relevant Field.
∎ Applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): Working experience in Program in a National / International NGO.
∎ Work experience on child protection system and prevention online and offline sexual abuse and exploitation issues.
∎ Additional Requirements
∎ Able to work under pressure and willing to work at slum 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 and speaking skills in English and Bangla.
∎ Have computer skills in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Child protection team management and program implementation: a) Support to design a project implementation plan, formulate budgetary plan, ensure timely and quality project delivery. b) Support to conduct local and national level advocacy initiatives through coordination with key stakeholders. c) Provide coaching, mentoring and capacity building support to the Community Organizers. d) Represent the organization in the community, Government and private sectors. e) Ensure adherence to the Child Safeguarding Policy and reporting procedures.
∎ Strengthen Community based child protection: a) Responsible for strengthening sustainable child protection through community engagement and structures. b) Lead in the establishment and running of Community Based Child Protection Committee (CBCPC), CSO Network and Referral mechanism together with Community Organizer, by ensuring regular meeting and coordination. c) Organize and facilitate trainings, workshops and meetings with project stakeholders and community peoples. d) Strengthening coordination with relevant stakeholders and Government Officials.
∎ Supervision and management of child protection cases and relevant services: a) Supervise Community Organizer 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. b) Support to organize awareness raising activities to identified vulnerable children and youth. c) Support the development of appropriate child protection information materials. d) Oversee to ensure need-based support to the vulnerable children through referral. e) Share information on field-level successes and challenges with the supervisor. f) Ensure that major challenges are flagged early, and addressed in an appropriate way.
∎ External and internal coordination and representation: a) Support on and keep up-to-date a map of existing services to which children and families can be referred. B) Build collaborative relationships with CSOs and service providers at the field level and support Community Organizers to ensure effective referrals and collaboration. c) Ensure referral mechanisms (with other actors) are in place and cases are appropriately managed and followed up when referred. d) Ensure constant and transparent communication and collaboration with relevant stakeholders, including community members, community leaders and families.
∎ 6: MEAL and Reporting: a) Provide timely and quality inputs to meet reporting requirements and timeline. Ensure case stories, good practices are captured with high quality photographs, documented and disseminated at project level and thematic program level. b) Support to prepare monthly, quarterly, half yearly and annual reports. c) Provide timely and quality inputs on cross cutting issues (CCIs).
∎ Others: Be able and willing to respond to natural disasters or emergency situations, when needed and any other task assigned by Supervisor and /or Senior Management of BTS.
∎ Job Context:
∎ Breaking the Silence (BTS) is a non-profit, voluntary organization registered with the Department of Social Services (Registration No. 05037, Date: 17 October 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 titled ‘Speak up! Empowering CSOs to protect children and youth's freedom of expression by capitalizing on the opportunities and addressing the challenges of the digital space in Bangladesh’ at Dhaka and Satkhira district. The project will be implemented with the support of ‘Terre des Hommes Netherlands (TdH NL).’ BTS is going to recruit the ‘Project Officer’ for the mentioned project.
∎ Position Name : Project Officer (PO)
∎ Organization Name : Breaking the Silence (BTS)
∎ Project Name : ‘Speak up! Empowering CSOs to protect children and youth's freedom of expression by capitalizing on the opportunities and addressing the challenges of the digital space in Bangladesh’
∎ Responsibilities :
∎ The Project Officers is responsible for Child Protection including supervising and supporting the quality implementation of activities related to Speak up project area. He or she is responsible for implementing all activities with CSOs, CBCPC members, Community influential, Child Welfare Board (CWB), Law Enforcing Agencies, District Legal Aid committee, Local Elected Bodies (LEBs), and other community people under the supervision of the respective line manager.
∎ Child protection team management and program implementation: a) Support to design a project implementation plan, formulate budgetary plan, ensure timely and quality project delivery. b) Support to conduct local and national level advocacy initiatives through coordination with key stakeholders. c) Provide coaching, mentoring and capacity building support to the Community Organizers. d) Represent the organization in the community, Government and private sectors. e) Ensure adherence to the Child Safeguarding Policy and reporting procedures.
∎ Strengthen Community based child protection: a) Responsible for strengthening sustainable child protection through community engagement and structures. b) Lead in the establishment and running of Community Based Child Protection Committee (CBCPC), CSO Network and Referral mechanism together with Community Organizer, by ensuring regular meeting and coordination. c) Organize and facilitate trainings, workshops and meetings with project stakeholders and community peoples. d) Strengthening coordination with relevant stakeholders and Government Officials.
∎ Supervision and management of child protection cases and relevant services: a) Supervise Community Organizer 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. b) Support to organize awareness raising activities to identified vulnerable children and youth. c) Support the development of appropriate child protection information materials. d) Oversee to ensure need-based support to the vulnerable children through referral. e) Share information on field-level successes and challenges with the supervisor. f) Ensure that major challenges are flagged early, and addressed in an appropriate way.
∎ External and internal coordination and representation: a) Support on and keep up-to-date a map of existing services to which children and families can be referred. B) Build collaborative relationships with CSOs and service providers at the field level and support Community Organizers to ensure effective referrals and collaboration. c) Ensure referral mechanisms (with other actors) are in place and cases are appropriately managed and followed up when referred. d) Ensure constant and transparent communication and collaboration with relevant stakeholders, including community members, community leaders and families.
∎ 6: MEAL and Reporting: a) Provide timely and quality inputs to meet reporting requirements and timeline. Ensure case stories, good practices are captured with high quality photographs, documented and disseminated at project level and thematic program level. b) Support to prepare monthly, quarterly, half yearly and annual reports. c) Provide timely and quality inputs on cross cutting issues (CCIs).
∎ Others: Be able and willing to respond to natural disasters or emergency situations, when needed and any other task assigned by Supervisor and /or Senior Management of BTS.
∎ Tenure of Services Contract:
∎ 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.

Skills & Expertise:

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ 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 and the facilities will be applicable also based on available resources in the project budget.
∎ 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 and the facilities will be applicable also based on available resources in the project budget.

Employment Status: Full Time

Job Location: Dhaka, Satkhira

Read Before Apply:

Only short-listed candidates will be called for an interview.

The person accused of child and women abuse and violation of safeguarding, 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/her appointment if he/she has given false information or concealed the truth in any case.

Female, PWD and ethnic minority are encouraged to apply.

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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: 24 Mar 2025

Category: NGO/Development