Project Officer
Job Description
Title: Project Officer
Company Name: Village Education Resource Center (VERC)
Vacancy: 01
Job Location: Gazipur
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's Degree in English, Development Studies, Economics, Social Science or other relevant disciplines.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Village Education Resource Center (VERC) is going to implement a project titled `Community-Based Child Protection Mechanism for the Children of Garment Workers in Bangladesh at Kashimpur Thana under Gazipur District. The project will be implemented with the support of `Terre des Hommes Netherlands (TdH NL).` VERC is going to recruit the `Project Officer` for the mentioned project, and the position will be based at Kashimpur, Gazipur.
∎ Position Name: Project Officer
∎ Project Name : Community-Based Child Protection Mechanism for the children of Garment Workers in Bangladesh
∎ Job Location Kashimpur Thana under Gazipur District
Job Responsibilities:
∎ 1: Child protection team management and programme implementation
∎ Support to design a project implementation plan, formulate budgetary plan, ensure timely and quality project delivery, prepare project progress reports, coordinate and manage the Child Protection related project.
∎ Directly manage the Community Social Workers and ECD Teachers who are responsible for children and Youth groups, awareness sessions with the parents groups and awareness raising, ensuring that they achieve their objectives and intended program results.
∎ Facilitate establishing and managing ECD centre in the slum areas.
∎ Conduct performance reviews for staff; support them to set performance objectives and monitor progress.
∎ Provide coaching, mentoring and capacity building support to the Community Social Workers and ECD Teachers.
∎ Represent the organization in the community and community leaders and actors, collaborating with Government and private sectors.
∎ Ensure adherence to the Child Safeguarding Policy and reporting procedures.
∎ 2: Strengthen Community based child protection
∎ Responsible for strengthening sustainable child protection through community engagement and structures.
∎ Lead in the establishment and running of Child Protection Forums (CPFs) and Child Protection Monitoring Committees (CPMCs) together with Community Social Worker and ECD Teacher, ensuring monthly meetings are taking place and minutes are documented.
∎ Manage and deliver trainings for the members of CPFs & CPMCs
∎ Oversee awareness raising activities, including the development of key messages, session plans and monitoring activities.
∎ Experienced in organizing and facilitating trainings, workshops and meetings with government officials and community peoples.
∎ Strengthening coordination with relevant stakeholders and Government Officials.
∎ 3: Supervision and management of child protection cases and relevant services
∎ Supervise Community Social Worker, ECD Teachers 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 organise awareness raising activities to identified 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 capacity building initiatives of Community Social Workers and ECD Teacher.
∎ 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.
∎ 4: 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 organisation and service providers at the field level and support Community Social Workers and ECD Teacher to ensure effective referrals and collaboration.
∎ Work in close collaboration with CPMC members, Community influentials, Local Elected Bodies (LEBs), Government officials and private sectors to strengthen our relationship with the community and to strengthen the referral system.
∎ Ensure referral mechanisms (with other actors) 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.
∎ 5: Data management and data protection principles
∎ Ensure that Community Social Workers and ECD Teachers respect confidentiality and follow ethical guidelines.
∎ Ensure that files, registers and computer databases are used in an appropriate and correct manner and ensure Community Social Worker adhere to Information Sharing and Data Protection Protocol
∎ Ensure accurate case files are completed and that case management forms are utilised appropriately
∎ 6: 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 case stories, good practices are captured with high quality photographs, documented and disseminated at project level and thematic programme level.
∎ Provide timely and quality inputs on cross cutting issues (CCIs)
∎ Prepare monthly, quarterly, half yearly and annual reports.
∎ 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 VERC.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at most 40 years
∎ 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.
∎ Working Experience: Must have at least 3-5 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 community development at slum community of Dhaka City will give priority in the selection process.
∎ Able to work under pressure and willing to frequent travel to the Field area 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 and speaking skills in English and Bangla.
∎ Must have computer skills in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
∎ Experience to drive Motorcycle and have a valid motorcycle driving license.
∎ Candidate Attitude regarding Gender/PSEA & others policies and Code of conduct of the organization
∎ Note: In case of candidates with more experience; age limit would be relaxed. Women and persons with special needs are equally eligible to apply for the said post.
Salary: Tk. 30000 - 34353 (Monthly)
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 VERC and the facilities will be applicable also based on available resources in the project budget.
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 28 Nov 2022
Company Information:
∎ 21 Nov 2022
∎ Village Education Resource Center (VERC)
∎ Address : B-30, Ekhlas Uddin Khan Road, Anandapur, Savar, Dhaka-1340
∎ Web : www.vercbd.org
∎ Business : Village Education Resource Center (VERC) is a non-governmental organization which started its journey in 1977 as a collaborative project of Save the Children, USA and UNICEF. It became a legal entity under Society?s Registration Act, in 1981, with the Department of Social Services in 1989 and with the NGO Affairs Bureau, Bangladesh. VERC is working with the poor and marginalize community for their empowerment through improving their situation by attaining self-reliance. It always tries to address the emerging needs of the working communities and collaborates with various local, national and international NGOs and government departments in realizing their common goal of social development. Since inception, VERC is working on different development aspects spreading all over the country. VERC implement its activities systematically in a planned way by consulting the community people and other development partners.
Category: NGO/Development
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