Senior Project Officer (PSS, CBCPC and LSBE), Child Protection, Bhasan Char

Job Description

Title: Senior Project Officer (PSS, CBCPC and LSBE), Child Protection, Bhasan Char

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Noakhali (Hatiya)

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• At least 2 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

• Bachelor/Honors

Degree/Honors in any discipline from a reputed university/institution

• At least 2 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

Skills:

•Manage stress and emotions

•Be flexible and open to change, adapt to cultural differences

•Problem solving skills

•Creative way and decision making skills

•Communication and networking skills

•Reporting skills

•Compassion Knowledge:

•Child Protection in Emergencies in humanitarian setting

•Child safeguarding policy

•Core Humanitarian Standard

•Knowledge on communication and networking

•BRAC culture and values

•Reporting and Planning

COMPETENCIES:

•Learn to manage stress to release tension and act effectively. Use supervision to talk about stress and your work

•Candidate should have ability to solve the problem to determine the best interest of child.

•Ability to find creative solutions and show initiatives to protect the children and adolescent

•Coordination and collaboration with child protection actors, CiC, and government official.

•The candidate should be kindness and patience as they have to deal with vulnerable children and adolescent.

BRAC is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh in 1972 that partners globally with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty to create opportunities to realise their potential.

The Senior Project Officer is responsible for supervising and supporting Project Officers in the implementation of Child Protection services. This includes overseeing the delivery of structured sessions on psychosocial support (PSS), life skills–based education (LSBE), Community-Based Child Protection Committee (CBCPC) meetings, positive parenting sessions, and outreach-based activities, including recreational support. To ensure adequate and effective service delivery, this position will monitor activities, provide technical guidance, and ensure Project Officers maintain regular engagement with children, adolescents, and the community.

•Monitor home-to-home outreach to identify and register children and adolescents for Child Protection services, including structured PSS, LSBE sessions, and adolescent-led initiatives.

•Monitor and facilitate the formation and functioning of Community-Based Child Protection Committees (CBCPCs), as well as parents’ and caregivers’ committees, to ensure protection services for vulnerable children.

•Identify and engage parents, caregivers, and community members through household visits and conduct positive parenting group sessions and trainings, CBCPC sessions, and community-led protection initiatives.

•Plan and implement outreach-based Child Protection activities, ensuring inclusion of hard-to-reach and at-risk children and adolescents.

•Organize and facilitate adolescent group sessions and trainings, including LSBE, life skills, leadership, and resilience-building activities, with regular follow-up and participation tracking.

•Conduct and monitor women-led group sessions and trainings focusing on child protection, caregiving practices, psychosocial well-being, and community awareness.

•Maintain attendance records and ensure regular follow-up of children and adolescents participating in MPC/Drop-In Centre activities and outreach sessions.

•Develop the capacity of volunteers working inside Multi-Purpose Child and Adolescent Centres (MPCs) and in the community, through coaching, mentoring, and refresher trainings.

•Ensure timely documentation, recording, and reporting of day-to-day MPC/Drop-In Centre activities and submit regular reports to relevant supervisors and authorities.

•Ensure the safety and safeguarding of children, community members, and team members by promoting safeguarding and PSEA standards, following reporting procedures for any safeguarding concerns, and encouraging a safe reporting culture.

•Ensure safe referral for the vulnerable children to the case worker through sessions, recreational activities, home visits.

Safeguarding:

•Ensure the safety of Programme Participants, people who come into contact with the organisation and team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) to achieve the programme's goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.

•Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.

•Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do so.

• Mobile bill

• Festival Bonus

• Free Accomodation

• Health & Life Insurance

• Paternity/ Maternity leave

• others as per Organisation policy.