Title: Senior Project Officer, Sports for Protection, Protection, HCMP
Company Name: BRAC
Vacancy: --
Age: Na
Job Location: Cox`s Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia), Noakhali (Hatiya)
Salary: Negotiable
Experience: --
Published: 2026-08-07
Application Deadline: 2026-08-13
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Responsibilities & Context:
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.
Senior Project Officer, Sports for Protection will supervise the sports-based community protection interventions, social cohesion, and inclusion activities in Rohingya refugee camps. The role acts as a quality implementation of project officers’ intervention using sports as a tool to promote protection, peaceful coexistence, and community well-being.
Prepare workplan for the project officer to qualitative implementation of sports for protection interventions
Responsible of taking approval for field setup, providing all technical and operational support for all sprots for protection interventions
Provide assistance to the Project officers to Develop and implement community-led schedules and operational plans for sports fields and clubs, promoting inclusive participation of youth, women, and vulnerable groups
Guide the project officers in Organizing, facilitating s sports events, tournaments, inter-camp competitions, and Sports-for-Protection initiatives, integrating safeguarding messages as appropriate
Recruit, train, and mentor volunteers and sports club members, providing guidance on sports skills, teamwork, rules, inclusion, and codes of conduct
Responsible for weekly and monthly reporting and ensure the quality of reporting.
Ensure adherence to safeguarding, PSEA, and child protection policies, maintaining the safety, dignity, and well-being of participants, volunteers, and team members
Mobilize community engagement for care, maintenance, and responsible use of sports facilities, and support formation and management of sports clubs
Monitor, record, and report on sports club formation, participation, trainings, events, and outcomes, including data collection and documentation of good practices
Support logistical and administrative aspects of sports activities, including procurement, storage, distribution of sports materials, attendance, ID cards, and activity documentation
Represent the programme in relevant meetings at block and camp levels, sharing updates, challenges, and recommendations for programme improvement
Ensure the safety and well-being of team members, promoting and enforcing safeguarding policies and standards, and acting as a key source of guidance and support
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
Free Accommodation for Bhasan Char staff
Paternity/ Maternity leave and
Others as per Organisation policy