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Program Brief
The IRC has been present in Bangladesh since 2017 and obtained registration with the NGOAB in March 2018. Since the IRC obtained registration in March 2018, it has moved quickly to expand its integrated emergency health and protection response through both direct and partner-based programming focused on primary healthcare, women’s protection and empowerment, sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence and child protection. Recently IRC has also introduced two new programs: Protection Rule of Law (PROL) and Education. IRC will continue working in both the camps and host community, while meeting the significant needs in both refugee and host populations, as already existing vulnerabilities are compounded with cyclical monsoon and cyclone seasons that impose additional threats to the lives and protection of those refugees as well as vulnerable host populations. IRC will grow over time its geographic coverage within Cox bazar and to other parts of the country, thus expand its networks and partnerships around emergency preparedness and response work, reach beyond the Rohingya refugees, also targeting the vulnerable host groups in Cox Bazar and other parts of Bangladesh.
Purpose of the Role
Child protection senior officer position will support to implement “Strengthening Child Rights Monitoring Mechanism (CRMM)” project in 15 camps under Ukhiya and Teknaf upazilas of Cox’s Bazar district. Child protection senior officer will continue monitoring, verified, document, report serious children’s rights violations cases, and referral for required support in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar.
Position objectives:
- To oversee and ensure implementation of “Strengthening Child Rights Monitoring Mechanism (CRMM)” project activity according to IRC guidelines, work plans, and project timelines.
- To liaise and collaboration with community-based structures and other relevant stakeholders to identify CRV cases and ensure appropriate services through referral or direct support
- Support to verification of child rights violations incidents in appropriate way and capacity building of front-line volunteers relevant stakeholders and raising awareness on child rights
Highlights of Key Responsibilities:
Technical Quality:
- Ensure monitoring serious child rights violence incident, verification, documentation and provide support to appropriately refer and document cases
- Assist to quality operationalization of the IRC’s child rights violence monitoring interventions in Cox’s Bazar, ensuring that needs and priorities for programming and standards are in line with the context, needs, and gaps on the ground
- Support program and M&E activities as requested to support quality programming, analyze child rights violence data, verified and produce child rights violation incident reports, verification, including regular field monitoring visits, referral and daily/weekly and monthly reports as required
- Ensure capacity building of community volunteers, community-based protection structure and mass awareness initiatives among key community stakeholders, parents, and children on child rights violations incident monitoring and safe referral
- Work closely with community people, children, parents and caregiver and key stakeholders, understand field situation, needs, facilitate regular consultation with them and identify programming idea for child rights violence monitoring and reporting mechanism
Program Implementation:
- Work closely with CP technical manager to achieve project results and take support to implement program intervention with quality
- Regular monitoring of the program and providing necessary supervision support to the team. monitoring child rights violence incident, verification, reporting, documentation and shared with IRC
- Facilitate training and orientation with community volunteers, community people, children, parents and caregiver on CRV/child protection concerns to build capacity, identify incident of child rights violation in the ground
Staff Supervision & Development:
- Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and providing oversight and guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions.
- Ensure timely completion and submission of monthly timesheets, probations reviews and annual performance reviews.
- Ensure support and ongoing capacity building opportunities for program team including community volunteers on CRV incident monitoring and technical skills.
Grant Planning & Implementation:
- Supports implementation and adherence to grant work plans, spending plans and monitoring and evaluation plans.
Coordination & Representation:
- Actively develop and maintain effective working relationships with protection actors, community structures, groups in the field, including government actors, UN agencies, international and local NGOs, UNO, Upazila chairman & members, DSS, MoWCA and other relevant actors.
- Regularly attend relevant coordination meetings at field level
Program Development:
- Contribute to the development of the CP program strategic direction for responding to children harmed and at risk of being harmed
- Coordinate with other IRC sectors staff (e.g. Women’s Protection and Empowerment, Protection Rules of Law, Health, Nutrition, etc.) at field level
Other Duties:
- Consistently and dedicatedly monitor/assess the safety and security of field teams; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to IRC management and liaising with community leaders and other external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for IRC programs
- Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs
Deliverables:
- Provide technical support to identify child rights violence incident, reporting and safe referral mechanism in accordance with IRC guidelines in assigned refugee camps
- Daily, weekly, and monthly and reporting of CRV activities in line with project tools, templates, and reporting schedule
- Provision of individual and group technical support, joint field monitoring, and capacity building to partner staff to ensure delivery of activities in line with quality standards, guidelines, and project deliverables
Minimum Qualifications:
- At least 3 years’ experience of implementing child protection programs, preferable social work, or education, in humanitarian or development settings.
- Previous experience on protection monitoring, case management, supervising and coordinating a team in a cross-cultural setting preferred.
- Demonstrated understanding of working with children and particularly vulnerable children.
- Previous experience in emergency preparedness and response preferred.
- Previous experience in capacity building and mentoring of staff preferred
Competencies: Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Relevant language skills in Bangla and Chittagong required. English desirable
- Personal qualities: Great teammate, flexible, network-builder, able to handle pressure well. Strong communications and analysis skills
- Commitment to IRC values, including child protection
Language Preference
- People who are familiar in local dialects and local language will get preference
Specific Educational Qualification
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Social Science/ Social Work/ Education/ Human Rights/ Economics or degree in equivalent subject
Professional Degree/ Certification
Standard of Professional Conduct:The IRC and the IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – our Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability, and Equality.
Commitment to Gender, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: The IRC is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, respectful, and safe work environment where all persons are treated fairly, with dignity and respect. The IRC expressly prohibits and will not tolerate discrimination, harassment, retaliation, or bullying of the IRC persons in any work setting. We aim to increase the representation of women, people that are from country and communities we serve, and people who identify as races and ethnicities that are under-represented in global power structures.