
Senior CP Officer
International Rescue Committee
- Ukhia, Chittagong
- Contract
- Full-time
- 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 collaborators 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 collaborators and raising awareness on child rights,
- Ensure supervising 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 collaborators, parents, and children on child rights violations incident monitoring and safe referral
- Work closely with community people, children, parents and caregiver and key collaborators, understand field situation, needs, facilitate regular consultation with them and identify programming idea for child rights violence monitoring and reporting mechanism
- 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 vital 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
- 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.
- Supports implementation and adherence to grant work plans, spending plans and monitoring and evaluation plans.
- 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 chairperson & members, DSS, MoWCA and other relevant actors.
- Regularly attend relevant coordination meetings at field level
- 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
- 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 the need arises to maintain/improve the security environment for IRC programs
- Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs
- 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
- 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
- Dedication to IRC values, including child protection
- People who are familiar in local dialects and local language will get preference
- Minimum Bachelor's degree in Social Science/ Social Work/ Education/ Human Rights/ Economics or degree in equivalent subject