Overview
The Senior Protection Officer - Child Protection will support the implementation of the "Strengthening Child Rights Monitoring Mechanism (CRMM)" project in Ukhiya and Teknaf upazilas. The role involves monitoring, verifying, documenting, and reporting serious children's rights violations and facilitating referrals for necessary support.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee and ensure implementation of the "Strengthening Child Rights Monitoring Mechanism (CRMM)" project activities.
- Liaise and collaborate with community-based structures and stakeholders to identify CRV cases and ensure appropriate services through referral or direct support.
- Support verification of child rights violations incidents and capacity building of front-line volunteers and relevant stakeholders.
- Ensure monitoring of serious child rights violation incidents, verification, documentation, and provide support for referrals.
- Assist in the operationalization of IRC’s child rights violation monitoring interventions.
- Support program and M&E activities, analyze child rights violation data, and produce incident reports.
- Ensure capacity building of community volunteers, community-based protection structures, and mass awareness initiatives.
- Work closely with community people, children, parents, and caregivers to understand field situations and identify programming ideas.
- Maintain organized documentation of field visits, attendance, referrals, and reports, and submit timely updates.
- Ensure accurate data entry into required trackers and safeguard office files and materials.
- Work closely with child protection managers to achieve project results and implement program interventions with quality.
- Coordinate with IRC’s program and operation unit and liaison with Camp in Charge (CiC) office for onboarding community volunteers.
- Work closely with community volunteers to identify CRV incidents, report and verify incidents, and support survivors.
- Regular monitoring of the program and providing necessary supervision support to the team.
- Facilitate training and orientation with community volunteers, community people, children, parents, and caregivers on CRV/child protection concerns.
- Identify most vulnerable survivors, assess their protection risk, threat, needs, and ensure need-based support.
- Maintain open and professional relations with team members, including volunteers, and provide oversight and guidance.
- Ensure timely completion and submission of monthly timesheets, weekly and monthly progress, probation reviews, and annual performance reviews.
- Ensure support and ongoing capacity building opportunities for program team including community volunteers.
- Support 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, and groups in the field.
- Regularly attend relevant coordination meetings at the field level.
- Contribute to the development of the CP CRV program strategic direction.
- Coordinate with other IRC sectors staff at the field level.
- Consistently and dedicatedly monitor/assess the safety and security of field teams.
- Deliverables include providing technical input to identify child rights violation incidents, reporting and safe referral mechanisms, and reporting of CRV activities in line with project tools and schedules.
Required Experience
- 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.
Qualifications
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Social Science/ Social Work/ Education/ Human Rights/ Economics or degree in equivalent subject.
