Street Child is looking for a Protection Officer in Cox’s Bazar 2020

Street Child is looking for a Protection Officer in Cox’s Bazar 2020.

Street Child is an international charity, dedicated to empowering some of the most vulnerable children in the world by giving them the chance to go to school and giving their families sustainable means to keep them there. Street Child is supporting partners in Bangladesh to strengthen their capacity and implement projects with the host community in Cox’s Bazar and the Rohingya population. Street Child is currently seeking to expand and advance a series of projects in Bangladesh that work with the most marginalized so that every child’s rights are realized and the barriers to education and protection are removed.

Street Child is looking for a dedicated Protection Officer for a new 3-Year child protection project in Cox’s Bazar (Rohingya focused), titled, “Bridging the Gaps: Strengthening Mental Health Support for Children and Young People”. Their planned project has three key components: strengthening the collective resilience of the Rohingya community, strengthening the individual resilience of children and adolescents, and expanding access to mental health services through the provision of psycho-social support and case management for children in need and at risk.

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The main responsibility of the Protection Officer will be to provide technical support to strengthen our local partner’s safeguarding and organizational capacity as per project assigned. The Protection Officer will be responsible for safeguarding training to all staff, partner’s capacity development delivery, monitoring, impact assessment, and reporting. In addition to the Protection Officer will be required to perform other ad hoc duties assigned by Street Child.