Number of Post: 01
Location of Posting: Based at Chattogram
Employment Type: Full Time

Contract Duration:  Contract will be 30 June 2023 with possibility of further 1 years depending on the performance and funding availability.

Prottyashi, A social development organization has been working for the development of disadvantaged population of the country since its establishment and currently is going to implement a project to ensure safe, orderly and regular migration for the returnee migrants, migrant workers, potential migrants and their family members with the funding and technical support of Helvetas Bangladesh. Prottyashi invites applications for the vacant position titled- Project Officer (Access to Justice) for “Strengthened and Informative Migration Systems (SIMS)” Project.

Reporting:  Project Officer will report to Project Manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure the justice for the targeted project beneficiaries (returnee migrants, migrant workers and their family members) through coordinating with relevant public and private stakeholders.
• Formation of Grievance management committees (GMCs) at the union level ensuring the participation of representatives of the different stakeholders at the union level.
• Sensitization of the GMCs to deal with the grievances filed by the project beneficiaries with the support of upazila coordinators and social mobilizers.
• Receive, record and process the grievances filed by the project beneficiaries by referring them to the GMC, legal aid service provider or courts as appropriate.
• Ensure case management maintaining coordination with govt. peers including DEMO, BMET, district judge court etc.
• Facilitate coordination among the GMCs to be developed at the union level and the established GMCs at the district level.
• Coordinate with other existing projects or organizations in the project locations to ensure proper justice for the complainants.
• Provide technical supports to the targeted beneficiaries to deal with the litigations.
• Maintain communication and coordination with agents or sub-agents to ensure proper documentation of the agreements and other formalities.
• Sort out the existing challenges on the access to justice for the migrant households and present the learnings and findings to the national and district level authorities.
• Maintain coordination with the BMET or DEMO to use the online case management platform for ensuring justice for the complainants.
• Ensure attainment of compensation or support from the govt. and/or agents by the targeted populations if any unexpected incident happens with the project beneficiaries like death or accident.
• Maintain liaison with the public and private stakeholders at the union, upazila, district and national level stakeholder to ensure access to justice for the project beneficiaries.
• Contribute to prepare periodic reports of the project through providing data and information as required by the project manager and project office monitoring.
• Promote gender and social equity in all project interventions
• Adhere to conflict sensitive programme management and display conflict-sensitive behavior
• Adhere to the organizational values, norms and practices towards safeguarding, PSEA and code of conduct.

Required Educational Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor/Master's degree in law from any reputed university.
• At least 05 years of professional experience in national or international organizations in the relevant job responsibilities.

Core Competencies: 

• Must have professional writing and speaking capacity in English and Bangla, i.e. field visit report, event report, case study/story, content writing, etc.
• Results Oriented and Proactive
• Proficient with MS office suite
• Able to take decision in a timely manner, priorities and multi-task work seamlessly

Candidates need to be highly motivated and committed to Prottyashi’s vision, mission, and long-term development work to significantly improve the lives of the most vulnerable and marginalized. Candidates must be capable of displaying great learning agility, support and encourage knowledge sharing across projects, for the ultimate benefit of all of Prottyashi mission wide initiatives.

Salary and benefits: Monthly Net Salary will be 42,000 BDT with other admissible benefit such as Contributory provident fund & Bonus.

Last date of application is 27/11/2022

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Interested applicants with relevant background have to apply with a Cover Letter, Curriculum Vitae (CV) along with a recent photograph to career.prottyashi@gmail.com
Note:

• Prottyashi aims to attract and select a diverse workforce ensuring equal opportunity to everyone, irrespective of race, age, gender, HIV status, class, ethnicity, disability, location and religion.
• Women are particularly encouraged to apply.
• Any personal persuasion/phone-call will result in disqualification of candidature. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria.
• Prottyashi has a non-negotiable policy of ZERO TOLERANCE towards discrimination, harassment and abuse. All employees are expected to abide by the Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse & Child Protection Policy of Prottyashi.
• Internal and external applicants shall be treated equally in the entire selection process.
• To ensure transparent processes during recruitment, internal candidates should discuss potential applications with their Line Managers to ensure endorsement of their applications by respective Line Managers.
• There is no cost involved with applying for positions with Prottyashi. Any solicitation of job application costs should be regarded as fraudulent.