Breaking the Silence is a non-profit, voluntary organization registered with the Department of Social Services (Registration No. 05037, Date: 17 September 2000) and NGOAB (Registration No. 1642, Date: 20 May 2001). The organization works to establish child rights, prevent child abuse and child sexual abuse, prevent child marriage, accelerate child-friendly good governance, improve the quality of education at the primary and pre-primary level, and prevent violence against women, empowering children and women. The organization is implementing a project named `Sports for Protection, Resilience and Transformation (SPiRIT) Project` at Dhaka. The project is implemented by the support of `Tdh Foundation`. BTS is going to recruit a `MHPSS Officer` for the mentioned project and the position`s desk office at Dhaka field office.
Position Name : MHPSS Officer
Organization Name : Breaking the Silence (BTS)
Project Name : Sports for Protection, Resilience and Transformation (SPiRIT) Project
Job Location: Dhaka North City Corporation.
Authority: Directly accountable to Project Manager (PM).
Contact/Key relations : Close contact with Project Officer, Focal Person & donor. Also
Overall psychosocial intervention design (Both Structural and Non-Structural) and implementation within the Project.
Designing of training module on MHPSS, Recreational activities (Indoor and outdoor) with support of technical team of Tdh.
Provide training on mental health and psycho social support (MHPSS) for the project staffs, community facilitator's capacity building training, youth and adolescent as per the Organization and Project need.
Technical guidance to the project team for any mental health case management,
Development/collection of MHPSS counseling IEC/SBCC, audio/video materials and orient to the field team for their use properly,
Establish referral linkage with respective government sectors for MHPSS cases,
Maintain effective communication, negotiation, and dispute resolution skills at community level, staffs level as well as stakeholders' level.
Advocacy with government sectors and community stakeholders to gain support for the project and sustainability of the works.
Develop girls club, multi-purpose child and adolescent center. Work with adolescents and youth empowerment as well as different age groups, conduct youth and adolescent session, psychosocial counselling session etc.
Implement and process facilitated with different sports activities and establish social inclusion, social coherence and psychosocial wellbeing.
Working with internally displaced population (IDP) and youth effect of climate vulnerability. Engage child and adolescent on MHPSS activities.
Identify youth champion, change maker and will have to conduct Life-Skill, Leadership and limitless potential (LLLP) training.
Organize different national and international day observation ceremony also manage earth-work or maintenance of sports ground.
Follow organizational safeguarding policy like Child Protection policy, Gender policy, child and youth policy, zero tolerance policy, IT policies at Organization and beneficiary level.
Document base practices, manage different web platform (Facebook Page, WhatApp etc.), prepared daily, weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, semester, half yearly and yearly report by using Cloud platform. Support in project report writing on MHPSS issues including case management.
Educational Requirements :
Master's Degree in Psychology or Bachelor Degree in Psychology with relevant working experience
Experience Requirements :
At least 5 year(s)
Additional Requirements :
Age at most 45 years
At least 5 years of experience in Social development sector. Female is preferable.
Have solid working experience with child protection sectors.
Skills on documentation both Bangle and English.
Work experience with adolescent and youth, and community development at displaced community will give priority in selection process
Have valid driving license and able to drive practically.
Capacity to deal with various media personnel (Press, electronic media etc.) is essential
Willing to stay at working such as hard-to-reach area
Good writing and speaking skill in English and Bangla.
Must have computer skills in MS Word, Excel, Power Point and Presentation.
Education qualification and age is flexible for more experienced person in development field in project management.
Tenure of Services Contract: 3 (Three) months' probation period. After successful completion of the probation period, based on performance of the staff and recommendation from the supervisor, the post may be continued till project's lifetime.
Compensation & Other Benefits :
2 days weekend
Office time, Annual Leave, Increment & other facilities will be applicable as per 'Recruitment and Human Resource Management Policy' of Breaking the Silence.
maintain close relationship with local government and other stakeholder.
Field Visit: 75% Field visit & 25% office work.
How to Apply
Only short-listed candidates will be called for assessment.
Qualified and interested candidates are requested to apply with updated CV along with two professional references (one must be immediate supervisor), recent photograph, e-mail, Valid 'Skype' ID and contact cell number.
The person accused of child and women abuse, active political activist or supporter and the peoples who involved in militancy/terrorism in any way are requested not to apply.
Breaking the Silence reserved the authority to accept / reject any application and to add / relax the terms of the recruitment notice. Any persuasion is treated disqualify the C.V
The authority reserves the right to cancel the appointment of a candidate at any time after his appointment if he has given false information or concealed the truth in any case.
