Senior Programme Associate

United Nations Children's Fund

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Experience: 3 to 5 Years

Skill Required: IT and ICT

Under the direct supervision of the Programme Manager PSEA based in Cox’s bazaar, the UNICEF Senior Programme Associate PSEA will provide range of procedural, administrative, and operational tasks for the effective roll out of PSEA and Child Safeguarding global guidelines, standards and tools and support implementation to prevent SEA in humanitarian and development settings.

Duties and responsibilities:

  • Assist in documenting and managing reported SEA allegations in a confidential manner within the UNICEF data protection policy.
  •  Assist in updating the established confidential data management system on SEA cases, case management and provide statistical non-identifying and trends in coordination with the PSEA Programme Manager.
  • Support the PSEA unit in day-to-day activities including liaising with partners, maintaining database of partners and follow up of issues.
  • Follow up with section’s PSEA focal points and implementing partners in support of PSEA programme delivery.
  • Facilitate organizing PSEA related meetings, trainings, workshops, and events, including preparing agendas, taking note and minutes of the meeting and translation from Bangla to English and English to Bangla during the event.
  • Provide logistical and administrative support for field visits, missions, and trainings including travel arrangements, raising travel requisitions.
  • Gather and compile data and information for the preparation of documents.
  • Organize and coordinate filing of documents and maintain mailing lists.
  • Take care of the PSEA Hotline Number, assist the PSEA Programme Manager to receive Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) allegations and child safeguarding concerns and document accordingly.
  • Carrying out transactions in VISION ensuring programme results, activities and programme coding are as per annual/rolling work plans and makes amendments and alterations as per section revisions when necessary.
  • Performs other duties, as required, and assigned by supervisor

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Minimum requirements:

Education:

  • Completion of secondary education is required, preferably supplemented by technical or university courses related to the work of the organization such as Social Sciences, Gender and development studies, Law, International Relations, Government, Public Administration, Public Policy, Social Policy, or another relevant technical field.

Work Experience:

  • A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible administrative work closely related to support of programme activities.    

Language Requirements:

  • Fluency in English and in Bangla is required. Knowledge of Burmese language will be considered an asset.

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/582166