Community Development Centre (CODEC) invites application for the COMs Officer for implementing 'Education and Protection for Refugee Community (EPRC) Project' funded by UNHCR, located at Ukhiya & Teknaf Cox’s Bazar)
Position Title: COMs Officer
Duration: 01 June 2026 to 31 December 2026.
C. Key areas of performance /Responsibility /Accountability:
- Supervise, guide, and support COMs Volunteers to ensure effective implementation of outreach activities.
- Prepare and coordinate daily and weekly activity plans for COMs Volunteers based on camp context and priorities.
- Ensure volunteers disseminate accurate, timely, and life-saving information to the community as per approved messages.
- Monitor volunteer performance and provide regular feedback, coaching, and technical support.
- Ensure Age, Gender, and Diversity (AGD) principles are reflected in volunteer recruitment, deployment, and activities.
- Coordinate and oversee community awareness sessions, household visits, group discussions, and issue-based messaging.
- Ensure dissemination of information related to protection, health, WASH, services availability, rights, and assistance processes.
- Maintain records of awareness sessions, topics covered, attendance, and community responses.
- Support COMs Volunteers in identifying PSNs, including persons with disabilities, elderly, children at risk, and other vulnerable individuals.
- Ensure timely referral of identified PSNs to appropriate service providers through established referral pathways.
- Track and document PSN identification and referral outcomes.
- Support community members to raise concerns, feedback, and complaints through the Community Feedback Mechanism (CFM).
- Mobilize community members and volunteers to participate in consultation meetings, FGDs, and community-led discussions.
- Coordinate Saturday Solidarity Project (SSP) activities, ensuring proper community engagement, mobilization, and documentation.
- Facilitate meetings with visitors, government representatives, UN agencies, and national/international NGOs when required.
- Coordinate closely with CODEC teams and UNHCR counterparts to ensure alignment and effective implementation.
- Maintain an updated database of COMs Volunteers, including recruitment details, profiles, training records, and attendance.
- Ensure proper documentation of awareness activities, PSN identification, referrals, SSP activities, and community feedback.
- Provide daily updates and weekly activity reviews to the Technical Officer COMs
- Prepare and submit weekly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, and annual reports as per organizational requirements.
- Submit work plans and accomplishment reports to the Technical Officer COMs.
- Uphold CODEC’s Code of Conduct, safeguarding, PSEA, child protection, confidentiality, and “Do No Harm” principles at all times.
- Perform any other duties assigned by the Supervisor or Organization in line with project objectives.
Safeguarding & PSEA:
- S/he should abide by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)'s six core principles on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) policy.
- Ensure the safety of team members (in respect to Prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse - PSEA) from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the program's goals on safeguarding implementation.
- Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
Only Female Year of Experience: 3 years of working in the CBP Program Funded by UNHCR. Mandatory Requirements: Skilled in Awareness Message Dissemination· Good communication skills both in English and Bangla.· Team management and capacity Development.· Report Writing skill and strong interpersonal skills.· Having sound knowledge of large-scale Volunteer management.· Sound knowledge on Kobo, ODK, SharePoint, OneDrive, etc.· Supportive Supervision.· Skilled in PSN-related issue Identification and referral.· Knowledge on SSP· Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).· Cultural sensitivity and understanding of diverse communities. Duration: 01 January 2026 to 31 March 2026 (Strong Possibility of Extension)Job Location: Ukhiya/Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar.
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