<p></p> <p>POSITION TITLE : Protection Program Manager/Senior Manager, SHOTORKO project</p> <p>LOCATION : Dhaka, Bangladesh</p> <p>DEPARTMENT : Human Rights and Empowerment</p> <p>STATUS : Full-time, contingent upon continuation of donor funding</p> <p>REPORTS TO : SHOTORKO Project Director</p> <p> </p> <p>GENERAL:</p> <p> </p> <p>Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that works with people in the United States and around the world to empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity, and sustain natural resources. Since the 1980s, Winrock has been working, in partnership with the government of Bangladesh, to strengthen agriculture, aquaculture, trade, safe migration, and natural resource management sectors. Its work also protects human rights and expands inclusive access to economic opportunities.</p> <p> </p> <p>The U.S. Department of State-funded Strengthening Anti-Human Trafficking Responses for Online Recruitment into Criminal Operations (SHOTORKO) will address trafficking in persons for forced criminality in Bangladesh by strengthening capacities to investigate and prosecute online scamming crimes; improving survivor protection; increasing victim identification and support services to prevent re-victimization; combatting fraudulent recruitment raising awareness and improving online safeguards; and facilitating private-sector partnerships.</p> <p> </p> <p>Winrock International is recruiting a Protection Program (Senior) Manager for the SHOTORKO project. The Protection Program (Senior) Manager will support the project’s overall objective to combat trafficking of Bangladeshis for forced criminality (FC) in online scam operations (OSOs). The project will do so by:</p> <p> </p> <p>1. Strengthening Bangladeshi stakeholder capacities and institutions to investigate and prosecute trafficking in persons (TIP) for FC in OSOs;</p> <p>2. Improving the identification, support, and referrals of TIP for FC in OSOs survivors to tailored protection care reinforcing repatriation, reintegration, and avoiding revictimization;</p> <p>3. Combatting and preventing fraudulent, deceptive employment recruitment for OSOs, increasing awareness of TIP OSO, improving online safeguards; and</p> <p>4. Building effective, durable partnerships that disrupt TIP and reduce OSO expansion.</p> <p> </p> <p><em><strong>This is a local/national position and is not eligible for international allowances or relocation allowances.</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p>POSITION SUMMARY:</p> <p> </p> <p>The Protection Program Manager (or Senior Manager) (PM/SPM) works closely with the Project Director (PD), to achieve the project’s goals and objectives to combat trafficking of Bangladeshis for FC in OSOs. The PM/SPM, in coordination with the PD, leads SHOTORKO’s Objective 2</p> <p>(Protection). The PM/SPM works with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA), Ministry of Social Welfare (MoSW) and its Department of Social Services, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), and Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Oversees Employment (MoEWOE), and SHOTORKO’s key partner under Objective 2 to support the adaptation of national victim identification and referral systems to address TIP for FC; train frontline stakeholders to identify and refer survivors; and connect survivors to repatriation, protection, and reintegration services to reduce risks of re-trafficking.</p> <p> </p> <p>ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:</p> <p> </p> <p>· Leads adaptation of national TIP protection strategies to include TIP for FC in OSOs criteria, in collaboration with MoHA and MoSW. These strategies include: Victim Identification Guidelines, Comprehensive Survivor Services Guidelines (CSSGs), and National Referral Mechanism (NRM).</p> <p>· Provides technical oversight of the Objective 2 partner and service providers on survivor-centered, trauma-informed care, operationalize ethical-inclusive case management, specialized psychosocial support, comprehensive legal aid, essential shelter services, dignified reintegration, training, and other support to avoid revictimization.</p> <p>· Supports and strengthens project prosecution implementing partners’ victim and witness advocacy services supporting TIP for FC in OSOs survivors’ participation in trials and access to justice ensuring protection and logistical support.</p> <p>· Oversees the adaptation and roll-out of TIP standard operating procedures, protection policies, tools, and training modules for frontline TIP professionals and ensures their effective implementation through regular follow-up.</p> <p>· Trains criminal justice stakeholders and others on the CSSGs, survivor centered best practices, Do no harm principles, and policies to avoid revictimization supporting TIP for FC in OSOs non-punishment principles and survivor friendly court processes.</p> <p>· Participates in TIP for FC in OSOs working group meetings integrating TIP for FC in OSOs survivor protection best practices.</p> <p>· Promotes advocacy with government protection service providers, particularly with the Department of Social Services, to ensure implementation of the CSSGs for TIP for FC in OSOs survivors.</p> <p>· Supports the establishment or strengthening of referral networks through operationalizing district referral directories for TIP for FC in OSOs survivors, including access to government and non-government services.</p> <p>· Monitors TIP for FC in OSOs survivor quality of care, gather survivors’ feedback, and ensure that survivo