Prevention Program Manager

POSITION TITLE :  Prevention Program Manager/Senior Manager, SHOTORKO project

LOCATION :           Dhaka, Bangladesh

DEPARTMENT :    Human Rights and Empowerment

STATUS :               Full-time, contingent upon continuation of donor funding

GENERAL:

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.

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.

Winrock International is recruiting a Prevention Program (Senior) Manager for the SHOTORKO project. The Prevention 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:

1. Strengthening Bangladeshi stakeholder capacities and institutions to investigate and prosecute trafficking in persons (TIP) for FC in OSOs;

2. Improving the identification, support, and referrals of TIP for FC in OSOs survivors to tailored protection care reinforcing repatriation, reintegration, and avoiding revictimization;

3. Combatting and preventing fraudulent, deceptive employment recruitment for OSOs, increasing awareness of TIP OSO, improving online safeguards; and

4. Building effective, durable partnerships that disrupt TIP and reduce OSO expansion.

This is a local/national position and is not eligible for international allowances or relocation allowances.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Prevention Program Manager/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 3 (Prevention) and provides technical oversight over the project’s prevention partners. The PM/SPM provides technical assistance to government stakeholders, including the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment (MoEWOE), the Bureau of Manpower, Employment, and Training (BMET), the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA), and private sector and civil society partners to develop and deliver awareness campaigns to prevent fraudulent job recruitment; mobilizes partners, civil society and non-governmental organizations, religious leaders, businesses, industries, employer associations, and government stakeholders to support ethical recruitment and safe migration; and identifies opportunities to train prospective migrants and survivors to avoid TIP for FC in OSOs.