Training Officer

The Training Officer is responsible for planning, coordinating, and ensuring the technical quality of all training, orientations, and capacity-building interventions under the project. The role supports the achievement of key project outcomes focused on establishing a Master Trainers pool, strengthening the capacity of the social service workforce, promoting disability-inclusive child protection and case management, raising community awareness on PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse), GBV, environmental protection, and building the life-skills of children and adolescents with disabilities.

Key Responsibilities

A. Training Planning & Coordination

• Develop and implement an integrated annual and quarterly project training calendar aligned with the project’s 4 core outputs and key performance indicators.
• Coordinate multi-level training rollouts across target Upazilas and Districts for diverse groups: government social workers, peer leaders, parents/caregivers, CROs, CHOs, OPDs/SHGs and teachers.
• Directly line-manage, guide, and supervise Assistant Training Officers to ensure consistent, high-quality field-level delivery of all learning events.

B. Curriculum & Materials Development

• Lead the development, adaptation, contextualization, and printing of high-quality training modules, toolkits, and SBCC materials covering Disability inclusion, child protection, psychosocial support, PSEAH, GBV, life-skills development.
• Ensure all learning instruments are highly participatory, fully accessible to persons with various types of disabilities, culturally appropriate, and gender-responsive.

C. Training Delivery & Quality Assurance

• Facilitate or co-facilitate high-level workshops, including the formulation of the Master Trainers Pool (consisting of govt. social workers, peer leaders, parents, and OPD members).
• Ensure advanced adult learning methodologies, inclusive communication tools, and participatory exercises are embedded in all sessions.
• Conduct routine field quality monitoring during rollouts by Community Facilitators and Assistant Training Officers, ensuring accurate technical content delivery.

D. Capacity Building of Community & Institutional Structures

• Strengthen the operational and technical knowledge of Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs), Self-Help Groups (SHGs), and special school teachers.
• Orient and build the capacity of Community-Based Child Protection Committees (CBCPCs) on PSEA and the safety of children and adolescents with disabilities.
• Provide ongoing technical mentorship to project stakeholders, ensuring post-training application of skills in case management and referral tracking.

E. Monitoring, Documentation & Learning

• Collaborate with the Monitoring persons to track key training indicators (pre-/post-test data, knowledge application scores, and numbers trained.
• Assist in conducting project needs assessments, Baseline & Resource Mapping, and Endline Evaluations.
• Document comprehensive training completion reports, capturing field-level success stories, lessons learned, and best practices to feed into quarterly donor reporting for UNICEF.
• Support the coordination of major project advocacy events and national day observations (e.g., World Environment Day, International Day of Persons with Disabilities).