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.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Leads implementation of prevention activities in the project’s target districts and maintains effective relationships with government, civil society, and private sector partners.
· Trains prospective migrants, project partners, national and local governance structures, non-governmental, CSO, and other stakeholders on coercive tactics employed in deceptive digital recruitment leading to TIP for FC in OSOs, and ways to identify suspicious methods and improve digital literacy.
· Provides technical oversight of the Objective 3 implementing partners, including reviewing workplans and deliverables, monitoring performance against subaward milestones, and ensuring technical quality and compliance.
· Participates in TIP for FC in OSOs working group meetings integrating TIP for FC in OSOs prevention best practices.
· Supports BMET and MoEWOE to strengthen recruiter and employer vetting, including integrating TIP for FC prevention indicators into the visa certification process.
· Promotes advocacy with government stakeholders to ensure ethical recruitment to prevent TIP for FC in OSOs and promote safe migration.
· Oversees the development and roll-out of strategic behavior change and community outreach awareness materials that highlight red flags of deceptive recruitment and explain safe migration procedures and reporting mechanisms.
· Ensures campaigns are co-designed with persons with lived experience (PWLE), MoHA, local government bodies, Union Digital Centers, and Counter-Trafficking Committees (CTCs).
· Assesses reports for changes in TIP for FC in OSOs context, trends, data, and tactics used in deceptive recruitment.
· Coordinates community-level prevention outreach in target districts through Winrock’s Peer Leader network and ANIRBAN Survivor Leaders using digital campaign materials at community meetings, job fairs, and public locations.
· Engages faith leaders, CSOs, universities, Technical Training Centers, District Employment and Manpower Offices, CTCs, and Migration Information Training Centers to promote prevention messages, and ensure volunteers know how to refer potential victims to protection services.
· Contributes to the project baseline assessment, particularly on awareness of TIP for FC risks and recruitment practices in target districts.
· Promotes safe migration-ethical employment recruitment, skills training, and entrepreneurship opportunities through collaboration with migration information training centers, district employment manpower offices, employers, technology, industry, technical-vocational training groups and private sector platforms.
· Contributes to project work planning, budgeting, monitoring, and reporting.
· Prepares technical reports, lessons learned, success stories, case studies, and knowledge products on prevention activities and achievements.
· Organizes consultations with communities, civil society, and other organizations to generate evidence for the project design and activities.
· Coordinates with the monitoring and evaluation team to collect and analyze routine data, and propose recommendations if adjustments are required.
· Other duties assigned by the PD.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education:
· Master’s level degree required in social science (Economics, Sociology, Anthropology, Development Studies, Communications, Migration Studies, or related field) from a reputable university.
Work Experience:
· Minimum of seven years’ experience implementing complex prevention activities within a counter TIP program for international development, preferably with the U.S. Department of State.
· Demonstrated knowledge of human trafficking, migration, survivor centered approaches, Do No Harm Principles, and national and international best practices for engaging TIP survivors.
· Familiarity with online scams, digital safety, or social media platform reporting mechanisms, and with Bangladesh’s overseas recruitment and migration governance systems, strongly preferred.
· Expertise in designing and implementing awareness and outreach campaigns, including social media and video content, and in developing training materials and mobilizing volunteers.
· Experience developing program communications and reports on prevention successes and lessons learned.
· Experience designing and conducting training activities for government officials, social workers, and civil society organizations.
· Strong interpersonal skills, diplomacy and tact in sensitive situations, and ability to work in teams and in multi-cultural environments.
· Experience managing subawards or partner agreements, including technical oversight of partner deliverables.
Skills/Knowledge:
· Fluent Bangla and English
· Microsoft Office Skills
· Strong oral and written communication skills
· Willingness to travel regularly in the country.
· Interest in and enthusiasm for the mission of the SHOTORKO project.
· Ability to work independently with minimal oversight and manage multiple competing priorities and activities.
Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible but no later than 01 November 2026. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Winrock is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal treatment for all people. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by law.
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