Prosecution Program Manager/Senior Manager, SHOTORKO project

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

LOCATION : Dhaka, Bangladesh

DEPARTMENT : Human Rights and Empowerment

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

REPORTS TO : SHOTORKO Project Director

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 Prosecution Program (Senior) Manager for the SHOTORKO project. The Prosecution 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 Prosecution 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 1 (Prosecution), strengthening the capacity of Bangladesh’s criminal justice actors to investigate,

prosecute, and abjudicate TIP for FC cases. The PM/SPM contributes to establishing strategic partnerships with criminal justice stakeholders and provides technical oversight over project’s key partner under Objective 1. The PM/SPM leads a rapid legal assessment of TIP for FC cases with Anti-Trafficking Tribunals, guides development of a TIP for FC bench book and training curriculum, and supports a model tribunal pilot at the Dhaka Anti-Trafficking Tribunal. Coordinating with the Ministry of Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs (MoLJPA), Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA), Bangladesh Anti-Trafficking Tribunals, and Tribunal Task Force Committees, the PM/SPM organizes case monitoring conferences, facilitates survivors’ access to justice, and improves coordination among criminal justice stakeholders to increase prosecutions and convictions of TIP for FC in OSOs cases.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Leads the implementation of comprehensive prosecution activities with the Bangladesh Anti-Trafficking Tribunals on TIP for FC in OSOs in line with Bangladesh national laws and TIP victim identification guidelines, integrating TIP for FC in OSOs indicators.

· Promotes trauma-informed, survivor-centered approaches, the non-punishment principle (NPP), and Do No Harm Principles from case filing and evidence collection through trial and judgment, increasing convictions in TIP for FC in OSO cases.

· Provides technical oversight of the Objective 1 partner and national consultants, including reviewing workplans and deliverables, monitoring performance against subaward milestones, and ensuring technical quality and compliance.

· Provides prosecution technical assistance to Bangladesh criminal justice and project implementing partners to strengthen TIP for FC in OSOs case filings and support survivors’ and witnesses’ security, participation in trials, and access to justice and logistical support.

· Engages TIP for FC survivors as persons with lived experience (PWLE) in designing and validating the bench book, curriculum, and other prosecution tools, ensuring safe, ethical, and compensated participation.

· Trains criminal justice stakeholders on Bangladesh TIP laws-rules, identification of TIP for FC in OSOs victims, trauma-informed-survivor centered best practices, Do No Harm Principles, and policies to avoid revictimization supporting non-punishment principle and survivor friendly court processes.

· Promotes advocacy with government stakeholders, particularly the MoLJPA, MoHA, and Anti-Trafficking Tribunals to strengthen implementation of TIP laws, evidence collection, and policies that increase prosecution of TIP for FC in OSOs cases.

· Directs the development and roll-out of project-prosecution tools and training modules for criminal justice professionals and ensures their implementation through regular follow-up.

· In collaboration with the government offices, and regional criminal justice stakeholders, promotes national-regional strategic partnerships for effective mutual legal aid agreements to improve criminal justice collaboration supporting TIP for FC in OSOs convictions, sharing evidence, extraditions, repatriation of victims, and best practices in prosecution of TIP for FC in OSOs.

· Participates in drafting the project baseline assessment and implementing partners’ activities.

· Prepares technical reports, lessons learned, success stories, case studies, and knowledge products on prosecution activities.

· Organizes consultations with PWLE, civil society, legal aid providers, and other organizations to inform the legal assessment and development of bench book and training curriculum.

· Coordinates with the monitoring and evaluation team to collect and analyze routine data, and propose recommendations if adjustments are required.

· Adheres to the project code of conduct, compliance policies, and contributes to project work planning, budgeting, monitoring, and reporting, in coordination with the PD.

· Other duties assigned by the PD.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

· Master’s level degree required in law from a reputable university.

Work Experience:

· Minimum of seven years’ experience implementing complex prosecution, TIP, or rule of law activities within a counter TIP program for international development, preferably with the U.S. Department of State.

· Extensive experience working with the Bangladesh Anti-Trafficking Tribunals.

· Demonstrated knowledge of human trafficking national and international laws, rules, and protocols.

· Experience applying trauma-informed-survivor centered approaches, Do No Harm Principles, and national and international best practices when engaging with TIP survivors.

· Expertise developing TIP prosecution programs focused on evidence collection and coordination between law enforcement, prosecutors, victims, and witnesses, leading to increased TIP convictions.

· Experience developing program communications and reports on prosecution successes and lessons learned.

· Experience conducting prosecution-related training with senior officials.

· Familiarity with cyber-enabled crime, digital evidence, or trafficking for forced criminality, and with application of the non-punishment principle, strongly preferred.

· Strong interpersonal skills, diplomacy and tact in sensitive situations, and ability to work in teams and in multi-cultural environments.

Skills/Knowledge:

· Fluent Bangla and English.

· Microsoft Office Skills.

· Strong oral and written communication skills.

· Willingness to travel regularly within Bangladesh.

· 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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