About the AIM Program:

The Mastercard Foundation Accelerating Impact for Young Women (AIM) in Partnership with BRAC is equipping 2 million adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) with age-appropriate entrepreneurship, employability, and life-skills training, as well as the tools to start and scale their own businesses. The nine-year program (2021-2030) applies BRAC’s proven model using microfinance, youth empowerment, agriculture, education and skills development to improve lives and livelihoods. It currently operates in seven African countries: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Kenya. Based on the AGYW age, needs, and circumstances, AGYW are placed on one of two pathways in the AIM program: an education pathway or a livelihood pathway.

About the Role:

Reporting to the AIM Branch Manager, the Programme Officer (PO) will be responsible for the overall implementation of direct field-level programme activities for the three programmatic pillars: Social & Economic Empowerment (Livelihood & Education pathways), Enabling Environment for AGYW. The PO will lead the participant selection process and set-up of the clubs. She will also be in-charge of the day-to-day management and supervision of the clubs and will supervise and follow-up on all mentor activities. The PO will also be responsible for conducting mentor training, asset purchase and distribution, selecting participants to the AIM education pathways, working with schools, and follow-up of school-related activities. She will keep all related programme documents, prepare programmatic data, and other required reports. The role will keep close working relations with regional technical persons, BRAC microfinance counterparts, and key community stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

Program Implementation Support

Social Empowerment Pillar:

• Lead the AIM program community-level inception activities, including community and participant selection, club selection and setup, club launching, participant enrolment activities, mentor selection, training and onboarding, community mobilization, linkage services, and value chain mapping.
• Lead the implementation and supervision of activities in assigned clubs as per program design, activity plan, and budget
• Conduct household (HH) and other surveys, as per programme requirement
• Form and manage AIM safe spaces/clubs as per programme target in selected communities
• Ensure achievement of club-level program targets as per implementation guideline and report any operational/management issues to AIM-BM
• Follow-up closely with participants to minimize attrition and prepare monthly attendance reports and bi-monthly drop-out reports
• Ensure manual and digital attendance collection by the mentors
• Ensure participants records are well documented during Household survey to inform participants enrollment
• Verify Participant club attendance records in BInsight for accurate reporting.

AIM Livelihoods Pathway:

• Conduct participant-wise livelihood option selection, organize livelihood technical training, entrepreneurship training and other need base training/refreshers
• Provide enterprise development support, and coordinate all market development and facilitation activities in the community
• Ensure assets/inputs transfer and other livelihood-related activities
• Conduct participant follow-up through initial/immediate home visits after receiving livelihood assets, home visits, and group visits to ensure the asset safety and growth, increase household income, and confidence building
• Collect the livelihood shared cost portion installments from the livelihood participants and deposit them accordingly to the branch office.
• Form and follow-up VSLAs to create a savings culture to the participants and to serve few other programme activities by leveraging this platform based on the programme design.
• Help with conditional cash transfers of assets and cost recovery of such assets
• Ensure a minimum 80% of transition to formal microfinance institutions for AIM livelihood participants
• Verify participants Livelihood records in BInsight before asset transfer
• Ensure participants' livelihood asset records match with the participants preference.

Education Pathway:

• Select participants for AIM - Education, mobilize, and support the set-up of a peer mentor study circle.
• Ensure education-related support to the eligible participants
• Support and follow-up activities of ongoing peer-mentor study circle
• Support with distribution or provision of school-related costs (in-kind or cash) and monitoring use of resources, as well as school attendance of AIM education participants
• Support in creating linkages between enabling environment activities and school management activities
• Support identifying out of school very young adolescent (VYAs) & adolescent girls (AGs) who are interested in completing their education
• Support in conducting education participants registration and other surveys, as per programme requirement.

Enabling Environment Pillar:

• Formation of the youth development committee (YDC), training, meetings and other community-level activities/meetings as per programme design.
• Conduct local level service providers mapping and support Branch managers to establish a rapport with relevant service providers mapped.
• Support in GBV and SRH referrals and other relevant referrals of AGYW to relevant service providers.
• Support to ensure gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) related activities.
• Support in identifying AIM youth and mobilising for AIM community dialogues and action planning.

Academic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Social studies, Community development, Gender and Development, Human Resources, Business Administration, Education and any other related fields.

Experience Required:

• At least 1 year of experience in the national/international development sector, including experience working with rural communities to implement community development programs, including education, microfinance, livelihood, agricultural and food security, and/or girl’s, women’s empowerment programs and other related programmes/projects.

Required Skills, Competencies & Knowledge:

• Ability to spend extended periods of time in the field and travel within the country
• Computer literacy and Proficient in using mobile devices, and computers, particularly with Microsoft Office
• Experience in use of digital reporting and/or survey platforms (e.g. KoBo, Google forms, SurveyMonkey, CommCare, SurveyCTO etc) are preferable.
• Strong sense of teamwork and collaboration and demonstrated ability to build relationships with individuals from diverse backgrounds
• Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and dedication to the mission of BRAC
• Strong sense of teamwork and collaboration and demonstrated ability to build relationships with individuals from diverse backgrounds
• Community mobilization skills, including good communication and facilitation skills.

• Lead the AIM program community-level inception activities, including community and participant selection, club selection and setup, club launching, participant enrolment activities, mentor selection, training and onboarding, community mobilization, linkage services, and value chain mapping.
• Lead the implementation and supervision of activities in assigned clubs as per program design, activity plan, and budget
• Conduct household (HH) and other surveys, as per programme requirement
• Form and manage AIM safe spaces/clubs as per programme target in selected communities
• Ensure achievement of club-level program targets as per implementation guideline and report any operational/management issues to AIM-BM
• Follow-up closely with participants to minimize attrition and prepare monthly attendance reports and bi-monthly drop-out reports
• Ensure manual and digital attendance collection by the mentors
• Ensure participants records are well documented during Household survey to inform participants enrollment
• Verify Participant club attendance records in BInsight for accurate reporting.
• Conduct participant-wise livelihood option selection, organize livelihood technical training, entrepreneurship training and other need base training/refreshers
• Provide enterprise development support, and coordinate all market development and facilitation activities in the community
• Ensure assets/inputs transfer and other livelihood-related activities
• Conduct participant follow-up through initial/immediate home visits after receiving livelihood assets, home visits, and group visits to ensure the asset safety and growth, increase household income, and confidence building
• Collect the livelihood shared cost portion installments from the livelihood participants and deposit them accordingly to the branch office.
• Form and follow-up VSLAs to create a savings culture to the participants and to serve few other programme activities by leveraging this platform based on the programme design.
• Help with conditional cash transfers of assets and cost recovery of such assets
• Ensure a minimum 80% of transition to formal microfinance institutions for AIM livelihood participants
• Verify participants Livelihood records in BInsight before asset transfer
• Ensure participants' livelihood asset records match with the participants preference.
• Select participants for AIM - Education, mobilize, and support the set-up of a peer mentor study circle.
• Ensure education-related support to the eligible participants
• Support and follow-up activities of ongoing peer-mentor study circle
• Support with distribution or provision of school-related costs (in-kind or cash) and monitoring use of resources, as well as school attendance of AIM education participants
• Support in creating linkages between enabling environment activities and school management activities
• Support identifying out of school very young adolescent (VYAs) & adolescent girls (AGs) who are interested in completing their education
• Support in conducting education participants registration and other surveys, as per programme requirement.
• Formation of the youth development committee (YDC), training, meetings and other community-level activities/meetings as per programme design.
• Conduct local level service providers mapping and support Branch managers to establish a rapport with relevant service providers mapped.
• Support in GBV and SRH referrals and other relevant referrals of AGYW to relevant service providers.
• Support to ensure gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) related activities.
• Support in identifying AIM youth and mobilising for AIM community dialogues and action planning.

• Ability to spend extended periods of time in the field and travel within the country
• Computer literacy and Proficient in using mobile devices, and computers, particularly with Microsoft Office
• Experience in use of digital reporting and/or survey platforms (e.g. KoBo, Google forms, SurveyMonkey, CommCare, SurveyCTO etc) are preferable.
• Strong sense of teamwork and collaboration and demonstrated ability to build relationships with individuals from diverse backgrounds
• Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and dedication to the mission of BRAC
• Strong sense of teamwork and collaboration and demonstrated ability to build relationships with individuals from diverse backgrounds
• Community mobilization skills, including good communication and facilitation skills.

• Bachelor’s degree in Social studies, Community development, Gender and Development, Human Resources, Business Administration, Education and any other related fields.