About BRAC

BRAC is the world’s largest, and leading development organization dedicated to poverty alleviation and empowerment of the poor. Initiated in Bangladesh in 1972, BRAC now operates in 11 countries acr...

Who May Be Interested

Technology professionals including IT specialists, software developers, and technical support staff may find this position relevant.

This opportunity is ideal for professionals interested in the role of Technical Sector Officer - Community Mobilization based in Ruhango, Rwanda. Applicants with strong technical expertise and problem-solving abilities are encouraged to apply.

About This Opportunity

The position of Technical Sector Officer - Community Mobilization at BRAC located in Ruhango, Rwanda offers an opportunity for qualified professionals to contribute their knowledge and experience in a dynamic working environment. The organization seeks individuals who are motivated, reliable, and capable of performing their duties effectively while maintaining professional standards.

Common Skills Required

• Communication
• Management
• Planning
• Report writing
• Training
• Logistics

Job Description

This description has been adapted for JobNziza readers to provide a clearer overview of the opportunity.

BRAC International is Hiring! Join BRAC International to create opportunities for people to realise their potential.

Position: Technical Sector Officer - Community Mobilization

Job Location: Ruhango District, Rwanda

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 enhance 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:

The Technical assist Officer, Community Mobilization (TSO-CM) will assist the Technical Coordinator Community Mobilization in planning and implementing social empowerment and community engagement activities, including gender and social inclusion, disability inclusion, SRHR, SGBV, community dialogues, and grassroots-level advocacy. They will also contribute to staff capacity development through targeted training and supervision. Additionally, the TSO-CM will deliver technical assistance, assist, and quality control in implementing SGBV and SRHR community-based case management and referral systems.

The TSO-CM will collaborate with the country program team, AIM central team, BI technical anchors, and Technical Coordinators to enhance program quality, contextualize training modules, and train staff on new materials and tools. They will ensure effective delivery of gender equality and social inclusion (GESI), disability inclusion (DI), Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), enabling environment and advocacy components are integrated into the overall AIM programmatic operations.

The ideal candidate for this role is one who is proactive, passionate, resourceful, and enjoys being a team player.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Technical Support

• assist AIM field team in inception phase activities (community mobilization and inception meetings, transect walks, surveys, YDC formation).
• Train regional staff on GESI, GBV, disability inclusion, domestic violence reporting, and women's rights advocacy; enhance PA/mentor capacity on GESI, community mobilization, SRHR, and GBV sessions.
• assist social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) planning, monitoring, and evaluation and coordinating with the project team.
• guide the implementation of SBCC dialogue sessions at the community level, targeting local, religious, and cultural leaders, as well as other duty bearers.
• Guide community leaders in developing action plans based on commitments made during SBCC dialogue sessions. assist tracking and follow-up on these action plans to ensure progress and accountability.
• detect and adapt safe, accessible club spaces with reasonable accommodations and gender-segregated infrastructure (restrooms, dignity kits, baby changing stations), prioritizing marginalized groups including PWDs.
• assist coordination with stakeholders (government, INGOs, CSOs, YDC members, and service providers) for social empowerment and enabling environment interventions.
• Participate in regional GESI, SRHR, and SGBV working groups, advocating for women's and girls' rights.
• Mentor and assist youth advocates in developing, implementing & monitoring advocacy action plans, overseeing practical implementation (events, stakeholder meetings, logistics, linkage to CSO networks and technical working groups).
• guide community action planning sessions to create community action plans, consolidate commitments and ensure community-led solutions.
• Organize action planning and handover meetings at the end of each cohort to secure firm commitments from local leaders and ensure the sustainability of the outcomes.

2. Coordination, Planning and Partnership

• assist coordination with a range of stakeholders, including government entities, INGOs, CSOs, YDC members, and service providers at the sub-national level, to assist interventions as well as the program’s grassroots advocacy and partnerships work.
• organize and consolidate the mapping of SRHR and SGBV service providers at the regional level.
• Organize events for the celebration of international observance days such as International Women's Day, the 16 Days of Activism, and International Day of the Girl Child in the regions.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of a monitoring framework to track progress, assess impact, and inform adjustments in youth advocacy action plans.

3. Reporting, Documentation and Communication

• Contribute to program reports and deliverables as required and demonstrate the status of GESI and grassroots-level advocacy activities towards achieving expected results.
• Quality management, checks, and assurance in the SGBV case recording database to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and timely reports.
• detect and document best practices, most significant change stories, and share this knowledge with colleagues. Ensure quality reporting on enabling environments, community mobilization, and GESI indicators, and document good practices.
• assist regional managers, branch managers and programme assistants regularly to ensure timely and high-quality programmatic data entry and reporting in relevant manual and digital MIS (BInsight) by the Program Assistants, and mentors.
• assist documentation of program wins and success stories / case studies
• Ensure timely preparation and submission of programmatic management information system (MIS), financial and donor reports.

4. Policy and Strategy Compliance

• Popularize the Enabling Environment Strategy, GESI policies and SGBV, SRHR and disability inclusion guidelines among the frontline staff through orientations and trainings
• help with policy-related materials development and localization.

Safeguarding responsibilities:

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation.
• Act as a key source of assist, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Major Challenges:

• Access of hard to reach locations in the communities AIM serves
• Buy-in for advocacy, GESI & SRHR work at the respective regions
• Managing coordination among several team members within the BRAC family.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

• Timely achievement of project activities.
• Efficient case management and referral systems.
• Effective staff capacity building on advocacy, GESI, SRHR, DI and SGBV.
• Effective implementation of resources and tools.
• Functional SGBV & SRH case management referral mechanism and database.
• Strong partnerships established.
• Effective implementation of youth advocacy action plans.
• Community dialogues delivered using GESI-responsive SBCC messages and tools.
• Individual/specific KPIs as agreed with supervisor.

Academic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree / Graduate or Post graduate in International Development, Gender, Sociology, Anthropology, Social Sciences or any other related fields.

Required Skills, Competencies & Knowledge:

• Training materials development, staff capacity building, and facilitation skills
• Computer literacy and presentation skills
• Report writing and documentation of Most Significant Change Stories
• Proactive, self-starter and independent worker with the ability to assist large teams
• Demonstrate commitment to community mobilization work around education, GESI, SRHR, and advocacy work, applying rights-based, human-centered, and survivor-centered approaches.
• Exhibit empathy and positive interpersonal skills, including cultural competence.

Experience Requirements:

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in gender equality, social inclusion, SGBV, community engagement, and advocacy.
• Previous experience in providing technical assistance, especially related to advocacy, community engagement and empowerment-related activities, training module development and execution, and training facilitation.
• Experience working in integrated programs targeted for adolescent girls and young women is a plus.
• Previous experience in the development of SBCC messages, tools, and materials for community-based dialogues and other activities.
• Experience in conducting advocacy, community mobilization and engagement activities is also an added advantage.

Employment type: Regular/Fixed-Term

About BRAC International:

BRAC International (BI), a leading non-profit organization, is on a mission to empower people and communities facing poverty, illiteracy, disease, and social injustice. Our vision is to create a world free from exploitation and discrimination, where everyone has the opportunity to realize their potential. We design proven, scalable solutions that equip people with the assist and confidence they need to achieve their potential.

BRAC was founded in Bangladesh in 1972 and over the last five decades has grown to become one of the world’s largest non-governmental organisations (NGOs), reaching over 100 million people. We started our first international operation by venturing into Afghanistan in 2002, building on lessons from our work in Bangladesh to assist a nation devastated by war. Currently operating in 16 countries across Asia and Africa. Born, proven and led in the Global South, BRAC International brings a unique Southern perspective and commitment to continuous learning, providing a depth of insight, experience and evidence to meet the needs of diverse communities with humility and courage across Asia and Africa. To learn more about BRAC International, please visit (www.bracinternational.org)

Our Core Values:

• Integrity: We approach our collaborate with honesty and integrity.
• Innovation: We innovate and iterate to enhance our impact.
• Inclusiveness: We foster inclusion to reach those who need it most.
• Effectiveness: We strive for effectiveness to better serve people in poverty.

• assist AIM field team in inception phase activities (community mobilization and inception meetings, transect walks, surveys, YDC formation).
• Train regional staff on GESI, GBV, disability inclusion, domestic violence reporting, and women's rights advocacy; enhance PA/mentor capacity on GESI, community mobilization, SRHR, and GBV sessions.
• assist social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) planning, monitoring, and evaluation and coordinating with the project team.
• guide the implementation of SBCC dialogue sessions at the community level, targeting local, religious, and cultural leaders, as well as other duty bearers.
• Guide community leaders in developing action plans based on commitments made during SBCC dialogue sessions. assist tracking and follow-up on these action plans to ensure progress and accountability.
• detect and adapt safe, accessible club spaces with reasonable accommodations and gender-segregated infrastructure (restrooms, dignity kits, baby changing stations), prioritizing marginalized groups including PWDs.
• assist coordination with stakeholders (government, INGOs, CSOs, YDC members, and service providers) for social empowerment and enabling environment interventions.
• Participate in regional GESI, SRHR, and SGBV working groups, advocating for women's and girls' rights.
• Mentor and assist youth advocates in developing, implementing & monitoring advocacy action plans, overseeing practical implementation (events, stakeholder meetings, logistics, linkage to CSO networks and technical working groups).
• guide community action planning sessions to create community action plans, consolidate commitments and ensure community-led solutions.
• Organize action planning and handover meetings at the end of each cohort to secure firm commitments from local leaders and ensure the sustainability of the outcomes.
• assist coordination with a range of stakeholders, including government entities, INGOs, CSOs, YDC members, and service providers at the sub-national level, to assist interventions as well as the program’s grassroots advocacy and partnerships work.
• organize and consolidate the mapping of SRHR and SGBV service providers at the regional level.
• Organize events for the celebration of international observance days such as International Women's Day, the 16 Days of Activism, and International Day of the Girl Child in the regions.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of a monitoring framework to track progress, assess impact, and inform adjustments in youth advocacy action plans.
• Contribute to program reports and deliverables as required and demonstrate the status of GESI and grassroots-level advocacy activities towards achieving expected results.
• Quality management, checks, and assurance in the SGBV case recording database to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and timely reports.
• detect and document best practices, most significant change stories, and share this knowledge with colleagues. Ensure quality reporting on enabling environments, community mobilization, and GESI indicators, and document good practices.
• assist regional managers, branch managers and programme assistants regularly to ensure timely and high-quality programmatic data entry and reporting in relevant manual and digital MIS (BInsight) by the Program Assistants, and mentors.
• assist documentation of program wins and success stories / case studies
• Ensure timely preparation and submission of programmatic management information system (MIS), financial and donor reports.
• Popularize the Enabling Environment Strategy, GESI policies and SGBV, SRHR and disability inclusion guidelines among the frontline staff through orientations and trainings
• help with policy-related materials development and localization.
• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation.
• Act as a key source of assist, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

• Communication
• Management
• Planning
• Report writing
• Training
• Logistics
• Training materials development, staff capacity building, and facilitation skills
• Computer literacy and presentation skills
• Report writing and documentation of Most Significant Change Stories
• Proactive, self-starter and independent worker with the ability to assist large teams
• Demonstrate commitment to community mobilization work around education, GESI, SRHR, and advocacy work, applying rights-based, human-centered, and survivor-centered approaches.
• Exhibit empathy and positive interpersonal skills, including cultural competence.

• Bachelor’s degree / Graduate or Post graduate in International Development, Gender, Sociology, Anthropology, Social Sciences or any other related fields.
• 3-5 years of relevant experience in gender equality, social inclusion, SGBV, community engagement, and advocacy.
• Previous experience in providing technical assistance, especially related to advocacy, community engagement and empowerment-related activities, training module development and execution, and training facilitation.
• Experience working in integrated programs targeted for adolescent girls and young women is a plus.
• Previous experience in the development of SBCC messages, tools, and materials for community-based dialogues and other activities.
• Experience in conducting advocacy, community mobilization and engagement activities is also an added advantage.