Vacancy title:
Technical Sector Officer - Community Mobilization, Gender and Social Inclusion
[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Finance , Category: Management ]
Jobs at:
BRAC
Deadline of this Job:
Monday, February 17 2025
Duty Station:
Within Uganda , Masindi, East Africa
Summary
Date Posted: Monday, January 27 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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About BRAC
BRAC is a global leader in creating large-scale opportunities for the poor. Founded in Bangladesh in 1972, it is now one of the world’s largest development organizations, touching the lives of an estimated 138 million people in 11 countries across Asia and Africa.
About the AIM Programme
In 2022, the Mastercard Foundation in partnership with BRAC International (BI) announced an initiative to create a positive and measurable impact for 1.2 million adolescent girls and young women and 9.5 million people across seven countries in East and West Africa, including Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda.
There is mounting urgency to support adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) living in poverty, which has been further amplified by the global pandemic. Through this partnership, scalable economic development approaches will be delivered in communities to foster the agency and voice of AGYW. They will have the opportunity to fulfill their aspirations, achieve sustainable livelihoods, and engage in advocacy issues.
BRAC International is implementing an integrated and holistic model to address the various life cycles of a young woman living in poverty, ensuring she is able to transition safely from adolescence to adulthood. She will be equipped with the appropriate skills, tools, and access to finance to effectively exercise her agency and build a fulfilling and productive livelihood.
Job Purpose
The Technical Support Officer, Community Mobilization, Gender and Social Inclusion (TSO-CM & GESI) will support the Technical Coordinator in planning and implementing social empowerment 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 & GESI will provide technical assistance, support, and quality control in implementing SGBV and SRHR community-based case management and referral systems.
The TSO-GESI will collaborate with the country program team, AIM central team, BI technical anchors, and Technical Coordinators to improve program quality, contextualize training modules, and train staff on new materials and tools. They will ensure effective delivery of GESI components in social empowerment and livelihood interventions, strengthen the enabling environment, and maintain alignment with overall programmatic operations.
An ideal candidate for this role is one who is proactive, passionate, resourceful, and enjoys being a team player.
Major Responsibilities
Technical Support
• Support the AIM field team in several inception phase activities such as community mobilization, inception meetings, transect walk, household survey, and YDC formation.
• Train regional staff on gender equality, social inclusion, gender-based violence, disability inclusion, reporting domestic violence, and women's rights advocacy. They will also enhance the capacity of PAs and mentors in delivering GESI, community mobilization, SRHR, and GBV-focused sessions.
• Identify and adapt safe and accessible club spaces, including ECD corners, and ensure the provision of gender-segregated infrastructure with adequate facilities like restrooms, dignity kits, and baby changing stations, prioritizing the needs of marginalized groups, including people with disabilities.
• Support coordination with a range of stakeholders, including government entities, INGOs, CSOs, YDC members, service providers, and youth advocates, to support the program's social empowerment and enabling environment interventions.
• Participation in regional working groups related to GESI, SRHR, and SGBV in advocating for women and girl’s rights (plus other thematic focus areas prioritized).
• The TSO-GESI will mentor and support youth advocates in developing, refining, and implementing their advocacy action plans, and oversee the practical implementation of advocacy initiatives, including organizing community events, coordinating meetings with stakeholders, and supporting logistics.
Coordination, Planning and Partnership
• Support coordination with a range of stakeholders, including government entities, INGOs, CSOs, YDC members, service providers at sub-national level, to support delivery of interventions as well as the programme’s grassroots advocacy and partnerships work.
• Coordinate 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.
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.
• Identify and document best practices, most significant change stories, and share this knowledge with colleagues. They will also manage the MIS, ensure quality reporting on enabling environment, Community Mobilization, and GESI indicators, and document good practices.
Policy and Strategy Compliance
• Popularize the GESI policies and SGBV, SRHR and disability inclusion guidelines among the frontline staff through orientations and trainings
• Support in policy-related materials development and localization
Safeguarding
• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the project goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, 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.
Educational Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in International Development/Gender/Sociology/ Anthropology/Social Sciences, post graduate in the related is an added advantage.
Skills & Competencies
• 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 support large teams, Demonstrate commitment to GESI, SRHR, and Advocacy work, applying rights-based, human-centered, and survivor-centered proaches. 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 women is a plus. Previous experience in 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
Job Experience: No Requirements
Work Hours: 8
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Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
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