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Position: Program Officer – AIM Programme
Number of position: 24
Job Location: Branch Office(s) – Rugendabari, Ruhango, Bweramana, Mbuye, Kigoma, Busasamana, Kaduha, Kinazi, Ntyazo, Tumba, Huye, Ruramba (in Muhanga, Ruhango, Nyanza, Huye, Nyamagabe & Nyaruguru Districts)
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 Program Officers (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 PA 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.
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.
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 household (HH) 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.
Procurement, Coordination and Supervisory Support:
- Select, train, and supervise AIM club mentors and ensure continued follow-up coaching and mentoring for their capacity improvement.
- Help to ensure all branch level procurement and logistics and supply and keep all programme related documents, files, and registers as per design.
- Support with the school improvement planning and execution, follow-up of teacher development activities, and supervision of school-related activities.
- Manage and strengthen management information system (MIS), program/management data collection, and reporting through manual and digital (BInsight) platforms.
- Ensure internal monitoring within the programme to assess the quality of service delivery, data collection and integrity, and documentation in the clubs.
- ∙ Ensure appropriate, timely and accurate data collection against agreed indicators to enable both consolidation of branch internal and external reports.
- Attend monthly coordination meetings organized at the branch level and provide updates on club activities, flagging any issues needing attention from the branch/area manager. ∙ Ensure cash flow by submitting cash requisition timely for smooth day-to-day project activities ∙ Prepare and input quality programme data using both relevant manual and the digital programme management information system (BInsight MIS).
- Prepare financial and other reports, as needed, and submit it in time.
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 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.
Academic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Social studies, Community development, Gender and Development, Human Resources, Business Administration, Education and other related field.
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.
Experience Requirements:
- At least 1 year of experience in the national/international development sector, including experience working with marginalized 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.
Employment type: Regular/Fixed-Term
Salary: Negotiable
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 support 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 support 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 work with honesty and integrity.
Innovation: We innovate and iterate to improve our impact.
Inclusiveness: We foster inclusion to reach those who need it most.
Effectiveness: We strive for effectiveness to better serve people in poverty.
N.B: Only females are highly encouraged to apply.
If you feel you are the right match for the above-mentioned position, please follow the application process to grab your dream opportunity!
Qualified and interested candidates are recommended to email their Resume with a signed cover letter and any supporting documents in a single PDF format to bracrwandarecruitment@gmail.com ; mentioning a brief academic background, career summary, core competence, notarized copies of academic qualifications and professional certifications (if any) etc. within 250 words.
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Application deadline: 27th October 2025 at 5:00PM
Please note that the shortlisting will be done one on a rolling basis, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share the same commitment. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation – regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure include extensive background checks and disclosure of criminal records in order to ensure safeguarding to the fullest extent.
“BRAC International is an equal opportunities employer”
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