Job Responsibilities

Job Location : Anywhere in Bangladesh (UDP field office)

BRAC is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential. Working at BRAC is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world; we are building it. Join us to find the way.

BRAC Urban Development Programme (UDP) envisions cities and human settlements which are safe, resilient, inclusive and sustainable. We implement tailored interventions to reach this goal, such as building low-cost climate-resilient housing, empowering workers in the ready-made garment sector, raising community fire prevention awareness and advocating with the local and national governments for inclusive, pro-poor, urban planning and governance. Join the UDP team to create models for better urban spaces across Bangladesh and be part of a team making cities into places where everyone living in them can thrive. Working at brac is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world, we are building it. Join us to find the way.

Working at BRAC is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world, we are building it. Join us to find the way.

About the Project:

BRAC intends to implement an upcoming project to establish the foundation for a sustainable, inclusive, and operationally efficient solid waste management system in Pabna Municipality. The project will support targeted interventions aimed at strengthening the overall urban waste management ecosystem, including improving waste containment and collection systems, enhancing the capacity of waste workers, promoting behaviour change, and expanding community-based resource recovery and recycling systems. The duration of this project will be for one year.

Position: Project Officer; Urban Development Programme (Project Staff)

Job Purpose: The Project Officer will work in the project component of the field operation unit; implement all the project interventions with the help of community at the field level as front-line staff; maintain strong communication and networking with the municipality and local stakeholders for effective engagement in social accountability initiatives.

Job Description:

• Community mobilization, formulation/reactivation/facilitation of community groups; closely follow up community volunteers to ensure participatory and collective actions.
• Maintain strong communication and networking with local government officials, elected representatives, local NGOs, waste workers, recyclers, and other BRAC programmes for implementing project initiatives.
• Mobilize and coordinate community members, youths and stakeholders for waste management initiatives.
• Follow up field level implementation of the project and ensure high quality project outputs and impact as per allocation and targeted coverage.
• Provide support to the project team, research, knowledge management and MEAL activities in the field.
• Meet the goals and objectives within the limited timeframe and support different reporting, monitoring and MIS activities.
• Assist in organizing training, workshops and different events at the field level according to annual targets.
• Perform awareness raising and capacity building activities on waste management at community, school and institution level.
• 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.