BRAC International is looking for a dynamic, creative and results-oriented advocacy and mobilization professional to lead the AIM program’s advocacy and alumni engagement work at the country level. Working directly with AIM program participants and country-level staff, this position will be supporting the program’s advocacy agenda in the country; build capacity of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) to advocate for their rights and influence policies and support program participants to identify advocacy spaces. The Officer will work closely with the program team to establish a detailed work plan, processes and procedures that will be geared towards ensuring a seamless transition for program participants while also developing effective strategies for alumni engagement and management. By doing so, we aim to ensure the sustainability of the program’s impact and foster continued self-advocacy among our alumni in their respective communities.

In addition, the role will also serve as the in-country knowledge management focal point, ensuring proper documentation, knowledge sharing, and dissemination of best practices to enhance the overall impact and effectiveness of the program.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

The Advocacy, Partnership and Knowledge Coordinator will be responsible for the development and delivery of the advocacy and alumni engagement strategy of the Mastercard Foundation Accelerating Impact for Young Women in Partnership with BRAC (AIM) program. Working closely with the Programme Manager – AIM, the position will do the following:

• Advocacy and alumni engagement strategy

• Support the Programme Manager in the development and rollout of the AIM programme advocacy and alumni (network of graduated programme participants) engagement strategy.
• Work closely with the Programme Manager to prepare the annual work plan, complete with detailed activities, targeted towards the operationalization of the advocacy and alumni engagement strategy.
• Prepare a mapping of key stakeholders’ instrumental to the operationalization of the advocacy and alumni engagement strategy and lead these engagements.
• Coordinate tailored support to programme participants, including capacity strengthening on evidence-based advocacy, negotiation and effective communications and media engagement skills.
• Coordinate and provide support to the national and subnational level Advocacy initiatives
• Represent AIM in National and Regional forums as required
• Support in research within the country to facilitate evidence-based Advocacy actions.
• Work closely with field teams to research and identify transition options in the areas and create transition procedures ahead of the cohort completion. This will also involve working with Micro Finance (MF) teams to ensure the transition process to MF in the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is adhered to in practice.
• Lead the transition and alumni management part of the AIM programme by ensuring most       programme participants who transition to either MF groups or other networks are fully supported, and outcomes are tracked.
• Work closely with the program team to institutionalize the Youth Development Committees (YDCs) to use the YDC platform for grassroots advocacy and undertake other relevant activities to deepen the impact of the YDCs at the community level.
• Support field teams to organize local level workshops/meetings/sessions with external stakeholders to get the buy-in and approval of government authorities.
• Provide support to the Monitoring & Evaluation Manager to evaluate the impact of advocacy initiatives; produce reports on the progress and outcomes of the advocacy work.
• Knowledge Management 

• Work closely with the Manager – Knowledge Management & Learning (AIM) to support the knowledge management component at the country level.
• Work as a knowledge champion and help support process documentation, good practices and success stories compilation.
• Stay up to date on the latest research and remain informed on issues such as women’s social and economic development, youth-led advocacy, alumni engagement, group self-governance, and gender equality.

• Outreach, external engagement and communications

• Organize alumni events and keep alumni groups up to date with BRAC work including inviting them to BRAC events, learning sessions, field visits and other events.
• Support delegation of young women’s participation in events such as the International Women’s Day and International Day of the Girl Child.
• Lead in supporting the leadership in opportunity identification and advocacy networking including forging working relationships with strategic partners and key stakeholders.
• Research and identify opportunities at the national and regional levels where BMT can bring the narrative, evidence, lessons, and priorities from the AIM programme to major national events to be shared with key decision-makers and practitioners.
• Perform other responsibilities, as requested by the Programme Manager

SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES

• Read, understand, 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 and encourage others to do so.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

• • Strong, smart, and ready to work.
  • Healthy and honest

• Punctuality

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s in Social Sciences, International Development, Public Relations/Policy, Communications, Journalism

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• 4 – 6 years’ experience in leading advocacy portfolios, community mobilization, campaign management, stakeholder management, and/or supporting self-governance transition of youth groups, preferably in social and economic development.
• A robust understanding of the policy landscape around AGYW’s social and economic development, preferably in the African context.
• Prior experience in programme-related knowledge management processes.
• Prior experience working with women groups in advocacy and campaign work.
• Experience in strategic relationship and partnership management.