24 Job Positions of Program Officer – AIM Programme at
BRAC: (Deadline 27 October 2025)
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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)
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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.
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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.
Please mention the name of the position in the subject
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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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