Requirements

Additional Requirements

• Community mobilization and participatory mapping skill

• Skills to implement household-based rainwater harvesting system

• Social and environmental auditing skill

• Financial and progress report preparation skill

• Advocacy skill with local and national stakeholders

• Excellent organization, coordination, report writing and team management skills.

• Strong and effective communication and presentation skills.

• Climate Change Adaptation

• Gender justice and diversity

• Community capacity building initiatives

• Climate-resilient drinking water solutions at household level

• Climate-resilient drinking water solutions at community level

• Context of southwest coastal zone water security situation

• Experienced in implementing rain water harvesting system at household level

• Management and coordination capabilities

• Report writing capacity

• Experienced in preparing budgets, procurement of materials and monitoring of activities

• Minimum 07 years of overall experiences in development sector including

• 4 years of particular experience in climate change related programs.

• At least 2 years of experiences in leading team.

• Experiences in working with the Union Parishad and Upazila Administration.

Responsibilities & Context

The BRAC Climate Change Programme (CCP) supports communities to develop their capacity to adapt to climate change and improve their resilience to climate change, as well as supporting communities and organisations to reduce their climate change impact. Eager to make a difference and help communities to tackle climate change? Work with us to protect resources, improving quality of life and raise awareness, while providing people with access to the tools and knowledge to adapt and respond to adverse climatic impacts and adopt sustainable practices. 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 BRACis 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.

The "Rain for Life" initiative draws on insights from BRAC's Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs-funded rainwater collection project in Mongla and responds to the needs of local populations. By the end of 2027, it is anticipated that 30% of the climate-affected population in Assasuni, Mongla, and Patharghata upazilas will achieve improved resilience through this initiative.

The project primarily addresses the drinking water crisis faced by communities in climate-vulnerable coastal areas. It also aims to empower farmers to adopt climate-resilient methods for crop cultivation, fisheries, and livestock production. Additionally, the initiative will strengthen environmental resilience through biodiversity and nature conservation efforts, while raising awareness at local, national, and international levels about water accessibility challenges faced by communities at risk from climate change.

“Rain for Life” exemplifies the enduring bilateral partnership between Denmark and Bangladesh in tackling climate change challenges. The initiative seeks to build a sustainable and resilient future for vulnerable communities.

Job Purpose

The position will be responsible for ensuring the effective management and efficient delivery of the project, which aims to enhance safe drinking water security, food security, and climate resilience through climate-adaptative water and agricultural intervention in the field. S/he will also be responsible for overall field implementation and maintain tracking within project budget and timelines consistent with project proposals.

Key Responsibilities

• Guide and lead the field team to achieve the specific goal and objective of the project.

• Ensure that work is appropriately delegated, and staff members are empowered to carry out tasks independently where appropriate to their skills and capacity.

• Supervise the field team to effectively implement project activities to achieve targets on time and in line with overall project strategy.

• Responsible to regular review and track the project progress against milestone and take corrective action where necessary.

• Ensure procurement and contracts are prepared and issued according to BRAC standards and procedures/ in-country legal frameworks / funder requirements and are managed effectively

• Establish professional working relationship and develop purposeful relationship with different development agencies, all project stakeholders, representative of relevant departments of public services and govt. regarding the related project.

• Prepare programme progress reports (monthly and quarterly) based on a structured Monitoring & Evaluation framework and review financial report, providing necessary feedback.

• Ensure to develop community-based, climate-risk informed Operation & Maintenance (O&M) and management of the resilient drinking water solutions

• Responsible for personal and professional development of the team through regular coaching, counselling, on the job training, objective setting, regular one-to-ones feedback and reflection, and managing overall performance management system.

• Maintain sharing of lessons learnt and best practices from major programme intervention;

• Conduct local level advocacy with Government and Non-government stokeholds.

SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure the safety of Programme Participants, people who come into contact with the organisation and team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) to achieve the programme's goals of 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 and encourage others to do so.