BRAC - Job Description

Department WASH

Job Title Specialist, Coordination & Advocacy

Location Project Office

Reporting to: Senior Manager

Level/Grade 6

1. ORGANISATION RELATIONSHIPS:
Number of person Supervised NA
(including the name of the
positions):
Supervision received by: Senior Manager
(Name of the position)

2. PURPOSE:
Responsible to follow-up and monitoring the implementation of Annual Operating Plan (AOP),
preparing periodic reports (six monthly/annually), explore the best practices under different
interventions of WASH projects; write articles/abstracts on WASH interventions for sharing
experiences in national/international events as well as journals.

3. MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Prepare a monthly/yearly mapping for conducting meeting with stakeholders.

Regular maintaining liaison with different stakeholders and update the stakeholder list.

Contribute to prepare documentation (e.g. donor reports and presentations) of BRAC WASH
programme

Cancelling to potential and existing ETP & WTP entrepreneurs.

Participate and coordinate with different department/units of BRAC such as MF, UDP and
Communications Unit.

Communication with field level staff and develop their skill regarding advocacy.

Monitor the progress of field level activities and flagging deviation for taking corrective measures.

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.

4. MAJOR CHALLENGES:
- Work with different stakeholders
- Collection of authentic data on programmatic achievement as per plan.

5. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (KPIs)

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- Number of periodic meeting with stakeholders.

- Number of cancelling of ETP & WTP entrepreneurs
- Number of field visit reports
- Regular liaison with stakeholders.

6. DECISION MAKING:

Decision taken independently: Preparing meeting schedule with different stakeholders

Decision referred to the

Prior approval for any policy related decision.
Supervisor:

7. RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER ROLES:

Director, Programme Head, Programme Manager, Sr. Manager,
Within the Programme or
Manager,Technical, Specialist, Grants & KM, Divisional Manager.
Department (position
Deputy Manager, Technical
names):

Outside the Programme

BRAC PRL,Advocacy ( Manager – M&E and MIS), F&A (Sr. Manager,
or Department
Manager), Manager, Communications Unit (Communications Officer,
(Programme & position
Deputy Manager).
names):

8. WHO DOES PERFORMANCE REVIEWS FOR THIS ROLE?

Sr. Manager

9. ANY OTHER ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES?

- Any additional task assigned by authority as and when required

10. BUDGET under this POSITION: [Budget holds/provided to spend for the project or
programme or the signing authority of the position (If any)]

N/A

11. NUMBER OF REPORTEES:

Direct: N/A

Indirect: N/A

12. EXPERIENCE (Including sector/industry):

Three (3) years of work experience in development sector, preferably on programme operation,
communication, documentation.

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13. KNOWLEDGE , SKILLS & COMPETENCIES:

KNOWLEDGE:
 Expert knowledge to manage the communication
portfolio and delivery of messages to both internal and external audiences
 Knowledge on communication and advocacy.
 Expert in peppering periodic meeting mapping.
 Knowledge on field activities
SKILLS:
 Fluency in English or Bangla, (both oral and written) is required;
 Strong interpersonal and communications skills
 Analytical writing ability for interpretation and communication of complex
information to multiple audiences
 Demonstrated ability to understand and contribute to realizing the strategic objective
 Web application and software application
 Computer operating (Microsoft office)
 Programme presentation through multimedia in forum or meeting
Competencies:
 Capable to manage the complex environment to solve them
 Accountability: Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources
efficiently
 Demonstrating/safeguarding ethics and integrity;
 Ability to think strategically and carry out assigned tasks independently
 Working to high pressure and tight deadlines while at the same time
 Acting as a team player and facilitating work;
 Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others;
 Informed and transparent decision making
 Proactive, highly motivated and able to use initiative to a significant degree

14. SPECIFIC EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

Degree Concentration / Major

International relationship, Social Science, Public
Post Graduate/Graduate Administration or any other related discipline

15. PROFESSIONAL DEGREE / CERTIFICATION

Not Applicable

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