Technical Sector Officer – Community Mobilization (TSO-CM)

• PositionTechnical Sector Officer – Community Mobilization (TSO-CM)
• CompanyBRAC International
• LocationGulu, Uganda
• Job TypeFull Time
• CategoryNGO, International Development Jobs in Uganda
• IndustryInternational development
• DepartmentNot stated in the advert.
• Deadline27th November 2026

BRAC is a global development organisation founded in post-war Bangladesh in 1972. It works across Asia and Africa to address poverty and hunger through a holistic ecosystem of programmes and social enterprises.

Its stated solutions include social development, financial inclusion, social enterprise and scaling the Graduation approach through government partners. BRAC says its education, healthcare and economic-development programmes have reached more than 145 million people.

The Technical Sector Officer for Community Mobilization supports the Community Mobilization Technical Coordinator in planning and delivering social-empowerment and community-engagement activities. The remit includes GESI and disability inclusion, SRHR, SGBV, community dialogue and grassroots advocacy, as well as technical assistance and quality control for community-based case-management and referral systems. The officer works with country and AIM teams, technical anchors and coordinators to improve programme quality, contextualise training materials and strengthen staff capacity.

Based in Gulu, the role connects community leaders, youth advocates, government entities, service providers, civil-society groups and BRAC programme staff. It supports accessible club spaces, community action planning, regional mapping of SRHR and SGBV providers, and observance-day activities. The post also contributes to monitoring frameworks, case-recording quality, data entry, donor reporting, policy orientation and localization of programme materials. Safeguarding, rights-based and survivor-centred practice are explicit parts of the work.

• Support the Technical Coordinator for Community Mobilization in planning and implementing social-empowerment and community-engagement activities, including GESI, disability inclusion, SRHR, SGBV, community dialogues and grassroots advocacy.
• Provide technical assistance and quality control for community-based SGBV and SRHR case-management and referral systems, and collaborate with country and AIM teams, technical anchors and coordinators to improve programme quality and train staff.
• Support AIM field inception activities, including community mobilisation and inception meetings, transect walks, surveys and Youth Development Committee formation.
• Train regional staff on GESI, disability inclusion, domestic-violence reporting and women’s-rights advocacy, and build PO and mentor capacity on GESI, community mobilisation, SRHR and GBV sessions.
• Support social and behavioural change communication planning, monitoring and evaluation, and coordinate with the project team.
• Lead community-level SBCC dialogue sessions with local, religious and cultural leaders and other duty bearers.
• Guide community leaders to develop action plans based on commitments made during SBCC dialogue sessions.
• Track and follow up community action plans to support progress and accountability.
• Identify and adapt safe, accessible club spaces with reasonable accommodations and gender-segregated infrastructure, prioritising marginalised groups including persons with disabilities.
• Coordinate with government, INGOs, CSOs, YDC members and service providers on social-empowerment and enabling-environment interventions.
• Participate in regional GESI, SRHR and SGBV working groups and advocate for women’s and girls’ rights.
• Mentor youth advocates to develop, implement and monitor advocacy action plans, including events, stakeholder meetings, logistics and links to CSO networks and technical working groups.
• Lead community action-planning sessions, consolidate commitments and support community-led solutions.
• Organise cohort-end action-planning and handover meetings to secure local-leader commitments and sustain outcomes.
• Coordinate with government entities, INGOs, CSOs, YDC members and service providers at sub-national level to support interventions, grassroots advocacy and partnerships.
• Coordinate and consolidate regional mapping of SRHR and SGBV service providers.
• Organise regional events for International Women’s Day, the 16 Days of Activism and International Day of the Girl Child.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of a monitoring framework for youth-advocacy action plans.
• Contribute to programme reports and deliverables and report the status of GESI and grassroots advocacy activities against expected results.
• Conduct quality checks and assurance for the SGBV case-recording database to support accuracy, efficiency and timely reporting.
• Identify and document best practices and most-significant-change stories and share the learning with colleagues.
• Ensure quality reporting on enabling environments, community mobilisation and GESI indicators and document good practice.
• Support regional managers, branch managers, programme officers and mentors with timely, high-quality data entry and reporting in manual and digital MIS, including BInsight.
• Document programme wins, success stories and case studies.
• Prepare and submit programme MIS, financial and donor reports on time.
• Promote the Enabling Environment Strategy, GESI policies and SGBV, SRHR and disability-inclusion guidance through frontline-staff orientation and training.
• Support development and localisation of policy-related materials.
• Protect team members from harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation and promote safeguarding standards.
• Follow safeguarding reporting procedures and encourage others to do so.

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree or postgraduate qualification in International Development, Gender, Sociology, Anthropology or Social Sciences.

Work Experience

• Three to five years of relevant experience in gender equality, social inclusion, SGBV, community engagement and advocacy.
• Previous experience providing technical assistance in advocacy, community engagement or empowerment activities, training-module development and execution, or training facilitation.
• Experience in integrated programmes for adolescent girls and young women is an advantage.
• Previous experience developing SBCC messages, tools and materials for community dialogues and other activities is an advantage.

Additional Requirements

• Training-material development, staff capacity-building and facilitation skills.
• Computer literacy, presentation skills, report writing and documentation of Most Significant Change stories.
• Proactive, self-starting and independent, with the ability to support large teams.
• Commitment to community mobilisation around education, GESI, SRHR and advocacy, using rights-based, human-centred and survivor-centred approaches.
• Empathy, positive interpersonal skills and cultural competence.
• Safeguarding responsibilities and reporting procedures apply.

Technical Skills

• Community mobilisation: Support community mobilisation, dialogue, action planning and grassroots advocacy.
• GESI and disability inclusion: Training and programme support on gender equality, social inclusion and disability inclusion.
• SRHR and SGBV: Support community-based SRHR and SGBV work, provider mapping and case-recording quality.
• Reporting and MIS: Computer literacy, presentation, report writing and manual or digital MIS, including BInsight.

Soft Skills

• Facilitation: Facilitate training, community dialogues and action-planning sessions.
• Proactivity: The advert seeks a proactive, self-starting and independent worker.
• Team support: Ability to support large teams and collaborate across programme groups.
• Empathy and cultural competence: Exhibit empathy, positive interpersonal skills and cultural competence.

Benefits are not stated in the advert.

• Support community-led social-empowerment and grassroots advocacy activities in Gulu.
• Work across GESI, disability inclusion, SRHR and SGBV community interventions.
• Build local capacity through staff training and youth-advocate mentorship.
• Help improve accessible club spaces and community action planning.
• Coordinate with government, civil-society and service-provider stakeholders.
• Contribute to regional service-provider mapping, monitoring and programme learning.
• Support safeguarding, rights-based and survivor-centred approaches in programme delivery.

Submit your application through the BRAC International recruitment page. Applications close on 27th November 2026.

• Checked on 11 November 2026 against BRAC International's official advert.
• Closing date confirmed as 27 November 2026. NextRoleHub closes the listing at 23:59 Kampala time that day.
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