Project: Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (RWVL) Bangladesh

Reports to: Project Manager

Position Level: Senior Level

Project Brief

The Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (RWVL) project aims to improve women’s and girls’ access to human rights in all their diversity and to advance gender equality in Bangladesh, led by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) and funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC). This project will focus on empowering diverse voices and strengthening collective actions to advance women’s human rights by addressing gender-based violence (GBV), sexual and reproductive health & rights (SRHR), inclusive economic empowerment (iEE), and the safety and security of project participants.

As an implementing partner of MJF, Association For Alternative Development (AFAD) will carry out the project activities at the grassroots level in the Kurigram Sadar upazilas within the Kurigram district. This project will focus on issues categorized across various pillars. Pillar 1: Will support organizational capacity and sustainability in areas such as (i) governance improvement; (ii) financial system development; and (iii) policy articulation. Pillar 2: Will contribute to gender equality programming and advocacy at the grassroots level through (i) supporting agency creation, (ii) promoting women’s leadership, (iii) providing knowledge and skill building, to challenge social norms and practices that oppose women’s rights. (iv) Implementing social campaigns and mass awareness events, and (v) facilitating inclusive economic empowerment and entrepreneurship interventions. Pillar 3: Will focus on movement strengthening through (i) local network and alliance creation for collective advocacy, (ii) collective movement building.

Position Profile:

This position needs to be worked under the supervision of the Project Manager, AFAD. S/he will closely work and support the project implementation team for implementing the Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (RWVL) Bangladesh interventions at grassroot level. Major task of this position will be determining the Performance Measurement Framework align with AFAD & MJF, maintaining the project MIS system, capacitate field team about the MEAL, assist data collection, data management, conduct process monitoring, and reporting for respective organizations. Data management should be one of the key roles of this position where this position should be responsible for ensure the data collection by the field team, clean the data, entry in system/write the narratives, document data in MIS and office files, verify the data and support Project Manager to submit report within in the timeline. On the other hand, this position should organize monthly reflection sessions, document the learning and share insights from data and field visit reflections to ensure data driven decisions from the management and adaptive management.

Major responsibilities:

Feminist MEAL System Design & Planning

• Develop Performance Measurement Framework as per the organization specific result framework and align with the AFAD& MJF Theory of Change
• Closely work with AFAD & MJF M&E and contribute to develop and pilot process monitoring tools align with organization specific immediate outcome and output
• Closely work with AFAD & MJF M&E and contribute to develop and pilot RWVL-B Project’s MIS system to ensure safe inclusive, and accessible data collection systems (gender identity, disability, structural exclusion disaggregation)

Monitoring & Data Management

• Support both qualitative and quantitative data collection as per the indicator and frequency set in the PMF for generating the reports
• Ensure data quality assurance, validation, and triangulation.
• With close guidance from AFAD & MJF M&E , facilitate partner-led data analysis workshops, reflection and learning sessions to generate data driven decisions and adaptive management.
• Maintain digital MIS and documentation of auditable data trails develop by RWVL-B.
• Build up capacity for the staff of the respective organizations about the MEAL system of RWVL-B
• Attend community sessions/events, conduct reflections with participants and stakeholders with a structured process monitoring tools to validate quality of the project implementations

Evaluation & Outcome Harvesting

• Work closely with AFAD & MJF M&E and contribute to implement baseline, midline, and end-line feminist evaluations for respective organization.
• Apply outcome harvesting to capture advocacy and power-shift results.
• Use thematic qualitative analysis aligned with log-frame and ToC pathways.

Accountability, Learning & Knowledge Management

• Facilitate knowledge management systems for monthly learning uploads as guided by AFAD & MJF.
• Organize reflection workshops and feminist learning events and document lessons, good practices, and adaptive decisions.
• Facilitate feminist community feedback mechanisms (digital, hotline, consultations) and share feedback from the communities in accessible formats.
• Feed learning and data into evidence-based advocacy, campaign, and alliance strategies.

Reporting & Donor Compliance

• Finalize monthly data by working closely with field staffs, PM AFAD and MJF M&E.
• Work closely with AFAD, MJF M&E and PM to prepare quarterly, semi-annual, and annual performance reports.
• Integrate qualitative stories of change with quantitative data.
• Support co-authoring briefs with WROs and gender-diverse groups.
• Ensure alignment with GAC feminist reporting principles.