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Position: ECD Trainer - AIM 

Report to: ECD & Education Technical Coordinator

Job Location: Nyanza District 

About the Role:

To deliver technical help with designing the teachers’ guide and training manual, conducting training for play leaders, and supporting the team in mobilizing parents and the community for play-based activities. Additionally, to deliver technical help with designing and developing local play materials for the play labs.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Effective teaching materials /trainings/ workshop/ meetings deliverance in the project 

• deliver assist for designing teachers guide and contextualizing the play lab curriculum and parenting manual. 
• produce monthly lesson plan and timetable before refresher training. 
• perform monthly refresher training and need-based training. 
• perform business training for the microenterprise play leaders. 
• deliver assist for preparing the training manual, handouts and other learning materials ∙ deliver on-spot training to the play leaders if needed. 
• Contribute to the planning, development, implementation, and revision of curriculum in keeping with best practices. 
• Evaluate the outcomes of training sessions and keep records of trainees’ progress and achievements. 
• perform informal research and consult with BI team for curriculum development and training design purposes. 

2. Effective provision of capacity building to staff and play leaders 

• Proved updates on play lab and education matters in general. 
• deliver on job training to project team and play leaders in play-based content.
• Build the capacity of other staff on refresher and need-based training for play leaders.
• Ensure monthly play leaders’ performance assessment regarding curriculum deliverance in play labs. 
• Participate in different capacity-building trainings to enhance professional skills.

3. Availability of play materials in play labs 

deliver training to play leaders on low-cost and recycled play and learning materials design.

• Ensure the presence of play and learning materials in all play labs (indoor and outdoor) according to play activities in the teachers guide. 
•  produce play materials database and update in a quarterly basis.Monthly designing of play materials in play labs in collaboration with parents, community and play leaders. 
• ∙ Create awareness to parents in enhancing them in making local play materials for play labs. ∙ create local play making guide books with assist from the project team and communication department. 

4. Coordination, Networking and Advocacy to project 

• Establish strong working relationships with the project team, government officials, and stakeholders at organizational, district, and regional levels. 
• Organize and guide internal and external workshops for reviewing the teachers’ guide, training manual, and other relevant documents. 
• Participate in project and stakeholder meetings at the sector level and play lab centers, as required. 
• assist the team to form and follow up on the ECD center management committees.
• Promote the self-empowerment of children, parents, and communities in play lab centers.
• Ensure effective advocacy with local authorities at district and regional levels and integrate them into program delivery. 
• Link children in play lab centers with available services in their communities.
• Adhere to high ethical standards and comply with all relevant regulations. 

5. Child Protection 

•  Promote and ensure child rights-based programming at field and office level.
• Promote and abide by internal policies and procedures including child protection policy.
• Ensuring mandatory reporting to child abuse cases in play lab project operation.
• Promote and facilitate child rights and gender inclusion based on play lab project at field level.
• Ensuring Child Protection Committees at play lab centers are fully functional.
• Ensuring all project team and relevant others, including play lab leaders, parents and project

stakeholders are aware and have access to child protection policy, contents and their responsibilities it places on it. 

6. Reporting & Documentation 

• create and submit to the Project Manager monthly, field progress, and adhoc reports in a timely manner. 
• assist the team to document well project success stories/ case studies/ best practices/lessons learned and submit to the area manager. 
• Ensure and track downward accountability to stakeholders especially children and communities including documenting what works for wider sharing across BRAC, government, and donor. 
• Observe and report the project properties are well kept at play lab centers and office.
• assist the team in maintaining children’s attendance, center performance, and expenditure registers. 
• Any other duties that may be assigned by the ECD & Education Technical Coordinator.

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 assist, 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. 

Major Challenges:

• High need of creativity in designing and updating the local play materials since is the major component we use in play-based model. 

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

•  50% of availability of local play materials in each play lab in each month. 
• 100% improvement in children based in growth and development domains (physical, emotional, communication and cognitive). 
• 100% of play leaders’ understanding in monthly sessions based on monthly refresher training which should be delivered to children. 
• Presence of 2 staff development meetings per month. 
• Monthly submission of training/ workshop/ meeting and material development reports.
• Plan, produce, and deliver training and obtain feedback through presentations to potentially unreceptive or critical audiences. 
• produce and deliver clear, concise and complete verbal and written information at a level appropriate to the audience. 

Academic Qualifications: 

• University Degree (Bachelor in Social work, Early childhood development, sociology and education or any other related fields). 

Required Skills, Competencies & Knowledge: 

• Training facilitation skills 
• Play materials designing skills 
• Team building skills 
• Organization Skills. 
• Administration skills 
• Interpersonal and observational skills 
• Report writing and presentation skills 
• Advocacy and networking.

Experience Requirements: 

• Possessing 1 year experience in training and material development deliverance. ∙
• Working with education, curriculum development, community development, social work sectors. 

Employment type: Regular/Fixed-Term 

Salary: Competitive 

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 assist 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 assist 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, experienceand 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 collaborate with honesty and integrity. 

Innovation: We innovate and iterate to enhance our impact. 

Inclusiveness: We foster inclusion to reach those who need it most.

Effectiveness: We strive for effectiveness to better serve people in poverty. 

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 in a single PDF format and any supporting documents to bracrwandarecruitment@gmail.com; mentioning a brief academic background, career summary, core competence, notarized copies of academic qualifications and professional certifications (if any) etc. 

Please mention the name of the position in the subject bar

Application deadline: 20th April 2026

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews. 

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 collaborate 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.