Field Facilitator

SKS Foundation in partnership with CARE Bangladesh is going to implement a new project titled Promoting Adaptive Nutrition and Infrastructure (PANI) Project. Following positions will be recruited for implementing the project's interventions:

RESPONSIBILITY 1: Field Team Supervision & Family Gardening/Nutrition Implementation – 35%

• Supervise, guide, and support Community/Field Facilitators in the day-to-day implementation of project activities according to the approved workplan.

• Lead and oversee the mobilization of target families for FFBS-based climate-resilient gardening and nutrition activities, including beneficiary selection, verification, group formation, and participation.

• Supervise FFBS sessions, practical demonstrations, group meetings, household coaching, and follow-up visits to ensure effective implementation and family engagement.

• Monitor the establishment and progress of household gardens and promote climate-resilient practices, including water-efficient gardening, raised beds, composting, mulching, soil improvement, suitable crop selection, and seasonal planning.

• Promote nutrition-sensitive gardening and dietary diversity by supporting families to increase the production and consumption of diverse and nutritious foods.

• Conduct regular field monitoring to assess activity quality, household adoption, and facilitator performance; identify challenges and coordinate timely solutions with the relevant technical/project team.

• Document and report progress, good practices, innovations, challenges, lessons learned, and beneficiary success stories for project learning and reporting.

RESPONSIBILITY 2: WASH, Hygiene, Nutrition & Community Mobilization – 25

• Supervise community-level WASH, hygiene and nutrition promotion activities.

• Plan and oversee peer-led hygiene promotion campaigns to reach the wider community.

• Support identification, orientation, and capacity building of community volunteers and peer educators.

• Integrate WASH, hygiene, nutrition, and climate-resilient gardening messages into community-level activities.

• Support training, demonstrations, courtyard sessions, community meetings, and behavior-change communication activities.

• Ensure women, persons with disabilities, vulnerable households, and other marginalized groups are meaningfully included in project activities.

• Provide technical and operational guidance to Community/Field Facilitators for effective community engagement.

• Monitor community response and identify barriers to adoption of improved WASH, hygiene, nutrition, and gardening practices.

RESPONSIBILITY 3: Monitoring, Data Quality & Reporting – 25%

• Conduct regular field monitoring visits to assess the quality, coverage, progress, and effectiveness of project activities.

• Supervise and verify data collected by Community/Field Facilitators and ensure accurate, complete, consistent, and timely household-level data for target families.

• Monitor key project indicators, including FFBS participation, gardening progress, nutrition practices, WASH behaviors, hygiene campaign coverage, and other project targets.

• Ensure proper use of KOBO Toolbox and other approved digital data collection tools, and support baseline, monitoring, End line, post-intervention, and other required surveys.

• Review and verify field reports, attendance records, household records, monitoring forms, photographs, and other supporting documents for data quality and completeness.

• Prepare and submit regular progress and monitoring reports, success stories, case studies, and other project documentation, highlighting achievements, gaps, risks, and emerging issues.

• Report implementation gaps, technical issues, safeguarding concerns, complaints, and risks to the supervisor; follow up on corrective actions and support MEAL, assessments, evaluations, audits, donor verification, and monitoring missions.

RESPONSIBILITY 4: Coordination, Accountability & Team Management – 15%

• Provide day-to-day supervision, coaching, mentoring, and performance guidance to Community/Field Facilitators and conduct regular team meetings and field-level reviews.

• Coordinate with SKS Foundation management, project/technical teams, CARE Bangladesh, local government, schools, community leaders, groups, and other stakeholders as required.

• Support and facilitate project field visits, donor monitoring missions, technical assessments, workshops, consultations, and review meetings, including regular communication with CARE Bangladesh on technical and field-level matters.

• Ensure communities understand project objectives, selection criteria, responsibilities, feedback mechanisms, and promote transparent, respectful, inclusive, and accountable engagement, including proper handling of complaints and referrals.

• Ensure compliance with SKS Foundation, CARE Bangladesh, and donor requirements, including safeguarding, PSEA, child protection, gender, disability inclusion, confidentiality, and anti-fraud principles, and perform other duties assigned by the supervisor or authorized project management.