Program Officer – Campaign and Inclusion

About the role

Young Power in Social Action (YPSA) is implementing the multi-country “BLUE PRISM” project in Bangladesh and Nepal to address plastic pollution through upstream–downstream collaboration, improved monitoring, inclusive circular-economy models, and plastic-reduction innovations in tourism. The Program Officer (Campaign and Inclusion) will lead awareness, knowledge-exchange and public-engagement campaigns while ensuring meaningful participation of women, informal waste workers, marginalized groups and other stakeholders, primarily in Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement campaign and communication plans under WP1.
• Coordinate knowledge-exchange and awareness-raising campaigns.
• Organize crowd-innovation and community engagement campaigns.
• Develop campaign messages and materials on plastic pollution, waste reduction, recycling, reuse and sustainable consumption.
• Engage communities, youth, women, informal waste workers, tourism businesses, local government and private-sector stakeholders.
• Facilitate stakeholder consultations and participatory events.
• Promote women’s leadership and participation in project activities.
• Support formation/strengthening of waste-worker platforms and inclusive stakeholder networks.
• Ensure meaningful participation of marginalized groups in project planning and implementation.
• Integrate gender, diversity, disability and social inclusion considerations into campaigns.
• Support safe participation and prevention of harassment, GBV and retaliation.
• Coordinate community-level inclusive consultation processes as appropriate.
• Produce campaign stories, social-media content, newsletters, brochures and other communication materials.
• Support stakeholder-specific exchange programs between Bangladesh and Nepal.
• Document campaign achievements, participation and lessons learned.
• Coordinate with the M&E Officer to capture campaign results and indicators.
• Support policy advocacy and public engagement activities.

Educational Qualification

• Postgraduate degree in any discipline.

Required Experience

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in community mobilization, advocacy, communication, social inclusion, gender or development programming.
• Experience implementing awareness/campaign activities.
• Experience working with women, youth, informal workers and marginalized communities.
• Experience in environmental, climate, plastic pollution, waste management or social transformation programs will be considered as an advantage.
• Experience in digital/social-media campaigns will be an advantage.

Core Competencies

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong facilitation and community-mobilization skills.
• Strong understanding of gender equality, GESI and intersectionality.
• Ability to work with marginalized and informal-sector groups.
• Creative campaign and communication skills.
• Strong networking and partnership-building capacity.
• Ability to facilitate participatory processes and inclusive dialogue.
• Strong Bangla and English communication skills.
• Good digital communication and social-media skills.

Job location

YPSA Head Office, Chattogram, with frequent field visits to Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar.

Pay

Monthly salary: BDT 61,600, along with other benefits, including group insurance coverage and festival bonus, as per policy.