Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
Job Description:
Job Title: Trainer and Community Empowerment Officer
Type of Contract: Full-time employment position (Open end Contract)
Department: Programs
Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand
Expected Start Date: ASAP or 1 October 2025
Responsibilities of the advertised position:
The Trainer and Community Empowerment Officer will be in charge of training targeted beneficiaries and community representatives on the content of knowledge prepared. She/He will provide follow up technical support to the trained peer educators and community members/ leaders, local services and company representatives for the implementation of the company action plan aiming at improving general standards to the beneficiaries living in construction site camps.
Role and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Improve existing training material, contents and develop new ones to respond to community needs
- working with the team, program manager and beneficiaries to implement the project activities
- Train the BDF team on the training packages
- Deliver the training package to beneficiaries/ construction company relevant staff
- Support the trained peer educators and community members/ company representatives to link with key service providers such as schools, health centers, and other NGOs
- Conduct on-field sessions with community members to accompany them in developing and working on action plans
- Propose solutions to the community members and company representatives to overcome challenges faced to grant access to essential services to children living in camps
- Engage service providers to ease the access of children living in camps to essential services such as education and health
- Monitor progress of the communities/companies toward their action plan to improve wellbeing of children in camps and access to services.
- Collect data and analyze data in the construction camps for monitoring and evaluation purposes.
- Identify and communicate to the management team challenges faced with communities/ companies or service providers and participate in a lesson learnt process.
- Support in the promotion of a constructive and productive working environment among the team
- Actively support information sharing, transparency, and dialogue among the staff and partners
- Support the Management Team in day-to-day missions and projects. The staff shall observe the organization’s values and objectives and will commit to facilitate all procedures and field activities to ensure the sound management of Baan Dek Foundation’s programs
