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 actvities 

• 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

Qualifications -  Experience:

Education

• Graduate qualifications (or a combination of undergraduate and relevant work experience) in a related discipline – health and safety, training, social and community development, social work, social sciences, education,  law or a similar discipline

Experience

• Minimum 3 years of working experience including 1 year demonstrated experience as  trainer,  trainer of trainer

• Demonstrated experience in developing training modules and training handbooks. 

• Strong interest in human/ child rights based approach and social development, 

• Strong interest in collaboration with the private sector and corporate. 

• Knowledge on SDG’s, ESG’s, social sustainability and  incentives for engagement of Private Sector is an asset 

• Experience with non-profit organizations or in the humanitarian sector is an asset 

Language requirements: Fluent in Thai, good verbal and written proficiency in English 

Other skills and competencies: 

• Interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate, including experience in a cross-cultural environment and an international setting 

• Stakeholder engagement skills and ability to collaborate effectively, including in cross-cultural or multicultural environments