Cluster Coordinator

Job Description

Title: Cluster Coordinator

Company Name: The Earth

Vacancy: 4

Age: 25 to 45 years

Job Location: Bagerhat, Mymensingh, Narail, Netrokona, Pabna, Rangamati, Satkhira

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• 3 to 7 years

• 3 to 7 years

• Age 25 to 45 years

Job Purpose

The Cluster Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating, supervising, and monitoring programme activities within assigned cluster areas. The role will ensure proper implementation of field-level activities, coordination with Upazila teams, training centers, employers, entrepreneurs, local stakeholders, and community groups. The position requires strong field coordination, people management, documentation, reporting, and problem-solving skills.

Key Responsibilities

Programme Implementation and Field Coordination

• Coordinate and supervise all project activities within the assigned cluster area according to the approved work plan, targets, timeline, and organizational guidelines.

• Ensure smooth implementation of youth development, skills training, climate awareness, job placement, and entrepreneurship development activities at field level.

• Guide and support Upazila-level teams, Community Mobilizers, Trainers, Enterprise Development Officers, Job Placement Officers, and other field staff as required.

• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and activity-wise field plans and ensure timely execution of planned activities.

• Monitor field progress against targets and take necessary follow-up actions to address gaps or delays.

Participant Mobilization and Training Support

• Supervise participant identification, screening, selection, enrollment, and mobilization processes in assigned cluster areas.

• Ensure that selected participants meet the project criteria and that proper documentation is maintained.

• Coordinate with training centers, trainers, community leaders, youth groups, local institutions, and relevant stakeholders to ensure quality training implementation.

• Monitor training attendance, session delivery, learning progress, participant feedback, and training completion status.

• Support field teams to reduce dropout rates and ensure active participation of youth, women, and marginalized groups.

Job Placement and Entrepreneurship Development

• Coordinate with employers, local businesses, industries, service providers, and private sector actors to support job placement opportunities for trained youth.

• Support field teams in tracking job placement status, employment retention, income progress, and employer feedback.

• Assist entrepreneurship development activities, including business idea screening, enterprise support, market linkage, mentoring, and follow-up with young entrepreneurs.

• Facilitate linkage with local markets, financial institutions, government services, business associations, and relevant support organizations.

• Collect and verify job placement and entrepreneurship-related documents, evidence, and success stories from the field.

Climate and Community Engagement

• Support the implementation of climate awareness, community engagement, and climate-resilient livelihood activities within assigned cluster areas.

• Coordinate with local stakeholders, community groups, youth volunteers, schools, training centers, and local government representatives for awareness and mobilization activities.

• Ensure climate-related messages, activities, and community sessions are conducted properly and documented accurately.

• Identify local climate challenges, community needs, and potential opportunities for climate-resilient livelihood or enterprise development.

Team Supervision and Capacity Building

• Provide regular guidance, mentoring, and supervision to field-level staff within the assigned cluster.

• Conduct regular team meetings to review progress, identify challenges, and plan corrective actions.

• Support capacity building of field staff on mobilization, documentation, reporting, data collection, participant tracking, and stakeholder communication.

• Ensure that field teams follow organizational policies, project guidelines, safeguarding standards, and professional conduct.

• Assist management in assessing field staff performance and identifying support needs.

Monitoring, Documentation and Reporting

• Monitor project activities through regular field visits, observation, data verification, and review of field records.

• Prepare field visit reports, activity reports, monthly progress reports, case stories, success stories, and cluster-level updates.

• Maintain proper documentation of participant lists, attendance sheets, training records, placement records, enterprise follow-up documents, photographs, meeting minutes, and stakeholder communication.

• Ensure timely submission of accurate data and reports to the Programme Team and management.

• Use spreadsheets, MIS, dashboards, mobile data collection tools, or project tracking formats as required by the organization.

• Identify implementation challenges, risks, field-level gaps, and lessons learned, and report them with practical recommendations.

Stakeholder and Partnership Coordination

• Maintain regular coordination with local government offices, training institutions, employers, community leaders, youth groups, NGOs, private sector actors, and other relevant stakeholders.

• Support partnership development at cluster level for training, job placement, entrepreneurship development, community engagement, and climate-related activities.

• Represent The Earth Society professionally in field-level meetings, coordination sessions, community events, and stakeholder consultations.

• Prepare stakeholder mapping, meeting notes, follow-up trackers, and coordination updates as required.

Administrative and Operational Support

• Support logistics and operational arrangements for training, meetings, workshops, field visits, community sessions, and project events.

• Coordinate with the procurement, finance, admin, and programme teams for field-level operational requirements.

• Ensure proper use, tracking, and documentation of project resources, materials, and field assets.

• Support financial documentation by collecting bills, vouchers, attendance records, and supporting documents from field activities when required.

• Perform any other relevant tasks assigned by the supervisor or management.