The finance officer is an integral part of finance team that supports country offices on financial issues, system and process improvement. The finance Officer reports to the Head of Finance (HoF) and provides review of transactions and relevant documents.
Key Responsibilities:

Reconcile the reported expenditure with the financial system of the country offices
Prepare the fund reconciliation... report with the financial report and bank reconciliation
Review of the shared supporting documents for all the transactions from all the AIM-implementing countries
Work with the submitted budget from the country to review and consolidate them for submission
Work for the AIM DREAMS partner reporting
Work with the head office team to get AIM expenditures and supporting documents
Review the reimbursement documents from country offices

Safeguarding:

Read, understand, practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action
Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Educational Requirements:

Bachelors or MastersFinance, Accounting, Business Management

Required Competencies:

A strong knowledge and understanding of financial system.
Strong ability to run common Microsoft applications
Proven knowledge in developing reporting and relevant formats
Ability to travel frequently to BRAC countries as needed.
Fluency in written and spoken English is a must
Exceptional interpersonal, communication and networking skills.

Experience Requirements:

1-2 year’s experience in finance and accounting roles, fresh graduates can also apply..
Experience with donor reporting and communications. more

The Grant and Partnership Officer will assist the Grants Manager in managing donor funds through relevant systems, policies, and tools to ensure compliance and support BRAC’s mission. This role involves ensuring adherence to grant management obligations, recommending system improvements, and collaborating with programme implementation, operations, and finance on proposals, reporting, monitoring,... and compliance. The officer may need to work flexible hours during major emergencies.

Coordinate the drafting process for financial and narrative reports, ensuring submission deadlines are met.
Liaise with the donor/Affiliates regarding any clarifications on reporting dates or changing donor requirements.
Facilitate Kick Off meetings with a diverse stakeholder group.
Facilitate monthly Grant Review Meetings with a diverse stakeholder group and facilitates Close Out meetings and actions.
Participate in Global Grant Management community of practice calls and trainings on behalf of Country Office and applies relevant information and learning internally. more

Key Responsibilities:
Oversee Strategic Priority Areas:

Social and Environmental Performance: Implementation of social and environmental performance and client protection principles. Drive efforts to increase climate shock resiliency for vulnerable microfinance clients.
Impact Management: Bringing accountability to the social mission by managing and measuring client impact.
Product... Innovation: Lead product innovation focusing on savings mobilization, female smallholder farmers, and youth to ensure BRAC's microfinance offerings are inclusive, client-centric, and scalable.
Digital Transformation: Drive digitization of operations, and digital product/channel innovation for the achievement of the overall mission by bringing digital capacity (skills, system, culture) among both clients and staff. Drive system and culture change for data-driven decision-making.
Strategy Development: Develop and drive mission-critical strategies such as - impact framework, poverty outreach framework, agrifinance and youth-finance strategies, climate positioning, convergence and holistic development strategy, country expansion strategy, and data-driven decision-making guideline, etc. Foster BRAC’s DNA of frugal innovation, learning by doing, holistic development among others in strategy implementation.
Implementation and Monitoring: Support country teams to ensure annual strategic plans (ASP), targets, business plans, budgets and projections are geared toward the achievement of growth and impact goals. Work closely with technical, operations, support teams and country teams for timely implementation of strategies, quickly take action on challenges, and ensure regular reporting and sharing on progress to key stakeholders (country leadership, boards, etc.). Continuously learn for gradual improvement and increased effectiveness of processes.
Expansion and Transformation: Support the setup and growth of newly set up entities (Ghana and Kenya). Support and project manage existing countries with all business transformations (regulatory compliance, deposit taking, digital etc.)

Knowledge Management and Strategic Communications

Drive innovation and knowledge-sharing across the BIHBV portfolio and other BRAC programmes and support cross-learning and implementation of best practices. Build structure, capacities and practices in the countries to drive the learning-by-doing culture
Ensure BI MF’s external communication strategy is aligned with its overall mission and advocacy goals and build communications capacity and action plans within the BIHBV team and countries to position BRAC as the leader in impact and gender-focused Microfinance networks in the sector. Work with the investment relations team to improve BI MF’s brand image.
Utilize internal communications capacity and resources to support ownership and culture aligned with BRAC’s mission among all BI MF staff.
Attend different national/International events/workshops/ forums; government or non-government entities to represent and promote BRAC International as well as its programs.

Coordination between BI MF and global BRAC teams

Be the interface between BI MF and other BRAC International programmes, BRAC Global, affiliates, and BRAC Bangladesh programmes (particularly Microfinance) to ensure priorities and strategies are aligned in joint efforts and knowledge is shared across
Ensure smooth cooperation and coordination in implementing joint programmes for holistic impact, including BI’s largest programme - Accelerating Impact for Young Women in Africa (AIM) with Mastercard Foundation
Ensure BI MF strategies are implemented in line with BI strategy

Resource Mobilization and Partnerships

Ensure fundraising (mostly grants) to drive innovations in strategic priority areas
Be the gatekeeper of all donor proposals that includes MF components
Build, maintain and liaise with strategic partners to raise funds as well as network to grow new partnerships. Network, build and maintain relationships with donors, policymakers and global financial institutions to promote the program as well as create awareness.

Team Leadership

Responsible for building a high-performing, motivated team by capitalizing on each team member's individual strengths, skill sets, experience and ambitions.
Ensure clear roles and responsibilities and fluid collaboration within and between departments and teams for timely and high-level output.
Provide individual mentorship to each team member to continuously develop leadership skills and ensure succession planning, with a focus on creating women leadership.

Safeguarding:

Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do so.

Educational & Experience Requirements:

Masters in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Development Studies or any relevant field.
10-15 years experience in a technical or management position including in financial institutions. Demonstrated success in microfinance sector specialization

Required Knowledge, Skills & Competencies:

Understanding of international social, political and economic issues specific to African and South/East Asian countries.
Ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously. Strategy initiation, execution, and monitoring.
Team development, coaching, and talent retention
Financial planning, management, and analysis of financial institutions
Good network with investor/donors relations and funding negotiations more

Scope of work for the operational review

The consultants will conduct a comprehensive review of our ongoing end-to-end field operational processes and practices considering both Digital Field Applications (DFA), Core Banking System (CBS) and manual paper-based procedures. The selected consultants will be required to use diverse methodologies, including in-person focus group discussions,... individual staff interviews, and a meticulous examination of existing documents, registers, questionnaires, and data points captured and reflected on DFA. This project will entail active engagement with front-end, middle management, and top management staff across multiple operational regions, spanning rural, peri-urban, and urban settings. The research methodology, including the indicative sample size, will be collaboratively determined in consultation with BIHBV and in-country management.

The specific scope of work for this assignment includes the following:

Review of existing end-to-end operational processes in Rwanda and Liberia: Review the current MFI’s end-to-end field operational processes, including:

Client Onboarding: Review the end-to-end client onboarding processes for group lending and SEP clients on DFA and CBS platforms and recommend any possible areas for streamlining and optimising the workflow. The consultants will also review the questionnaires in use and recommend ways to streamline them, reducing the KYC documents required from clients for speedy onboarding and enhanced client convenience.
Loan Origination, Verification, and Disbursement: Assess the entire loan origination and disbursement process to generate direct client and business value through efficiencies in the loan cycle and automated credit decisions at the field level. Recommend optimisations for the entire process and identify areas for improvement to ensure faster loan processing.
Savings Collections and Withdrawals: Review the savings deposit and withdrawal process in BRAC Rwanda. Identify any manual processes in practice and recommend optimised processes for improving client convenience in savings deposits and withdrawals. Leverage the use of DFA (and other platforms if needed) to streamline the savings and withdrawal process to reduce TAT and improve customer experience.
Payment Reconciliation Processes (Office and Field Level): Assess the existing process of capturing cash payments using DFA and the reconciliation process at the back office. Additionally, review the passbook reconciliation process at the field level. Provide recommendations for areas of improvement to strengthen operational control, enhance transparency, and build client trust.
Group meeting management and attendance tracking: Examine the group meeting attendance tracking at the field and available reports on DFA. Identify any manual processes currently in practice and recommend areas for improvement to streamline the data capture and reporting process, ensuring enhanced visibility of client attendance for optimal operational monitoring.
Client follow-up/CRM: Review the existing ways of following up on potential clients to increase client base in rural and hard-to-reach areas and recommend areas for improvement through digitisation. This includes providing recommendations on how the process of engaging repeat clients can be improved through digitization to enhance the customer experience.
Any other processes along the credit and savings life cycle such as loan recovery, account opening among others which can be optimised through the use of a Digital Field Application solution.



Overall, the review will identify opportunities to improve business process efficiency and effectiveness through digitisation, identify any manual processes that are in practice, and recommend ways to optimise the use of the DFA platform to achieve operational excellence. The review will identify redundant steps and documentation (if any), potential efficiency gains, and an analysis of process gaps. The review will identify how to convert potential efficiency gains into increased staff productivity and how their (field and office-based) roles can be improved.

Review existing reports and tracking of key business performance indicators: The consultant will assess the need for diverse reports to aid staff in monitoring operational performance and in tracking client-level metrics such as social impact KPIs. The review will include assessing the sufficiency of reports on DFA and other available data analytics and reporting platforms (currently in use) to identify reporting requirements that will enhance data-driven decision-making and inform critical business areas such as staff and branch performance, client and poverty outreach, turnaround time for key processes such as member onboarding, and loan disbursement among others.
Review the DFA business requirements gathering process and post implementation support processes: Analyse the DFA business requirement gathering process and identify areas to improve the quality and clarity of business requirements gathered and communicated to key stakeholders including system vendors.

Based on the above review, provide Should-Be processes, reporting requirements and recommendations that will enhance operational excellence and efficiency and that can improve critical performance measures such as cost, quality, service, and speed.
Qualification of the Consultant/Firm

Experience in conducting business process reviews/business process re-engineering including experience in creating and evaluating process flows and identifying areas for improving operational excellence.
Working knowledge of Digital Field Applications in the Financial Inclusion or Microfinance Context is Preferred
Experience with working with microfinance institutions and an understanding of the process of digitalization of microfinance processes.
Preferably have experience in HCD (Human-centred design) approach (or other client-centric methodologies) to understand the needs, behaviours, and motivations for staff and clients.
Knowledge of regulatory environments of the target markets
Strong analytical skills and ability to conduct in depth interviews and focus groups with staff and clients
Proactive project management skills with strong attention to detail.
Fluency in English required more

Project Objectives
We seek a technology firm/consultant to conduct an in-depth technical analysis of DFA architecture and the technical capability of the system to support current and future business and technical needs. Working with BRAC IT and BHIBV technology team, the consultant will::

Conduct a systematic assessment of the overall DFA system - its design and architecture (hardware,... software, access methods and protocols, et al). The aim is to assess both code bases, identify potential performance bottlenecks, opportunities for code base optimization, and software’s compliance with established standards and specifications.
Assess T24-DFA system integration approach that was applied when we deployed the core banking system - Temenos Financial Inclusion Suite in Rwanda. The aim is to:

Understand the extent to which the implemented integration approach best supports current and future business activities
Investigate recurring integration issues and propose long-term solutions. During integration with T24, Rwanda has faced various issues including data syncing issues between the two systems. Although the number of issues has decreased in Rwanda, some data synchronisation problems still persist.
Identify areas to optimise the integration and apply learnings in the Liberia code base before Liberia goes live with T24 in 2024. Also, ensure that the Ghana code is also optimised.

Assess the current approach for deploying DFA across all BI MF countries. The aim is to recommend how best to optimise the approach to ensure we efficiently provide timely and quality support to all our microfinance entities (who are at different stages of implementation of DFA) and exploit the full capabilities of the system in the long term. This will include an assessment of the current team structure and capabilities.

Scope of work for the technical review:
Architecture Evaluation:

Assessment of data flow and communication between components.
Examination of the technologies, frameworks, and tools used in the application's development.
Identification of performance bottlenecks and recommendations for optimization.
Evaluation of the rationale behind the technology choices.
Evaluation of data storage solutions for reliability and efficiency.
Evaluation of security components in existing architecture.

Performance and Reliability Testing:

Assessment of the application's overall performance, including response times, throughput, and scalability.
Documentation of performance benchmarks and test results.
Conducting load testing and performance benchmarks.
Examination of redundancy and failover mechanisms.
Analysis of monitoring and error handling processes.
Assess the capabilities of the automated notification/alert system for events, errors, or delays.
Functionality and User Experience (UX) Evaluation:
Evaluation of the application's user interface (UI) for usability and accessibility.
Feedback on user experience and any usability issues.
Recommendations for improving the application's functionality and user-centric design.
Integration and Compatibility:
Assessment of the application's integration capabilities with the existing core banking system (T24) and external APIs (For example, CRB, national ID system, Aggregators).
Recommendations for data synchronization and backup improvements.
Functionality of DFA vis-a-vis CBS and DARS:
Review functionality of the DFA (App and Mission Control) vis-a-vis equivalent functionality in CBS and DARS to determine duplicates and make recommendations on which system is best placed to handle duplicated functionalities
Mobile and Offline Capabilities:
Testing of offline functionality and data synchronization mechanisms.
Recommendations for enhancing performance in low-bandwidth or offline scenarios.
Recommendations for Improvement:
Clear and prioritized recommendations for enhancing the application's performance, security, and functionality.
Actionable steps and timelines for implementing the recommended improvements.
Summary and Conclusion:
A concise summary of the key findings and observations from the technical review and subsequent recommendations.
Identify pain points/challenges and recommend remediation/improvement

Qualification of the Consultant/Firm

Software Development including Data modelling
Familiarity with application development framework & tools - Native / Flutter/Xamarin/Hybrid, local data storage - local caching/SQLite/firebase/realm, Programming language - JAVA/objective c/ javascript etc
Application Programming Interface (JSON, REST, Web Services, IRIS etc..)
Knowledge of Temenos Transact (Financial Inclusion R20) and its integration capabilities will be an added advantage
Excellent documentation skills
Familiar with ActiveMQ or any other messaging system.
Experience in the microfinance sector.
Experience in Offline app development and management for large data sets.
Understanding of web middleware system design
Deep understanding of working with Microfinance institutions and process digitization and redesigning.
Preferably have experience in HCD (Human-centred design) approach (or other client-centric methodologies) to understand the needs, behaviours, and motivations for staff and clients.
Knowledge of regulatory environments of the target markets
Strong analytical, research, and writing skills with expertise in survey and qualitative research in the form of interviews and focus groups.
Proactive project management skills with strong attention to detail. Experience working under tight deadlines with a multilateral team across time zones and managing a rigorous schedule of data collection
Fluency in English required. more

This role will support delivery of timely and quality donor reports, and support delivery of capacity building for Country Offices. The position requires innovative thinking, creativity and strong writing skills to package and reframe BRAC program accomplishments into donor templates, language and preferences. The Officer will provide initial coaching/guidance to Country Offices to improve donor... reporting quality and adherence to the Donor Reporting Workflow by facilitating the report review process and providing initial report reviews. The role has a limited external orientation, but works very closely with GRP, BRAC Affiliates and Country Offices. The role will maintain the regular with relevant stakeholders throughout the donor reporting development process.

Key Responsibilities:
Coordination

Supports the GRP Reporting and Quality Team with the review process for financial and narrative reports across BRAC International Country Offices, ensuring submission deadlines are met and the reporting workflow is followed.
Monitors reporting deadlines and proactively follows up with Country Office Grant Managers on report development
Schedules, minutes and follows-up on meetings[1] with Country Offices as required
Participates in Global Grant Management community of practice calls and trainings donor reporting and applies relevant information and learning internally

Compliance

Supports adherence to BRAC Grant Management procedures and policies around Donor Reporting
Supports adherence of basic donor compliance requirements through regular communication of compliance elements

Donor Reporting

Supports Grant Managers to ensure all appropriate donor templates and tools are available in country.
Provides initial review of narrative and financial donor reports and supports Country Office Grant Managers to prepare quality final products[2] , in compliance with internal BRAC requirements and any relevant external donor requirements
In coordination with Affiliates, apply a special lens to key Value for Money, analytics; concise, impactful writing; learning, sustainability and business model analytics sections in donor reports with an aim to build capacity in these areas
Can be deployed to any Country Office to provide donor report services as Special Projects.

Analysis

Advise Country Offices on maintenance and upkeep of a reporting tracker and calendar of deadlines

Systems

Maintain donor reports within grant files in accordance with BRAC procedures
Contributes to the mainstreaming of GMS where needed

Safeguarding

Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Educational Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in international development or related field.

Required Competencies:

Experience with NGOs
Excellent written English skills
Some knowledge of the requirements of major institutional donors including budgeting, eligibility issues, compliance management, and reporting; experience of engaging with donors at a strategic level (UNHCR, USAID, GAC, DFAT, DFID)
Strong attention to detail, problem solving skills, and ability to analyze trends
Computer literate (i.e. Google Suite/ Word, Excel, Outlook, Internet Explorer, financial systems)
Patient, adaptable, able to improvise, and communicate clearly and effectively under pressure
Fluent communication (written and spoken) in English
Knowledge of BRAC, its history, and its programmes and culture desirable

Experience Requirements:

Minimum 2 years’ experience in grants management/donor reporting more

Finance Officer, Kenya

The role of AIM Central Finance team is to provide support and oversight in the financial management of the AIM operations in country offices related to financial matters, systems and process improvement. This role supports The Head of Finance (HoF) by providing technical assistance to country Offices to ensure transactional and relevant documents are reviewed and prepare... quarterly financial report.

Key Responsibilities:

Support Head of Finance, AIM and Finance managers to ensure high standard of financial stewardship in both regional office and Country offices.
Assisting FM in maintaining books, accounts and other financial records of NPA adhering the financial standard of NPA financial system to ensure accountability.
Reviewing the correctness and adequate of accounting documents before making payments
Ensure that all banking transactions are done on time with very minimum risk and in line with organizational policies.
In collaboration with other finance staff, support the HoF to reconcile bank statements.
Work with Program and Finance teams to prepare all budgets that may be required.
Support the HoF to routinely review the process flow of the country offices.
Prepare the fund reconciliation report with the financial report and bank reconciliation.
Review of the shared supporting documents for all the transactions from all the AIM-implementing countries.
Work with the submitted budget from the country to review and consolidate them for submission.
Work for the AIM DREAMS partner reporting.
Work with the head office team to get AIM expenditures and supporting documents.
Review the reimbursement documents from country offices.

Safeguarding:

Read, understand, practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Educational Requirements:

Bachelors or Masters Finance, Accounting, Business Management

Required Competencies:

A strong knowledge and understanding of financial system.
Strong ability to run common Microsoft applications
Ability to understand financial reports and supporting documents
Proven knowledge in developing reporting and relevant formats
Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to be a team player and to work independently and with initiative
Proven ability to perform under pressure and prioritize with multiple competing demands.
Highly organized, analytical, strategic thinker with strong attention to detail.
Ability to travel frequently to BRAC countries as needed.
Fluency in written and spoken English is a must
Exceptional interpersonal, communication and networking skills.

Experience Requirements:

2 - 4 year’s experience in finance and accounting roles preferably in a multinational company or NGO sector.
Experience with donor reporting and communications. more

The main purpose of the Regional Manager Global Resource Mobilisation and Partnerships, Africa, is to raise funds for BRAC programs in BRAC International countries in Africa, from both existing and potential bilateral donors, foundations, multilaterals and regional organisations. The Regional Manager will be responsible for proactive engagement with existing and potential donors and pursuing... applications for funding from these donors including Leading high quality proposal writing. The Regional Manager is expected to contribute to the implementation of the OneBRAC Resource Mobilization and Partnerships Strategy, with a particular focus on intensification of funding streams from bilateral donors, foundations, multilaterals and regional organisations. The Regional Manager will also be responsible for the management of Managers that will provide support as relevant to the GRP team.
Key Responsibilities:
Resource Mobilisation:

Lead and Support the development and implementation of Country business development /resource mobilization plans for bilateral donors, foundations, multilaterals and regional organisations, in line with the OneBRAC Global Resource Mobilisation and Partnerships Strategy;
Executing donor engagement strategies for potential and existing bilateral donors in collaboration with BRAC´s country and regional fundraising teams and BRAC affiliates;
Leading, coordinating and supporting proposal development in collaboration with BRAC affiliates, country and regional teams, the GRP team, and relevant staff from Communications and other relevant teams;
Leading and coordinating the writing of tailored applications for funding and being responsible for responding to submission requirements;
Support and assure capacity building of country teams in regards to proposal development
Contrite and assure general information sharing on areas of responsibility within the GRP team, as well as towards BRAC’s country and regional fundraising teams and BRAC affiliates.
Qualifying prospects identified in the donor landscape analysis;
Conducting outreach and cultivating prospects to build trustful relationships in a proactive manner to secure income streams;
Participating and Organizing relevant outreach efforts (meetings, events, other);
Apply insights from latest funding trends in engagement with existing and potential donors and in proposal development trajectories;

Other:

Providing regular updates to the Head of Resource Mobilisation on progress and results within areas of responsibility;
Developing internal stakeholder relationships, in particular within the GRP team and with BRAC’s country and regional fundraising teams and BRAC affiliates to align funding needs and opportunities.

Safeguarding:

Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Educational Requirements:

Post-graduate/Master’s in Communication, Development Studies, Public International Business, Economics, Business Administration, International Relations or equivalent with a demonstrable commitment to poverty reduction and social justice issues.

Required Competencies:

Proven track record of writing high quality proposals
Sound understanding on the institutional fundraising market;
Experience in working with from bilateral donors, foundations, multilaterals and/or regional organisations, and in ensuring income from these donor segments;
Proven track record of successful fundraising, relationship building, stewardship for this donor segments;
Ability to manage multiple projects and tight deadlines;
Ability to maximise income through accurate matching of applications to project/propositions;
Sound understanding on donor mapping, scoping, profiling and/or donor engagement activities;
Experience in organising relevant outreach efforts (meetings, events, other);
A strong team player who is willing to support colleagues and the wider organisation.
Relevant network in any or several of the relevant donor segments
Excellent communication and negotiation skills; trust and open communication; ability to develop collaborative and harmonious relationships with internal partners
Demonstrated knowledge, understanding and commitment to active citizenship, poverty eradication, global justice, social change, and gender equality;
Ability to work virtually in a global environment
Proficiency in English required;
Ability to travel internationally @ 35% of time.

Experience Requirements:

Minimum 7 (seven) years of experience with proven track record of corporate sector and/or trusts & foundations fundraising in an international development organisation. more

Safeguarding Responsibilities:

Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and... ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Educational Requirements:

Post-graduate/Master’s in Public policy, Public Affairs, Development Studies, International Relations, Sociology, Communications, Human Rights, or Gender Issues.

Required Competencies:

A strong knowledge and understanding of advocacy and campaigning for policy change.
Strong ability to develop and deliver advocacy strategies
Strategic thinker, capable of identifying strategic advocacy moments and opportunities, relevant to the work of AIM.
Strong policy analysis and research skills and knowledge of advocacy around AGYW, gender and/or development issues.
Ability to interpret and synthesise data and evidence from different sources.
Proven knowledge of human rights-based, youth and gender approaches to policy and advocacy.
Demonstrated ability to network and forge productive working relationships with individuals from diverse backgrounds.
Advocacy work experience in the global South, preferably East and West Africa is strongly preferred.
Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to be a team player and to work independently and with initiative.
Proven ability to perform under pressure and prioritize with multiple competing demands.
Highly organized, analytical, strategic thinker with strong attention to detail.
Ability to travel frequently to BRAC countries as needed.
Fluency in written and spoken English is a must; proficiency in Swahili or French is a plus.
Exceptional interpersonal, communication and networking skills.

Experience Requirements:

Master’s degree required.
A minimum of eight (8) years of relevant experience in areas such as public policy, national and/or regional policy advocacy, international relations, sociology, communications, human rights, or gender issues or proven experience in a related field.
Experience in policy and advocacy in Africa and strong connections with key partners and stakeholders in the region are strongly preferred
Significant professional experience in a similar level role in the not-for-profit sector, an international/intergovernmental organization, a social movement, a research centre or a social enterprise.
Experience in capacity building of CSOs, grassroots networks etc.
Experience conducting policy analysis and synthesizing technical information and materials for decision making for advocacy actions.
Experience in management or coordination of research, policy, and advocacy-related events;
Knowledge of key international, regional sustainable goals agreements and conventions. more

The Head of Education will provide strategic and technical leadership to develop transformative approaches for Education, and Early Childhood Development (ECD) initiatives of BRAC International (BI). This position will report to the Director-Programmes, S/he will work with the team to ensure programme standards and systems are in place and implemented across BI countries. S/he will also ensure... linkages to institutional advocacy, partnerships, fundraising, and internal technical and functional teams, and ensures consistency of approaches with other associated members of BRAC International. The Head of Education will establish a strong collaborative relationship with other key teams across BRAC and BRAC International.
Key Responsibilities:

Lead the Education and ECD team, and oversee the implementation of programme strategy, work plan and initiatives.
Develop transformative technical approaches for education and ECD and promote innovation for learning and scale up.
Assist country management on developing strategic direction to country education, and ECD programme by ensuring transformation of BRAC values & learning to BRAC International.
Provide technical support and guidance to the team to design, implement, monitor and evaluate the programmes through communication and regular field visit to the countries as requested and necessary.
Help country management to design new projects/proposals and review and provide technical input on proposals.
Fosters donor relations and ensures consistent fundraising for education, and ECD programming for BI countries.
Bring innovation in terms of digitally enabled education, and ECD programme to address newness in the system.
Review and provide technical input on internal and external impact documents/ reports and other documents as needed.
Build relationships with key stakeholders, affiliates and partners.
Build capacity of the team and ensure the documentation and dissemination of lessons learned from the programmes.

Safeguarding Responsibilities:

Establish a safeguarding culture across all level of the programme by implementing the safeguarding policy. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
Responsible to ensure team members are appropriately trained, supported and have access to resources regarding issues that are identified and actioned in accordance with the safeguarding policy and procedure.
Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Educational Requirements:

Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Education, ECD, International Development or any other related field.

Required Competencies:

Experience in team management
Strategic Planning
Familiarity with best practice in thematic areas
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Advanced relationship building skills
Excellent English language skills
Demonstrated experience in project design and proposal development.
Demonstrated technical expertise in the subject area
Experience and knowledge of south based development issues

Experience Requirements:

12+ years of progressive professional work experience in the development, implementation, management of education and skill development programmes, particularly working with children, and youth, marginalized groups in developing countries. more