Academic Qualifications

• Graduate in any discipline preferably in Development studies, Social Science, Economics, English

Experience Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience is required

Additional Requirements

• Effective Managerial Practice, team building & leadership skill.
• Effective communication (verbal and written)
• Negotiation skills
• Excellent interpersonal communication skill acquired from organisational involvement and employment in different cross-cultural environments
• Excellent communication ability in both Bangla and English.
• Overall public policy landscape and development nexus of Bangladesh and beyond.
• Good knowledge of the socio-political context.
• Effective communication, proactive, teamwork, interpersonal skills, strategic thinking, good leadership, problem-solving, analysing data and getting things done.

Job Responsibilities

JOB PURPOSE

Driving initiatives under the senior director's strategic guidance, staying informed about the organisation's developments provides substantial support to achieve objectives efficiently. Ensure proper documentation and capture the knowledge of overall national and global development.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Set priorities and manage time:  Support the Senior Director to identify priorities and help align her/his time accordingly; revisit them regularly to assess progress; identify critical tasks delegated to other cluster members and support the Senior Director in such delegation.
• Strategic support to the Senior Director : Support and advise Sr. Director on the day-to-day operational issues of strategic importance.
• Synthesise incoming documents and prepare short briefing notes
• Act as the one touchpoint for the Sr. Director and participate in various meetings and consultations to brief him to keep him updated on downstream information.
• Remain accessible to all staff seeking Sr. Directors appointments, learn their concerns, and brief the Sr. Director regarding importance and priorities
• Support Sr. Director in preparing strategic notes and high-level presentations
• Technical support to the cluster: Supporting Senior director, associate director and programme heads in developing strategy & organisational development and long-term growth portfolio of Senior Director's cluster advocacy, technology, social innovation lab and migration.
• Support the preparation of internal/external engagements: Help the Sr. Director plan meetings/retreats/engagements to ensure shared vision and objectives; prepare talking points, summaries, and briefing materials to effectively help the Senior Director contribute in internal/external meetings, workshops and such engagements; reflect field-level knowledge, on-the-ground experience of BRAC colleagues, and academic/non-academic studies in any such briefing materials.
• Coordinate Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL): Ensure quality of M&E related data collected throughout programme implementation for initiated projects with the help of M&E Manager
• Support/facilitate learning processes and integration with Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL ) within projects and programmes.
• Lead the analysis of quantitative and qualitative field data for specific projects and meta-analysis of impact across the grant portfolio.
• Coordinate knowledge Management:  Foster knowledge utilisation and uptake, and provide support to develop a centralised knowledge repository with the help of Manager, Knowledge management, to serve as a resource for the programme.
• Internal Engagement: Ensure engagement with all the programmes/support function of AIM cluster and keep herself/himself updated on the ongoing critical projects and issues.

SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure team members' safety from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme's safeguarding implementation goals. Act as a critical 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 action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure if any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.