Business Designer, Social Innovation Lab (SIL)
Job Description
Title: Business Designer, Social Innovation Lab (SIL)
Company Name: BRAC
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelors in any discipline from any recognised university.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):
Bakery (Cake, Biscuit, Bread)
Job Context:
∎ JOB PURPOSE: As a business designer - BRAC is looking for someone who will blend creative thinking, business acumen and entrepreneurial mindset - to structure the business impact of design at a strategic, operational and organisational level. As a Business Designer, s/he will collaborate with BRAC-internal or external partners to identify design opportunities, and create meaningful user experiences.
∎ Some representative cases from the Business Innovation Unit:
∎ Designing the go-to-market strategy for a chain of land-based legal service clinics in Bangladesh;
∎ Collaborating with a travel-tech start-up to design low-cost air-ticket products for Bangladeshi labour migrants;
∎ Designing an innovation challenge for identifying and prototyping business innovations to future-proof the livelihoods of women garment workers of Bangladesh.
∎ 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.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Passionate about trying out new things and experimenting with new tools and methods rather than focusing on best practices. Using ambiguity and uncertainty as an advantage to generate innovative outcomes.
∎ Have a strong strategic, analytical and problem-solving skills that balance with creative design approaches.
∎ Facilitate communication across disciplines at the project level to create alignment and efficiencies.
∎ Research materials from a wide variety of client materials, interviews, external sources, analytics, and data sources to build a business background point of view.
∎ Bring human-centered design methodology at the core of every design, which includes:
∎ Articulating how the new offerings will solve the need of BRAC clients,
∎ Discovering willingness-to-pay.
∎ (If internal-facing) Identifying how the new offerings are strengthening the already-existing portfolio of BRAC programmes.
∎ Work with the team to bring new opportunities to life through storytelling. .
Additional Requirements:
∎ History of tackling and solving complex business or academic challenges; a strong personal mission to help find truths and challenge orthodoxies.
∎ Experience with Excel and/or other analysis tools, PowerPoint, Keynote and/or Adobe Creative Suite for presentation purposes. Familiarity with InVision, Sketch, or other prototyping methods. Ability to learn how to use new tools in real time.
∎ An absolute professional who leads by example, treats peers and partners with respect, and seeks and gives constructive feedback..
∎ Demonstrated fluency with the human-centred design process and an ability to work in multidisciplinary design teams.
∎ Experienced in or passionate about working in the developing world and tackling challenges related to poverty.
∎ Experienced in a consultancy or financial services firm is a big plus.
Salary: Negotiable
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival Bonus, Contributory Provident Fund, Gratuity, Health, and Life Insurance, and others.
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 18 Mar 2022
Company Information:
∎ 8 Mar 2022
∎ BRAC
∎ Business : BRAC is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.
Category: NGO/Development
