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:
∎ Bachelor in any discipline from any recognised university.

Experience Requirements:
∎ 1 to 2 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Social Innovation Lab (SIL) is a cross-disciplinary platform for BRAC staff to learn about best practices in development, generate ideas, experiment and share knowledge with the global development community. We look for colleagues who value the importance of collaboration, embody curiosity, situational adaptability, sincere enthusiasm and a commitment to social good. Come join us, to experiment with innovation at scale and know that your work will have a lasting positive impact. Working at brac is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world, we are building it. Join us to find the way.
∎ 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.

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.
∎ Successful candidates will combine rigorous business acumen across many of the following areas, along with world-class depth in one: Finance, Product Development, Product Management, Start-ups, Marketing (Product or Brand), Strategy, Organizational Behaviour, Operations, and Design.
∎ 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.
∎ Having worked in a consultancy or financial services firm is a big plus.
∎ 1-2 years of experience in the development sector or corporate sector preferred

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: 12 Jun 2022

Company Information:
∎ 7 Jun 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