Consulting Assignments: Public Administration, Public Policy, and Public Service Delivery

Job Description

Title: Consulting Assignments: Public Administration, Public Policy, and Public Service Delivery

Company Name: The Asia Foundation

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: --

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Published: 2025-12-15

Application Deadline: 2025-12-31

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Reports to: Country Representative, Bangladesh

Reportees / Supervision : N/A

Working days / hours : Flexible

Prospective Consultants: The Asia Foundation’s Bangladesh office invites individuals with interest and experience in one or more of following areas to submit CVs and brief letters of introduction for potential consulting assignments:

1. Public administration: Familiarity with the structure and practical operations of Bangladesh government ministries, departments, agencies, and subunits. Relevant knowledge and interests include:

• Public financial management
• Public administration
• Working relations between government agencies and officials that share responsibility for the achievement of national development objectives and policy delivery—whether within a single agency or across multiple agencies.
• Recruitment to the national public service, institutional capacity development efforts, and professional staff development
• Efforts to digitize the public administration through eGovernance and other initiatives that aim to promote greater interoperability among government agencies
• Local government—including structure, organization, and interplay and coordination with national government entities

2. Public policy: Familiarity with the process through which public policy is made and implemented in Bangladesh, including the division of responsibility between elected officials, the executive branch, and the broader public administration.

3. Pockets of excellence in government service delivery: Familiarity with the experience of government agencies and officials whose efforts to enhance the quality, efficiency, and accessibility of government services have created “pockets of excellence” within ministries and agencies.

4. Successful partnerships involving government agencies and civil society, the private sector, and/or academia: Familiarity with successful initiatives that involve partnerships and coordination between government agencies and officials and counterparts in civil society, the private sector, or academia.

5. International support for enhanced government service delivery and policy implementation: Knowledge of the role and experience of international agencies in supporting public administrative reform, enhanced public service delivery, and policy reform.

6. Research and analysis on the preceding topics: Experience in conducting research on the above subjects—including political economy analysis: familiarity with adaptive management practices; the gender equality dimensions of public administrative reform efforts; and other areas.