Innovation Ecosystem and Partnerships Manager, Social Innovation Lab (SIL)
Job Description
Title: Innovation Ecosystem and Partnerships Manager, Social Innovation Lab (SIL)
Company Name: BRAC
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline from any recognised university.
Experience Requirements:
∎ 2 to 3 year(s)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Managing development of key communications pieces and reports related to BRAC’s work through the Innovation Fund for Digital Financial Services
∎ Identifying opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination of Innovation Fund learnings in public forums
∎ Representing the work of the Innovation Fund at international conferences, national events, and local workshops
∎ Coordinating a multi-stakeholder, randomized controlled trial around digitization of loan products
∎ Driving strategic partnerships with key national and international stakeholders to enhance the impact of SIL and BRAC
∎ Building meaningful collaborations with BRAC USA, UK, reputed universities, research institutes, corporates, start-ups and relevant international platforms to increase SIL’s visibility and highlight BRAC’s contribution to the development.
∎ Maintaining liaison between BRAC programmes and external partners
∎ Enhancing SIL’s overall strategic positioning within the organisation
∎ Driving initiatives to build and improve internal innovation ecosystem at BRAC
∎ Managing Frugal Innovation Forum and driving post-forum partnership opportunities
∎ Representing BRAC in external national and international platforms
∎ 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
Additional Requirements:
∎ 2-3 years of experience in local or international corporate or development sector, preferably in knowledge management, partnership development and communications.
∎ Qualification in and/or significant experience in financial inclusion related field is highly desired. Understanding of digital financial services and industry knowledge is preferred.
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival Bonus, Contributory Compulsory Provident Fund, Gratuity, Health & Life Insurance and others
Application Deadline: August 28, 2019
Company Information:
∎ BRAC
Category: NGO/Development
Read Before Apply: Interested candidates who fulfill the requirements may apply by following instruction mentioning the position name in the subject line to: [email protected]
